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June 21, 2010 at 2:25 pm #4055cooperjamesParticipant
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helmet speakersJune 21, 2010 at 2:51 pm #27107WeaponZeroParticipantWouldn’t that be an accident waiting to happen? I mean earplugs are one thing but speakers? music? bad idea.
June 21, 2010 at 4:37 pm #27108MunchParticipantDon’t see how it could be an accident waiting to happen. Nor do I see the NEED to be appreciated by everyone.
Speakers, ear buds that emit music are no more dangerous then ear plugs. I have some ear buds that also double as earplugs and am smart enough not to have it blasting out like a rock concert.
It’s not the product it’s the person using it. Of course in this protect the stupid time of living we are currently in ……. well……… nvm.June 21, 2010 at 4:47 pm #27109WeaponZeroParticipantThe purpose of earplugs is JUST to take out wind noise. You can still hear pretty much everything around you through them. Only wind noise is silenced.
June 21, 2010 at 5:03 pm #27110TrialsRiderParticipantA hound? What? A noise? You say my bike is what? …a scraping sound? Hang on I gotta turn the music d.
June 21, 2010 at 5:04 pm #27111Joseph HannaParticipantThere’s no such thing as frequency specific passive ear plugs. It’s virtually and utterly impossible to “just” take out wind noise
If one could design frequency specific ear plugs it would then be easy to sample your significant others voice. You’d hear everything around you but when you gazed at your significant other all you encounter would be their lips flappin’. Sweet silence
June 21, 2010 at 9:47 pm #27116MunchParticipantat which point the problem wasn’t the music….but the state of dis repair the bike is in.
June 21, 2010 at 10:27 pm #27117eonParticipantWith that said, I will throw in my slice of spam.
Plenty of folks ride listening to music; not for me but to each their own. I would hope though that those who do do not crank up the volume to drown out the road noise. Would seem like a great shortcut to Deafsville.
I personally avoid it not so much for the noise level but because I know it is distracting. I know the type of music and the volume you listen to it has a direct impact on how you drive a car. The faster and/or louder the music the more likely you are to drive fast/aggresive. Personally I don’t need that kind of distraction while on a bike. I know some folks who cannot ride without their iPod going. Seems to me like they are missing something :shrug:
June 22, 2010 at 3:14 am #27121TrialsRiderParticipant…i knew that
The badder english ending in a hyperlink was a giveaway Had to add my 2 cents because just this past weekend I witnessed a two up H-D pulling away from the gas pumps with the fairing stereo blasting out hurtin music and the riders wearing 2 way intercoms, it made me wonder why he bothered to fit the bike with extra loud exhausts and just a little angered with the impression they were conveying for motorcycles to the general public.
And to think I can’t compete out in the woods with a bike that exceeds 100db measured six inches from the tail pipe ! BTW Munch, I’ve seen a week old bike with a length of fence wire wrapped around the sprocket.June 22, 2010 at 4:11 am #27122MunchParticipantPlease o please tell me they thought they were being inventive cause that would be too funny. If not then they made a mistake and that’s sad…….natural selection at work but tragic for the families…..or was it that sweat got in their eyes and didn’t manage to see it in the road/trail/path of travel.
Is the db regulation from an announcement stand point or from environment peeps? Not sure if it’s like rock crawling where you need to hear and see your spotters either.
June 22, 2010 at 11:29 am #27126TrialsRiderParticipantdb regulations are written into the competition rule book and must be there for the environment and/or to defer the wrath of neighbors against the sanctioning organization. I’m good with it because I don’t like noise for noise sake anyway, might even be the only guy in history to replaced my BMW muffler with an OEM part, because the original became too loud.
On the subject of road debris; heart felt condolences to our riders in Detroit, I rode there a few times and had to swerve to avoid everything from a picnic table to a baby stroller ( non-occupied I believe
June 23, 2010 at 3:48 am #27143LanceDParticipantThey would be good for a GPS so you don’t have to take your eye off the road… but I’d keep the phone and music turned off.
June 28, 2010 at 8:32 pm #27234CBBaronParticipantHelmet speakers are not the same as ear plugs. Ear plugs reduce the sound levels of all noise to more comfortable levels. You can still hear everything, you are just not deafened by it. I think that for unfaired bikes earplugs probably allow you to hear more sounds when riding than without.
Speakers are adding noise which can drowned out other sounds. Its not inherently dangerous but its not as safe as riding without. If they acted as effectively as earplugs then using them for a GPS would be a great solution.I probably will not use speakers on a bike as I don’t think its necessary to have a constant sound track to my life.
Craig
June 28, 2010 at 10:11 pm #27238RabParticipantYep! That’s my take on it too.
June 30, 2010 at 5:13 am #27257madjak30ParticipantThis week I thought I would try riding with my MP3 player tuned into the local radio station (I miss listening to the news and local goings on in the morning commute). I only had the volume set on 8/32 so that I wouldn’t be blasting tunes and ignoring everything around me. I set that volume with the bike idling beside me so that I could just hear the exhaust…the first thing I noticed was that the earbuds don’t block sound very well…better than nothing, but no where near the ear plugs. The wind noise was so loud that I couldn’t make out what was being said. I could hear the music, but that’s about it. So needless to say, I went back to the ear plugs and the realative quiet that comes with them.
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