Sounds you like to listen to while riding

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ridinrox said:
Haha... That be Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell. Ok, Avett Brothers aren't obscure but I like them too.
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That's not obscure, that's awesome music!
I enjoy music and/or podcasts on solo rides, especially where I've ridden frequently. The earbuds I wear allow everything else to be heard.
I like the Crystal Method for long climbs. Their beat cadence makes for good rhythm.
 
Oaken said:
I like the Crystal Method for long climbs. Their beat cadence makes for good rhythm.
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Good call. I will listen to some of that around 5pm when i start climbing.

If you like crystal method, check out adam freeland (specifically coastal breaks) and dj boy george (yep that gay rockstar guy, he's animal, I saw him at a club in hollywood years back, 4 body guards).
 
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Alright you guys are bumming me out. I don't listen to music while biking, but I listen to all kinds of #$%#$ when I'm not biking. I'll never say no to some good classic rock, but after 30 years it gets a little old...

Here's my contribution to the indie rock scene recos... post bike with a beer in one hand, my wife in the other...

 
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Years ago I used to climb all over the northern CNF while listing too just about any Static X. Their redundant simple up beat rhythms would put me in a trance and off I'd go. Here's one of my favorites. Still dig them today.
 
I listen to the most beautiful sound of all....silence. Then as I flow across the top of a high thin ridge line single track, I gaze out at the most beautiful scenery that is so vast and majestic, it could have only been created by the hand of God. Then I realize how lucky my family, my friends, and myself are to be born in the most benevolent and magnificent country ever created on the face of this Earth. I am most grateful and honored, by chance, to be an American.
 
Grego said:
Years ago I used to climb all over the northern CNF while listing too just about any Static X. Their redundant simple up beat rhythms would put me in a trance and off I'd go. Here's one of my favorites. Still dig them today.
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So that is sort of animal but can't compete with...



I listened to these two this morning for PR on strava (UH and DH). You will succeed...
 
I like listening the wind, the birds and the mountain lion sneaking up behind me. Riding listening to music is unsafe period. It is a big pet peeve of mine I could give numerous examples of people not being aware of the surroundings because of ears plugs. I do not buy the one leaving one ear without music argument. It is one of those things to me take you don't listen to music for the ones around you.

Dean
 
dstepper said:
I like listening the wind, the birds and the mountain lion sneaking up behind me. Riding listening to music is unsafe period. It is a big pet peeve of mine I could give numerous examples of people not being aware of the surroundings because of ears plugs. I do not buy the one leaving one ear without music argument. It is one of those things to me take you don't listen to music for the ones around you.

Dean
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I agree to a point....when you ride with others, having ear buds in, is anti-social....why bother riding with others.

Riding solo at times, I ride with one ear bud in....I can guarantee that I hear everything that those without hear. Leaving the volume down is the key. Those that have both bud in, and I can hear the music....that is dangerous. However, I also make it a point to be aware and pay attention to what is going on around me.
 
mtnbikej said:
I agree to a point....when you ride with others, having ear buds in, is anti-social....why bother riding with others.

Riding solo at times, I ride with one ear bud in....I can guarantee that I hear everything that those without hear. Leaving the volume down is the key. Those that have both bud in, and I can hear the music....that is dangerous. However, I also make it a point to be aware and pay attention to what is going on around me.
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Solo I always climb with both in uphill and one in downhill. I agree that it's safer to not listen to any music but the drive ain't there for me without. There is not much bikers where I typically ride.
 
I agree with the wise old mountain biking guru Dean, NO HEADPHONES PERIOD!!!

I rock this instead. :thumbsup:


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Depends on the location. Wilderness isolation or public parks such as Turnbull, Bonelli or Fully Loop? Populated spaces generally have other people with music on so I don't bother. For long fire road climbs, I used to do what Mikie does, just play music off of my smart phone's speakers. I don't do it any more though. For I now just prefer to listen to nature's symphony, the birds, the wind, etc....

In terms of my musical preference, I love everything from Metal, Latin, Dub Step, Hip Hop (underground hip hop), but right now I'm on a REGGAE vibe and it is pretty much all I have been listing to lately. It helps me stay positive!!:thumbsup:

 
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David Bowie just announced a concert in OC (Newport Beach) in Dec 2015. With some rolling stones cover band. Strange.
 
Actually, a good scenario where it's dangerous to have loud(ish) music in both ears on a fire road is when the trucks are coming near you. One time I had a close call nearing a corner. Since then I drop an earbud on descents...
 
I don't listen to music while biking. But if I did, this is what it would sound like :) (I edited the video :) )

 
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Uhhhhh, that was my point. See, it has some cowbell - very prominent cowbell, so in keeping with the SNL skit with Christopher Walken, who plays a record producer for Blue Oyster... oh never mind.:bang:

EDIT: I re-read your post with the DOES emphasized and not the "actually," just like you intended. Now it DOES make sense to me and you DO get it. And I DO feel like a douche - but, I left my original sarcastic comment in anyway - cuz it's funny.
 
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Gojira was sick live. Super heavy for a 6 string band.

RIP Dimebag:

check the breakdown @ 3:48

no more cowbell
 
I don't recommend using earbuds on DH's. Harder to hear vehicles and humans on the trail. Maybe on climbs only its ok.
 
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