Who listens to music when they ride??

So, you teach beginners how to ride. And that makes you better/smarter than me how?

 

you know the old saying, those that can, do, those that can't, teach....

 

Wow, lots of anxiety here about this topic. The lack of riding weather in winter getting to some people?

 

Music? No!

NO! I LOVE music and would like to listen in a perfect (no cars) world but I have thousands of miles on a bicycle (road, mountain) and learned that headphone wearing puts me at risk. I couldn't hear a car coming up on me one day riding on campus and almost became a hood ornament. I save music for the right times--when I am not on two wheels. I do wear ear plugs when I motorcycle and often when I drum. Love my ears...want them around for a long time.

 

i listen to my ipod when out on open or back roads but turn it off in local traffic or high traffic areas, at speed with my cheap scorpion helmet the wind noise is so loud i have to have something to dull it out and at least music i can turn off as opposed to ear plugs which i have to remove my helmet to hear again ... i am not speaking for everyone but that is how i am ...
when i do have my music going i too am MUCH more vigilant about watching my surroundings and planning my escapes than i normally would be just to compensate for any loss to that sense

 

unlucky for you guys ... i have rode my bike everyday this week

 

I wear a Shoei X eleven . It has excellent hearing protection. I do have a chatterbox headset and I listen to an MP3 player whenever I ride. Gotta have my tunes. I can still hear and feel my bike and traffic noises as well

 

i really need to get me a nicer helmet ... or perhaps some earphones with noise reduction .... either way the wind sound is wayy to loud for a full face

 

i have seen those but have never known anyone that has actually used one. seems like a pain to get on/off though

the scorpion i got was thrown in with the deal when i bought an 07 rebel that i rode about 250 miles and sold cause i couldnt stand it being so small

 

Least i do something constructive and make use of my abilities. With attitudes like that from you and chesthing, its a surprise that you can even count past 2, let alone ride a bike.

Riding while listening to music is dangerous, end of. You guys just piss me off with your know better attitude. I'm not going to have you two who know nothing about teaching to ride give me a hard time on something i know way more than you about.

 

So you know how we feel. Did you ever stop to think that maybe it is just your opinion, and it is not a fact? You are free to THINK what you want, but to belittle others simply because they do not agree with you is wrong. Once the shoe is on the other foot, it becomes obvious to all that you are the one with the attitude. I baited you, you reacted exactly like I expected. You proved my point, thank you.

 

Wow!

Some of you need to run for political office with the logic you use.

I love the concept of we are free to think what we want to. But that doesn't mean the thoughts are correct LOL!

That's like saying a GSXR 1000 is a great first bike! And since that's my opinion how can I be wrong!? Simple, that opinion is wrong and that is a FACT!

C'mon VFRWorld members, get the gray matter working because the good ship Idiot is about to hit an iceburg.

BZ

 

Sorry, it is not a fact, it is still an opinion. A fact is "always", and since I know one person that got a GSXR 1000 as a first bike, and did not die in the first four years of street riding, and is now a top notch amateur rider on the track, that disproves your "fact".

It is just an opinion, like it or not. An opinion is neither right or wrong, it is an opinion (that is why we have that word, otherwise there is no need for it).

Just because you say it is so, does not make it so. How hard is that to understand?

And what is right for you may not be right for others. It is called having an open mind. If you choose to not listen to music while riding, go for it, but it does not make others that choose to do so any less intelligent. Did you notice that only the naysayers are the most vocal about it? Not one person that listens to music has called a naysayer less intelligent for their opinion. What does that tell you?

 

Thank you Stuka for taking the wheel of the good ship Idiot from the hands of Gilligan.

BZ

 

Okay here is how i see it and i think most will agree.

Life is full of calculated risks, riding a bike is a risk. We balance out those risks with rewards.
Just as we all feel the risk of riding a bike is worth the reward, many members feel that music poses a very small risk compared to the benifit of enjoyment.
They may feel this because they feel the risk is practically no existant or so slight to be trivial. Further to that it enhances there riding and reward and thus worth there precieved risk(even slight).

Listening to music is a risk we can debate pationatly on how much. It could range form no risk where in 100000000000000000 hours of rising there may be one second where you need to listen, others feel it is more common.
We base this off opinions and personal experiance. For city riding no way would i listen to music. Twisties, probably not.
Riding down the QE2(Straight boring) i have thought about it but still enjoy the sound of the bike(through ear plugs) and the noise of the cars around me(or there wind noise)

 

Myself, on long rides on the highways, yes I need music. Otherwise I start singing in my helmet, and that is worse than wind noise! Within the city, if i choose to listen to music, it is at a very low volume, and I increase my visual scanning for potential hazards. You always have to "see" a hazard to react to it.

 

Why is it that every motorcycle forum contains a small group of very loud, self-rightcheous, politically over-correct nazis? Life is too short, stop trying to force your OPINIONS on those that don't agree.