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View Poll Results: Do you wear earplugs when you ride? | |||
On every ride | 89 | 32.84% | |
On most rides | 57 | 21.03% | |
Only on long trips | 43 | 15.87% | |
Never | 65 | 23.99% | |
What? | 17 | 6.27% | |
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December 8th, 2008, 01:06 PM | #41 | |
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I owuld have loved to get stock pipes to preserve the look of the bike and for the chrome but when I heard the stockies cost more I was like alright Im gonna get the Two Bros. I am gonna try repacking them this weekend just to lower it down a bit. |
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December 8th, 2008, 03:09 PM | #42 |
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I don't because I like to hear my surroundings and other traffic. In some states its even illegal to wear anything on or in your ears when driving on public roads.
Thanks for that mosquito ringtone link too! I can hear them all, even when the volume is way down. I suppose the quality if your speakers matters too. I often can't understand people when they talk, usually hear them just fine but can't figure out then words. I have read that this is one of the first signs of hearing loss, but I figure its just lazy-talking southern people. The greater the redneck, the harder I find them to understand. |
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December 8th, 2008, 06:51 PM | #43 |
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I didn't right when I started riding, but figured I give it a try, but then after a group ride and every time we stop I couldn't hear what other people were saying unless I took off my helmet and plugs. A pain in the butt, everybody is leaving and I'm still getting my helmet and gloves back on. From then on I haven't been wearing them, guess I should rethink it huH?
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December 8th, 2008, 06:59 PM | #44 | |
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December 8th, 2008, 07:10 PM | #45 |
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Lead by example. Using them is the right way to go, and eventually your buds will catch on as well.
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December 8th, 2008, 10:16 PM | #46 |
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Always...
I always wear my ear plugs, even if I'm only riding a block down the street. I actually "hear" my bike better with the plugs in. I'm also way more comfortable with them in. I'd like to keep my hearing, thank you.
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December 9th, 2008, 08:26 AM | #47 |
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Yep, I always wear my earplugs, plus my gear ATGATT, even just when riding to the gas station, grocery store, or out on a test run.
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December 9th, 2008, 11:45 AM | #48 |
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In PA any hearing protection, cellphone Bluetooth ,or music audio device is illegal. Only thing they allow is rider-to-passenger in helmet communication devices. Guess my hearing is screwed.
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December 9th, 2008, 11:50 AM | #49 |
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Riding 1 mph over the speed limit is illegal as well, and it doesn't even help your hearing.
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December 9th, 2008, 12:18 PM | #50 | |
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Plug 'em! I gotta get some work done today...
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December 9th, 2008, 12:49 PM | #51 |
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Alrighty, I'll make sure to get a pack for the spring..or............learn to read lips and sign language
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December 9th, 2008, 12:54 PM | #52 |
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December 9th, 2008, 02:42 PM | #53 |
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Are you sure this isn't just for cars? I highly doubt they would tell us to do this at the MSF course if it was illegal. Either way I'm doing it
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December 9th, 2008, 03:07 PM | #54 |
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Seems that is indeed the case in PA (even though the instructors recommended it).
In case you were wondering about your state check out this site http://www.amadirectlink.com/legisltn/laws.asp |
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December 9th, 2008, 03:16 PM | #55 |
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Earplugs were illegal in California up until 2005 or so. Ahnold allowed a bill to pass that included updates to the dmv prohibitions against earplugs. Used to be that only custom-molded ones prescribed by a doc would be OK; now any are OK if they are intended for hearing protection and the user can still hear emergency sirens.
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December 9th, 2008, 05:37 PM | #56 |
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In Washington, you can have one ear piece in that has music or a cell phone, but you can't have both ears with headphones in. That's true for both bikes and cars. However, ear plugs are okay on the bike, as they don't keep you from hearing sirens or horns. Also, I can talk to my wife at a stop light when she's on her bike next to me. So, I don't buy people's arguments that they restrict hearing too much :-P
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December 9th, 2008, 08:06 PM | #57 | |
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True, but either way you look at it you are breaking the law.
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December 9th, 2008, 08:42 PM | #58 |
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craaaaap Im only almost 19 and the highest I could hear is the 17 KHz...
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December 9th, 2008, 09:04 PM | #59 |
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December 9th, 2008, 09:58 PM | #60 |
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I bought some laser lite earplugs....hope they work. Now too bad I have to wait 4 months to try them out. Maybe I can try them at a concert or something. Wear earplugs at a concert
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December 9th, 2008, 11:03 PM | #61 | |
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But yeah, I'm really glad to hear that Cali changed it's laws regarding plugs. I've been riding my longer rides with noise cancling earbuds and it makes the long trips SO much more pleasant, riding 90+ miles/day, 4 days/week can get a bit tiring with no music! Travis
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December 10th, 2008, 06:49 AM | #62 |
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My plugs are rated at 27 NRR. Do you guys think that will be enough?
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December 10th, 2008, 09:39 AM | #63 |
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I think 27 NRR will be fine. I think the E-A-R ones we use are rated at 29, and I have seen some that are rated at 33. Getting them into your ear correctly is the most important factor; some folks may not realize how far they need to be in the ear canal to provide their rated noise protection.
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December 10th, 2008, 01:05 PM | #64 |
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I never knew that wind noise causes hearing loss. I thought people chose to wear them to make it a more calming ride. I chose not to since I always rely on hearing the engine while riding/driving. When I'm driving my car, I never listen to the music loud so I can hear the engine.
I might have to rethink this since I now know you can still hear the engine well while wearing ear plugs. |
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December 10th, 2008, 01:13 PM | #65 | |
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At least give it a try. And by try, I mean more then one day. It took me about 2 weeks of using them almost every day to get used to them. As far as music and riding, I can't stand music... I like to listen to the bike and what's going on around me (other cars, etc.) I've been doing a week long ride every summer, and only used music for one day on the first year of riding. I found it way too distracting... To each their own :-P |
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December 10th, 2008, 01:28 PM | #66 |
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Yup, you can definitely hear the engine just fine with earplugs in. Even the best ones don't mute the world, they just turn the volume down to safe levels.
I do find that when I'm riding to the gas station without plugs, I can now hear some of the higher-pitched rattling or other unpleasant engine noises that are more muted with plugs. Put the plugs back in, and the engine sounds fine.
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December 11th, 2008, 02:26 AM | #67 | |
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December 11th, 2008, 02:55 AM | #68 |
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The law for HEADPHONES requires you to have one ear free (In Cali). Then again I've been pulled over thus far two times and haven't heard a peep about sporting ear buds in both ears. I don't know of any of my friends who ride who have been pulled over OR ticketed for wearing headphones or ear buds...
Here in Southern California the freeway speeds move rather quickly and the once or twice in the past couple of months where I don't wear my ear buds on the freeway, the wind noise is alarmingly loud! I wear noise canceling ear-buds and that allows me to: A) listen to music on a very low volume and still hear it B) block out a majority of the wind noise and still have the ability to hear what's going on around me. |
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December 11th, 2008, 03:04 PM | #69 | |
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I currently have Shure E2's. Theyve served me well for 2 years. I havent used them while riding yet though.
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December 11th, 2008, 03:46 PM | #70 | |
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I have the Bose in-ear headphones. They sound great, but I'm not sure how they would work with loud noises since they don't completely plug the ear. http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/...ones/index.jsp |
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December 11th, 2008, 05:38 PM | #71 |
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I noticed today that I can't hear anything above the 16k on my home speakers. I can hear up to 20k on my cell phone, anything 17k and up on my cell phone is downright PAINFUL! But on my NICE speakers at work I can hear all of them!
I think the quality of their speakers can account for many folk's inability to hear some of the higher tones. |
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December 11th, 2008, 06:41 PM | #72 |
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I tried some of the foam ear plugs and found them to be really uncomfortable. Bought a set of Browning Ear Plugs designed for shooters. They were expensive and very uncomfortable. Does anybody on this forum have some recommendations?
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December 11th, 2008, 06:57 PM | #73 |
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I guess it depends on what made them uncomfortable. Was it the material? the shape? I know that the E-A-R classic yellow foamies come in 3 different sizes, standard + large + small. I always just get the standard ones but maybe you'd want to try the small ones to see if they are more comfortable.
These guys offer a "try-em-all" pack of 28 different types/sizes of foam earplugs for $15. Once you find which ones you like, then just order a big-ass box of those. http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/unfoamtrialp.html
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December 11th, 2008, 07:03 PM | #74 | |
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December 11th, 2008, 11:14 PM | #75 |
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People were always harping how great "Skull Candy" ear buds are, but mine lasted like a week before one fell apart and the other one shorted out or something. The quality was horrid (for $30 ear buds too!)...
Now I have some Sony ones that were like $40, and I wear them everytime I ride AND at the gym. I beat on those things and they work phenomenonaly (sp??) ... Just make sure if you go the ear bud route that they go IN the ear and have different sized rubber buds. The little round head phones that just lay in the ears are the debil! |
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December 12th, 2008, 09:49 AM | #76 |
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I listen to my Ipod. I have the skull candy buds as well. I only use the one in the right ear though. (Left dominate) So that I can hear arround me. That and I think it is illegal to have both ears with the buds in it.
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December 12th, 2008, 10:12 AM | #77 | |
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December 19th, 2008, 11:20 PM | #78 | |
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Too many gunshots, too much radio traffic in my ear piece! No plugs for me. |
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December 19th, 2008, 11:34 PM | #79 |
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December 30th, 2008, 02:38 AM | #80 |
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I could hear all frequencies, with my Sennheiser CX300s, the TV on the other hand topped out at 16khz
For the first 3 months of riding, I didn't and each time after riding a fair way, my ears were ringing a little, I have recently got some Sennheiser CX300s and they are the ones that fit securly in ear and they are great, reduce the noise so much with out music, then I can put music on at a really low level on my MP3 player and hear it perfectly (and I can still hear everything around me) the best of both worlds. Only time I don't ride with them is if I am just going to be riding 5 mins down the road in low speed areas. |
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