Wearing headphones

I would die so fast if I did this. I like to hear what is going on around me.

Offroad, music is great. In traffic, you is crazy.

low volumes while in traffic, once i get to the park i turn up the don cab and mastodon

ipod shuffles are great for the bike

I have stopped doing this since I got in-ear Etymotics as that does seem like asking for trouble.

ha, OTM. i have those and needed to buy new ones for cycling. check out the v-modas.

it's VERY weird when wearing the etymotics, you don't even hear the wind rushing by your ears on a downhill

i do low volume on the way to work and never on the way home (more traffic and people are driving much crazier).

kinda :-\ about this...

I think if you wear headphones you might sadly miss out on the wit & wisdom of nobbish motorists.

i should say that there are dedicated cycling lanes for 90% of my commute but still...

I ride city streets with in ear style sonys. If its dicey, I take one out. It is crazy. I can barely hear my OWN dingbell.

i used to do this until my ipod crapped out, and now i'm skeptical of the practice in general. mostly because turning it down to acceptable levels for traffic means i can barely hear anything anymore, so why bother. but for the park, or off-road, or long road rides in the country, i would say classic. but dudes, sound canceling phones are like o_O you gonna get jacked.

also, right before i pulled up to this coffee shop, i passed some chuck pootling like a vicar on some townie, wearing fucking over-the-ear studio phones, completely oblivious to what was going on. i wanted to go home and get my car and hit him, just to make a point.

although, actually, it's not TRAFFIC that scares me with headphones, it's the click of a car door being opened in front of you. that has actually saved my ass more than a few times

I TEND TO WHISTLE WHEN I CYCLE, DONT NEED NO HEADPHONES....THE SONG IS USUALLY REIGNITION BY BAD BRAINS.

Oh good, I'm not the only crazy whistler. I make sure to do it extra loud in very, let's say...religious neighborhoods.

BAN LAUREL

headphones wearers in cities = a cry for help, srsly. i thought i was gonna do this and made a special mix and realised v soon i would be dead within the week if i carried on. it's the same thing i like least about driving a car; i need to not have any visual or sonic barriers to what's going on around

some chuck pootling like a vicar on some townie

are you

a) british
b) from the 1920s
c) developmentally disabled

Pootling like a vicar to and from work, twice.

-- Ed, Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

f u

I haven't ever done this. I have noticed that a lot more roadies are doing it though.

Emsk OTM. The thought of making myself even more likely to die in central London in the rush hour is not an appealing one.

New thread: wearing a blindfold

wearing headphones while cycling is plainly insane... it will both make you less likely to hear things and distract you from the things you can see and hear.

plus i have an ipod IN MY HEAD anyway

i don't want to come off like "that guy" but i think some of you guys are being a little reactionary.

do you listen to music in your car? do you listen to music when you walk?

it's really not THAT different, keep the volume down to a reasonable level that you still get ambient noise from your surroundings and continue to use common sense. if i'm in a heavy traffic condition, i will take my headphones off. quite a lot of my rides are on dedicated bike lanes and/or non-motor vehicle areas, and listening to music while riding is a lot of fun.

do you listen to music in your car?

I have mirrors in the car which I look at constantly to see what's happening around me. Also my car is roughly the same size and weight as all the other cars on the road and travels at more or less the same speed. If my car had no mirrors and most of the other vehicles were juggernauts that travelled three or four times faster than my car and were driven by people who thought that juggernauts owned the road and cars had no right to be there, I probably wouldn't think that sticking some earphones in and cranking up the music was a wise move.

My dad actually won't listen to music in the car for concentration reasons. He's a little nuts, though.

Shasta, I'd love to agree with you, and if there's anyone I would back to play choons while commuting it would prob be you, but considering how stabbable I find people who can't hear you say "EXCUSE ME" on the subways or the streets, I dunno.

dbags on fixies w/ headphones on wburg bridge need to die

what about non dbags?

nasty brutish and short:

thank you for ignoring everything else i wrote in that paragraph. :-D

I didn't ignore what you wrote (about being on dedicated cycle lanes far from other traffic, etc.), I just felt a burning desire to let you know what I'd do in a hypothetical world full of superfast juggernauts.

what about non dbags?

they ride non fixed

^^^ CONTROVERSIAL

i would tend to agree with shasta, it's just that (a) i'd probably turn music down to the point of not being that entertaining and (b) i don't have headphones

am0_on is a roadie?

So, I've decided the funniest song ever to come up random on my mp3 while riding home is "Speed" by 8Ball and MJG.

"I got the right of way (look out! look out!) you got to let me through (don't slow down)"

So if one day I'm not on the board, chekc the hospital k?

some of you guys are being a little reactionary.

I dunno if reactionary's the word - I just don't want to do anything that I feel could noticeably increase the chances of me dying. And I reckon NB&S has it pretty much spot on, though if you do want a response to the rest of your paragraph, yes, I have headphones on when I walk because I don't walk in heavy traffic :)

I do if I'm on dedicated, nowhere-near-a-road cycle paths.

I grudgingly find this acceptable.

But this wearing headphones while cycling is plainly insane... it will both make you less likely to hear things and distract you from the things you can see and hear. is otm.

I said the same thing less succinctly and more aggressively last week: http://forallmylittlewords.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/him-hes-a-cycle-path/

routine.

I am now converted to headphone wearing.

What converted you?

I TEND TO WHISTLE WHEN I CYCLE, DONT NEED NO HEADPHONES....THE SONG IS USUALLY REIGNITION BY BAD BRAINS.

― ddb, Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:36 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

longer training rides and rediscovering audiobooks (also the RinseFM app).

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Singing whilst I ride is not unusual.

i whistle; the song is usually 'the baby elephant walk'.