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?
#11
04-27-2009, 04:55 PM
The same trouble with bluetooth phones , I can see myself now , barreling down to one of my favourite bends , snap the throttle shut , hard on the breaks and a voice in my ear saying:-
'Hello? Hello? are you there ....can you hear me....why don't you answer
I think it might put me off a little , which is a lot if your pushing it!
When I'm riding it's MY time , I can understand if you gotta commute or you do long journeys , but when I ride its for the simple pleasure of being on the bike , I don't want to be in touch with anything or anyone else.
'Hello? Hello? are you there ....can you hear me....why don't you answer
I think it might put me off a little , which is a lot if your pushing it!
When I'm riding it's MY time , I can understand if you gotta commute or you do long journeys , but when I ride its for the simple pleasure of being on the bike , I don't want to be in touch with anything or anyone else.
#12
04-27-2009, 05:38 PM
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Personally I like the quiet and the sound of the engine to relax me...
Music although a nice idea is way to distracting and can get the right hand juices going a bit too hard
Possible Bad Scenario - great road X Born to run (by Bruce Springsteen :-) loud = getting way to carried away and adventurous = may be too fast into the bends = possible crash bang boom = misery
Possible Bad Scenario 2 - Open road X possible high speed X nice relaxing music = may be huge roo jumping out unexpected = heart attack X chitting my riding pants = possible crash bang boom = misery and majorly bad smells for the rest of the day... LOL
I much prefer to be able to asses roads and conditions with a clear mind and not using artificially boosted enthusiasm or over relaxed senses IMO ...
Music although a nice idea is way to distracting and can get the right hand juices going a bit too hard
Possible Bad Scenario - great road X Born to run (by Bruce Springsteen :-) loud = getting way to carried away and adventurous = may be too fast into the bends = possible crash bang boom = misery
Possible Bad Scenario 2 - Open road X possible high speed X nice relaxing music = may be huge roo jumping out unexpected = heart attack X chitting my riding pants = possible crash bang boom = misery
and majorly bad smells for the rest of the day... LOLI much prefer to be able to asses roads and conditions with a clear mind and not using artificially boosted enthusiasm or over relaxed senses
IMO ...
Last edited by CBRclassic; 04-27-2009 at 05:43 PM.
#13
04-27-2009, 08:28 PM
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I think you're all right.
This is probably why I listened to music for a few rides and then said to myself "WTF are you doing?!"
Same with the phone. I've been on call and riding for years now, but I still don't have a bluetooth for exactly the reason that hawk describes. Hard riding turns and bluetooth wouldn't mix too well. I can't even imagine riding and talking would be a good combination.
This is probably why I listened to music for a few rides and then said to myself "WTF are you doing?!"
Same with the phone. I've been on call and riding for years now, but I still don't have a bluetooth for exactly the reason that hawk describes. Hard riding turns and bluetooth wouldn't mix too well. I can't even imagine riding and talking would be a good combination.
#14
04-28-2009, 01:04 AM
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Big Roo and talking
Classic, I need to get a Roo saddle and ride one of them puppies!!! Don't run em over my friend, I will not get to ride em if you kill em!!! And if you chit you pants toss those babies into the neighbor's yard along with the snails! It will look like the snails shlt in your pants and crawled out of your pants!!!
Trout my brother, I always ride and talk. The only problem is it is some invisible no named entity in my mind that I talk to. I don't even know the chit head's name!! It is kind of like right now, the bast.ard is telling me what to type - and he is a f.cking lunatic..... So, riding and talking is OK as long as it is to the entity in your head and he is a lunatic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBiO...eature=related
See you on the Dark side of the Moon!!! Remember, "There's someone in my head, but its not me." Stop that laughing!
Trout my brother, I always ride and talk. The only problem is it is some invisible no named entity in my mind that I talk to. I don't even know the chit head's name!!
It is kind of like right now, the bast.ard is telling me what to type - and he is a f.cking lunatic..... So, riding and talking is OK as long as it is to the entity in your head and he is a lunatic...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBiO...eature=related
See you on the Dark side of the Moon!!!
Remember, "There's someone in my head, but its not me." Stop that laughing!
Last edited by CBRriderNevada; 04-28-2009 at 01:12 AM.
#15
04-28-2009, 01:45 AM
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See you on the Dark side of the Moon!!! Remember, "There's someone in my head, but its not me." Stop that laughing!
Remember, "There's someone in my head, but its not me." Stop that laughing!
and..
A some what frightening thought to ponder Joe...
Om not laughing mate ..
" I can see clearly now my brain has gone " or was that "rain" ?? hmmm , not sure anymore Joe..
#16
04-28-2009, 06:45 AM
#17
04-28-2009, 09:50 AM
Yeah I was wondering about ear plugs , it doesn't seem so loud on the bike , will it really damage your hearing( or am I already half deaf)?
It's dangerous enough out there , **** I want all my senses on full alert , seems a bit daft to deliberately shut one down . It's like riding blindfolded 'cos the wind gets in your eyes!
It's dangerous enough out there , **** I want all my senses on full alert , seems a bit daft to deliberately shut one down . It's like riding blindfolded 'cos the wind gets in your eyes!
#18
04-28-2009, 10:26 AM
I use Phillips active noise canceling earphones when I ride. Tried music a few times, but found it distracting, so stopped. But still use the phones to cut wind noise. I don't have a lot of hearing left and want to keep what is still there. Maybe if I invested in a taller windscreen the noisy air wouldn't find its way into my helmet and the ear plugs could go.
#19
04-28-2009, 05:24 PM
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Ear plug and music
Steve, I ponder, but the lunatic in my head tells me to shut up and type what he says!
I use ear plugs always, even when it was against the law to do so in California! Some states say you can only use one ear plug and some say no ear plugs, but my little voice says, "F.uck'em because you can't hear me without the ear plugs!"
I use to ride helmetless when it was OK to do so in California. I started wearing a helmet AFTER, I went to change lanes to my left and almost went under a Semi-Truck! I looked to my left, but I looked under the truck so I did not see it! I thought I should have been able to hear the darn truck, but at 60 mph, I could not hear a big truck like that beside me. So, I started wearing helmets because the old thoughts of "you can't see to the side with a helmet on or you'll get your neck broken with a helmet on if you crash or you can't hear with a helmet" - just did not hold water in theory or practice. I then started wearing ear plugs when my hearing started to drop because of riding Harleys with shorty helmets! I would get off the bike and the little voice in my head would yell at me and say, "Answer the F.ucking phone, it keeps ringing!" I just acted like the laughing lunatic and laughed at my little voice...
I still have good hearing because I acted on my hearing when the ear doc said, "Wear ear plugs now or wear hearing aides later."
Here is something to ponder Steve. The little voice in your head can actually imitate singer's voices - "Hey.. You ... Get off of my Cloud" does not sound like my voice singing that song, but my little voice sings it like Jagger's voice, even with the pause after the word you!! Brain damage, yes!!
I use ear plugs always, even when it was against the law to do so in California! Some states say you can only use one ear plug and some say no ear plugs, but my little voice says, "F.uck'em because you can't hear me without the ear plugs!"
I use to ride helmetless when it was OK to do so in California. I started wearing a helmet AFTER, I went to change lanes to my left and almost went under a Semi-Truck! I looked to my left, but I looked under the truck so I did not see it! I thought I should have been able to hear the darn truck, but at 60 mph, I could not hear a big truck like that beside me. So, I started wearing helmets because the old thoughts of "you can't see to the side with a helmet on or you'll get your neck broken with a helmet on if you crash or you can't hear with a helmet" - just did not hold water in theory or practice. I then started wearing ear plugs when my hearing started to drop because of riding Harleys with shorty helmets! I would get off the bike and the little voice in my head would yell at me and say, "Answer the F.ucking phone, it keeps ringing!" I just acted like the laughing lunatic and laughed at my little voice...
I still have good hearing because I acted on my hearing when the ear doc said, "Wear ear plugs now or wear hearing aides later."
Here is something to ponder Steve. The little voice in your head can actually imitate singer's voices - "Hey.. You ... Get off of my Cloud" does not sound like my voice singing that song, but my little voice sings it like Jagger's voice, even with the pause after the word you!
! Brain damage, yes!!
#20
04-28-2009, 06:22 PM
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Here is something to ponder Steve. The little voice in your head can actually imitate singer's voices - "Hey.. You ... Get off of my Cloud" does not sound like my voice singing that song, but my little voice sings it like Jagger's voice, even with the pause after the word you!! Brain damage, yes!!
! Brain damage, yes!!
ear plugs ? yukkiepoo
can't do them 
Hu ...what was that ? what did you say ??