Just curious as to how many folks out there ride with some music.
do you wear ear buds? or some niffty contraption in your helmet? Loud...soft? one ear....two?

me personally i have only ridden one time... on my moms yamaha 250 exciter. thus i have no input and hence the question.
i would like to ride with some good music playing in my ear. however as a new rider this will come MUCH  later after i gain confidence and experience.

Nope and probably Never ever will!!!
Safety issue for me.

Type of music I listen to most of the time makes me want to hit the gas when im in my car.
I dont wanna chance it on a bike! hahahaha

haha yeah, classic white zombie blasting in my ear (my fav drivin music)
RAHHHHH! there goes the throttle and me turning into a squid! hahaha

I honestly enjoy the sound of my bike, thats enough for me.

There are studies about hearing protection while riding - they basically recommend some type. The only time I wear ear buds are for longer rides (>20 minutes). I keep the music down where I can only hear it with the engine around idle (traffic, through town, etc) and the ones I wear have the little rubber dome to help block outside noise and wind.

Quote from: Tombstones81 on December 17, 2011, 12:17:29 AM
Nope and probably Never ever will!!!
Safety issue for me.

Type of music I listen to most of the time makes me want to hit the gas when im in my car.
I dont wanna chance it on a bike! hahahaha

haha yeah, classic white zombie blasting in my ear (my fav drivin music)
RAHHHHH! there goes the throttle and me turning into a squid! hahaha

I honestly enjoy the sound of my bike, thats enough for me.

You just described what happens to me when I listen to Rammstein kranked! 

 They're illegal here in VA but I wouldn't ride with them anyway. Kind of a mix of what was said above (making me want to ride more aggressively) and just making me annoyed at not being able to change the song on the fly like I could while in my car.

Good point - they are technically illegal here in PA too. We are allowed ear plugs to dampen noise, but not ear buds playing music.

Quote from: Big Rich on December 17, 2011, 03:30:43 AM
Good point - they are technically illegal here in PA too. We are allowed ear plugs to dampen noise, but not ear buds playing music.

oh, another Pa cat.
where u at Big Rich?

Rocking the 724. I'm NW of Pittsburgh by about an hour. Takes me less time to get to Ohio than the Burgh.

Quote from: oz353 on December 17, 2011, 12:10:39 AM
Just curious as to how many folks out there ride with some music.
do you wear ear buds? or some niffty contraption in your helmet? Loud...soft? one ear....two?

me personally i have only ridden one time... on my moms yamaha 250 exciter. thus i have no input and hence the question.
i would like to ride with some good music playing in my ear. however as a new rider this will come MUCH  later after i gain confidence and experience.

Story from long ago....

Back in the day, car stereos were getting very popular and very fancy.....there were car stero places popping up on just about every street corner, where you could get your "huge" system installed  in your car (to listen to radio, and cassette.....(CD or MP3 not even invented yet)

I went to my local "Tech Hi Fi" store to look at car stereos.........the store manager was in there talking to a "big bucks" customer...the customer asked the manager "What kind of car stereo do you have in YOUR car?...(figuring the manager would know the best, and have the best).

The manager owned an old Alfa Romeo.  He  made a funny face, and replied, "Huh?  I don't have a stereo in my car.....I LISTEN TO THE ENGINE when I drive....I don't want a radio!.....If I want to hear good music, I do that at home in my living room, where I have the best sound system money can buy."

Cookie

Quote from: Big Rich on December 17, 2011, 04:16:56 AM
Rocking the 724. I'm NW of Pittsburgh by about an hour. Takes me less time to get to Ohio than the Burgh.

kk last time being off topic.

good, that adds in another possible rider when I take a vacation to my brothers in Pitt from the Scranton area (570).

Hopin Oz (topic poster) has his bike all finished by then as well.

and I hope mine is good too.

Be cool for a few of us to meet up and go riding sometime when I get out there.

and twocools reply reminds me of my 94 Trans am I had.
I used to shut the radio off quite often and listen to the car as well.

Another sweet sounding motor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1V7CfB96Bk&feature=fvst

Maybe a good thing it's way out of my price range, I would SO get arrested listening to that!  And I bet the torque is addictive.

I don't listen to music when I ride. Thought I'd give it a go though, to see what it was like. Would have needed to have the music up too loud to overcome wind noise at speed - which means it would be too loud for around town speeds that it would be damaging. Plus, it masks any Odd noises I might hear from my engine, as well as other things which might mean my survival.

I don't wear them when walking down the street for this reason either. Why mask one of my survival senses?

Michael

I wear dismantled head phones; the ear pieces fit into the space in my helmet so they are not wedged into my ears.  I can still hear traffic and engine noises although I'm not sure I'd recognize a "shut off the engine right now" noise before the damage was done.
My '74 Austin Mini's designer intentionally left no room for a radio; he thought I should be listening the the music of the engine. 

Quote from: mister on December 17, 2011, 06:46:59 PM
I don't listen to music when I ride. Thought I'd give it a go though, to see what it was like. Would have needed to have the music up too loud to overcome wind noise at speed - which means it would be too loud for around town speeds that it would be damaging. Plus, it masks any Odd noises I might hear from my engine, as well as other things which might mean my survival.

I don't wear them when walking down the street for this reason either. Why mask one of my survival senses?

Michael

Summed up my exact thoughts!

I ride with some JVC marshmallow earbuds in whenever my ride exceeds 30 minutes. There is so much wind noise that the only thing I can hear is a loud WHOOSH sound going down the highway, completely drowning out the sound of the motor, or anything else for that matter. Plus I found that if I subject my ears to that racket for longer than a few minutes, they start to ring once I get off. I have an HJC helmet. It's one of their upper-end models. CL-something.

I have the eyes of a hawk and I find that music helps me focus more on riding than worrying about what's going on around me. I tend to focus too much on the sound of the motor and different things around town.

^This. I found myself solving differential equations for a project I'm working on my ride home today without music, and not paying enough attention to the road. Music helps me concentrate, gives me a background to frame my actions against.

Quote from: comradeiggy on December 18, 2011, 09:01:58 PM
^This. I found myself solving differential equations for a project I'm working on my ride home today without music, and not paying enough attention to the road. Music helps me concentrate, gives me a background to frame my actions against.

Of course it differs among people. Some people find music highly distracting while others find it calming.

WHAT WAS THAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU....

Maybe on the highway but not city streets. I haven't yet because everytime I go on the highway my ipod needs to be recharged

Tried listening to music once when riding. As soon as i went over 60mph i couldn't hear it, and it was at full volume.

I don't bother with ear plugs or music. I live to hear the engine and any possible sounds nearby that could save me from being roadkill. As for the wind sound at motorway speeds, i often do 1-2hr trips at 70mph+ without stopping, and have learnt to 'tune out' the wind noise. It doesn't bother me. If i get bored, i sing, no one else can hear so i don't care.