Biking and Music

[Maye]

Ha ha!! Love the boom box one! I was imagining all sort of songs that I can play in the boom box while riding.

[Irulan]

Ha ha!! Love the boom box one! I was imagining all sort of songs that I can play in the boom box while riding.

google "boom box on bike" images...... some of the get ups are pretty crazy.

[Maye]

Might as well cook while listening to music.

[owlice]

Are bicycles legitimate traffic? I hear so often that bikes have the right to ride on the road -- cue the hew and cry -- but then I see cyclists who don't adhere to the responsibilities of the road. I don't know whether headphone use while cycling is illegal here, but I do know that headphone use while driving a car is. Strikes me as irresponsible (and also stupid) to use headphones while driving; I'm glad it's illegal. How is it any better when someone is on a bike? I just do not understand how anyone could possibly justify the use of headphones while on a bike.

I see people do it; clearly a good number of my TE sisters use headphones. I still don't understand how anyone can justify it, aside from "I want to." Well, sometimes I'd like to use headphones when I drive if only to drown out the obnoxious music coming from the cars around me, but I don't because I need to be able to hear the cars around me, obnoxious music (~~ sigh ~~) and all, and that goes at least as much for when I'm on my bike as in my car.