Update and a question

I'm jealously viewing all this talk of moto3our while recovering from knee surgery.  (You should see this thing.  It's disgusting.  It's bigger than RP's head).  

Update - The R1150R is officially totalled, according to the insurance company.  They're not happy at my insistence that I be fully compensated for all the aftermarket stuff, but if we have to litigate that, I will.  That lady owes me a fully-tricked R1150R, and that's that. 

Question - Road comms?  What's the plan?  Just hand signals?  

Any discussion of a radio solution?  RP and I kicked this around years ago, but ultimately decided that (1) we didn't want to hear each other's opinions that much; (2) we thought it would be distracting; (3) tunes were more important, and a solution that allowed for tunes to be cut out by voice comms was prohibitively complicated and expensive.  

But it's still an interesting idea.  I'm not sure why it's so hard to have a system that would (1) have a voice activated mike that would output through any old headphones and (2) would cut out the music when voice comes in.  

The trick is keeping the "any old headphones" - we all have some that we want to keep and it's a very personal choice.  All those helmet speaker systems are useless, because I can't ride without earplugs of some sort.  

In the end, the hand signals worked out just fine for us.  If a perfect system existed for voice comms, it would be cool and arguably safer ("Watch out for the guy parked at the curb - he's about to open his door").

But then you'd have to deal with the "singing out loud in the helmet" problem.