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Spireite
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PostPosted: 10:22 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Anyone pre ordered a Skully AR1 yet? Reply with quote

Or thinking about it?
I am thinking about one, but.... how would you know what size to order, without trying one first?
When you price up tomtom, then a decent Bluetooth headset, ( I have neither yet) they don't look bad value!
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PostPosted: 10:27 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Re: Anyone pre ordered a Skully AR1 yet? Reply with quote

Spireite wrote:
When you price up tomtom, then a decent Bluetooth headset, ( I have neither yet) they don't look bad value!


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Overall cost £150 if you buy the phone too.

However, TomTom V5 Rider overseas so no real "data" on a phone + £300.

So total under £400.

No, I won't be ordering. Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:41 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I had the money, i'd order it in a heartbeat.
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Re: Anyone pre ordered a Skully AR1 yet? Reply with quote

Spireite wrote:

I am thinking about one, but.... how would you know what size to order, without trying one first?


Exactly. Don't bother.
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PostPosted: 17:46 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spireite wrote:
they don't look bad value!
At $1500? Are you somehow damaged?
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dandelion
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PostPosted: 21:09 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

An interesting kit of technology. I'd pay that for a gaming console, not for something that is meant to stop my head from the tarmac. I don't doubt their safety, but would make a topple even more saddening.
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PostPosted: 21:33 - 17 Sep 2014    Post subject: Re: Anyone pre ordered a Skully AR1 yet? Reply with quote

Rather than a tom-tom, just use an existing mobile phone, or buy a cheap one for £30?

Despite their claims, it's a VERY heavy helmet it seems - around half a kg heavier than a lighter (but not silly light) helmet from other brands.
From past experience, wearing it on sports bikes would cause me upper back/neck pain.

Also, I'd definitely want to try it on before handing any cash over.
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BigShow
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PostPosted: 08:34 - 18 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used a £150 bluetooth helmet for a while and it was really excellent for the price, it was a V-Can.
This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/BLUETOOTH-MOTORCYCLE-MOTORBIKE-HELMET-X-LARGE/dp/B003U67TN2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1411029178&sr=8-7&keywords=v-can+helmet

Hooked up my phone and could listen to tunes and sat nav directions and make/receive calls at the push of a button and it was voice controlled, and it had a radio built in and you can use it as an intercom and it had a flip up front and it had internal sun visor thing and it came in a variety of colours.
Why pay more is the point i think i'm making, so no won't be getting one.
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PostPosted: 08:43 - 18 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or just use some normal headphones for a fiver and remember to unplug them, along with a phone on the bars in a waterproof case? Smile
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