Sena SMH10D-10 Motorcycle Bluetooth Headset

If you ride with a buddy, you don’t know how much you need these things until you have them. They mount to any full-face helmet very well (either with adhesive or clip – both are supplied) and as long as you tuck the boom up into the helmet, the sound quality is superb – when people call me they don’t even know I’m riding! They’re loud enough even with earplugs, a loud thumper and a loud ADV-style helmet. On the road, they work for at least 500ft – more than enough range for riding with a buddy. Range is reduced if you’re on the other side of a hill or forest. If you need longer range, pair your phones to the sets and you two can just call each other – that works fine too.

The mounting process is simple enough – you may need a small allen key to take off the clip to easily slide it into the underside of your helmet. Some helmets have little patches underneath their lining to accommodate the speakers – others don’t and you have to use the included adhesive. Either method works just fine and I haven’t had any speakers fall off. Since you’re mounting the speakers underneath the lining, you never have to worry about them when putting the helmet on.

The buttons are superbly useable even while wearing gloves. When trail riding, occasionally a branch knocks the button and ends the intercom, but it’s a simple single button-press to get it back again.

If you go down hard and the left side of your helmet goes into the road or a log or something you might break the intercom unit – I would think about putting some kind of shield over it before taking it on an enduro. However, it’s fairly compact and seems very sturdy.

The “brain” of the intercom (the part that requires charging) comes off easily and is reinstalled with a snap so you don’t have to bring your whole helmet to wherever you charge this thing. I love the fact that you can order additional mounting kits that allow you to easily transfer the intercom units between helmets without redoing all the speaker mounts on the inside of the helmet padding.

They work great!

I’m updating my original review from 2 stars to 5. See my original review, below. I ended up repurchasing this dual pack of communicators and have been using them for more than a year. I enjoy long battery life and like being able to talk to my riding buddies. When riding, I can accept calls and people don’t even know that I’m riding. I have one on my full-face helmet and a second one on my half-shell helmet. I really enjoy having them and have determined that one of my riding buddies, with whom I tested my original set, didn’t have his microphone placed high enough in his helmet which is why I couldn’t understand him and usually only heard wind. I still can’t understand him but I have no problems with other riders so it must be his set-up. Great product that works as expected and I really enjoy listening to music when riding.

Original review: I purchased these headsets based on positive reviews. I used them on 2 rides; performance with the telephone was good. People that I spoke to said they could hear me well. I was also able to listen to music and GPS directions. The bike-to-bike intercom feature, however, left much to be desired. I think that we could have shouted at one another and been heard better than we were when using the communicator devices. I’m not sure what the issue was: when we were off the bikes, we could hear fine. But riding the bikes at any speed over 25 mph presented serious challenges to hearing one another — from almost any distance (as close as 10 feet); both of us use full-face helmets yet there was a tremendous amount of wind noise and my buddy sounded very, very distant. I contacted Sena and they were helpful in providing suggestions like resetting the units to a factory setting and updating the software. Unfortunately, I was unable to perform these updates and have an opportunity to ride with my buddy to try them out before owning the units beyond the time for which they could be returned. Moreover, I’m not sure why brand-new units should require a reset or software update. Over the past few days, I did a search for problems with Sena headsets and, despite the great reviews here, I found a lot of information relating to Sena failures and a lack of product support from the manufacturer. In addition to emailing Sena, I also called them. Strangely, I couldn’t understand very much of the person was saying — it was like he was using a phone that kept cutting in and out. As a result of Sena’s instructions to reset the units, the unintelligible response from Sena’s telephone customer service and the negative information about Sena units and the lack of customer support, I returned the items to the seller. I still want communicators but if these are among the best, the technology leaves a great deal to be desired. We expected a lot better performance and usability.

El radio funciona excelente y permite conversar con otros pilotos sin interferencias a una distancia relativamente larga: unos 300 metros, aunque la publicidad dice que hasta 900 metros.
Lo compré para reemplazar unos radios con un alcance mucho más corto y funcionan excelente!