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• #27
being more aware of your surrounding is simply relying on your eyes - listening can be a bit unreliable sometime.
Totally
Seeing is believing
There is no substitute for the look over the shoulder
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• #28
I crashed into a cyclist who was probably relying too much on his ears, turned without looking or signalling... right into me who was overtaking on his right.
I ride with headphones, but they hardly block out anything, just add music to the noise of traffic around me.
Doesn't that make for a crappy listening experience? Noise-excluding headphones FTW
I wear headphones on most of my rides, just have it loud enough to hear but not so loud that you can't hear what's around you. If you get decent quality headphones they don't need to be mega loud to hear your best tunes.
I'd hate to look like/sound like those chavs who walk round holding their mobiles to their ears with music going.