Motorcycle Helmet with bluetooth and auxillary jack.

Why doesnt someone make an easy kit to add stereo headphones, bluetooth, and optional mics to helmets?

Someone does now, Me.

They make bluetooth headsets to go in helmets, but they are mono, and dont provide a headphone jack. They are also packaged to clip on the outside of the helmet, which works for cruisers, but not in a leaned over position on a sportbike.

I'll be writing up on a fairly inexpensive addition to your helmet.

I'm starting with a Motorola H500 bluetooth earpiece.

You can benefit from my prying and breaking plastic, so you dont have to do the same.

The H500 has three screws. Pulling up will unclip the plastic cover around and along with the call button. This exposes two screws. The third screw is under the motorola logo. It's glued on, so just pry it off.

The board inside is wired to a speaker, and a mic. I'll be cutting off the forward portion of the headset, and putting the mic assembly in the helmet with velcro. I'll extend the wires and make it a jack, so that I can switch to a throat mic at some point.

I have a fairly slim headphone jack that I'll be putting in the helmet, and wiring the speaker out of the H500 to both sides, it'll still be mono, but it will be on both sides.

In between the speaker ground, I'll add a switch on the left side the helmet, so that you can cut off the music during a call.

Total cost so far:
H500 - free, but have found some for around $15-$30
Headphone jack $4 at radio shack
Slim Speakers - $35 online
Buttons - still looking.

Will the headset put out enough volume to be heard with two speakers?
Can I find a place for the headphone jack, that wont pierce my brain in an accident?

Stop back to see how it turns out!