I feel headphones are dangerous and taking up a water bottle spot is annoying plus having things attached to my handlebars annoy me but I love having music while riding. Any suggestions? What are you doing while riding to have music to motivate you?
Good luck with your very expensive ear buds when you hit some bumpy terrain and they wiggle loose and fall out ...Personally, I am waiting to get the new Apple earbuds (wireless/bluetooth)...it annoys the heck out of me to have wires hanging and getting caught in things and they are distracting. In this regard, any wireless/bluetooth speaker/earbud works. In my experience the even the noise canceling ones still allow for cars to be heard...
I listen to music with in-ear headphones anytime I ride solo. I ride typically 10 - 15 hours a week. The vast majority of those with a tune in my ear. Those of you that disparage riding with headphones, please tell me what you do differently when you hear a car coming up on you that you don't do when there isn't a car approaching?
he was completely zoned out in a tunnel vision effect of seeing nothing but the a foot wide area of the road about 2 feet in front of his front wheel. \.
That is simply untrue and an often repeated urban myth. Unless deaf cyclists develop eyes in the back of their head, they are unable to sense approaching noises / objects / vehicles coming at them from behind whilst they have their head facing forwards. No special spidey-sense or any other form of magical assistance; they cannot hear. End of.I understand that there are deaf people who ride bikes and someone is going to bring that up, but I've found that deaf people learn to develop their other senses beyond what "normal" people do, so they are more aware with their eyes then most people are that have both sight and hearing. I also understand that some people only ride in parks and thus conflict with traffic isn't an issue, however I also found that when I riding through a park I could be screaming MURDERER ON YOUR LEFT as I pass a cyclist with earbuds in and they won't hear me! And there has been plenty of times I had to ride off into the grass because these dopes with buds can't hear and they like to take up the entire bike path instead of staying to the far right like they would have to if driving a they were driving a car...but that whole concept eludes them on a bike.
That is simply untrue and an often repeated urban myth. Unless deaf cyclists develop eyes in the back of their head, they are unable to sense approaching noises / objects / vehicles coming at them from behind whilst they have their head facing forwards. No special spidey-sense or any other form of magical assistance; they cannot hear. End of.
That is simply untrue and an often repeated urban myth. Unless deaf cyclists develop eyes in the back of their head, they are unable to sense approaching noises / objects / vehicles coming at them from behind whilst they have their head facing forwards. No special spidey-sense or any other form of magical assistance; they cannot hear. End of.
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