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Bill, although I've been conscious of protecting my ears since my teens, I didn't think of ear plugs in my early days of riding. In the last decade I've worn ear plugs, and find that I can hear sounds around me when riding just as well as without them. The plugs just lower all the noise to a safe level, and when I get home and take them out, I suddenly hear all the low level sounds around me as if I hadn't ridden that day.
The roll-up-insert-and-expand type foam plugs are available in different sound reduction levels. I like the yellow ones, but a friend uses grey ones that don't cut noise as much. So even with those cheap ones, you can choose the level noise you want.
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