Will magnetic tank bags wipe iPod, mp3 music?

[gatch]

Try a pair of noise isolating earphones. I've got a pair of Shure earphones, they block out as much external noise as the best quality ear plugs (-30--37dB noise attenuation vs -29dB for standard foam ear plugs). So then you have the music on quietly, and you hear it crystal clear. No wind noise, motor noise, car horns, screeching brakes, crunching metal...

you don't want to hear if someone is leaning on their horn and you are involved somehow ? especially if it leads to screeching brakes or worse..

lol on my bike it was key to listen to the motor, the rattle was a good indicator of how hard it was working..

[samgab]

you don't want to hear if someone is leaning on their horn and you are involved somehow ? especially if it leads to screeching brakes or worse..

lol on my bike it was key to listen to the motor, the rattle was a good indicator of how hard it was working..

Yeah, that car horns etc part was a bit of a lame joke on my part.

But really, the VTR is the 2002 version without a rev counter, and I seriously can't hear the engine at all. The only gauge I have to go on as to the revs is the vibration I feel through the footpegs and handlebars.
You get the hang of it.
I don't think my bike goes wailing down the road to the sound of tortured engine... Well, if it does it doesn't bother me cos I can't hear it

[gatch]

Yeah, that car horns etc part was a bit of a lame joke on my part.

But really, the VTR is the 2002 version without a rev counter, and I seriously can't hear the engine at all. The only gauge I have to go on as to the revs is the vibration I feel through the footpegs and handlebars.
You get the hang of it.
I don't think my bike goes wailing down the road to the sound of tortured engine... Well, if it does it doesn't bother me cos I can't hear it

Yeah I know how it is, most of the time you can get away without looking at the speedo, maybe once to confirm what you estimated..

As for not hearing it, you should get onto that, it may be your commuter and only a 250, but the little twins sound pretty good when you open the pipes up a little.

[motorbyclist]

Come on now.... How fast do you intend to go on the virago?
Also, this prevents my backside getting pressure on one side when riding.

As an aside, office workers should take their wallets out of their back pockets and put them in a draw. This prevents a crooked back.

is your jacket not equipped with pockets?

Well, if it does it doesn't bother me cos I can't hear it

nor does that rattle coming from the top end, clunking from the bottom end, creaking from the chassis and squealing from the steel-on-steel brakes

[BM-GS]

Best practice os probably to keep anything with hard discs inside away from magnets, ditto credit cards, etc. It may not... but it might. And that would be a PITA whatever, I think. If it's unavoidable, fair enouh.

Keeping 2 cards stripe-to-stripe could also wipe them. A former colleague used to work for Alpine making car stereos, back in the good old days of cassette tapes. They had a special tape for measuring the performance of the tape player, with precise frequencies on and special left/right balance bits, etc, but they could only use it 3 times before it got shagged by stretching until the tones were way of frequency and the l/r got smudged and leaky, and he could measure the bleeding of sound between layers of tape on the reels if he left the tape long enough. True, not audiophile bollocks. A good thing ears hear the relative frequencies of notes (unless you're a pitch-perfect type).

As mentioned prevously in this thread, if the magnetic strips move relative to each other, the interaction of fields is greater (erasing is quicker).

Me, I have a Baglux bag cos the magnetic-erasing problem goes away, and so does the magnetic weight (and that's real).