| Re: New York wants to outlaw iPods for cyclers!?!?
On 10 Feb 2007 07:32:01 -0800, "landotter" <landotter@gmail.com>
wrote:
>You're not thinking hard enough, then. It's virtually impossible to
>use headphones at a reasonable volume when you have to overcome wind
>noise, so the vast majority of cyclists wearing 'phones have them at a
>volume that's the equivalent of a car stereo that's so loud that it
>would get you pulled over. That's right--most sane cities have laws
>against egregious car stereo volume as well.
And let's keep deaf people off bikes.
Why not be blunt - any competent cyclist can ride safely with no
ability to hear sounds around them. In all of my years, the only
person that I know that might have been killed for that reason was
someone hit by the high speed Amtrak going through Greenbelt, MD
(IIRC). And taking off the headphones may not have saved him - I saw
the guy ride and he was a general doofus, headphones or not.
And that's really the ones everyone is trying to save - the clueless
doofuses that are an emininent danger with or without earphones. Good
luck with that.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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