Originally Posted by rfomenko

"Surrender" is accepted. My logic is rather a simple one. I listen to the noise of vehicle tires & their engines when I ride. It is VERY important to me because while riding a bicycle I am not surrounded by the tons of reinforced steel and airbags. The basic instinct of self-preservation dictates that you have to use everything feasible to limit the risks instead of increasing them & wearing headphones does just that. That's why I feel sorry for people who use phony arguments in order to justify unjustifiable. And I feel sad for them after reading "another cyclist is down" articles in local papers or on this forum. But that's me because the Nature is neither happy or sad. It just the way it is.