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Official Website: https://www.lawabidingbiker.com In this podcast episode, we are comparing a Harley-Davidson touring model such as the Street Glide Special to the Indian Chieftain Limited. Harley vs. Indian is the topic. Is one better than the other? Which is better for touring cross-country? Which has more power? What about aftermarket upgrades? Which is more comfortable? These are just a few of the topics we discuss and you'll want to listen in to hear us really break things down. This was a fun Patron Member only live video broadcast event with live chat! Our beloved members got to be involved and both heard and watched this episode months before everyone else. Get signed up as an exclusive Patron Member now and get benefits! SUPPORT US AND SHOP IN THE OFFICIAL LAW ABIDING BIKER STORE Big Daddy Kane was on one of the mics and for a good reason. He currently owns a newer model Harley Road Glide special and an Indian Chieftain Limited. In the past, he has also owned a Victory touring model. He is very qualified for this discussion of Harley vs Indian. He speaks of the differences he finds between each and he does a great job giving you the pros and cons of each bike. These are things you'll want to know if you're on the fence of whether to purchase a Harley touring or Indian touring model. Indian Tutorial Videos Mentioned: How to Perform Routine Maintenance & Oil Change on a 2012 & Newer Indian Motorcycles with Thunder Stroke 111 Motor Install Aftermarket Headers & Mufflers on Indian Touring Model Install Power Commander V Electronic Fuel Injection Tuner on Indian Touring Model Other Great Indian Tutorial and Product Review Videos Harley & Indian Tutorial Videos CHECK OUT OUR HUNDREDS OF FREE HELPFUL VIDEOS ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND SUBSCRIBE! Harley vs Indian: Below are some of the high points we discussed INDIAN CHIEFTAIN CLASSIC BASE PRICE: $26,749 HARLEY STREET GLIDE SPECIAL BASE PRICE: $27,089 DIFFERENCE OF $340 INDIAN HAS THE THUNDERSTOKE 111 CI MOTOR 1811cc INDIAN HASN'T UPGRADED THAT 111 MOTOR FOR MANY YEARS NOW UNVEILED BACK IN 2013 NOTHING SINCE THEN HARLEY HAS THE MILWAUKEE-EIGHT 107 AND 114 CI MOTORS 2019 HD STREET GLIDE AND ROAD GLIDE SPECIALS COMING WITH 114 CI MOTOR STOCK 1868 cc Harley pros: For a tall rider, the Harley Road Glide special is very comfortable. The Street Glide is tighter for tall guys, but both excellent riding positions. Lots of accessory options with Harley. Way more than Indian! More saddlebag space in Harley Milwaukee-eight 107" ci motor has great power. Harley 107 ci motor has a touch more acceleration than the Indian Thunderstroke 111 with air, exhaust, and EFI tuner upgrades on both. So, the Milwaukee-eight 114" motor will definitely have more power. Accessories from manufacturer cost a bit less for Harley compared to Indian. More dealers nationwide f0r Harley-Davidson Harley has a long history with the brand and bikes Harley touring models have a larger fuel tank for riding cross-country Many aftermarket HD accessories work and fit well. Beware of some aftermarket parts for Indian. Harley Cons: With the Harley Boom!™ Box Infotainment System you have to add an expensive Wireless Headset Interface Module (WHIM) in order to have Bluetooth headset paring. And you have to buy a Harley stamped Sena Bluetooth headset in order to get full functionality and stereo sound. The Indian Ride Command® system is ready to pair with any major brand Bluetooth headset and you get full functionality. You don't have to add anything on. Some Harley Dealerships are treating their customers very poorly by stating they'll void warranties if a customer adds an aftermarket air intake or mufflers. This is ridiculous & Harley-Davidson dealerships doing this should be ashamed. They are trying to force customers to buy only Harley stamped products and pay mechanics to install simple things. Service at Harley dealerships-You want to trust they know everything but the fact is that many dealers are not up to speed and properly trained on the emerging technology such as the Boom!™ Box Infotainment System. Indian pros: Quality bike. Nice touches. Offering traditional styling and new limited editions. Technology-Ride Command infotainment system works great! Bluetooth built in. Just pair a Bluetooth headset. GPS updates are free for the first 3 years! Indian uses Navi Extras for the GPS maps. Harley uses Navi Extras for the GPS maps but you must pay $150 to $200 to upgrade your GPS maps in the Boom Box Infotainment System Charger in the saddlebag for electronics comes stock on the Indian Paint is fantastic-Love the color matched inner fairing & front fairing Thunder stoke 111 ci motor has lots of torque. Milwaukee-eight 107 is better in higher gears. Both bikes with similar aftermarket upgrades Smooth/quieter transmission shifts than on the Harley. Not clunky. Easier oil changes on Indian. One hole. Electronic saddlebag lock & unlock electronically. A nice feature that's not available on Harley. Indian Cons: Indian is owned by Polaris, who make a ton of other things. Are they really focusing on the Indian or on their many other products? Harley is primarily focused on producing motorcycles Small saddlebag compared to Harley. The design is an illusion and looks very big from the outside, but inside it's significantly less space Indian has a smaller gas tank. Harley has a 6-gallon gas tank. Indian has only a 5.5-gallon and you should you pack an extra gallon of fuel if riding cross-country with Harley touring riders? Fairing feels more in the face compared to Harley Road Glide. Similar to a Harley Street Glide feel. Taller riders on the Indian will need to adjust at first but you can get used to it. Much more limited options on aftermarket products for Indian Expensive parts compared to Harley A much smaller network of Indian dealerships. Sponsor-Ciro 3D CLICK HERE! 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Our interview with Alyssa from Sena Bluetooth. Recorded live from the patio of Idyology in Idyllwild CA after taking a scenic ride up the 74 and 243 to Lake Hemet and then doubling back to Idyllwild to sit down and talk. Alyssa is the multimedia specialist for Sena, she talks us through some of their bluetooth products, the upcoming helmet line and her work in multimedia where part of her job is getting paid to ride motorcycles and attend moto events around the world.
This week, we invite on Rick Grassadonia, Sales Director for SENA Bluetooth, to unravel for us the mystery of SENA's product numbering and to talk about the cool new stuff we got to see at the AIMExpo, like the smart-helmet. Classfieds: Chicks Dig Bikes eEuFC 2002 HONdA GoLDWinG wItH The GrAND aLexuS TraILER 2008 hARLEy-daVIDsoN ToUriNg Screw you, Polaris 1968 BMW R60 US Guest: Chuck is bad at guest pictures Rick Grassadonia is coming on to explain SENA‘s product line to us and tell us, finally, what we should be using for our riding needs. He also gives us the scoop on their coming smart helmet, which looks ready to straight up revolutionize helmet and sound technology. He also apparently rides an HD. But we do not hold that against him. He's a good guy. Want to hear yourself on our show? Ridden a bike (like your own) and got an opinion? Got a cool piece of gear or farkle? Got a story? Know some jokes? Record an MP3 (or whatever) and email it to us at wheelnerds@gmail.com. We'll throw it on the air and talk about it, too. That's right, you can be the first on your block to be openly mocked by the Wheelnerds. Or call our voicemail: (801) 917-4136 Or, leave us a voicemail via Skype! Our skype ID is wheelnerds. Just go ahead, call, and leave us your story there! (We still read your emails, too, and will answer them on the show). If you got something really cool, shoot us a line and maybe we'll talk to you live, too. To subscribe to the podcast: our RSS feed link is in the sidebar to the right or even right iTunes as well as on Stitcher.
In this episode we are still without Rico, but he will be back for episode 42. So Rich and Jon invited another podcaster, Kevin McKinney from the Throttled Podcast. Reminder of our long ride contest. Send us your planned destinations of what you consider a long ride to feedback@rdubstudios.com or use our feedback page. We'll also draw two names from the responses and send you a Loud Pipes t-shirt. Submission deadline is May 1, 2016.A big thanks to our second Patreon supporter who recently joined us for the monthly Patreon production meeting and we had a blast! Don't miss out on the next one, check out our Patreon page for details. There are also three more "first five" t-shirts remaining at a special $5/month level as of this episode.U-TURN: Indian Project Scout - Indian has announced the winnersWinner: BOARDTRACKER Motos Illimitees (translates to Bikes Unlimited)Fan Favorite: Fusion! - also LoudPipes! pick from our friends at Indian Motorcycle of CharlotteBuilders Choice: OL' 71 - Heritage Indian Motorcycles of Northwest ArkansasNEW TOPICS:Rich attended a Harley-Davidson demo day and gave us a quick review of the following bikes:CVO Street GlideRoad Glide SpecialCVO Pro Street BreakoutRich took video and plans to give more details on the bikes, so keep an eye out on RDub Studios YouTube channelKevin rented an Indian Chieftain while in Las Vegas. Overall bike was good, but was a little uncomfortable due to his height, placement of the floor broads, and handlebarsRich has completed and released the video from EasyRiders 2016 Bike Show Tour in Charlotte, NC. If you are a Patreon supporter, then you've had access to this video for the past two weeks. :)New Technology - the guys talk about helmets that offer riders either communications, cameras, and even HUDSkully helmet offers 180 degrees, turn by turn for navigation, music, etc. Cost for this helmet is $1500BMW has HUD and it will integrate with a BMW motorcycleSamsung has came up with a smart windshield. Our guest Kevin from the throttled podcast recently covered this topic, check it out for more detailCranium Helmets currently only a prototype and similar to the Skully helmet. Differs in that is had dual projectors and 210 degree camera coverageBell has developed a helmet with a 360 degree cameraSena - Smart Helmet Rich finally install Sena 20s on his helmet and tested it out. Over all Rich says its working ok, but still needs adjustmentsRich would like to get the Sena Bluetooth pack for the GoPro. Events:Upcoming events that one or more Loud Pipes! members plan on attending: Charlotte AutoFair (April 7th-10th, 2016) Moto Vlogging Meetup - May 20th-22nd.12th Annual Barber Vintage Festival (October 7th-9th, 2016) Visit RDubStudios.com/donate if you would like to support and help us improve the show or better yet visit our Patreon page where your contribution will help us achieve our goals and there are rewards for you at different pledge levels.Running time: 1 hour 31 minutesQuestions or comments: feedback@rdubstudios.com or the Feedback page
Official Website: http://www.lawabidingbiker.com Podcast-In this episode we talk about the inability of the Harley Boom!™ Box Infotainment system to pair "directly" with a wireless Bluetooth motorcycle headset. We speak the truth based upon facts, research, & testing that was done. We discussed all of this via a Live Blab session. On the mics with me were Rick Kane of Law Abiding Biker™ and Community Patron Member Darwin Cheng of California. These are the kind of things that go in the forums in the Private Patron Only Facebook Group! Darwin conducted his own testing and on his own came up with an affordable workaround for "limited" connectivity from the Boom Box to his Sena Bluetooth headset. He shared all the information with us some time back and we finally got around to putting it together into a podcast and video. Darwin himself will tell you that his setup is a workaround and a hack of sorts. He can get some functionality, such as pushing the Boom Box audio to his Sena headset, but he cannot give voice commands back to the Boom Box, something only a wired headset can do at this time. Harman Kardon, the maker of the Boom Box system for Harley-Davidson, never intended it to work with wireless Bluetooth headsets. They only created it with a hands-free profile (HFP) to work wirelessly with things like smartphones and MP3 players. It was not created with a headset profile (HSP) to work with wireless Bluetooth headsets and those are the facts. Related Video & Article: Is there a Bluetooth headset that pairs "directly" with the Boom Box Infotainment System? Truth or Fiction? We dive in deep and discuss all aspects of this subject, so you'll have to listen in. We break down exactly what items are needed to get a Sena Bluetooth motorcycle headset to partially work with the Boom Box System. Darwin shares exactly how he transfers between listening to audio from the Boom Box system to transitioning to receiving and making phone calls. He shares inside tips and tricks if this is something you want to do. Understand, the Boom Box was specifically designed to work with a wired headset only. That really doesn’t bother us here, because the good quality wired headsets work great and there are no headaches that go along with Bluetooth syncing. It is just one simple wire that plugs into your 7 pin communications port anyways, so there is no hassle. Use our Special Law Abiding Biker Link Here! At the end of this episode we announce a brand new product we are coming out with called the Biker Boom Headset. It is a fully functional motorcycle headset with microphone that fully integrates with the Boom Box Infotainment System. And it is better quality and half the price of the Harley brand headset. Scroll down for further information and availability exclusively in the Law Abiding Biker Store! If a future Bluetooth headset that “directly” pairs with the Harley Boom Box becomes available we will certainly let you know. I wouldn't hold your breath though. _________________________________________________ CHECK US OUT AND SUBSCRIBE: Website: http://www.LawAbidingBiker.com Email & Voicemail: http://www.LawAbidingBiker.com/Contact Phone Hotline: 509-731-3548 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawAbidingBiker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawabidingbiker YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/scrappy587 Google Plus Page: https://plus.google.com/b/104041070580228657262/+Lawabidingbiker587 Instagram: http://instagram.com/lawabidingbiker RSS: feed://www.LawAbidingBiker.com/feed iTunes Direct Link to Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/law-abiding-biker-podcast/id622424087 Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/law-abiding-biker-podcast TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Law-Abiding-Biker-p562288/
As promised, Stephen talks with Rick Grassadonia of SENA Bluetooth about the new Prism Bluetooth Action Camera. The post Rick Grassadonia from SENA Bluetooth appeared first on Cafe Racer Adv Motorcycle Podcast.