Yep I carry mine all the time. I don't usually have it on unless the wife and I are both riding and we happen to get separated and also if the kids need to call or vice versa. A very handy tool but if it was ringing every 20 minutes I'd turn it off.
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(Life is too short to play crappy guitars) 2006 Raleigh Cadent 3.0, 1977 Schwinn Volare, 2010 Windsor tourist. ( I didn't fall , I attacked the floor)