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Motorcycle Wind Noise Comparison Test Should You Wear Earplugs
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<blockquote data-quote="UselessPickles" data-source="post: 1220120" data-attributes="member: 3256"><p>Loud noise exposure causes "temporary threshold shift" (TTS), basically reducing your ear's sensitivity to sound (making your hearing worse): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_fatigue" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_fatigue</a></p><p></p><p>Excess noise also causes physical/mental fatigue.</p><p></p><p>So ear plugs keep noise levels down, avoiding TTS, which allows you to continue hearing clearly. It also reduces fatigue while riding, which will help you avoid making stupid mistakes or failing to react quickly to a situation.</p><p></p><p>There's plenty of studies/evidence that the noise levels on a motorcycle without hearing protection are enough to cause permanent hearing damage, and that noise exposure causes fatigue.</p><p></p><p>There's plenty of anecdotal reports of people hearing their surroundings more clearly on a motorcycle while wearign hearing protection.</p><p></p><p>I've never heard of any claims of hearing protection causing someone to fail to hear important noises. NOTE: earbuds don't count, because they don't actually isolate outside noise. With typical earbuds, you still get all the dangerous wind noise, then add even more noise from turning up the music loud enough to hear the music. This will be worse all around than riding without anything in your ears at all. If you want music and hearing protection, custom molded in-ear monitors are the best (SOOO comfortable!).</p><p></p><p>If you're rationalizing riding without earplugs simply because your intuition tells you that you might not be able to hear important things, then you really just need to try riding with a good set of earplugs and see for yourself how well you can actually hear, and see for yourself how crisp and clear your hearing still is at the end of a long ride when you pull the ear plugs out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UselessPickles, post: 1220120, member: 3256"] Loud noise exposure causes "temporary threshold shift" (TTS), basically reducing your ear's sensitivity to sound (making your hearing worse): [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_fatigue"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_fatigue[/URL] Excess noise also causes physical/mental fatigue. So ear plugs keep noise levels down, avoiding TTS, which allows you to continue hearing clearly. It also reduces fatigue while riding, which will help you avoid making stupid mistakes or failing to react quickly to a situation. There's plenty of studies/evidence that the noise levels on a motorcycle without hearing protection are enough to cause permanent hearing damage, and that noise exposure causes fatigue. There's plenty of anecdotal reports of people hearing their surroundings more clearly on a motorcycle while wearign hearing protection. I've never heard of any claims of hearing protection causing someone to fail to hear important noises. NOTE: earbuds don't count, because they don't actually isolate outside noise. With typical earbuds, you still get all the dangerous wind noise, then add even more noise from turning up the music loud enough to hear the music. This will be worse all around than riding without anything in your ears at all. If you want music and hearing protection, custom molded in-ear monitors are the best (SOOO comfortable!). If you're rationalizing riding without earplugs simply because your intuition tells you that you might not be able to hear important things, then you really just need to try riding with a good set of earplugs and see for yourself how well you can actually hear, and see for yourself how crisp and clear your hearing still is at the end of a long ride when you pull the ear plugs out. [/QUOTE]
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