Do you listen to music while cycling? - Page 2

I love music way too much to listen to it when I'm riding, jogging, or at the gym. I prefer to enjoy music when I can relax.

C'mon man. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but you can't be saying that dancers, or even clubbers, don't love their favourite music more than you because they're not relaxing when they're listening to it.

When you're moving is a good time to listen to music as far as I'm concerned. But that's just me .

I don't listen to music while I'm riding, I have a budget MP3 player and I listen to an endless loop recording of a cheering crowd, cowbells, occasional motivating remarks in French shouted from the side of the road, and basic hoots and hollers...

I made the recording from footage of the Tour de France and other races televised on OLN, and though it may seem insanely egotistical, and maybe even a bit bent, it has a definite effect on me especially while climbing... To mentally project yourself into a frame of mind where you think the crowds are cheering for you makes it seem like it hurts less, and that you have more to "prove" to the virtual crowd...

Its weird I know, but music distracts me while cycling, because my focus shifts to its tempo, or on reciting the words in my head, rather than concentrating on my spin, etc...

have a good one!

Feanor

>Originally posted by b1_
>Do you listen to music while you ride? what do like to listen to? >What's your player?

OLD SKOOL.. Walkman. You know.. one that plays those 'tape'
things

Got a discman but it chews through batts too quick.

Used to ride with choons all the time in the country but in the
city I always figured on making the most of my hearing to know
precisely when I was about to die..

Ridden a few times here (Melbourne) with phones in and it's
really not bad. I can hear all the cars. Cyclists behind me I can't
hear, but I can't usually hear them without phones in..
I still don't often ride with music but that's because it's just
something else I have to carry and get batteries for. Besides
which, I'm constantly listening to music everywhere else. Without
phones I get to listen to bogans yelling craftily created insults..

>I listen to techno and trance and it sure does add to the

What are you into? I'm mostly a techno head, but still have a few
hints of my metal background showing through

I haven't heard a good, 'new' trance track for years..

hippy

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Before my iHP140 I had and old sony walkman with a broken tape deck. Had that for years. I had to listen to the radio. Had bass boost tho .

I'm very happy with my iHP tho. Don't have to buy a stereo now becuase this thing just plugs into my pc speakers with an optical in/out line. Use it in my car also. If you've got a big collection of music like me they're well worth it. Don't have to worry about batteries ever again either as it has a 16hr duration rechargable - will run out in a few years but is easy to replace with an even better battery anyway.

I listen to everthing from classical to rammstein to Trance to 70's easy listening. But my electronic tastes include Ferry Corsten, Airbase, Armin Van Buuren, Svenson & Gielen. Don't like progressive at all tho. Like Techno because it's got more energy than trance for riding, but trance gives me goosebumps . Atm i'm into Mac J - Nightware - that will get you out pacing cars when it kicks in around the 3 min mark .

There's plenty of new trance out there it just never reaches us in Aus - most record stores stock a pathetic selection and the radio stations aren't prone to air anything but the big hits. Best bet is to get on the net and find some radio streams out of holland like ID&T, or maybe the US based Digitally Imported .

I ride a road bike. I try to find streets and roads with little traffic, not always successfully.
For my survival it is critical that I can listen to cars-trucks comming my way.
So, I do not listen to music while riding.

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WAY too many rednecks in pickup trucks around here to sacrifice any amount of hearing to music. You need to hear the whirring of the big tires against the pavement, because sometimes they try to sneak up on you so they can blow the horn 2" from your back tire.

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The only time I listen to music when I'm riding is when I'm on my trainer. Not being able to hear traffic is a good way to wind up a grease spot on the side of the road.

If you haven't, maybe you ought to with the tunes plugged firmly in your ears. Then you can ask yourself, is it really worth it? As you sit through surgery and avoid all those narcotics the doctors prescribe for you so that you don't succumb to the addiction many of your friends have succumbed to, you can ask yourself, did I really have to listen while I was on my bike? And if that's not enough, when you see the best days of the year slipping away, days you have been dreaming about all year, you can ask yourself, why did I have to hear music when I should have been listening for clues? And when you near the 6 week mark, and you still are not allowed to ride because gripping is not allowed, you can tell yourself without hesitation, it was not worth it.

Get riders high from a long, hard day in the saddle. Then go home and listen in the comfort of home. It's what doesn't happen that matters most in this case, and that is avoiding a big accident.

No, my accident didn't occur because I had headphones on. It happened because the water on the pavement made the ground a little slicker than I thought it would be. So I don't have to curse myself while I endure drug free pain. I truly did have an accident, and mine was from riding too fast down a downhill curve. You don't think it will happen to you, but it just might. And the recovery takes a long time. So leave the headphones at home. When someone says, "on your left", you'll know he's there instead of veering unexpectedly into him in surprise.

We have a lot of trails to ride, with no motor driven anythings! Just walkers/runners/ and bikes. That and bike lanes, I wear sports phones and a Creative Nomad. The Nomad is an MP3 player, with 256meg and USB interface. Plug it in and transfer files, about 8 hours worth!

Don Fransico, Modern Gospel!

In REAL TRAFFIC, I take em off!

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Not on the road....too old to die this young!

But on the trainer, you try & stop me....anything that pumps - INXS, Queen, Stones & a sing along to Me First & the Gimmee Gimmees....leave the tranquil chilling stuff for another place & time

I prefer to live so no.

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I don't have a balance issue with listening in one ear. It works fine.

It's interesting that a lot of the concern about riding on the road is coming from the US based members. Are things really that bad over there? I'm going to Colorado in August/September and hope to tackle some mountains there, how worried should I be able the cars?

I lost an iPod via cycling minor accident,
on the bright side I think it saved my hip-bone by being in my pocket and absorbing the the impact .. still I was sore from that for weeks after.

( the fault was cycling in icy conditions, wasn't ready for just how faster you fall off when slipping on black ice- fortunately away from traffic.. didn't have time to break my fall with my hand as usual )

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