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Does anyone know if they make wireless or Bluetooth earbuds for the iPod? Also I ride a Suzuki C90 and I am having trouble finding a chrome bracket to hold my iPod, at least a bracket that I can understand how it works (not very mechanically inclined) and it looks good. Does anyone know where I might look of have something that they use they would recommend. I apologize if the answer is already on the forum. I searched quickly but did not see it.

Thanks for any help or suggestions that you can give.

Justice75

P.S. Seems like duct tape is a standard answer that someone usually ends up using on questions like trying to find a mounting bracket. I agree 100%, duct tape is a awesome and for someone with a limited mechanical knowledge like myself it works wonders, but I would rather not go that route this time

I was planning on just putting my iRiver into my backpack and running the wire up through my helmet. Is it that much of a pain in the butt?

Once I have the playlist loaded I won't have to change the songs at all.

I just throw my creative zen into the pocket on my technic jacket thats between the zipper and the snaps. keeps it from getting wet .

There are a few Bluetooth adapters for the iPod, but the few that I have seen are rather bulky. When I worked at RadioShack we sold a few types so you might start looking there.

Justice75 wrote:Does anyone know if they make wireless or Bluetooth earbuds for the iPod? Also I ride a Suzuki C90 and I am having trouble finding a chrome bracket to hold my iPod, at least a bracket that I can understand how it works (not very mechanically inclined) and it looks good. Does anyone know where I might look of have something that they use they would recommend. I apologize if the answer is already on the forum. I searched quickly but did not see it.

Thanks for any help or suggestions that you can give.

Justice75

P.S. Seems like duct tape is a standard answer that someone usually ends up using on questions like trying to find a mounting bracket. I agree 100%, duct tape is a awesome and for someone with a limited mechanical knowledge like myself it works wonders, but I would rather not go that route this time

Don't attach an iPod video to a motorcycle unless you want the hard drive to die a quick death.

I had that happen to my Rio. I had it in my tank bag... I'd done it 100 times before, but on my way home about 30 minutes into a 6 hour highway trip the damn thing just died. Hard drive froze up and it was game over.

God damn do I hate straight lines with no music.

Sev wrote:I had that happen to my Rio. I had it in my tank bag... I'd done it 100 times before, but on my way home about 30 minutes into a 6 hour highway trip the damn thing just died. Hard drive froze up and it was game over.

God damn do I hate straight lines with no music.

Hard drives are extremely sensitive to vibration.

Inside a hard drive, there are several metal-coated platters that spin at high speed. Above, below, and in between these platters there are tiny magnets that swing in and out, just like the needle on a record player. The difference is that the magnets sit a fraction of a millimeter off the surface of the spinning disk.

Hard drives, especially the small ones used in iPods, have some measure of anti-vibration built in by using rubber mounting, etc. However, any significant shock or vibration - especially prolonged vibration - causes the tiny magnetic heads to occasionally bump into the surface of the disks. This causes scratches, which totally destroys data by removing some of the thin metal surface where it is stored, as well as damages the head and arm. This adds up to very premature hard drive death.

Since they're close-tolerance, high-speed mechanical devices that literally rely on micron-sized groups of particles holding magnetic charges, all hard drives die. It's just a matter of when. So, back up your data, and expect any hard drive subjected to vibration from a motorcycle to die sooner rather than later.

jonnythan wrote:

Sev wrote:I had that happen to my Rio. I had it in my tank bag... I'd done it 100 times before, but on my way home about 30 minutes into a 6 hour highway trip the damn thing just died. Hard drive froze up and it was game over.

God damn do I hate straight lines with no music.

Hard drives are extremely sensitive to vibration.

Inside a hard drive, there are several metal-coated platters that spin at high speed. Above, below, and in between these platters there are tiny magnets that swing in and out, just like the needle on a record player. The difference is that the magnets sit a fraction of a millimeter off the surface of the spinning disk.

Hard drives, especially the small ones used in iPods, have some measure of anti-vibration built in by using rubber mounting, etc. However, any significant shock or vibration - especially prolonged vibration - causes the tiny magnetic heads to occasionally bump into the surface of the disks. This causes scratches, which totally destroys data by removing some of the thin metal surface where it is stored, as well as damages the head and arm. This adds up to very premature hard drive death.

Since they're close-tolerance, high-speed mechanical devices that literally rely on micron-sized groups of particles holding magnetic charges, all hard drives die. It's just a matter of when. So, back up your data, and expect any hard drive subjected to vibration from a motorcycle to die sooner rather than later.

Then I guess I won't be using my iRiver, that's got a hard drive. I do have a Juicebox which uses solid-state memory, aka, SD cards.

DieMonkeys wrote:Then I guess I won't be using my iRiver, that's got a hard drive. I do have a Juicebox which uses solid-state memory, aka, SD cards.

Keep it in your pocket!

Just don't mount it to the handlebars

jonnythan wrote:

DieMonkeys wrote:Then I guess I won't be using my iRiver, that's got a hard drive. I do have a Juicebox which uses solid-state memory, aka, SD cards.

Keep it in your pocket!

Just don't mount it to the handlebars

I was thinking I would put it in my tank bag, but then I remembered the six huge magnets on either side of the bag. That'd be fine for my CD player though.

Pocket works too. I just need my in-ear headphones to arrive, shortly after I purchase them... in a few weeks.