Ear Plugs

[Blakamin]

I hate ear plugs,I will stop when I get to gravel or go off road and take them out - I just can't think with them in.But I now have some Alpine ear plugs and they are great - just takes out the wind noise,I don't feel like my ears are blocked....I can hear the bike,people talking to me,even with the bike running,can hear cars,police sirens and sparrows farting.But they are a hassle to fit correctly,and the filters will contact the outer ear if not in right,then they hurt like hell.Got them in right on sunday and left them in for my whole ride,only taking them out when I got to Puke.They go in deep and I use a pair of small pliers to get them out - must look a bit strange to see me going into my ears with needle nose pliers - but people lead such boring lives watching a motorcyclist extracting earplugs with pliers will supply them with after dinner discussions for days.

The reason you cant think is coz you pushed 'em in too far

[Bandito]

I hate ear plugs,I will stop when I get to gravel or go off road and take them out - I just can't think with them in.But I now have some Alpine ear plugs and they are great - just takes out the wind noise,I don't feel like my ears are blocked....I can hear the bike,people talking to me,even with the bike running,can hear cars,police sirens and sparrows farting.But they are a hassle to fit correctly,and the filters will contact the outer ear if not in right,then they hurt like hell.Got them in right on sunday and left them in for my whole ride,only taking them out when I got to Puke.They go in deep and I use a pair of small pliers to get them out - must look a bit strange to see me going into my ears with needle nose pliers - but people lead such boring lives watching a motorcyclist extracting earplugs with pliers will supply them with after dinner discussions for days.

Yeah I agree Earplugs really mess with my senses and make my riding less in tune. So given my lack of aptitude to ride a motorcycle I choose not to wear them. a personal choice

[Motu]

The reason you cant think is coz you pushed 'em in too far

Shit! do you think I mighta done an autolobotomy? - I thought that grey stuff on the plugs when I pull them out was just the porridge I poured in to remove ear wax...it tasted bloody awfull!

[Blakamin]

Shit! do you think I mighta done an autolobotomy? - I thought that grey stuff on the plugs when I pull them out was just the porridge I poured in to remove ear wax...it tasted bloody awfull!

hehhehehehe... well done

[Zapf]

I am using the Alpine ear plugs as well, and I have switched to the yellow filters they came with. they selectively filters out the frequency spectrum as follows

Hz dB
125 18.8
250 15.6
500 16.0
1000 18.5
2000 27.7
4000 28.9
8000 22.0

I think they are great, as I can hear people talk and cars around me. but just enough sound and not loud as to hurt my ear

[Wenier]

The best place to get ear plugs is from a protective clothing place like Protector, they'll sell the ones that airport staff use which i can get for free from work which are the highest class of ear plug u can get, but id say get a good helmet and ya wont ever have to worry. And jus ask the shop guys bout the noise levels in the helmets ya look at they usually no how good or bad they are.

[StoneChucker]

Maybe thats why I can't hear squat when I wear mine. They are industrial plugs, rated to like 110Db (for working with a JackHammer, according to the catalogue)

The last ride I was on, the people would talk to me, and I'll just nod and smile, with no idea what they were on about.

[MrMelon]

I've been using those orange bell shaped ones like Sedge uses, and I can't get by without them now. They tend to really block everything out though. There's no way to hear what anyone's saying when you've got them in, and I can only really hear the engine when it's above about 7k rpm.

[LB]

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A friend of mine (and fellow Ducati rider) is an audiologist and can custom-make ear plugs - several of my mates have them and I'm seriously thinking of getting some. I currently use the 3M bright orange bell-shaped ones which are fine most of the time but sometimes they don't quite sit right.

Anyone wants info on the custom made jobbies give me a yell.
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[igor]

I am using the Alpine ear plugs as well, and I have switched to the yellow filters they came with. they selectively filters out the frequency spectrum as follows

Hz dB
125 18.8
250 15.6
500 16.0
1000 18.5
2000 27.7
4000 28.9
8000 22.0

I think they are great, as I can hear people talk and cars around me. but just enough sound and not loud as to hurt my ear

ya seen the ads for the $49 ones that are mentioned above and ya go shit i ant paying that a.

but i used to get onthe AG and head out of town and after about 30kms the noise was prissing me off so i would turn around and come home.

i was getting pretty upset me riding was being ruined. Have a BMW helmut

I coughed up me $49 and bought some of these and all i can say is they are amazing. They get rid of all the backwash and craap wind noise. I can hear people talking and the roar of the AG's motor as I am cruising down the road. went around the mandel; last week and after 350kms ya still thinking man that motor noise is good and ya feel refreshed still.

i forget to put im in and straight away no the diffrence.

so if ya want im go to www.challengermotors.co.nz I got nothing to do with the company etc. only on eword of waring some people don't like im due to shape of inner ear. me i lov im

ya got a little dodah the earplug sits on and ya pull up the top of ya ear and rotate in in. made of surgical type latex. can be washed etc

[Motu]

. can be washed etc

I just suck them clean - the grey stuff is yucky tho....

[igor]

I just suck them clean - the grey stuff is yucky tho....

Hey Moty.

i been trolling a lot butt keepin very quiet on dizs and the other lists.

ya wanna tie up one day in Thames and we will go and do the Tapu -Coroglen Road and then the 309 Road then a snack in Feral Coromandel and then back across 309 and coroglen Tapu to c wot they look like the other way

OR MAYBE COLVILLE WAIKAWAU KENNEDY AND BACK

was up there last week and saew 4 cars on tapu coroglen road. its great fun cranking it through there

hey i mwon't have the panniers on this time so if ya behind ya can get pass the AG

IGOR

[vifferman]

Maybe thats why I can't hear squat when I wear mine. They are industrial plugs, rated to like 110Db (for working with a JackHammer, according to the catalogue)

The last ride I was on, the people would talk to me, and I'll just nod and smile, with no idea what they were on about.

Yeah, me too. I usually leave them in when I stop for petrol (as I did on Sunday), and must come across as a fargin eedjit when the person behind the counter makes small talk.
Heh... on Sunday, the Service Station Dude said, "arrble mumble {sounded like $2 summat} arble arble..." and I thought, "Man, that's cheap...", and was disappointed to see it was $16.33

[750Y]

i get the green bullet foam one's from 3m in a pack of about 10. costs 3 or 4 bucks but they work fine. i don't ride without them. I can still hear most things but it's quiet. also washing the helmet liners tends to quieten down things as the sponge pads expand back to size, plus the helmet smells nice like fabric softener for a week.

[Kendog]

You can try a helmet on in the shop, and OK it fits, but asking to burn up and down the open road for wind noise is unfortunatly pushing the envelope a little. :disapint:
I have been unlucky each time I have bought a helmet. They all fit perfectly, but were wind noisy like anything each and every time.
I would be very interested in which ones are nice and quiet folks...

I bought a Shoei Raid. Very quiet.
The problem is each helmet brand and model fits a little different so its a case of finding the right one for fit, then dealing with the noise afterwards, e.g. earplugs.