Earphones

[Mr Haematocrit]

I would advise looking at aftershokz which are bone conduction headphones. They use the resonance of your skull to play music through your cheekbones. The advantages of this is they leave your ear canals free to hear traffic and other noize important for cyclists to be aware off while still providing sound. To be honest you do not get the same experience as you do with traditional headphones, they lack a little bass and depth however I address this with a EQ app on my phone.
For me they strike a decent balance between music and safety and do not get destroyed by sweat.

www.aftershokz.com

 

[shouldbeinbed]

A typical response to a reasonable request. Instead of offers of earphones to look at, the OP gets a lecture from the sanctimonious.

Bloody hell, if that's your idea of sanctimonious lecturing................... a couple of comments that nature has plenty of natural sounds to enjoy and an observation that we seem to need muzak to backdrop our every activity nowaday. No rabid exhortations to desist, no comments on the OP's inteligence or will to live, no links to death & injury stories, nor to judicial criticism of headphones in conjunction with cycling accidents

The only sanctimonious blather has come from you.

 

[gavintc]

Really, read the comments. Not much assistance to the OP. and the reason I did not comment, I cannot find an earphone with these qualities.

 

[Nomadski]

Really, read the comments. Not much assistance to the OP. and the reason I did not comment, I cannot find an earphone with these qualities.

I already answered the OP's request fully.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I use some bog-standard cheapo JVC items from Argos in my iPod nano.

I wear only the nearside earpiece, tucking the other one down the front of my top.

I keep it in place by wearing my woolly hat at a jaunty andle, covering my left ear.

I can hear traffic, turn my head, ride and chew gum at the same time. It is a miracle. I usually pop the earpiece out and let it hang in busy traffic, but on the open road I wear it.

I understand the arguments against constant muzak, but I was riding distances before they invented to Walkman and I prefer music to silence.

Current faves on my riding playlist include Isaac Hayes and Velvet Underground... As you can tell from that, I am ancient.

 

[Licramite]

If you get the headphones, you can get them that connect round the back of the head not over the head, don't put them on your ears but on your temples you can still hear the music and any sounds around, cars ect., you.

I always find my earphone falls out, I've an ipod shuffle mp3 player I clip to my helmet strap.

but I only use it off roading,

 

[Nomadski]

If you get the headphones, you can get them that connect round the back of the head not over the head, don't put them on your ears but on your temples you can still hear the music and any sounds around, cars ect., you.

I always find my earphone falls out, I've an ipod shuffle mp3 player I clip to my helmet strap.

but I only use it off roading,

Motorola S9s. They allow your music and the natural sound around you to live together in harmony.