Ellie Kennard<p>Review of Sena Bikom 20 "Bikey Talkies"* after a couple of rides: </p><p>First of all, the units are small and very light, 20gms (hence the name). It was a bit of a fiddle to get the thinner clip onto the helmet strap as the fit was extremely tight. Having put it on inside out the first time, (yes!) I decided to try the larger clip. That seemed to work fine but, honestly, came off too easily when removing the bikom from the clip. So I went back to the finer one, which went on eventually okay. It will never fall off!</p><p>The first ride was in extremely windy conditions, and although it seemed to work well, I found the audio a bit fuzzy, and had to fiddle with the volume to reduce the distortion and make it clearer. I read on an online forum that changing it back from mesh 3 to mesh 2 could give clearer sound. </p><p>I sent a request into their tech support about the sound quality and got a response from them within a few hours with suggestions and invitation to get back to them if I still have problems. So their support also seems very good.</p><p>On the second ride there was less wind although enough in some areas to give it a good test again. We did find that possibly the mesh 2 did give a cleaner result, but there wasn't much in it. Most of the time the audio was clearly understandable. We also tried the small experiment of telephoning to see how that worked and the sound on that was excellent. We did note that we could actually call each other on the telephone and get a nice clear reception from almost anywhere, as you would a regular phone call. As we have free calls, we could always do that. </p><p>It did have a terrific range, at least as long as was advertised, possibly longer, ie half a mile or more. We didn't yet try listening to music as that's not something that we would normally do on that quality of headset. If we try it I will come back and update this. No doubt I could listen to a podcast with no problem at all on these. </p><p>On at least one occasion I was advised by my companion about a car that was approaching out of my line of sight in my mirror, so I can already see an advantage as far as safety is concerned.</p><p>Although the unit was expensive, I have absolutely no hesitation at all in saying that for us it was well worth the investment, we have no regrets in the purchase. They do seem well made and work as advertised.</p><p>*My term, like walkie talkies, but for bikes</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bikenite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bikenite</span></a></span> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/EllieKPosts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EllieKPosts</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/bikenite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bikenite</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cycling</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/biking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biking</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Sena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sena</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Bikom20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bikom20</span></a></p>