music or quiet?

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--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Ron Criswell wrote:

> > When I go on a long ride (hours on end). The wind noise even with a full face gets to my ears. I don't know how Harley guys ride with all that noise if they don't use plugs. My doctor told me my hearing was excellent ......except one area.....where I'm almost deaf. He couldn't inure out why? I can. Fifty some odd years of bikes including 2 strokes on expansion chambers. > > Criswell

I'm with you on this. Between the KLR and the Bandit, I averaged about 17,000 miles last year. I do have and ear bud set up for my MP3 player which I use once in awhile when running really slow ( under 50 mph ) about the country side and not much traffic. When I'm on the go traveling, foam ear plugs always. One amazing thing I found out years back when taking the KLR to a car wash before we had the helmet law in Louisiana was that it was so much more noiser at even 35 mph with no helmet on, I ever held my ears back for streamlining and it didn't make a difference none. After many different types and even having a set poured to fit my ear, I settled on Howard Leight Max Lites with cord. I've been on the road for as much as a month at a time with them in my ears up to 12 hours a day / every day with no bother. Andy in Jennings, La.