Thinking about putting a radio on a bike. Any recommendations?

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It's smaller; but I'm confused.
The drawing shows a 90-volt battery, but the text says it uses "2-volt tubes"
Do I need to buy 45 2-volt batteries?
2 volt/cell is a lead acid battery, right?
 
J-Rod10 said:
Thinking of a small, bluetooth system with bar mount speakers.
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Decent stuff here: I heard a Busa going along perkins with more bass than a 74 cutlass a while back so someone has the goods.

http://www.cyclesounds.com/sportbike/
 
Haha sorry, not to hijack this thread, but when I saw the title my thought instantly went to when I was a kid and had a boom box duct taped to my bicycle handle bars. Sounded cool, until I ate it hard from all the weight on there. Sorry, I have nothing constructive to add, but I sure wish I had a pic of my rig... and the gnarly scabs to post
 
Aux cable and headphones no one wants to hear all that noise and those loud pipes OMG slow down already!
 
Tune-A-Fish said:
Decent stuff here: I heard a Busa going along perkins with more bass than a 74 cutlass a while back so someone has the goods.

http://www.cyclesounds.com/sportbike/
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Thanks for the link. I've been looking at a Shark Audio system, but the reviews are mixed. One loves it, the next hates it, and on and on. Those look good, in the link you posted, for $350 for just the speakers, I'd expect they work well.
 
Anonymous Coward said:
It's smaller; but I'm confused.
The drawing shows a 90-volt battery, but the text says it uses "2-volt tubes"
Do I need to buy 45 2-volt batteries?
2 volt/cell is a lead acid battery, right?
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There were 3 circuits on the the old tube Radios, some had 2 circuits. They had A, B and C. the A circuit was for heating tubes, and the actual radio circuit used higher volts on the B circuit. . The heating circuit was a high amp draw, but they managed to reduce it it down to 2 volts... The circuitry still required the 90 volt circuit for the actual radio circuitry.

Prior to transistors, the b circuit was also reduced to 22 volts. So after a while, you needed one set of batteries for the heating, one set of higher volts for the actual signal processing and speakers.

Check here for a more thorough explanation: http://antiqueradio.org/bsupply.htm
 
J-Rod10 said:
Thanks for the link. I've been looking at a Shark Audio system, but the reviews are mixed. One loves it, the next hates it, and on and on. Those look good, in the link you posted, for $350 for just the speakers, I'd expect they work well.
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Price seems to be the measure of quality in most cases, but always verify... I guess.
 
That was my conundrum with the Shark systems. Not exactly cheap, but a lot of complaints.
 
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