Harley Bagger Audio for Sierra Madre

We are not in Sierra Madre. AMS Pods is the Harley bagger-audio side of Audio MotorSports, 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745. From Sierra Madre take Sierra Madre Boulevard or Baldwin Avenue to the 210 west, then the 110 south — 32.3 miles, forty-five to fifty-five minutes. Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King, built around the Hertz Neo speaker and a crash-bar bracket that comes with the pods.

Sierra Madre is 32.3 miles from the Avalon pin. Sierra Madre Boulevard or Baldwin Avenue toward the 210 west, then the 110 south toward Avalon. Forty-five to fifty-five minutes on a bagger. The alternate is Michillinda Avenue south to the 210 west, then the 605 and 710 toward Avalon. At this distance, call and agree the build before making the trip. Maps pin 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.

Sierra Madre is a foothill village where the mountains start at the top of town — the Mount Wilson Trail goes up from the end of a residential street, and Angeles Crest is effectively a local road rather than a destination. This is the best canyon-riding base in the county, and canyon riding is the single hardest case for motorcycle audio. Elevation change alters air density and therefore wind noise, cold air coming down off the range means a full helmet and often earplugs, and the road demands enough attention that a system which requires fiddling is a system you stop using. The village itself is the opposite condition: narrow shaded streets with no traffic lights, where an audible bike at eight in the morning is noticed by everybody.

AMS Pods start at $649 a pair. Chrome or gloss, crash-bar bracket and screws included, built to order in-house, about three weeks. Nothing gets invented beyond $649 a pair — the rest is quoted on your bike at the counter. A full bagger build is usually up to about ten business days in the shop, confirmed in person once the bike is on the floor.

Richard makes them in Carson, in-house since 2003 and in the trade since 1998. Hertz Neo goes inside — small neodymium magnet, weatherproof, clear at volume. Street Glide and Road Glide take a fairing amplifier and a tank pull. On a Road King the pods carry the job and the amplifier lives in a bag on a carpeted board with an AMS quick disconnect. The angle on the crash bar gets set for the rider rather than for the photograph, which on a canyon bike is the difference between hearing the music through a full helmet and only hearing it at stops.

Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King. Harley radios in the shop are Diamond Audio, plus Sony and Soundstream. For a bike whose main use is the Crest, the aiming conversation is the important one — a pair of degrees at the bracket changes more than a tier of speaker does, and it is decided with you sitting on the bike rather than guessed afterwards.

Earplugs are what make canyon audio seem impossible, and riders usually give up rather than solve it. Plugs cut everything by roughly the same amount, so what matters is not how loud the source is but how much of it reaches your head in the first place — and the honest answer is that a fairing speaker loses most of it to the air before it gets there. Pods do not defeat plugs, but they deliver enough that a normal listening level through them is achievable, which is not true of a fairing system at any reasonable setting.

Music that gets through a full helmet and plugs on a Crest run at a level you would actually choose. Aiming set with you on the bike. A quiet setting that is genuinely quiet leaving the village at eight in the morning. Weatherproof pods for cold mountain air. Nothing showing along the frame. And bags that come off in seconds.

Sierra Madre Boulevard or Baldwin to the 210 west, then the 110 south — 32.3 miles, forty-five to fifty-five minutes. AMS Pods from $649 a pair, about three weeks built to order. Aiming at the bracket matters more than a speaker tier.

Worth stacking at this distance. Car audio is LA Car Beats at lacarbeats.com — a trail-capable SUV with road noise is a real system candidate. Window tint is LA Car Tint at lacartint.com — 3M Authorized Dealer, hand-cut on a glass board. Vehicle security is LA Car Alarm at lacaralarm.com — trailhead parking and a car left all day.

Monday through Saturday, 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Sunday closed, walk-ins welcome. At nearly an hour each way, call and agree everything first — pods are about three weeks to make, so the trip should be planned rather than exploratory. Nick writes the quote, Zack runs the floor. A Payment Plan is available at the counter once the bike is quoted. Google shows 4.8 from 654 reviews.

If the Crest is your local road out of Sierra Madre, plugs are not the reason to give up on audio — distance to your ear is. Call or text (310) 513-8800 and ask for Nick. 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.