Water bottle amplifier

anyone got one of those ipod amps that look like water bottles and fit into the cage? what are they like?

they look pretty good but i question how loud they are.

i currently use a butchered off the shelf amp. it was origionally quite big so i cut it up and reolcated the componants inside an old lunchbox. the remote is attached to my bars with a jubilee clip and a diy bracket.
its works well and is plenty loud enough to hear over the sound of wind even though it is inside my bag. i love listening to it when i ride at night.

i would however like a more elegant solution. one day id like to build somthing overly powerful with one of those small but high output digital amps and some nice and big speakers.

Dear oh fucking dear...

i got a batterypack wired it up too a small speaker ducktaped it together with my i-pod shuffle
and boom now its attatched to the shoulder strap of my bag
its not that loud but its right my my ear on the left and i can still pretty much hear everything over my right

Speaker The Fuck Up!

I've used one of these, clipped to my bag strap, loud enough to hear, but can still concentrate on traffic noise. They're actually suprisingly loud - and only 30quid from play.com (without shuffle) plus it charges off usb and lasts ages.
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i got a batterypack wired it up too a small speaker ducktaped it together with my i-pod shuffle
and boom now its attatched to the shoulder strap of my bag
its not that loud but its right my my ear on the left and i can still pretty much hear everything over my right

I've been trying to find a solution for this myself, problem being that my radio sits right where the optimum place for the speakers would go. I've been trying to work out other ways to attatch speakers to myself, I was thinking an Archie's Ninja type job on my belt with the speakers inside but I don't want the sound to be too muffled especially as part of the reason for wanting to do this is pedestrian early warning.

One of the messengers here in Dublin on the Hallo'ween alleycat just had his phone rubber banded to his work radio. Plenty loud too.

YouTube - toob amp

get yourself one of these. i got myself one.

Completely forgot I used to have one of these, they have a belt clip too as well as being pretty loud..

Completely forgot I used to have one of these, they have a belt clip too as well as being pretty loud..

But they sound like a bee in a coke can?

iPods come with headphones, right?

iPods come with headphones, right?

Try it and see how scary it is when a car comes from your blind spot straight past you at 40mph. It's not really that safe in London at least because you need all your senses operating at full to even stand a chance and even then you can get caught off guard.

But they sound like a bee in a coke can?

Actually not too bad at all, I'm gonna pop into Denmark St. and have a test on one to see how it fares.

ive seen those mini marhsalls before, i dont reckon the sound will be up to much. well too tinny.

i dont really ride in traffic with music becuase i like to have full awarness of whats going on, but i do pass through several areas away from the roads and along several deserted after 9 country roads.

that mbx is ridiculous, where is the power unit for all that. im willing to fill a standard rucksack with audio equipment , but nothing too heavy.

It's not hard to ride with headphones in at all, i run skullcandy ink'ds and i can't even hear people shouting at me when i have them at 3/4 volume, 100% music... Just forces you to look about more and not rely on your ears. Just use 1 for a few weeks then go to 2, and it's awesome.

for fuck's sake.
riding with headphones. jesustittyfuckingchrist.

It's not hard to ride with headphones in at all, i run skullcandy ink'ds and i can't even hear people shouting at me when i have them at 3/4 volume, 100% music... Just forces you to look about more and not rely on your ears. Just use 1 for a few weeks then go to 2, and it's awesome.

Your life mate....

Plus I want to blast out fucking scary death metal breakcore to hopefully scare pedestrians away from stepping out in front of me, this combined with my planned air horn handlebar installation (you think I'm joking?) should dramatically reduce my ped related close calls

Try it and see how scary it is when a car comes from your blind spot straight past you at 40mph. It's not really that safe in London at least because you need all your senses operating at full to even stand a chance and even then you can get caught off guard.

try being profoundly deaf and see how scary it is when a car comes from your blind spot straight past you at 40mph.

as long you're quite aware of your surrounding, by all mean, wear as much headphone as you like!

for fuck's sake.
riding with headphones. jesustittyfuckingchrist.

heh, I always ride with headphones.

Touche!

I used to ride all the time with headphones and never had too much trouble, just a few too many close calls that don't happen now that I can hear when a car is about 10 metres behind me and approaching, can normally get a good judge of the approaching speed from doppler magic too.

to put it simply - riding with headphone is exactly like going brakeless, you just have to be more aware of your surrounding.

Therein lies the problem for me, being more aware of my surroundings includes hearing what's going on around me. I'm not meaning to be confrontational btw, just how I see it, also I'm talking specifically about couriering too, for commutes then I still wear headphones, sometimes with one in, one out. though.

being more aware of your surrounding is simply relying on your eyes - listening can be a bit unreliable sometime.

I crashed into a cyclist who was probably relying too much on his ears, turned without looking or signalling... right into me who was overtaking on his right.

I ride with headphones, but they hardly block out anything, just add music to the noise of traffic around me.