Originally Posted by
50PlusCycling
With our lives constantly bombarded with video and audio messages, how about giving yourself a break? I stopped needing constant entertainment when I graduated from kindergarten. In a busy life where I have to listen to news, customers, suppliers, friends, family and children, and the fact that I am also a musician who plays music at least 2 hours every day, I need a little silence to maintain my sanity. To me the sound of the chain running around the chain rings, and the sound of tires humming on the road is the most relaxing music.
Do you also refrain from listening to your car radio? Or is a car radio fine but a bike ride should be silence?
And what honestly sounds better, wind roaring in your ears and loud mufflers and screeching brakes and car horns, or soothing sounds of your choice? And what about the smells, the car sounds emphasizes the traffic smells, soothing sounds distract from the smell of car exhaust.