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[Dr.D]

This is my first bike with a sound system an I am liking it more than I thought i would. I always said I did n to need music on a bike and the motor was the music. Now I am eating words again. So to the question, do you have a preferred style of music on your ride?

Some riding goes great with a good rock lick like the aggressive twists but the other day on the first day out on a three day tour I found myself listening to some of the classical music that I had loaded on the flash drive. It was a glorious combination of large sweepers on an exceptionally cool July morning on the quiet piped Limited.

The next day was totally different. I had my hands in the "Ayer" to Flo_Rida. Love to give the sign langue to the wife going down the road to Beast of Burden.

Try the classical thing one day see if it ain't da bomb?

[Buy early]

Whole lotta choices here:

http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/index.php?topic=27384.495

[Trans am]

My flash has 900 songs.   A huge eclitic mix.    Rap,Cajun,mariachi,country,rock,easy rock,  70's thru today.     Then their is Sirius.  And then iphone iTunes music....   Always something playing on my ride. 

[cvoDoug]

I-tunes radio, either Kenny Wayne Shepard or Joe Bonnamassa.

[Royalroadie]

Da Blues,  delta, Chicago, old or new,   It's still Da Blues.

[Twolanerider]

Most of the time.... actually... none at all.  Road is its own song.

[hdguy1]

I use the Ipod Nano that came with my bike. It has pop, rock, blues, and smooth jazz. Just play random and enjoy whatever comes up.

[Paulsmerc]

1950's Rockabilly & Rock n Roll all the time

[Jswerve]

Pandora. If I'm in the boonies I have a cd with a mix of genres I rock. Thinking of adding a zumo this off season so may do satellite radio?

[moscooter]

 
With my new 2014 S.G. Special,  I also access Pandora on my cell phone via Bluetooth.  But in addition, my son in law loaded up a thumb drive for me with over 2000 songs on it and it plugs into my usb port.

  It's almost too much of a hassle as I'm finding it hard to "navigate" thru it all and find songs that I want. Still reviewing the process of selecting Artist versus Album versus song title, etc. Too many damn bells/whistles to figure out.

[Rooster]

2000 songs, don't worry be happy. Just enjoy figuring them all out.

[Dr.D]

With my new 2014 S.G. Special,  I also access Pandora on my cell phone via Bluetooth.  But in addition, my son in law loaded up a thumb drive for me with over 2000 songs on it and it plugs into my usb port.

  It's almost too much of a hassle as I'm finding it hard to "navigate" thru it all and find songs that I want. Still reviewing the process of selecting Artist versus Album versus song title, etc. Too many damn bells/whistles to figure out.

Ain't that the truth. I have only 341 songs on the drive and it is a bit of a dangerous challenge to find stuff and driver there bike. Most of the time I just let it play and enjoy the unexpected next song. The eclectic mix keeps me from getting bored with one genre.

[Bigfoot16]

I have everything from Merle Haggard to Iron Maiden on my bike.   It just depends on the road and my mood....

[ltank]

My hearing is shot.  I am a Audiophile but over the years of concerts, loud pipes and working offshore, my I have a 20,000 home music system, that I don't even listen to anymore. Altec Voice of the Theater main speakers. 102 DB/SBL @ 1 watt and 131 DB at 30
 Watts. Got 400 WRMS per channel.  But anyway when Riding the Bike exhaust is music to my ears.

[Dan_Lockwood]

We listen to oldies and Motown a lot while riding.

We have a biker hangout near us, Defiance MO, and sometimes while riding through we'll be listening to Disco and crank it up so all can hear.  I can only imagine what some of them think.

I have over 148k songs in my iTunes.  Some are duplicates because of greatest hits and special releases etc of the same group, but I've never deleted them.

I have from classical, rock, some hard rock (but not heavy metal), tons of blues (new and old style), Motown, instrumentals, all of the Ventures albums to pop.  I have a lot of Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin etc.  Some country, but no Rap.  I'm not a traditional country guy but like Alabama, Restless Heart, Exile (even when they were pop) Judds, etc.

I ride with a 16g iPod and most of it is oldies by years.  I still find it easier to use the iPod than stream with my XM as I have control over my song choices with the iPod.

I have the stock head unit in my '09 SERG and have upgraded the speakers to the J&M 7.25".  I'm sure that I could get more sound, but with just the speaker upgrade we can hear the tunes just fine.