Sounds great, I’m about 250km north of Lyon tonight, hopefully hitting the Alps by tomorrow night and it looks like I’m heading into a heat wave, 28 degrees before the end of the week. I really hope it’s still blue skies by the time I get into the Pyrenees. See you then..

Denis

Looking forward to you arriving for your stay with us tomorrow. We have wifi access or you can use our computer to upload photographs and messages on your blog so you can keep it up to date for all your followers.

You are in for a treat. We have sunshine predicted for the next week and today we have clear blue skies and it is 23 degrees so you should get some great photographs of the cols that surround us.

Been recommended a superb route for bikes just across the border into Spain on the A1605 (had 6 bikers staying this week and they tried it and said it was wonderful).

See you soon.

Ron and Carole
Chalet le Chapeau Bleu Bed & Breakfast
Midi Pyrenees

Personally I really dont get why someone would want to go for a radio on a bike. When I bought the RT back in 2002 the radio was a 680Euro extra, it’s insanely overpriced and just adds another kilo to an already overly heavy bike.

It’s also a bit pointless if you want to listen to a GPS or rider to pillion coms and it’s easily stolen as the lock for the radio pocket is easily picked or broken, at least on an RT! I use the radio pocket for holding sun glasses, a disk lock, visor polishing cloth and a small First Aid Kit.

Also if that handbag Britney Spears or an ad for female sanitary towels come’s on while your pulled up at traffic lights beside some lad on a Busa or a MILF in a convertable while crusing the prominade in Cannes, well your going to look like a right tool, lol! I’ve see that happen to a lad on a Goldwing, and between the ad for tampons and his tassled leather jacket I nearly wet myself laughing at the poor sod….

As for myself I use one Sony Bluetooth transmitter (40Euro) with a 3.5mm jack that plugs into a 2Gig Sony MP3 player (50Euro), a set of Sony sterio in-earphones (14Euro) that plug into a Bluetooth receiver (12Euro).

So for 116 Euro I can listen to my music which drops out for the Garmin GPS voice directions. The earphone’s also work well (but obviously not as good as proper ear plugs for protecting your ears) and I can clearly hear music/GPS even at motorway speeds.

Hope this helps..

Den

I’d like to know though whether you use the radio on your RT (I see you have the arial)? Is it worth it while riding on the autoroute for example? Or just a bit gimmicky?

Bon route!
Guy