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DaveB wrote:
> Bleve wrote:
> >
> > I use them (mp3 players) on a velodrone when doing intervals, and also
> > on long country rides on my own. I don't have them up loud enough to
> > cover traffic noises and thus far have not been suprised by traffic (or
> > anything else!) because of an inability to hear them.
> >
> > As with many things, it's not necessarily what you use, but how you use
> > it, that can make something dangerous. Riceboys parading down crapple
> > st doofing away may be pains in the **** and annoying wankers, but
> > they're not dangerous, for example, and at least they're easy to hear
> > coming
> >
>
> I only started usign one a couple of weeks ago and have found I enjoy
> using it on the commute into work but not on the way home. I only have
> it just loud enough to hear, but with the increased traffic on the way
> home I find a lose a bit of an edge so only use it on the way in now.
>
> As for long country rides, I go by the words of the great sage Darryl
> Kerrigan and "feel the serenity". Besides, on a BR I wouldn't hear
> anything over the noise of my breathing.
I'm talking 4 hours plus, when one's own company and inner monologue
tends to get rather more abstract than I'm comfortable with!
> Bleve wrote:
> >
> > I use them (mp3 players) on a velodrone when doing intervals, and also
> > on long country rides on my own. I don't have them up loud enough to
> > cover traffic noises and thus far have not been suprised by traffic (or
> > anything else!) because of an inability to hear them.
> >
> > As with many things, it's not necessarily what you use, but how you use
> > it, that can make something dangerous. Riceboys parading down crapple
> > st doofing away may be pains in the **** and annoying wankers, but
> > they're not dangerous, for example, and at least they're easy to hear
> > coming
> >
>
> I only started usign one a couple of weeks ago and have found I enjoy
> using it on the commute into work but not on the way home. I only have
> it just loud enough to hear, but with the increased traffic on the way
> home I find a lose a bit of an edge so only use it on the way in now.
>
> As for long country rides, I go by the words of the great sage Darryl
> Kerrigan and "feel the serenity". Besides, on a BR I wouldn't hear
> anything over the noise of my breathing.
I'm talking 4 hours plus, when one's own company and inner monologue
tends to get rather more abstract than I'm comfortable with!