Ride better with Ear Plugs?

[LOKi]

Hu?

what?

what did you say?

SPEAK UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
 

[ndmeistr]

Ear plugs are good. I find the ride more enjoyable in all respects. I am more relaxed. I was coming back from an all day ride last week and stopped about 1/2 hour from home to get a drink. Took out the earplugs while resting and forgot to put them back in.   I really didn't like that last half hour. I've got speakers in my helmet, but I've yet to use them.

I noticed you drifting back on that last leg.

I have to thank tbante for giving me a spare set for that ride. I never knew that I the wind noise affected me that much until I rode with them in and noticed an immediate physical response. I have to agree with all of you. It definitely is less stressful. After I got home I went and bought a 10 pack of them and keep them in my backpack at all times.   

[84TAVeRT]

i don't like earplugs... i don't like the way they feel... and i can't hear the brake pads engaging the disk...

later,
Chris

[Soupskin]

My cell died on my last leg from Des Moines.  I still wore my ER6i's even though they were attached to nothing.

[LOKi]

My cell died on my last leg from Des Moines.  I still wore my ER6i's even though they were attached to nothing.

My cord broke on my ER6i's and I still wear them. They make good ear plugs by themselves.

i don't like earplugs... i don't like the way they feel... and i can't hear the brake pads engaging the disk...

THAT'S your hang up with earplugs? You can't hear the brake pads engage? I think there is more important things to hear than the brake pads engaging....like EVERYTHING ELSE. How well do you think your going to hear those brake pads when you lose you hearing all together? Your body, do what you want.

[Bumblebee]

and i can't hear the brake pads engaging the disk...

That's the equivalent of hearing a whisper across the room while someone is blasting an air siren in your ears.
If you can hear the brake pads engaging over engine, wind and general road noise, you might want to sit down on the ground and take a good look at those brake pads and find out what's wrong with them before they fail.

Earplugs don't deafen you. They eliminate the environmental sensory overload part of hearing and allow you to hear what's going on for the first time.

[LOKi]

Earplugs don't deafen you. They eliminate the environmental sensory overload part of hearing and allow you to hear what's going on for the first time.

+1

I can't hear my engine at all on the HWY without ear plugs. With them in I can hear her sing while going 80mph+. I also hear the chain, tire hum (my tires have deep treads), cage tires on the road in my blind spots, clank of metal expansion joints and all kinds of things I didn't know where there when I rode without them.

[gammer]

And if anything I can 'feel' the road, and other various aspects of driving a motorcycle, better now.

[hppants]

Loki convinced me to try earplugs.  Excellent advice.  Now, I won't leave home without them.

P.S. - the stock exhaust, unchanged, is mucho better than anything else.  Quiet is better.

[muttstang]

I hear everything else much better with the earplugs in.  Without them, the wind noise dominates and overpowers everything else

[LOKi]

That's the equivalent of hearing a whisper across the room while someone is blasting an air siren in your ears.
If you can hear the brake pads engaging over engine, wind and general road noise, you might want to sit down on the ground and take a good look at those brake pads and find out what's wrong with them before they fail.

You know it just occurred to me. Maybe he doesn't go over 20mph. That is the only time I can hear my brakes. After repair work I'll ride down to the end of my block an back without helmet or ear plugs so I can hear everything really well. 20mph tops and if I do hit 20 it's only for a second. But at 20mph ear plugs are not needed and you CAN hear the bike better without them. I personally can't stay under 20mph. If I wanted to ride that slow I would just take the Schwinn.