Music when riding - Page 3

ought to be good for at least a few seconds. Good Luck dude!!

It depends on which power zone I am concentrating on for that workout. For slow/endurance and or recovery I'll listen to news podcasts and any music that I can get into and that maybe anything from Carly Simon to Verdi. For my tempo and sweet spot, lately I have been getting into medieval battle music and highland bagpipes, which really helps me get into a primitive/zen experience which elevates my experience to the sublime. For me, anything higher than sweet spot takes too much concentration to really hear anything. Although during a particularly memorable Vo2 climb in AR, Public Enemy's SON OF A BUSH was memorable.
Underworld
Agen Orange
Amusement Parks
Aretha
Autechre
Beasitie Boys
Black Crowes
Black Flag
Sabbath!!!
U2
Tricky
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Silversun Pickups
Sparklehorse
Steely Dan
Clash
Deerhunter
Marley
The Congos!!!
Deerhoof
Galaxie 500
Keoki
King Crimson
Keoki
Massive Attack
Neil Young Paul McCartney
The Floyd!!!
Radiohead
Stones
Rush
DJ Krush
Clinic
Chicago Tansit Authority
Song Of The French Foreign Legion
Scottish Bagpipes
Gordon Lightfoot
Music Of The Crusades
The Edinburgh Military Tatto(Massea Scottish Highland Bagpipes)
Teenage Fanclub and some other stuff.

am I the only one that makes up songs while I ride? sometimes about how my equipment isn't working right, or sometimes when theres problems with the lady...

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That's odd. I listen to the sound of the air rushing past my head, which is usally louder than the tires humming. I also will often softly hum a tune.

I have been known to sing once in awhile if there is no one around. It is not something anyone would want to hear . Most of the time though, I don't have enough breath left to hum or sing!

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I do my riding on bike trails not urban roads so not a lot of traffic issues. Plus my experience matches pretty well with the "Bicyclist's sense of hearing: How important" site mentioned earlier. It's not like I have music cranked so hard I can't hear anything, in fact often when I get up to speed, the wind tends to drown it out. It just provides me with something to focus on.

Personally I like to listen to music because it sets a tone and helps me keep a rhythm going even when I'm getting tired. I tell myself , "keep cranking to the music it is a great tune! Don't let it down. Do it Justice!". With the right rhythm I can crank well past my otherwise weak consitution and willingness to give up .

As to the actual tunes I've been in search of the perfect mix. Currently I trying some hard house, dance, electronica. I've tried syth pop like The Grid, Aqua and N-Trance etc. but believe it or not.... too cerebral for me. I'm planning on trying some party folk/traditional celtic music next (like Ashley McIssac and Ranking Family type stuff). Any thing to help me turn off my life and get into myself, my bike and the ride.

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My crazy uncle told me about these several years back and I figured he was full of ****.
How much do they run, generally? I'm less worried about not being able to hear traffic than preserving my hearing as much as possible (earbuds are bad for you in that sense).

It's too bad that the argument made here is so scientifically untenable as to be ridiculous.

Not everyone is a scientist so scientific tenablilty is not always one of the avenues that they explore when they form their opinions. I think that ear buds are bad for your hearing IF the volume is too high and if they are positioned in your ear the way they are intended to be.

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Not to be too picky but research into hearing via bone conduction has been around since at least 1938 (A contribution to the physiology of bone conduction
E Bárány - 1938) and there is continued development of it today as an alternative type of hearing aid for those with middle ear problems (check out this article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...&dopt=Citation)

that's not to say the "consumer" version is all that great but it IS scientifically tenable.

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Whatever will drown out the noise of that car just before it hits me! I can't believe you think you can ride safely with headphones on.

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Due to all the nagging you guys have given me, I no longer listen to music when riding.

I now know how unsafe and stupid it was.

Thanks

I found a set on Amazon.com for about $60.00. They don't work perfectly. I got a small battery powered amplifier to augment my MP3 player and it is better. I need to figure out a way to get them more firmly against my head.

Back in the '80's there used to be a product called the Bone Phone. I think that is was a tubular thing that draped around your neck and over your shoulders. It transmitted the sound through the bones there all the way to your ears. I never tried them.

As opposed to your well-constructed, fact-filled rebuttal.

I said what I had heard, feel free to instruct my as to why I am wrong. Or you could just continue to be a condescending douchebag, it's a free country.

It's simple: how ever you choose to "detect" sound, the oscillations from that sound have to energize the ossicles in your ear, which then cause oscillations in fluid in the cochlea. The fluid oscillations cause resonant responses in the cochlear membrane which eventually causes responses in tiny hairs in your inner ear which send signals to your auditory nerve.

No matter whether the sound comes through your ear or through your bones through some magical device, it has to ultimately travel as impulses through fluid in your ear, membranes, and so on. So with the magical device on, you've allegedly got sound travelling through your skull while also sound from the environment is energizing your eardrum. Those sounds all end up in the same place: the fluid in your middle ear. Those magical bone phones have done nothing to reduce the wind noise, which still will combine with the music your listening to.

Then there are the studies that music played while operating a vehicle--or doing similar tasks that require attention--actually distracts a person from those tasks in exactly the same way a cell phone does: it's not the holding of the phone or the music per se, but rather it's the engagement of the brain in another activity.

There. Now that you have that explained, you'll have time to learn words even bigger and more impressive than douchebag.