Question 1

Can you listen to music and will it pause for a walkie talkie conversation with another rider?

Accepted Answer

Yes or no, depending on how you interpret it.

To really understand, you need to stop thinking of it as a walkie talkie conversation.  It's more like a phone call.  With a walkie-talkie, you have to push a button to transmit, and while you're transmitting you can't hear the other person.  With the Sena helmet, it's like being on a long phone call with the other helmet.  You hear whatever the other person says when they say it and they hear whatever you say when you say it, even if you're both talking at the same time.  There's nothing to push.

Now you can tap a button to temporarily disconnect from the connection with the other person.  Then you can tap again to reconnect.  That feels more like putting the call on hold and then un-holding it, except that either person can un-hold it.

So, yes, you can listen to music when the connection with the other helmet is paused, and when you or the other person tap to resume the connection the music pauses.  In that sense, the answer to your question is yes, you can listen to music and it will pause.

But in another sense the answer is no because with a walkie talkie when someone isn't speaking, there's no connection.  With the Sena helmets, when both parties just aren't speaking, there's silence and the music won't play then, because the connection is still active.

My girlfriend and I used the helmets on a 500 mile, week long bike ride (with 15,000 others) across Iowa this summer.  We found that we liked just keeping the connection open most of the time.  Sometimes we weren't talking and we couldn't listen to music then, but either of us could just start talking.  It made conversation easy because it was like being in a car together in terms of ease of communication, even when we were a couple hundred feet apart.  We only really broke off the connection if one of us was riding and talking with someone else.  It was nice not to have to push a button and wait a second for the connection to start whenever we wanted to talk, but it meant that in the silences between speaking we couldn't listen to music.

I hope that helps.

Question 2

can the headset be remove?

Accepted Answer

The headset is part of the helmet and can’t be removed

Question 3

Just ordered orange and blue helmets. The orange was delivered but did not come with a visor. How can i get 2 visors?

Accepted Answer

Visors are available on Amazon.

Question 4

Can a light be added to the back?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you can duct tape a light on the back.

Brand	Sena
Color	Ice Blue
Age Range (Description)	Adult
Size	Large
Special Feature	Universal Phone Control
Model Name	R1
Outer Material	Polycarbonate (PC)
Vehicle Service Type	Adventure Tourer
Recommended Uses For Product	Cycling
Item Dimensions LxWxH	10.4 x 13.1 x 7.5 inches
Inner Material	Nylon
Item Weight	380 Grams
Style	R1
Item Package Dimensions L x W x H	14.13 x 12.64 x 9.25 inches
Package Weight	1.69 Kilograms
Brand Name	Sena
Warranty Description	2 Year Warranty
Material	Polycarbonate
Suggested Users	Unisex-adult
Number of Items	1
Manufacturer	Sena
Part Number	R1-STD-IB-L
Included Components	Cable
Sport Type	Cycling

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