"Henry S. Winokur: I'm curious about your J&M setup"

First, no speakers on the bike (would ruin the bike's looks, I think), just speakers 
inside helmet.

A small amplifier will fit easily underseat with a rocker-type volume control that 
attachs to left handlebar just over high/low headlight beam rocker and
a connector cord which used to rest inside the right-side hand pullup cavity for 
plugging into the helmet (in a high speed high wind ride in Flagstaff
last year, the cord got sucked into the chain and literally disappeared, so now it 
comes up in front of the seat) and another cord that goes under the
tank to the handlebar area where I have a radar mount which plugs into a walkman-type 
radio or tape player (CDs, in my experience, won't work because
of the constant jarring).  Radio connects to mount with velcro (I also once had radio 
velcroed to the black area on the left of the tank, which is less
noticeable but the radar mount works better since you have to tune in different 
stations from time to time--you can see the radio better.  I've been to strange places 
and nobody's ever taken the radio--even overnight in motel parking lots.  But radio 
MUST be digital tuning WITH SCANNING unless you want to punch the tune button ten 
times just to go from 89.0 to 90.0 (costs about $40).

Biggest downside is that I'm basically limited to listening to tapes in open country 
between cities since radio reception on AM is unshielded with lots of
static and FM reception is spotty and mostly country/western music or religious 
harangues from people with ridiculous accents who claim to have
been born more than once and want listeners to send money so they, too, can share the 
experience (ugh in either case!).

Amplifier is tapped into any switched wire so it doesn't drain battery and works only 
when ignition is on.  And you don't have to jury-rig anything.
The amplifier comes from J&M with all the wires ready to hook up.  You can do radar, 
CB or whatever else you want, just that the more you add the bigger the 
contraption--and, personally, I don't want to pay extra to listen to CB static and 
mostly-unintelligible truck driver gibberish.  A good radar/laser detector is worth 
it's weight in platinum, however.

You can do the same thing for a cigarette lighter type outlet for electric gloves or 
vest, and keep the outlet under the seat until you need it, just make sure it's tapped 
into a switched wire so you don't drain your battery.

Good luck.

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