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In know, it's unsafe to stick in those ear pods and listen to tunes when you ride. But the fact is a lot of people do. So, just out of curiosity, when you're heading out on a leisurely ride on a beautiful summer day, what do you like to listen to?

Stones Exile on Main Street and Meat Puppets Up On the Sun are up there for me. Fugazy and Buzzcocks if I'm in the city.
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I don't have an iPod, but if I did, it would be:

* Bachmann-Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile
* Deep Purple: In Rock or maybe Who Do We Think We Are?
* Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien

Yes, I'm a fossil.

I do listen to the Cubs games on a cheapo radio -- bud in one ear only.
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tropicalhotdog wrote:In So, just out of curiosity, when you're heading out on a leisurely ride on a beautiful summer day, what do you like to listen to?
The sound of an air-cooled inline four, and some wind.
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I've ridden a few times with the the buds in my ears and I-Pod full-o-tunes. Until I can afford some custom fit ear-buds, I think I'm done. Too hard to keep them in my ears, even when just putting on my helmet. I don't worry about the loss of sound, as it never seemed to really effect my ability to focus on my visuals, which frankly is my main safety net.

But the question was WHAT did I listen too...

Radiohead - specifically Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac, Kid A, and The Bends.

The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and Cydonia

Various house and techno

Some AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, and Nine Inch Nails as well.

Hmmm.... and a few Frank Zappa tunes as well.
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Shoot, and I forgot, Johnny Cash.
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scan wrote:I've ridden a few times with the the buds in my ears and I-Pod full-o-tunes. Until I can afford some custom fit ear-buds, I think I'm done. Too hard to keep them in my ears, even when just putting on my helmet. I don't worry about the loss of sound, as it never seemed to really effect my ability to focus on my visuals, which frankly is my main safety net.

But the question was WHAT did I listen too...

Radiohead - specifically Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac, Kid A, and The Bends.

The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and Cydonia

Various house and techno

Some AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, and Nine Inch Nails as well.

Hmmm.... and a few Frank Zappa tunes as well.

Hell yeah! And a DK's quote at the bottom to boot! (we were on the same label for about 15 years).
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My ipod has three playlists

Soothing - Long drives
Peppy - Running around town
Furious - Me doing things I really shouldn't
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listen to the whisper of the wind and the roar of your tail. isn't that why you're riding anyways?
tropicalhotdog wrote:In know, it's unsafe to stick in those ear pods and listen to tunes when you ride. But the fact is a lot of people do. So, just out of curiosity, when you're heading out on a leisurely ride on a beautiful summer day, what do you like to listen to?

Stones Exile on Main Street and Meat Puppets Up On the Sun are up there for me. Fugazy and Buzzcocks if I'm in the city.

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I make sure to use only one earbud on my Shure SE310s so I can hear traffic and listen to my tunes without raising the volume. In fact my state allows you to have one speaker in your helmet but not two.

I have an iRiver H320 and Cowon D2 to supply great sounding tunes which are:

Quarashi - Baseline
Quarashi - Stick 'Em Up

Dirty Vegas (feat. Steve Smith) - Late Nights and Street Fights (Theme from Standoff)

The Crystal Method - BadAss
The Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
The Crystal Method - Weapons of Mass Distortion
The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive
The Crystal Method - Get Busy Child
The Crystal Method - London
Connie Price & The Keystones - Sucker Punch

The Budos Band - Mas O Menos (for that '70s funk, just need some cheesy aviators and long sideburns.)

Apollo 440 - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub
UFO - Rock Bottom
Drist - Arterial Black
Thousand Foot Krutch - I Climb
Cake - Long Line of Cars (good for mocking traffic)
Celldweller - Own Little World
Ra - You Know My Name

and a lot of others. :mrgreen:
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#10 Unread post by tropicalhotdog »

monster695 wrote:listen to the whisper of the wind and the roar of your tail. isn't that why you're riding anyways?

Yeah, sure, sometimes. But on long rides some tunage is nice too. And commuting through NYC always demands aggressive soundtrack music to enhance the experience.
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