Originally Posted by xoxoxoxoLive

Not to start a to heated debate, but I think where you ride has a lot to do with riding with head phones,
I ride in such a rural area where it is so quiet that with the head phone out of my left ear, I can hear a car coming before I can see it. and ride in the middle of the road with no hands for sometimes a mile or so.
It is possible to ride on like a Sunday for an hour and never see a car..Now when commuting into town,
the roads do have cars traveling at high speed and am on super full alert. I have road in the streets of
Peru where they have little to no safety laws for even cars, would never even think of wearing head phones there. You just have to use your own good judgement, that most of us posses. Richard