Cycling Music - Page 3

Music on a climb: what a great way to ruin a good climb. We have some long climbs here: there are a few 10-12 mile climbs around and one 27 mile climb. Music would only destroy the peace and solitude on those climbs. Likewise in Colorado: why adulterate stellar climbs with music?

I listen to Kraftwerks Live Album (miniumum/Maximum) The Grid (Evolver) Fields of the Nephilim - either on the Turbo or out cycling - i find listen to Kraftwerks Tour de France song helps me pedal up a steep hill

I listen to music only on the trainer. Imho there are too many other things to hear (or not hear) while actually riding.

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Why waste time with music on a ride? Why not really get down to business and take video games with you? There's a prototype set of glasses or two in my building which project computer images as heads up displays, so those could be used to play Grand Theft Auto while riding. That would save people from getting bored from that whole scenery and pedaling thing. Couple those with some ear buds, and you'd be rockin' to Grand Theft Auto and freed from cycling boredom. Better yet, there's another lab in our building that has some advanced virtual reality headsets, so those would allow a total escape from the reality of cycling....uhm....while cycling.

I, on the other hand, am just a simple country bumpkin who figures, if I can't pedal down the road or up a hill without having to have music to entertain or motivate me, why get off the damned couch? Why I even like the technically retarded things like the sound of the wind, the sound of my tires on the road and my breathing, the scenery, the sound of peace when away from the careening hoards.

I guess I'm really missing out on some things.

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You ain't just whistlin' Dixie, Alien. People these days cannot stand to be alone with their own thoughts (of course, in many cases I can understand that). This addiction to noise is really quite sad.

A friend came to visit this summer, and while he was here, we road up Kitt Peak, a mountain about 60 miles outside of Tucson and in the middle of nowhere......unless you consider the reservation gas station six miles away somewhere. At any rate, the climb is a 12 mile constant 7%. The thing that amazed my friend wasn't the climbing but the absolute sound of stillness. Occasionally a bird would punctuate that stillness, or we'd hear some animule or snake moving in the scrub brush. That, coupled with a view that extended farther than seemed possible....and watchin' the raptors circling lazily below.

I've had similar days climbing in the Rockies.

Peace and natural tranquility are things to be valued and sought out.....at least for me anyway. I find that especially in those conditions, bigger physical efforts become easier and don't seem that big at all. Gettin' to some of those places with a bike is one of the things that make bikes great....that and the hope that one day I'll come upon Natalie Portman, Mila Jovavich, and Lauren Graham all nekid and having their sapphic wiles satisfied by Lindsey Lohah, off the side of the road........in the bush, as it were......

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Sex is horrid
Pain is Fun
I cut my fingers off
One by one