Originally Posted by
bikerjp
I'm certainly a proponent of learning, but wouldn't having your mind engaged in paying attention to content mean it's much less engaged in the task at hand and the whole not getting run over thing?
in a decade of 10K miles a year i've yet to be run over, and of the accidents i have had, i cant say listening to music or podcasts was a factor in any of them. if you can drive a car and have a conversation with a passenger, i cant see why operating a bicycle and listening to a podcast would be unmanagably taxing of your attention.
but its your call obviously.