The only way to ride with music. Sounds good. Battery life good. You can charge iPod without removing it. I do think they should have put the iPod in right side up so it does not jar loose though. I just shove it upside down in a regular bottle cage and it is pretty fine.
Rating: 5 / 5

Just took this for a 40+ mile bike ride in Washington, DC and Virginia (the WO&D trail) and it worked extremely well. Not a completely flawless device but very pleasantly surprising in some ways as well.

Here’s how this product breaks down:

PROS:

- Loud, rich, clean mono sound from its single top firing speaker

- Internal mounting of iPod inside the speaker is solid and well thought out

- Overall construction of speaker and bike mount is very solid and rugged

- Battery life is good, device stayed strong for over four hours of riding

- Easy in-speaker recharging of the iPod so it doesn’t have to be removed, although that is simple and fast as well

- Nice protective cap for the speaker in case it starts raining or gets muddy, easily stowed on bottom of speaker otherwise

- Easily mounted and rugged remote control for handlebars

- All parts firmly snap together for easy stowage (speaker, cap, remote) in the high quality heavily padded storage bag that comes with it

CONS:

- The device uses four regular non-rechargeable AA batteries to power the speaker instead of a rechargeable battery like most iPod speakers in this price range.

- Unit’s remote control batteries arrived dead, indicating that these will have to be replaced often (uses 2 CR2032s)

- Shock mounting for the iPod is not all it could be, had one lock up on the trip that could be attributed to it.

- There are no support pages for this device on the company’s Web site, unlike their other products.

- The device points the speaker up at the rider but the sound is sometimes hard to hear on some tracks when moving at high speed.

Overall a complete win if you ask me, there is no competing iPod speaker products that even come close for bike use.
Rating: 4 / 5