View Poll Results: Audio enterntainment while riding?
No, the risks are too high
13
61.90%
Yes, Music & Bluetooth are my constant companions
7
33.33%
No Music, just Bluetooth to be reachable via phone
1
4.76%
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Music while riding?
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Music while riding?
I'm not sure what kind of gear everyone is using, but, when i got my Joe Rocket jacket, and then looked at the latest backpacks, it seems that many items are suddenly outfitted with holes to permit headphones to be threaded through.
How many of you are actually listening to an MP3 player while riding or use bluetooth connections in their helmets?
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How many of you are actually listening to an MP3 player while riding or use bluetooth connections in their helmets?
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Farg my brother, with a voice as loud as mine when I ride, you should be able to hear me from Nevada out there in North Dakota! You don't need no colored tooth stuff or a ***** Pucker 3 player to hear the music!
Just close your eyes (under 100 mph only please) and you should be able to "feel" the music on your bike. When you want to ride alone, sing the Rolling Stones's Get off of my Cloud. When you want to remaniss sing Neil Young's Old Man. You get the picture.
In other words, I would never bring other tunes along when my f.ucking head is always talking to me or if I am riding it is singing loud!!!
You see, the melody is the footprint of the song and the words are what life is giving your soul. So, ride the plains of North Dakota while that little voice in your head sings to you like a raped Ape in heat!!! And if you can't hear your little voice in your head, just listen to mine, it is only 1800 miles or so to your place, you should be able to hear my little voice just fine...
Just close your eyes (under 100 mph only please) and you should be able to "feel" the music on your bike. When you want to ride alone, sing the Rolling Stones's Get off of my Cloud. When you want to remaniss sing Neil Young's Old Man. You get the picture.In other words, I would never bring other tunes along when my f.ucking head is always talking to me or if I am riding it is singing loud!!!
You see, the melody is the footprint of the song and the words are what life is giving your soul. So, ride the plains of North Dakota while that little voice in your head sings to you like a raped Ape in heat!!! And if you can't hear your little voice in your head, just listen to mine, it is only 1800 miles or so to your place, you should be able to hear my little voice just fine...
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see...that's just the thing. I don't quite get why someone would bring music along.
Maybe that's overly street poetic, but to me, the road provides the music and my pipes lay the "humm" underneath. I have yet, even long distance, to feel the need for music.
Then again, i'm 37...maybe the "new generation" of riders is looking for additional entertainment while riding?
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Thanks to all the ones that are voting
Maybe that's overly street poetic, but to me, the road provides the music and my pipes lay the "humm" underneath. I have yet, even long distance, to feel the need for music.
Then again, i'm 37...maybe the "new generation" of riders is looking for additional entertainment while riding?
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Thanks to all the ones that are voting
Last edited by FargAT; Apr 27, 2009 at 08:08 AM. Reason: add on
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Like Nevada I just listen to the bike , I need to concentrate when I ride and distractions wouldn't help.
Maybe if I'd been riding for as long as the rest of you guy's I'd be listening to something on really long highway trips , but in traffic and on the twisty's
I'd probably wipe myself out
Maybe if I'd been riding for as long as the rest of you guy's I'd be listening to something on really long highway trips , but in traffic and on the twisty's
I'd probably wipe myself out
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I've ridden from houston tx to atlanta ga stopping just long enough to fill up a couple of times and grap a cup of coffee...made it in 10 1/2 hours and never once missed not having a radio (WAY before mp3 players). I've always thought you should be paying attention to the bike, traffic and the road and thats already one more than i can handle at one time.
I used to listen to music once in a while, but found it too much of a hassle. I also didn't really like the possibility of distraction. I've been off the music for months.
I am guilty of singing in my helmet once in a while, though (ok..constantly)..
Lately it's been Johnny Cash. I just can't get it out of my head!
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Is anybody else picturing nevada in his famous outfit... singing "get off my cloud" at the top of his lungs? Priceless..
I am guilty of singing in my helmet once in a while, though (ok..constantly)..
Lately it's been Johnny Cash. I just can't get it out of my head!
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Is anybody else picturing nevada in his famous outfit... singing "get off my cloud" at the top of his lungs? Priceless..
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I think the general consensus would be NO. The idea of using blutoof phone would be ok if you needed to be contacted, but not for me. Once the helmet is on and strapped up I'm zoned for riding.
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Singing while riding
Brother Trout, when I ride in my "special outfit", I not only sing like a raped Ape at the top of my lungs, but my **** bounces up and down on the seat like Balou Bear on the Jungle Book. Close your eyes and get the full picture - Ouch, brain pain! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o
Tobiahr, do you know a guy named David Ewing? He lives out your way and is into Kawasaki KZ1300s... Bought one from him and had him ship it to me.
Classic you old workaholic. Do like Balou Bear says to do. Relax baby! Ants just work and then they die! Hey, because of your f.cking DILLIGAF song, I have a broken record in my brain singing that one liner! I have to go back to singing "Get off of my Cloud" with a little hind end movement to keep things wild...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06oTobiahr, do you know a guy named David Ewing? He lives out your way and is into Kawasaki KZ1300s... Bought one from him and had him ship it to me.
Classic you old workaholic. Do like Balou Bear says to do. Relax baby! Ants just work and then they die! Hey, because of your f.cking DILLIGAF song, I have a broken record in my brain singing that one liner! I have to go back to singing "Get off of my Cloud" with a little hind end movement to keep things wild...
I actually physically shuddered a little bit on that one.
Reminds me of this guy that used to mow the lawn at the township building by my house growing up. His name was Ted, and he was a big fat dude that would climb up on the tractor every saturday and sing to himself while he mowed. One day, my mom told my dad to go say something to old Teddy because it appeared that he was drunk and naked on the mower.
He's singing and mowing when my dad walks over. Turns out, he was drunk, but not naked. You just couldn't see his shorts.....at all...he was that "big".
My dad just laughed.
As far as bluetooth, I've thought about it many times. I'm on call for work, and I have to check my phone all the time at stops to make sure everything is ok. It sucks. I'm seriously considering getting one just because of that. Otherwise, I pretty much despise them...
Reminds me of this guy that used to mow the lawn at the township building by my house growing up. His name was Ted, and he was a big fat dude that would climb up on the tractor every saturday and sing to himself while he mowed. One day, my mom told my dad to go say something to old Teddy because it appeared that he was drunk and naked on the mower.
He's singing and mowing when my dad walks over. Turns out, he was drunk, but not naked. You just couldn't see his shorts.....at all...he was that "big".
My dad just laughed.
As far as bluetooth, I've thought about it many times. I'm on call for work, and I have to check my phone all the time at stops to make sure everything is ok. It sucks. I'm seriously considering getting one just because of that. Otherwise, I pretty much despise them...
