Headphones (who wears them)

[pooks]

Even with the volume set at LOW, IMHO, it's my feeling that 100% of your attention is NOT on riding your bike AND the environment around you.

Interesting point -- it's rare that 100% of my attention is on riding my bike and the environment around me. Same when I'm driving a car. Even if I'm not listening to the radio or music or an audiobooks while driving, my mind is going 1,000 miles a minute, thinking about all sorts of things, hopping from one tangent to the next. I sometimes even talk to myself.

Same on the bike (though I've avoided talking to myself). I have ADD. I can't focus 100% of my attention on just about anything.

Should I stop riding now?

[Denise223]

I was diagnosed as having ADD myself - and was offered medication for it, but I prefer not taking Ritalin. I'm hyper enough.

Truth be told, when I am on my bike - that's where my mind is focused - 100%!

I'm not going to question "why that is"... I'm just grateful I can focus while on my bike.

But, at other times.....my mind is going 100 miles a minute - thinking of anything & everything. And, I talk to myself too

Peace & Love,

Denise