Trek selling a bike mounted speaker
08-22-25 | 05:34 AM
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08-22-25 | 05:44 AM
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Humans seem to have a weird sensibility to noises around them. Neither bike nor music related -- people typically dislike it when someone is talking on their phone in a closed space -- eg. like in a restaurant. However, it seems somehow way less offensive somehow if instead 2 people sitting next to each other are having a conversation.
08-22-25 | 05:49 AM
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Credit where credit is due. I have rarely, if ever, encountered a Lance blaring music; the phenomenon is mainly reserved for hybrid, shirtless drop-bar or e-bike riders. However, their aversion to carrying a Bluetooth speaker also translates to standard safety bells.
I was thinking more, "Autumn's closing in"
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I was thinking more, "Autumn's closing in"
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08-22-25 | 07:09 AM
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A thread I enthusiastically agree with!!! There is a nearby MUP (named Louisville Loop) which has several very nice parks with a paved concrete path, and some off-road trails thru the woods. One of the parks' paved path runs along a beautiful "run" (wide creek) and is very scenic and usually peaceful and relaxing. Thank goodness that the rider who used to ride it with a boom box blaring full blast while riding along this usually peaceful path has evidently moved on and riding somewhere else. Couldn't have been a deer or other wildlife within 5 miles or more when he was around. Earbuds are made for a reason.
08-22-25 | 08:11 AM
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Pro tip: If you incorporate that into your fourm signature somehow, it'll save you from having to type it the old-fashioned way into every thread. By the end of the year the time saved will be substantial and you can use it for more bike riding.
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08-22-25 | 08:13 AM
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For the record, loud music on bikes annoys me also, but it isn't worth mentioning or even getting upset about. I pass them and they're gone in, what, two seconds? Much ado about nothing.
08-22-25 | 08:27 AM
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08-22-25 | 08:35 AM
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08-22-25 | 09:29 AM
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08-22-25 | 09:34 AM
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I agree. Anything that makes it easier to make more noise is bad. Fortunately, the few times I run across people play music on bikes, it's on MUP's and I'm moving 2X faster than them and I don't hear it for very long.
But it does amaze me that people think this is okay. Same with people on motor cycles absolutely blasting music in order to hear it over their loud engines. There are so many options to just hear it in your own ears only. I pretty much can only assume these people are intentionally trying to annoy other people. Or at least trying to attract attention.
But it does amaze me that people think this is okay. Same with people on motor cycles absolutely blasting music in order to hear it over their loud engines. There are so many options to just hear it in your own ears only. I pretty much can only assume these people are intentionally trying to annoy other people. Or at least trying to attract attention.
08-22-25 | 09:36 AM
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A Cottage in Canookistan:
The horror and tragedy from the Waterloo Wisconsin brand, Trek, as they sell products that people buy, and local Canookistan Resident Michael Deason says that is just not ok "Look eh, I love Trek, like LOOOOOVE Trek, like I would marry Trek a million times a day if I could, I have 100 emails just to sign up for the Trek Newsletter but this is just taking it too far I mean they are selling an item and people are buying it and it just and I don't like to curse mind you but just "grinds my gears", they better be sorry. Those people are listening to their rap music on those Trek speakers and it just isn't OK. What if I am riding along and have to hear that rapping music, I only listen to Nickleback and Justin Bieber and it hurts my sensibilities. I will be sending a very long letter to Trek on my local bike forum for sure they will hear my "dissatisfaction", again apologies for the cursing words. We attempted to reach out to Trek for comment but they were unwilling to worry about this nonsense. The RMCP said we don't have time to look into this nonsense either.
A Cottage in Canookistan:
The horror and tragedy from the Waterloo Wisconsin brand, Trek, as they sell products that people buy, and local Canookistan Resident Michael Deason says that is just not ok "Look eh, I love Trek, like LOOOOOVE Trek, like I would marry Trek a million times a day if I could, I have 100 emails just to sign up for the Trek Newsletter but this is just taking it too far I mean they are selling an item and people are buying it and it just and I don't like to curse mind you but just "grinds my gears", they better be sorry. Those people are listening to their rap music on those Trek speakers and it just isn't OK. What if I am riding along and have to hear that rapping music, I only listen to Nickleback and Justin Bieber and it hurts my sensibilities. I will be sending a very long letter to Trek on my local bike forum for sure they will hear my "dissatisfaction", again apologies for the cursing words. We attempted to reach out to Trek for comment but they were unwilling to worry about this nonsense. The RMCP said we don't have time to look into this nonsense either.
08-22-25 | 09:49 AM
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It’s like an influx of Jet Skis on a small lake; one is tolerable, twenty are not.
Not much can be done. I point to my ear then give the offender the finger. The way things are going in Toronto this will eventually get me shot so I may rethink that strategy.
Not much can be done. I point to my ear then give the offender the finger. The way things are going in Toronto this will eventually get me shot so I may rethink that strategy.
08-22-25 | 09:49 AM
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For a cyclist, you sure seem to hate a lot of your fellow cyclists.
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08-22-25 | 09:52 AM
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Rudimentary percussion instruments - very old (no evidence exists as they probably looked like rocks and sticks because they were)
Singing - 500,000 years with appropriately evolved vocal chords
Actual manufactured instruments - 40,000 years
Headphones - 150 years
Headphones that work on bicycles - 50 years
We are still in the infancy of non-communal music.
Singing - 500,000 years with appropriately evolved vocal chords
Actual manufactured instruments - 40,000 years
Headphones - 150 years
Headphones that work on bicycles - 50 years
We are still in the infancy of non-communal music.
08-22-25 | 11:37 AM
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I confess. I was part of a large crowd of riders surrounding an electric bike towing a trailer with a sound system. Not just any sound system. 350 pounds of high quality gear; big, great sounding speakers, excellent FM reception and an absurd amount of amp power. I forget the number but a few thousands of watts. Bike, trailer and gear weighed 600 pounds. My second time but it's been happening a few years. On a Friday night during and as part of Portland's Pedal Palooza. Jazz radio station's Palooza event. Take's place during the Soulful Strut radio show celebrating the Black music that might be heard on a Friday night. The program is of recorded music, but the DJ is live, full of energy, has an incredible depth of music knowledge and is full of energy. He called out a few hails to us. Fun!
But for the rest of my riding, no music. Except some of the time in my head.
But for the rest of my riding, no music. Except some of the time in my head.
08-22-25 | 12:17 PM
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Humans seem to have a weird sensibility to noises around them. Neither bike nor music related -- people typically dislike it when someone is talking on their phone in a closed space -- eg. like in a restaurant. However, it seems somehow way less offensive somehow if instead 2 people sitting next to each other are having a conversation.
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08-22-25 | 12:32 PM
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Two people having a conversation in a restaurant at the volume people use when talking to their phones would piss a lot of people off.
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08-22-25 | 12:38 PM
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Worse than speakers on bicycles: speakers on motorcycles. Motorcycles are inherently loud AND riders wear helmets that cover their ears AND there's a lot of wind noise, so then they turn the volume up to something they can hear above all of that. Last week I was passed by some clown on a Harley that sounded like he was running open pipes, and on top of it blasting music. WT actual F H?
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08-22-25 | 12:47 PM
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in a perfect world one walking down a MUP trail would occasionally be passed by a slow moving Ebike emitting meditative music
but the world aint perfect and the Ebikers with their digital boom cubes blasting down a MUP trail are just another example of hyper individualism run amok
but the world aint perfect and the Ebikers with their digital boom cubes blasting down a MUP trail are just another example of hyper individualism run amok
08-22-25 | 02:30 PM
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08-22-25 | 03:32 PM
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08-22-25 | 03:39 PM
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08-22-25 | 04:25 PM
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Worse than speakers on bicycles: speakers on motorcycles. Motorcycles are inherently loud AND riders wear helmets that cover their ears AND there's a lot of wind noise, so then they turn the volume up to something they can hear above all of that. Last week I was passed by some clown on a Harley that sounded like he was running open pipes, and on top of it blasting music. WT actual F H?
Motorcyclists always blast Classic Rock, cyclists on hybrids and cruisers, Rap, while shirtless, helmetless cyclists on drop-bars vary in their noise pollution choices..