CB's are a necessity when you have 500+ bikes and trikes in a group strung out over 2-3 miles for Run for the Wall, or even 100+ on a PGR Pony Express Run, or 50+ Escorting the Traveling Vietnam Memorial, or 30+ on the Bi-Annual Ride for Solidarity with Israel
Try a Bluetooth connection to all of that, just saying. It is manufactures who do not want to keep up with what is still happening in the motorcycle community at large and ever seeking the dollar that are forcing smaller and smaller "group of riders to communicate"