I then added the bluetooth link to my phone. That is a cool feature. I can dial using voice commands and take or end calls by touching the button on the side of the helmet. The first call that I made was in the house to my 2 year old daughter so it was difficult to say how well the system worked. Shortly after my brother called me on while I was wearing the helmet. I took the call and we gave the N-com a road test.
Brant reported that the call quality was really clear and aside from starting the bike he was not able to hear the bike during the call. I rode with my visor open and even stood above the windshield with no wind noise. I haven't tried yet to ride above the windshield with the face completely open. I suspect that even with the wind sock on the microphone there would be noticeable noise.
I made two more calls through the helmet today and both reported the same good call quality and no bike noise.
Rachel and I rode across town with them linked up and had plenty of volume and good clarity helmet to helmet. After the ride we walked to see how far away we could be before loosing the link. At about 30 ft(line of sight) we got static on the line and lost signal at about 50ft. It may be close enough to have communications from one bike to the next.
I really like how the helmet looked finished. Because the N-com is a factory part for Nolan helmets everything fits really well. All the polystyrene is formed to take the N-com components. Everything is self contained and looks as if the helmet was purchased that way from Nolan. If not for the microphone and the battery charging cable one would never know the difference between a N-com equipped helmet and one that was not.
Two big thumbs up for Nolan and the N-Com.
1 comment:
looks good and sounds great ill have to get some
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