Zombie cyclists

lol

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Sorry there must be something fucking hilarious ... please fill me in.

He means your post was amusing

He means your post was amusing

No shit .. genius.. I want to know why ...

Just a quick note to say the head phones you get with iPods are shit and therefore you can use them safe in the knowledge that you'll be able to still hear outside noise, buses, trucks, cars etc and the music will be a faint hissing beside it

Doesnt it also depend on the type of earphones you use?
I know that you can get cheap/expensive total block out (passive)/noise cancellation (active)/expensive external noise (opposite to the block out ones)

I may probably be wrong but if you have cheap ones or the ones that let ambiant noise in, you can still hear the noises around you. Blocking out sound may end up cacooning you in your own world.

This is right, I reckon. I've pretty much always listened to music when cycling, unless I'm specifically wanting to think about something I'm working on. But when I bought some new earphones and they were inadvertently those cancelling-out-noise type, I got a bit freaked out by the diminishment of my peripheral hearing, and went back to the shit ones. Safe in the knowledge that I can have them up as loud as they can go and still hear anything going on perfectly adequately.

My Dad's deaf, and he's a keen cyclist. I don't think, when listening to music, that I 'compensate' any less than he does when just riding about.

I dont like wearing headphones. They dont allow me to hear all the builders wolf-whistling at me as I saunter by.

Sorry Balki, that's that weird motorcycle courier with the noise synthesiser

I've had him

I dont like wearing headphones. They dont allow me to hear all the builders wolf-whistling at me as I saunter by.

Can one 'saunter' on a bike?

. . . I can have them up as loud as they can go and still hear anything going on perfectly adequately.

Hell yeah !

My Dad's deaf, and he's a keen cyclist.

Should he even be on the roads ? I am not having a go, it's just that if we let every mental/disabled/criminally insane ride a bike there is bound to be more accidents.

Can one 'saunter' on a bike?

bike?

Hell yeah !

Should he even be on the roads ? I am not having a go, it's just that if we let every mental/disabled/criminally insane ride a bike there is bound to be more accidents.

'Are' bound, dear.

bike?

My mistake, as you were.

'Are' bound, dear.

Is this a 'black' thing ?

My mistake, as you were.

Riding a bike in London is madness.

Madness?

THIS.

IS.

LONDOOOOON!!!

(my friend)

What's the first sign of maddness?

Suggs walking up your driveway.

I'll get me coat.

I once road a bike with head phones, and look what happened to me.

What's the first sign of maddness?

Suggs walking up your driveway.

Oh, that is class...I'm having that one!