Head Phones !!
10-15-10 | 05:28 PM
#76
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There is no way the music is going to dictate my cadence. The music is just for listening, it does not effect my behavior. Fast music does not make me go faster and slow music doesn't slow me down.
If music is going to distract you or cause you to ride differently, don't listen to it. When I'm riding, the riding is the main thing. I know how to focus on the important things.
It's like looking at eagles. You don't do that while trying to change lanes. Look at what you need to look at, hear what you need to hear. Pleasant sounds, natural or recorded can enhance your ride, just like nice scenery, but you don't look at the nice scenery when you need to look at traffic.
If music is going to distract you or cause you to ride differently, don't listen to it. When I'm riding, the riding is the main thing. I know how to focus on the important things.
It's like looking at eagles. You don't do that while trying to change lanes. Look at what you need to look at, hear what you need to hear. Pleasant sounds, natural or recorded can enhance your ride, just like nice scenery, but you don't look at the nice scenery when you need to look at traffic.
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
10-18-10 | 05:54 PM
#77
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i dont know about the head phones i think they would be a good thing like in town and kinda in the back streets but in the highway are a main street the only reson i would not wear them is for saftly mainly
Christopher
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
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
Christopher
