http://www.xmradio.com/nexus/index.xmc

http://www.xmradio.com/images/existi...nexus_1_lg.jpg

Better deal then the roadie

this one is a little bit better deal http://shop.xmradio.com/detail.aspx?pid=190&cat=36

Yeah that's sweet...but the roadie was $30. I still think I'll end up with a portable eventually. It'll pay for itself many times over in endless tunes...and baseball games

edit: nevermind, we're talking $100 price range?? With mp3? That's a hell of a deal.

Ok, I like the nexus. Any idea on battery life? How about reception? Is it comparable to the car receivers like the roadie?

First, you will have a great time riding the coast. Second yu WILL be challenged in Northern Cal. Three, the camping is great, and either cheap or free. You are touring right? Not doing time trials? I like to keep my weight down but jees! Take the camera and the recorder and the cell phone and the music machine and the charger(s). There will be plenty of places to plug in and company to talk to and things to do and see. I am never in tour shape before the ride. i always think i am, but I'm not, so the "extra" weight is ON the seat, not in the bags. Like Matcha, i have riden with and without tunes. I much prefer the tunes. The coast highway can have a lot of traffic and frequently there are narrow or non existant shoulders. i still listen. Volume is adjustable, i have a mirror on my glasses. i would much rather evaluate the traffic behind me visually than guess what might be coming by whatever I might or might not hear.

Too dangerous? It ain't the music. it is the beige buicks that make it dangerous, it's the guy driving a 45 foot motor home that has no clue and normally pilots a gold Camry as he listens to his wife and Laurence Welk at the same time. What I do like is to be climbing, climbing, climbing with the legs burning to the beat, knowing that top is ahead and I can do it again later. I like having the bugs in my ears, keeping the cold wind from generating ear pain, whether or not I have tunes on at that time. i love music, my wife and my bike- not necessarily in that order. i love the challenge and the camping and all of it.

You will have a great time doing the coast. I would like to suggest, if you have the time, starting off going around the Olympic penisula. i had a great time last year. Next year the southern tier, then after that the east coast and my perimeter will be done. Once.

Take the tunes

Have you ever had the feeling like your brain was trying to crawl out your ear and go screaming off across the barren and empty prairie???? :eek:


Only once when I was younger and drank way to much Carling Black Label.:D

Well we have both but I have to say we hardly ever use the MP3 player. We just love our Roberts SW radio which runs for ages on a couple AA batteries; our tour is entering its 6th month and we listen to the radio pretty much twice a day every day for say 2-3 hours total and have only had to change the batteries twice so far.

I own a 30GB iPOD that I love, but I'd rather not take it on the road with me, favoring instead one of these cheaper MP3 players.

If I were to buy just a straight MP3 player (say, one of the MPIO, Sandisk, Samsung, etc...), would it be able to read and import from my iTunes library? I don't expect it to be able to work with iTunes of course, but will I be able to point it to my iTunes library (the music itself, not the library database file of course) and have it work? Going non-iPOD only works for me if I can continue to use the music that I already have on my hard drive.

Thanks,

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