View Poll Results: Do you ride with music in your helmet?

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  • YES - I listen to music whilst riding

    47 24.74%
  • NO, but I would if I had the ability to

    27 14.21%
  • NO, I'd rather listen to the bike

    61 32.11%
  • NO - I think this is a dangerous habit

    55 28.95%
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  1. #61
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    Quote Originally Posted by RiderInBlack
    No the amusement for me is that people can be so concerned for their hearing that they wear ear plugs on their bike but have no concern for other people's hearing having increased the noise output of their bikes
    But remember that we are on the bike for long periods... if bystanders want to stand there, mouths gaping at our gorgeous bikes as we go past... well, I for one won't complain

    Please guys, when deciding whether to wear ear plugs or not, don't judge by how fast you will go, or if you will ride for more than 1 hour. Use the link in my previous post, and estimate how loud your bike/pipe is.

    For me, with the 115db pipe, I get no more than 15 minutes every day before I am risking permanent damage to my ears. Sure, its numbers, and there are variables, but I would rather have my hearing later on in life...

    Plugs don't have to cost the earth, sure, as long as they cut down the noise, at the correct frequencies.
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    Im more concentrated on trying not to be killed rather than listening to music.

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    Fuck earplugs.

    I figure that by the time the damage is done that I'll be so sick of listening to the mrs whining that a bit of high freguency hearing loss will be a blessing.

    Plus, TV has subtitles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin
    But remember that we are on the bike for long periods... if bystanders want to stand there, mouths gaping at our gorgeous bikes as we go past... well, I for one won't complain

    Please guys, when deciding whether to wear ear plugs or not, don't judge by how fast you will go, or if you will ride for more than 1 hour. Use the link in my previous post, and estimate how loud your bike/pipe is.

    For me, with the 115db pipe, I get no more than 15 minutes every day before I am risking permanent damage to my ears. Sure, its numbers, and there are variables, but I would rather have my hearing later on in life...

    Plugs don't have to cost the earth, sure, as long as they cut down the noise, at the correct frequencies.
    Good points that man....I play drums in a (LOUD) rock band - I wear musician's earplugs when practising, playing, and going to other people's gigs. I value my hearing, so I wear plugs on the bike too. As Gremlin sez, even if you have a loud pipe, when you go past someone and expose them to 115dB or whatever it's only for a matter of seconds. The damage is done by exposure to a certain level over TIME.....

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    The funny thing is, at 115 DB you have bugger all exposure for OSH limits.
    Hammering a nail in an enclosed space is an activity you can do for nearly 5 minutes without plugs before thats your day of carpentry over (not that that stops anyone)

    A ramset gun is over 120db. 1 shot unprotected, and that is it.

    anything over about 85 DB is too loud for 8 hours continued exposure. 90 db halves the time. 95 is less than half an hour and so on.

    Scary stuff.
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    when i listen to music my mind seems to go of track so i think if i had it in my helmet i would probably go of the side of the road..

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    i have MP3 PLAYER BUT AS YET HAVE'NT USED IT WHILE RIDING, THOUGHT ABOUT IT BUT LIKE CEIL PHONES MAYBE A DISTRACTION.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Free Rider
    when i listen to music my mind seems to go of track so i think if i had it in my helmet i would probably go of the side of the road..
    try that again, but making sense this time? dammit.. i want an mp3 player..
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    i used to listen to music on my ipod but guess what it broke...
    Any ways listening to music gets me speeding tickets :P i always go to fast with music in slowish zones
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeroIndex
    try that again, but making sense this time? dammit.. i want an mp3 player..
    When i listen to music from MP3 Players or CD Players or Sterios or anything that makes music MY MIND seems to lose its CONCENTRATION so I think that if i have ANY TYPE OF MUSIC DEVICE in my helmet my CONCENTRATION would go elsewhere so i would probably drive of the side of the road... And i rather hear my 170cc... lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Free Rider
    When i listen to music from MP3 Players or CD Players or Sterios or anything that makes music MY MIND seems to lose its CONCENTRATION so I think that if i have ANY TYPE OF MUSIC DEVICE in my helmet my CONCENTRATION would go elsewhere so i would probably drive of the side of the road... And i rather hear my 170cc... lol
    ahh.. ok.. understand what you're saying now.. here's a tip.. when you listen to music on a bike, NO MOSHING OR HEADBANGING.. heed my words, and you'll be fine
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    as some of you know
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    I listen to baroque garden on the ipod and it really improves my concentration when riding.

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    I tried it once with my ipod, found it to be distracting - I'm a classical music freak and had Wagner's "Ride of The Valkyries" playing ... only problem is I kept having "Apocalypse Now" also in my head and was thumbing an imaginary kill switch to launch imaginary payloads of rocket death at cagers ahead

    Heavens knows what would have happened if my ipod started to play other classics like "Bohemian Rhapsody" or "Classic German Oom-pah band/Dutch Barrel Organ music" titles (yep, do have those along with the "Funny Bird Dance" and other ditties).

    'Sides, I like to listen to my bike!
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    The damage has already been done to my ears by years of using loud mechanical devices, and bleeding ears at concerts.
    Now to listen to music I have to have it cranked up, risking more damage.
    I just nod in what I hope are appropriate spots when listening to people at the pub.
    Look after your hearing - you only get one shot at it.
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