The engine

 

Maybe I am too simple a person, but I find listening to music distracts me while I am riding. I can listen and drive a car, but not a motorcycle. Besides, I like the sound the engine makes!

 

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Both of my daughter's boy friends have head sets. My two brothers have Goldwings with music blasting. A friend with an Ultra classic has the music blasting. I like to hear the wind and engine. I like being outside and I do scream from time to time.

Coming off an intersection banging gears in the red screaming all the way, that's living large.

 

i dont really like listening to music while in town and where theres lots of traffic. but on a 3 hour ride on country roads/highway i will sometimes put my ipod in my tank bag and slip on my earbuds. mostly prefer to listen to rock

 

Engine sound the best sound to listen It calm down from work stress

 

I copied boomer1's idea with the ipod shuffle. Works great. I keep it just loud enough that I can hear some music, but still able to hear the outside world. I know to some it can be distracting, but sometimes on longer rides, the music is nice to have.

 

Mostly the engine, although my helmet is pretty noisy and my bike is incredibly silent even though it has a remus slipon can. When i'm doing 80km/h with just enough throttle to maintain speed I can't hear the engine at all. I also find it hard to get going from standstill with buttons in my ears because I cannot hear the revs. I have about a dozen different kinds of earpieces, for example Koss Sparkplugs, but none of them stay in my ears under the helmet and it pisses the heck out of me! I was thinking of getting a helmet with the option for an intercom (nolan n90) so it would have places for the speakers and I could rig up something like shown above. As for the music, mostly scandinavian melodic/power metal.

 

Like most I listen to the engine. The problem is the engine sounds best when its wide open trying to rip a hole in the pavement.

 

I tried earphones before and they hurt my ears under the helmet, and never stayed in place. I searched ebay and found speakers that velcro inside my helmet. They are thin and stay inside the helmet and don't bother my ears. Plus they are not IN my ears, so I am still able to hear the outside world with the music just loud enough to hear traffic and other things outside the helmet.

 

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