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| You have to go read this if you wear a helmet http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/ |
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| I'll try this again
http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/ |
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Central New York | That has been a pretty well excepted theory fro a few years now. I have been using 'Pura-Fit' disposable ear plugs for a few years now. I reuse them for a week or so then I toss them and open a new pair. They are cheap, I buy them in a box of 200 pairs.
After a month or so of using them I found it very uncomfortable to ride without them. Like everything else, people will find a thousand reasons for not using earplugs, from not being able to hear a squirrel fart to earplugs cause head cancer. There are still tons of people that still mow the lawn without ear protection. For me, if there is a chance that ear plugs might extend my hearing for a few extra years, I'm all in.
I believe you can find more on the subject at the 'webbikeworld'. |
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| I have custom silicon ear plugs I bought in sturgis 11 years ago. I road home into the wind the hole 700 miles with out a helmet just my ear plugs. When I stopped for gas I could understand what the lady said. Now to day I still have the plugs and after a short day or a long day i can watch tv with out the couple next store hearing my tv. I did way to many drag races and shooting and chain saws with out them. I run my radio about number 15 and can still hear it just fine.
like glighto11 what he said any way to keep what you can hear now is the best answer. |
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North Orange County CA | WHAT?
+ 1 on ear plugs - wish I had started using them much sooner.
Edited by Tarpits99 2011-07-30 5:48 PM
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| What I found is that I can hear the radio a whole lot better with plugs than without. I have to run it at full volume on the highway but I can hear it perfectly. Without plugs the sound is distorted and blocked out by wind noise. My friend who I did our recent East Coast ride with never wore earplugs on his cruiser bikes but when I told him about the radio he tried it and wore them the rest of the trip. I too wish I had worn them from the beginning including on my dirt bikes. It was on a high speed pavement segment some years ago with a dirt helmet and no plugs when the tinnitus started and has never stopped. I still curse that day!
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Memphis,Tn. | Yeah.
I know a thing or two about tinnitus...
A bomb took out 80% of my left ear function and left a nuclear powered whistling tea kettle 23 years ago.
Seven different doctors, seven ear surgeries, Any Winehouse levels of medications - and my best hope is still Heaven for relief.
Two words: Ear Plugs.
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | IDIOTS - oops - I mean 'People' are responsible for 'Hearing Loss' - not HELMETS
LOUD NOISES will cause hearing loss. DUH
And HELMETS don't make any noise. DUH
People .....
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Central New York | donetracey - 2011-07-31 1:44 AM IDIOTS - oops - I mean 'People' are responsible for 'Hearing Loss' - not HELMETS LOUD NOISES will cause hearing loss. DUH And HELMETS don't make any noise. DUH People ..... ????? |
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New Bohemia, Va | read: more government intervention on what you do. If you want to lessen your hearing loss, wear earplugs. I grew up around heavy machinery from the time I was 8 years old, I have hearing loss in the conversational level, but I can still hear. I still don't wear earplugs, why not? Because I constantly forget and don't put enough emphasis in remembering. Slowly...slowly...slowly my hearing is going away. Also, as a teen throughout my adultlife and on the edge of being an old man I still listen to my music at full volume or just below distortion.
I'm with the canuk on this one, helmets don't make any noise and personally the research is assinine to spend government money on a DUH topic. Come on people it's simple, outdoor sports involving wind, loud noises, (i.e. loud pipes saves lives, causes hearing loss and nausea) wear earplugs. Research over, nothing else to see hear, I mean here, move along people. |
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Central New York | Well as an x aircraft person I can tell you that the reason flightline people wear ear protection is not for the load noise coming our the back of the engine, it is for the sonic frequencies emitted out the front.
No one, to my knowledge, claimed that a helmet makes noise. It is the sonic frequencies caused by the air buffeting. Now I don't claim to know how true it is, no more than anyone else knows how true it is not.
My original statement was that I choose on the side of precaution, but to choose otherwise does not make this a non-discussion. |
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Iowa | Thanks for the article. This is a good reminder. It's he'll getting old. I can't remember to put in my ear plugs, and I can't see small print without stretching my arms. |
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New Bohemia, Va | Here is the original article before it gets lost. - Now the title reads with the article to follow.
Are Motorcycle Helmets Responsible For Hearing Loss?
New twist in the debate regarding motorcycling with or without helmets. Not about freedom of choice, not about health and safety benefits, not about DOT etc?
New studies published in The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America warn that if helmets can protect your brain they can also largely contribute to hearing loss.
Results show that the biggest and most dangerous source of noise is not the roar of your engine, but your helmet acting as a special air filter attenuating noise in the region above 500 Hz and amplifying noise in the regions below 500 Hz. Even at legal speeds, the sound of air rushing in areas underneath the helmet and near the chin bar can exceed safe levels.
For demonstration purpose, scientists placed motorcycles helmets atop mannequin heads, mounted them in a wind tunnel, and turned on the fans. By placing microphones at different locations around the helmet and at the mannequin's ear, the researchers found that is a significant source of the noise that reaches riders' sensitive eardrums. It is the 1st time that the acoustic effect of helmets has been reported. These findings may incite or oblige, if governments get involved, helmet manufacturers to design quieter helmets and use the "riders' ears protection" as a new marketing tool. -end of article-
So the article is about how the HELMET causes the noise, however, it is the air rushing by that causes the noise and it does say that. The point I'm trying to make is, wear your hearing protection. More to the point is, that there really is no debate here, someone does a little research, then implies the GOVERNMENT should get involve to PROTECT US. I would rather buy the little box of hearing protection then to pay for some outragesly designed helmet the government will say is the only one legal because it PROTECTS US. That's all I was saying....
Edited by Cap'n Nemo 2011-07-31 10:16 PM
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Does this apply to 'open face' helmets worn behind a protective windshield?
Or is this 'full face' helmets on a Sport Bike at speeds over 230mph ?
Just crap - people getting paid to research and publish nonsense ....
Just to SCARE people. Maybe this whole thing is backed by 'anti-helmet law' groups ???
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