Starcom 1 - A Good Buy?

Looking at the purchase of a driver and pillion intercom and have seen
favorable internet feedback on the Starcom 1. Anyone have any recent
experience/words of wisdom?
Thanks

Paul
R1200CL

 

Just don't. All intercoms are a PITA. Most of the fun of biking is doing
it in solitude or, if you have a pillion, then silence at least.

I mean, what do you think you're going to talk about, anyway?

"Watch out for that truck!"

"That surface looks a bit slippery."

"Should it be making this noise?"

"I wish we'd taken the car instead."

"Me ex's Kawasaki was faster than this Honda crock of shit."

 

Just don't. All intercoms are a PITA. Most of the fun of biking is doing
it in solitude or, if you have a pillion, then silence at least.

I mean, what do you think you're going to talk about, anyway?

"Watch out for that truck!"

"That surface looks a bit slippery."

"Should it be making this noise?"

"I wish we'd taken the car instead."

"Me ex's Kawasaki was faster than this Honda crock of shit."[/QUOTE]

"Slow down, it's windy back here!"

 

seen >> favorable internet feedback on the Starcom 1. Anyone have
any recent >> experience/words of wisdom?

"Slow down, it's windy back here!"[/QUOTE]

I'm just guessing, but:

"I need the loo again."

"Are you hitting all these bumps on purpose?"

"WHEEEEEE! Oh sorry - was that a bit loud?"

 

In

or with a 14 year old daughter you get hours of inane teenage chatter ...
just think Vicky Pollard in your lug hole for a couple of hours

 

Wot

He

Said

Wiv

Knobs

On

Most of the time.

 

Experience tells me that if a pillion wants to get a message across
then an intercom isn't really essential. Every time I've pissed Adie
off on a bike we've not needed to stop before we discussed it.

 

Andy Bonwick wibbled:

Good point.

Well made.

You don't appreciate the ability to breathe until you can't.

It's just finding the right balance where you're not being throttled
and can't hear the back seat driving.

 

"Faster, Daddy, faster!"

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

Champ wibbled:

"When Harry met Sally" moments?

Highly entertaining in the middle of Kensington High Street [1]

[1] '76 Bonnie mobile vibrating machine [2]
[2] when it was running

 

Indeed. I've never tried an intercom as there's a number of non-verbal
methods to get positive and negative messages across.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Actually, "Look if you'll just stop I'll let you **** me" doesn't really
count as 'the serious horn'.

Just so you know.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

<watches float sink gently below surface[1]>

Ahh... That's better.

[1] I love the definition I read somewhere of a fishing float once: "A
small object, pleasing in its appearance and even more pleasing in its
disappearance".

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer