Music while you Ride?

^^^subtle thread hijackery. But you won't draw me into this game of yours!

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I didn't realise the Pet Shop Boys had children.

hahahahaha

dont listen to it much now unless im road riding out in the sticks, get a bit too scared in london with all the traffic

I am glad I am not the only one that feels this way

^^ htfu

Ahhh ben, you failed to spot that I declared my 'mulligans whisper' at Edgeware Road…

[I've got a fair few of these mp3'd if you want Ben]

my bike playlist on the ipod is as follows

Nu: tone - balaclava
matrix and futurebound - coast to coast
culture shock - kronix
Kings of leon - be somebody
eddy grant - electric avenue
kleer - freedom
Kings of leon - california waiting
kings of leon - holy roller novocaine
kings of leon - spiral staircase (best song for getting pumped up for a fast risk taking crazy ride)
Q project - slowly but surely
chemical brothers - a modern midnight conversation
the beatles - come together
chemical brothers - do it again
logistics - now more than ever
L.A.O.S - panda style
commix - how you gonna feel
ed solo and school of thought - tug nut
Kings of leon - King of the rodeo
freestylers - broadcast channels
chemical brothers - star guitar
rolling stones - under my thumb (best for a dawn ride)
urban shakedown - arsonist
zion i and the grouch - trigger
Micheal Jackson - Beat It (probably best song ever recorded)
freemasons - when you touch me (little bit embarresing)
A flock of Seaguls - I Ran

all songs hand selected by me while bored, but a very good playlist for riding fast and dangerous

nargoroth.

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i do find listening to music quite distracting when riding especially when having to concentrate on vehicles/traffic around me. but when it's quieter, probably pendulum and final fantasy.

oh and perhaps N.E.R.D, and many many other things actually!

i would HTFU mate..... but i prefer to hear the traffic after having all my front teeth smashed out in july and having a nice £5k dental bill to have to take legal action to reclaim.... so il stick to music in the sticks please :-0

You don't mention what you were doing that would have been safer without music?

Every crash I've had has been unrelated to hearing except in the cases where it was someone relying too much on thier hearing.

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nargoroth.

Word!

Autokratz, Coffins, We are Wolves, datA!, Fake Blood at the moment, and some classic rock.

For really getting into your stride, there is not a single song that beats Detroit Rock City by Kiss. Word is bond.

Been listening to Caribou. 60s Psychedelic meets a sampler!

orbital, stone roses, s club 7, smiths,

music when riding? cunts :P

I don't tend to listen on the commutes as not being able to hear what's around scares the bejesus out of me (white vans aiming for my elbows etc) but on the weekends/real early mornings or late nights:

Backpacker Hip Hop (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common)
Tittsworth mixes or other Baltimore Club (Blaqstarr more often than not)
Minimal/fidget mixes (Daniel Steinberg, Solo, HiJack)

Nothing better than cruising through backstreets at 6.00am listening to B-Boy Document. Except being in bed.

I don't rely on my ears at all when cycling, mainly because I have some minor hearing loss that makes it hard for me to define certain sounds, especially in noisy enviroments, I do feel I have pretty damn good peripheral vision though I think derived from many years of juggling and quite a bit of snowboarding, weirdly though whenever i'm snowboarding I ALWAYS listen to music, love it love it love it, but when i'm on a bike i'd have to crank the tunes up alot more than usual to hear everything clearly, and its not something I feel comfortable doing when my hearing is not great already. Over time i've adapted by being able to fill in bits of words that I don't quite hear etc during conversations, I have about a 8% hearing loss mostly in the mid range frequencies, which sometimes requires to me ask people to repeat things, but generally I can understand most people just fine, if there is alot of background noise though it drives me insane.

However a typical soundtrack for me when i'm riding my snowboard would be:

Amon tobin - The foley room
Buzzcocks - singles going steady
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Pink Floyd - Various (i've got a few of their albums)
Various bits of Motown, soul, funk etc :)

Besides, I kinda like the sounds from the urban jungle, there is something almost familiar and calming about it.....

ed seems to do ok... i listen to whatever new albums or mixes i got going on the ipod at the moment... currently; drapht, j-rocc, beat junkies, shortkut, dj krum...

can always hear traffic...

I have in-ear headphones and still hear traphic, even turned fairly high.
I'm ok with noises but bad with words. Might be slightly word-deaf methinks because I also have to get people to repeat things. Maybe it's just coz english isn't my first lingo...meh...

This will destroy you
Holy fuck
Volcano!
Explosions In the Sky
White Lies

I have in-ear headphones and still hear traphic, even turned fairly high.
I'm ok with noises but bad with words. Might be slightly word-deaf methinks because I also have to get people to repeat things. Maybe it's just coz english isn't my first lingo...meh...

i thought you were british?? what's your first language?

Anyone who listens to music while trying to to ride in London is an absolute dick. Sometimes your ears are all you have.