Nice new toy. I'm sure it won't be new for very long though since you have two years of riding to make up for.

From my experience, a Karma works out decently on a motorcycle. You just need to set it to play a long shuffled playlist ahead of time, and tuck the unit inside a pocket on your jacket. Mine has one that I can easially feel for the Karma through a vent pocket and manipulate the volume and the nub to skip tracks/pause playback. The rumored snowboarder mode would make this a tad easier, or a remote I could hang somewhere outside my jacket.

But it is nice to have long rides with the karma. I'm just hoping it was a failing hard drive that caused my first karma to die on a ride, and not a problem overall with having a hard drive player atop an engine reving 6,000 RPM at higher speeds.