Earphones / Headphones: Where to try, what to buy?

Just cause you're wrong

TheBrick(Tommy) No lets have a big argument. It's like religon. I am correct and you are wrong, you will go to cycling hell if you do not do what I say. In cycling hell there are bad potholes, you are force to ride on cycling lanes littered with glass, no one gives you any room. Worst of all you have to ride a brompton.

hahaha :)

will Anyone ride with music on? if so which headphones do you use... mine just broke so i need to buy a new pair.

incidently, best track to ride to?

senheiser px 100 are my choice, Danko Jones plays most of the time

i was going to suggest herne hill....

leeww Now, the ashtray on my handle bars and the smoking, now that really has to stop. . .

this guy i know had an old bmw motorcycle that had one of those push-in lighters in the dashboard. i can just imagine someone smoking with the visor down on their helmet.

I can do without music for the percentage of time that I ride in a day...

people who have a problem with silence and have to have a constant beat in their earholes 24/7 have mental issues and shouldn't be on a bike ;) I have lived next door to people like this before.

maybe catching some radio would be cool, but then with the sound of the road and the concentration required, I don't get bored on my bike.

when I have to drive the van (a living hell, and not often) it would be horrible not to have some radio because you just sit there, immobile for so long.

that being said, you need these:

they are massive

Me too. I don't have a choice about the music playing in my work, it's a music shop afterall, and even though I do love listening to music sometimes I just want peace and quiet.

Like RPM, I'm concentrating too much to need any music. I let my concentration slip on an empty road the other evening and nearly slammed my pedal into the kerb; music would be a right nightmare!

i listen to music when i ride, it makes me go faster. any headphones are good, but in terms of music, if your i find that drum and bass really helps keep up speed and helps your pedal stroke aswell as that you can create a real pace with it, try and get some live sessions or studio mixes there normally about an hour long so should do for any comute or trip up to london.

I don't do the music thing myself - riding clears my head.

Don't really think that little in-ear headphones are that much of a liability, but I keep seeing people riding around with closed-back cans on (like the massive ones above) - those strike me as A Bad Idea.

danger joel i listen to music when i ride, it makes me go faster.

It makes you think you're going faster ;)

what makes you go faster is an earpiece with the team manager in it screaming his head off at you.

Or a taciturn old man on a moped, riding behind you periodically hitting you across the back of the leg with a hazel twitch

yeah somthing along those lines.

or maybe its dynamite mc over the top of dj friction?

that sounds very painful indeed, I'd see a Doctor

hhaha :)

another one that doesn't listen to music and ride. But those B&O headphones (the inner ear ones) look pretty cool

photoben Yeah, what was a simple "what are good headphones?" is slowly turning into a RLJ debate...I can feel it.
Where's hippy? I want to chat about beer and sweets.

I'm working my way through the posts..

I don't wear headphones riding - have done but prefer to hear nature, ie. the truck about to roll over me :)
Actually thing is it's not the cars that headphone wearers miss, it's other riders passing them.
I've had a few ipod heads veer towards me without looking (sure, "looking" is the key but hearing me click my way towards them would've helped)

My mate is going to Belgium for his birthday and said he'd bring back some chocolate beer..

RPM [quote]danger joel i listen to music when i ride, it makes me go faster.

It makes you think you're going faster ;)
what makes you go faster is an earpiece with the team manager in it screaming his head off at you.
Or a taciturn old man on a moped, riding behind you periodically hitting you across the back of the leg with a hazel twitch[/quote]

You've met my coach? ;)

leeww Taking your phones off will not stop a pedestrian walking out in front of you looking the other way, it will not stop a car turing into your path, nor a sudden stop from a driver who realises he has missed his turn, nor will it stop you loosing your front wheel on a wet white line.

It will stop none of these things. But there's always a chance that during overtaking some headphoned random prick will pull out in front of you. Experience has told me that when I see those white cords my fingers are all the more ready to grab the brakes (yep, brakes - I'm a freewheeler).

leeww Now, the ashtray on my handle bars and the smoking, now that really has to stop. . .

Hmm... if the ashtray is one the left-hand side (US, right-hand side) that's fine.

I would ride with headphones, but my headphones block out ALL noise, so much so that i walk into pedestrians/cars/trees/buildings/rivers/sex shops all the time by accident. I'd hate to think what would happen if I wore them while riding.

I'll tell you another reason not to wear them..

This morning, still recovering from very nasty quad cramp, I received a nice, long tow up Holland Park Rd. thanks to some dude with headphones who couldn't hear me cruise up to his wheel. As you are all aware if he knew I was there he would've upped the pace making it harder for me to be slack, if you get my drift.

Don't wear phones - you will be drafted! Sir, yes sir!! :)

looking for some head phones (over head type)£50 budget

what do you guess recommend

found these

and these

http://www.skullcandy.com/

love my set, good clear base and treble

I have those panasonics in white