When you create a tidal account they tell you how to transfer your playlists automatically via a 3rd party service (Limited to 500 tracks, unless you pay). Qobuz does the same, but if I’m not mistaken actually partners with the 3rd party service to offer it for free without the 500 track limit.
Indeed, props to OP for caring about their neighbours. In some countries motorcycles are banned on certain roads because of the nuisance.
When riding through built-up areas I try to keep the noise down on my ICE bike (which isn’t that loud to begin with, BMW R1200RT), but ideally I take my electric bike. So much fun to ride without disturbing other people’s peace and quiet. That also means that I can ride it any way I like, because hard acceleration is about as quiet as normal riding.
I was sceptical at first too, but a not-paid-for search engine will either have ads, paid results or try to monetize the search data in some way. I feel it helps me find what I need, better than the alternatives I tried, and I like the features and configuration options it has.
Understandable. Good luck hunting for drives!
I got one or 2 4 TB drives (Seagate IronWolf). If you’re interested in 5-6 year old NAS drives that got replaced with larger capacity ones, send me a message and I’ll send you the smart data. I wasn’t planning on selling them, but they’re not being used anymore so I might just as well.
One hour of 360 video is roughly 60GB. Process that video and export it and you get a lot of data as well. I would not call it being super heavy on video to have one hour of source material on your phone, which you could not do right now.
360 photos are roughly 150MB each.
Storage is cheap, but sold at a very high mark-up.
The ones made by Helite also have user replaceable CO2 cartridges, so you can easily (takes 5 minutes) reset the vest if it isn’t damaged. After 5 inflations they say to return it to them to have it checked properly.
And - I guess I’m preaching to the choir here - wear appropriate gear to protect yourself, maybe even look into an airbag vest. Those things offer quite a bit of extra protection for your upper body, neck and some even to your hips and tailbone to a certain extent.
I got a Helite Turtle 2 myself and don’t ride without it.
Those airbag vests really add quite a bit of protection. I’ve seen a case where a guy crashed into a car (driver on phone made an illegal maneuver), totaling both his bike and the car he hit. He survived without major injuries (basically only bruises and some pulled muscles). According to him (and the paramedics) the consequences would’ve been lot more severe if he hadn’t been wearing it.
I’m a big fan of airbag vests. Those really help reduce the consequences of a lot of accidents…
ATGATT: All The Gear, All The Time. Get quality gear, suitable for the rides you want to do (doesn’t make sense to buy expensive Goretex gear if you don’t expect to ride in the rain regularly for example) and wear it, no matter how long your ride is.
Get some frame sliders or so for when you almost inevitably drop your bike.
Most motorcycle accidents happen because the rider made a mistake. Common causes:
Learn to be a better rider. No matter how much you ride, there will always be some bad habits that sneak into your riding style. Take a refresher course every now and then, so they can point them out to you.
Learn to ride more defensively, and make yourself seen (Fortnine’s YT video on invisibility is a good one for example).
Last but not least… Watch some crash compilations on YouTube, because those allow you to learn from other people’s mistakes. You will probably make some of those mistakes as well.
If you like classical music, give qobuz a try… High quality audio, large selection of classical music.