burnsey66
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Earplugs - really?
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I suffer with hearing loss, due to working in garages in the times before noise control. I wearing hearing aids and like others hear really struggle in pubs etc. My advice, wear hearing protection. Hind sights a wonderful thing.
Wolfgang
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Earplugs ?
Aside from the hearing protection, a days ride is far less tiring with earplugs.
If you're not tired, you remain sharp.
As an audio professional I have always worn earplugs for sustained speeds above 40 mph.
Arai helmets have helped too, very quiet.
Aside from the hearing protection, a days ride is far less tiring with earplugs.
If you're not tired, you remain sharp.
As an audio professional I have always worn earplugs for sustained speeds above 40 mph.
Arai helmets have helped too, very quiet.
After riding bikes for years before ear plugs and 22 years in the army firing weapons with ear plugs I have tinnitus in my left ear which comes and goes but I can still hear conversations in the pub, i got off light so yes wear plugs always buy the best you can afford.
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You do know you can get a personal hearing loop that sits under your chair cushion and plugs into the tv.
See the RNID website.
Tom
Like everyone I rode noisy bikes in my youth (70's & 80s) but I have had tinnitus all my life - it fades into the background and I don't notice it unless I think about it - like now. BUT, these days if I ride without earplugs in for any distance the tinnitus goes really loud and is very intrusive. I guess the damage is done. Alcohol has a similar effect actually too 
I also suffer from being unable to hear in mildly noisy environments like a pub or even in a car. Not certain that is exclusively down to exposure to noise from bikes as I believe it is common as you reach a certain age - just like needing reading glasses.
Whatever, as everyone else has said get some ear plugs and use them. I paid out for custom fit Ultimate Ear plugs and they are still great after about 10 years of use. I went for a maritime colour code - red for the left ear and green for right. (Its also pass the Port (red) to left, which is how I actually remember it).
I also suffer from being unable to hear in mildly noisy environments like a pub or even in a car. Not certain that is exclusively down to exposure to noise from bikes as I believe it is common as you reach a certain age - just like needing reading glasses. Whatever, as everyone else has said get some ear plugs and use them. I paid out for custom fit Ultimate Ear plugs and they are still great after about 10 years of use. I went for a maritime colour code - red for the left ear and green for right. (Its also pass the Port (red) to left, which is how I actually remember it).
Bendy toy
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Moldex Rockets cost next to nothing, are easy to clean with alcohol and a pair lasts for weeks.
I did a short run yesterday without mine and had to stop and fit them after a mile.
I did a short run yesterday without mine and had to stop and fit them after a mile.
Part of the problem is background music. Hearing aids, loops etc amplify this too, so nothing gets clearer, just louder. I tried hearing aids with different settings (loop, directional and general) and got on better with the basic ones. A good quality soundbar (mine's a Sonos) helped with the tv sound quality, but I still use subtitles wherever available and can't watch much telly when they are unavailable, except sport where commentary is unimportant. When the lovely Mrs Saint has the telly on without me, the volume is too low for me to hear anything much. She also tells me when my phone is ringing when we are out and about as I usually miss it.
and once it was considered good for you to puff 20 woodbines a day. Smoking didn't stop my uncle living to 80, so what changed there then? Modern PC rubbish I say.From 16 to about 40 I rode motorcycles - a few wailing 2 strokes and many across the frame four cylinder 4 strokes, with rather loud (and by today's standards, illegal) exhausts.
After a 15 year break I return to find that I must wear earplugs or I'll be deafened by the noise, both wind and exhaust, by the time I pass the corner shop at the end of the road
What's changed?
.... and it killed my missis at just fifty years old. Throat cancer ... terrible watching her take three years to die!
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