Wear ear plugs!

[Dee Duble Yuh]

I know a lot has been written about wearing ear plugs, and some people don't "like" them. We live in a free country and it's your choice, but please read this first:
http://www.mcr500.org.uk/8.htm

Even in a helmet most riders would consider “quiet”, around 100 decibels (dB) of wind noise battering your ears at 70mph. Experts believe just 15 minutes of this is like working an eight-hour shift in a factory generating 85dB of noise – a level experts consider to be right at the threshold of hearing damage. And that’s in a quiet lid at just 70mph. Louder lids – and we’ve measured some at 116dB at 70mph, four times louder than a pneumatic drill – mean you’re into genuine hearing-loss territory.

[Dee Duble Yuh]

And this:
http://www.isvr.co.uk/at_work/m_cycle.htm

[Robster]

Pardon?

[Dee Duble Yuh]

I said:
I know a lot has been written about wearing ear plugs, and some people don't "like" them. We live in a free country and it's your choice, but please read this first:
http://www.mcr500.org.uk/8.htm

Even in a helmet most riders would consider “quiet”, around 100 decibels (dB) of wind noise battering your ears at 70mph. Experts believe just 15 minutes of this is like working an eight-hour shift in a factory generating 85dB of noise – a level experts consider to be right at the threshold of hearing damage. And that’s in a quiet lid at just 70mph. Louder lids – and we’ve measured some at 116dB at 70mph, four times louder than a pneumatic drill – mean you’re into genuine hearing-loss territory.

[AIRWOLF]

What did he say Robster ?

[Robster]

What did he say Robster ?

Something about Geese I think...

[Shep]

Dee

SPEAK UP I CANT HEAR YOU !!!!!!!

[russh]

I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers".

[StumpyFingers]

I have just got back from a long 200 mile blast on the bike to get the feel for long journeys, I was wearing earplugs and the wind noise was still loud, I only noticed the difference when I stopped at the set of roadworks with a pneumatic drill which was doing its thing next to me and I could barely hear it.
That got me thinking about how much noise was hitting me while I was ridding.

[Slimie]

I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers".

Eh?

Cheese 'tatoes?



It's good advice, I'm partially deef and it's bleedin' inconvenient. Any background noise and I have to guess half the conversation (I know what I've said...).

Look after your ears and they'll look after you, I think that's what they said.

-Simon