Music in your helmet?

[Insanity_rules]

Phillips sports headphones from dickies (Dick Smith) $19.95. They stay on well under the helmet as they have a hook that goes around the back of your ear. I listen to music a lot, at a reasonable volume so I can still hear the traffic too

[kickingzebra]

PS: What is a freckin' Dyson!?!

Its a thing you say to your children, still living at home, when they turn 30 and ask you to charge them less rent.

[Kendog]

I listen to music on the longer rides and use a piece of blue tak to hold the ear piece in and it muffles the out side noice enough so that I dont have to blast the music. Remotes are great so that you can stop it for when you want to hear the engine.

Tha's awesome thinking! I have earplugs that cancel out most of the wind noise etc so I don't have to have the music up too loud, but find the plugs move out of my ears the faster I go, and was considering wrapping tape around my ears like a rugby player, but didn't like the idea of ripping my hair out when removing said tape (as well as looking like a twat when I take my helmet off). Blue tak!!! Fantastic, thanks.
Mrs KD

[The Pastor]

Listing to music in your helmet, is for fags who want to be cagers. Pyrocam is a classic example, Look at this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d114XXHEJsU pure fagg-y-ness.

[notme]

Where is the:

NO I don't listen to music - but I would like the ability to since I'm a gadget freak!!!!!!

.....second option on the poll?

[WRT]

Tha's awesome thinking! I have earplugs that cancel out most of the wind noise etc so I don't have to have the music up too loud, but find the plugs move out of my ears the faster I go, and was considering wrapping tape around my ears like a rugby player, but didn't like the idea of ripping my hair out when removing said tape (as well as looking like a twat when I take my helmet off). Blue tak!!! Fantastic, thanks.
Mrs KD

Sooo . . . let me get this straight. Tape over your ears makes you look like a twat, but stuffing blue tak in them doesnt? And where on the scale of twat-ness does blue tape fit in?

[Sniper]

I sometimes ride with music but I find that my style changes depending on what Im listening to. Almost killed myself one day while listening to Rammstein, so I prefer to listen to Simon and Garfunkle, Abba and Goldie now.

[Hawkeye]

Phillips sports headphones from dickies (Dick Smith) $19.95. They stay on well under the helmet as they have a hook that goes around the back of your ear. I listen to music a lot, at a reasonable volume so I can still hear the traffic too

I do exactly the same. Those headphones are brilliant. and because they actually stay in the ear, they are like having ear plugs in. No need to have them loud. I use the same volume as in the office. Just background volume.
I only use them when I'm in commute mode where the speed is low and therefore don't have too much wind noise in the helmet.
When I'm with others, I never use them.

[Insanity_rules]

Listing to music in your helmet, is for fags who want to be cagers. Pyrocam is a classic example, Look at this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d114XXHEJsU pure fagg-y-ness.

Those who throw stones.........

[Kendog]

Sooo . . . let me get this straight. Tape over your ears makes you look like a twat, but stuffing blue tak in them doesnt? And where on the scale of twat-ness does blue tape fit in?

It would be right up there

[Maha]

Theres always some sort of noise going on in my head so no need to compound/disturb the many buzz's,blips and boinks that i hear.......

[ZeroIndex]

in the mornings, i listen to boyracer cars music.. sitting right up next to them, dancing away.. i get lots of smiles, or laughs.. i can never tell..

[Warr]

Imdying is dead right (unfortunate pun that) - BUT - if you spend up big you can get noise cancelling in-ear speakers, but I'm not so sure about spending $700 - $2000 for headphones that might get damaged or lost in an accident.

Remember, quiet helmets usually rate at about 90dB at 100km/hr. Loud enough to need earplugs if you want to keep your hearing forever. You have to overwhelm 90dB of essentially white noise to hear the music well enough to enjoy it. You'd be well into rock concert/jet aircraft levels and you'd be doing it for sustained periods. Hearing loss is insidious and you usually don't notice it until you can't follow conversations with people right next to you at a social function with more than 10 people. Too late. Upper register will be gone by then. Vivaldi and Eddie Van Halen's best work wiped out forever.

I'm definatly with these guys. Jono gave me some really good earplugs but they need replacing!!
Biggest problem I have is getting them in properly. It's not till you actually get underway that you know if they are sealing / seated / sitting ... right so it is a small inconvienence .not. in having to pull over and gloves off, helmet off, to refit. But once they are, sweet.

Tho I need to add that with the can I am presently running when I'm er keeping up with the big boys it has been know for me to wonder why the bike isnt pulling any harder and realise the rev counter is sitting in the red as I cant actually hear the motor screaming.
I can still hear important things like the Radar bleeping in the helmet speakers.

[mart1]

I hear ya, I used to race enduro with slayer blaring in my helmet, went over a ridge too fast stayed in the air for about 7 seconds and woke up with a headache. now i just wear earplugs.

[ZeroIndex]

I hear ya, I used to race enduro with slayer blaring in my helmet, went over a ridge too fast stayed in the air for about 7 seconds and woke up with a headache. now i just wear earplugs.

even classical music is bad (used to listen to it in south africa on occasion in my cage), and before i knew it, i was doing the 'car equivalent' of lane-splitting (jumping from lane to lane) closing on 180km/h (but then again, i did that all the time)