Do you listen to music whilst cycling? If so this is for you ...........

[Crankarm]

Even a mobile phone weilding ped is lethal.With same clamped to a lughole.

Yep, there are plenty of them as well ............. Not just glued to their ear but texting oblivious to the surroundings where they are walking and listening to music. Tell tale signs are the white or black headphone wires.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I use a mirror to help see things coming up from behind. Wonderful invention, every bike should have one. Light travels faster than sound, so I see them 'before' I hear them. Also, on a windy day (with no music (or mirror) I have been sneaked up on by cars, so this listening to music bollix by papers is exactly that. Bollix.

 

[Crankarm]

I use a mirror to help see things coming up from behind. Wonderful invention, every bike should have one. Light travels faster than sound, so I see them 'before' I hear them. Also, on a windy day (with no music (or mirror) I have been sneaked up on by cars, so this listening to music bollix by papers is exactly that. Bollix.

Have you been on the sauce this evening CP?

 

[ComedyPilot]

Have you been on the sauce this evening CP?

Non, pour qoi?

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

good point about the wind. i think i may get a mirror as i have had a few bendy buses sneak up on me whilst riding into bury / manchester. i don't use ear phones as i'm too lazy.

 

[Glow worm]

Never go anywhere on the bike without headphones. Always on low/medium volume- never had any problems. It's one of them - it's OK for some, not for others debates- like the old helmet argument innit. End of story.

 

[slowmotion]

It is just a matter of what you feel comfortable with. When skiing, I am totally wired up and can't hear anything, but the rules of the road are clear on snow. When commuting in London, IMHHO, things are a bit different. Yes, I look over my shoulder all the time, but I really do want to know if there is a HGV or double decker five yards behind me testing the brakes. Being able to hear it helps, perhaps. My commute takes me through residential areas with quite a lot of inner-urban mini roundabouts. The sight lines are not at all good. I can hear cars coming into them a few seconds before I could possibly see them. That might help me stay alive a bit longer. Old and boring perhaps, but MP3 players stack the odds against you.

Any suggestions for music on the Col de Mines?

 

[Tollers]

Yep, there are plenty of them as well ............. Not just glued to their ear but texting oblivious to the surroundings where they are walking and listening to music. Tell tale signs are the white or black headphone wires.

Poor pedestrians! Apparently it's not their fault that the have accidents texting. It's the problem that there are too many obstructions on the pavement


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=807vebt-mmQ


Tollers

 

[hackbike 666]

Yep, there are plenty of them as well ............. Not just glued to their ear but texting oblivious to the surroundings where they are walking and listening to music. Tell tale signs are the white or black headphone wires.

Tell tale signs are looking at phone or yapping to self*.

In the 1980's 70's 60's 50's 40's 30's 20's etc etc this used to mean they were loopy.

Light travels faster than sound

Does that work in a darkened room?



London street has record cell phone texting injuries


oh dear oh dear oh dear.I rest my case for the prosecution.

^Watch the video it's f'kin hilarious.

 

[scouserinlondon]

It's up to the individual, for me, I want all possible ambient information to keep me safe. I rely on my hearing when cycling, I just wouldn't listen to music.

 

[BentMikey]

It's a pretty ignorant article - cyclists are a menace, cyclists cause accidents. Completely ignores that it's motor vehicle drivers that kill and injure people, and that somewhere between 8 and 9 in every 10 collisions between cyclists and drivers are the fault of the driver.

 

[Crankarm]

It's a pretty ignorant article - cyclists are a menace, cyclists cause accidents. Completely ignores that it's motor vehicle drivers that kill and injure people, and that somewhere between 8 and 9 in every 10 collisions between cyclists and drivers are the fault of the driver.

I think that's the underlying agenda of the whole article to divert attention from the huge numbers killed or seriously injured by dangerous and careless motor vehicle drivers .

 

[Norm]

what about deaf people? are they not allowed to ride bikes? what about old people with lowered hearing levels?

I think that the issue, for me, is not that people who have partial hearing should not be allowed to ride but those who ride whilst listening to music are wilfully reducing their environmental inputs.

Most people can ride with music playing, just as most people can drive whilst using a mobile or walk whilst texting, but in doing so, we have taken the decision to reduce our ability to hear what is going on around us and possibly to reduce our concentration. I believe that is contributory negligence, should anything happen.

 

[Crankarm]

I think that the issue, for me, is not that people who have partial hearing should not be allowed to ride but those who ride whilst listening to music are wilfully reducing their environmental inputs.

Most people can ride with music playing, just as most people can drive whilst using a mobile or walk whilst texting, but in doing so, we have taken the decision to reduce our ability to hear what is going on around us and possibly to reduce our concentration. I believe that is contributory negligence, should anything happen.

You might well be right Norm.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I see what you mean by contributory negligence when the cyclist is at fault.

How can it be contributory, if a car/vehicle is at fault?

Yes, it may lessen the cyclists senses (if they haven't got the brains to use a mirror), but I take it you are talking about collisions happening where the cyclist is struck from a direction out of the immediate line of sight? - ie from behind?