Vibration Breaking I-pod. Anyone else run into the problem?
Cruiser
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Colorado
I'm with Sodiee, until there is a true way to integrate the ipod into the hk stereo (which I doubt will ever come). What I mean by true integration is an actaul ipod cable, song names being shown in the HK display, and lastly, hand controls control the iPod. AUX cable and a draining iPod just doesn't do it for me.
Till then, or till I swap out the HK unit for something else, I'm in general going to be sticking with .mp3 cds.
Till then, or till I swap out the HK unit for something else, I'm in general going to be sticking with .mp3 cds.
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From: Yokohama
I have gone through 2 ipods on my Ultra. I wish I could post a picture of my mount but for some reason I always get a message that my picture file is too big, but that is another post. The mount has a rubber cushion, but there is still minimalvibration. My first I-pod went blank and does not work anymore. It was the original series 10 gig with a hard drive. My second I-pod is a 30gig with hard drive. While on a trip to Montana the screen went blank. My 1700 songs were no longer on the I-pod. I could not get them to reboot either when I got home. I suspect the vibration from the bike shook something up in the hard drive or its related. Has anyone else had such a problem with I-pods on the bike?
Road Warrior
Joined: May 2006
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From: The sticks in SC
My friend did that on his nano's NAMVET, he has two nanos hooked up to the same itunes account so it should work. 
Here's a pic of a friends setup, clean looking and he can work it easy going down the road
Here's a pic of a friends setup, clean looking and he can work it easy going down the road
Last edited by gilbos440rt; Feb 22, 2009 at 07:57 AM.
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From: SW Oklahoma
Is the number of computers that is limited not IPods. You can authorize up to 5 computers to use an Itunes acct. Each computer can load tunes onto an unlimited number of ipods.
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I locked up a hard drive iPod on a V4 Honda ST1300! Smoothest bike I've ever owned. Go with a Nano and you won't have any problems. I also use a Monster ezclick? RF remote control to operate the iPod on the bike. It lets me FF, pause, vol up & down, and skip forward and backwards. I plug everything in under my seat and don't have to worry about getting caught in the rain and drowning my Nano.
