He has to listen to me all day!

Once I started riding my own bike, the one thing I didn't like was not being able to communicate with Jim while we were going down the road. If I needed to stop or something was up, I had to try to get his attention [which never was easy, by the way]. Last year, before our annual motorcycle trip, we bought some blue tooth headsets [cardo systems, scala Q2] so we could talk with each other while riding. They were great, but the charge on the battery would only last about 7 hours. Because we generally ride longer than that each day, we would lose contact the last bit of our ride every day. We decided to get a second pair before this years trip [sadly, they don't have additional batteries so that you can change them out when they go down . . . you can only recharge them], and were happy to find that they had upgraded them so that they would last up to 9 hours. This gave us two sets so if we are still riding,even after 9 hours, we just had to change them out so we could continue to talk with each other [which was great as this year some of our days went 10 or more hours long]. This makes the trip feel a little more like something we share together, since we can talk all throughout the day instead of just when we make stops. Of course the downside for Jim is that he has to listen to me all day!