Headphones while riding?

Isaish305
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So last week I couldn't ride worth beans at the track. I just felt like I just couldn't focus. So I put my fanny pack on and my bluetooth headphones to listen go music while i ride.
It helped me a lot I felt like i could focus more and muffled the sounds around me. I listen low enough to hear bikes around me. Does anyone else do this at the track?
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kb228 9/30/2019 10:10am
9/30/2019 10:10am
I dont use headphones but earplugs are nice
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cwtoyota 9/30/2019 10:26am
9/30/2019 10:26am
I have been riding with a set of high quality earbuds and a SanDisk ClipZip for about ten years...

It helps me focus when I practice. I've never raced with it, I have the racing to keep my mind on things.
Practice days I'll go ride for 30 or 40 minutes and occasionally start thinking about changing the oil in my moto-van, or doing laundry when I get home, etc. A little music at a medium volume seems to tie up the part of my mind that wanders to that other unimportant shit. I can focus on riding and I find that I have fewer crashes.

I don't crank it up so loud that I can't hear a bike behind me, but I also keep my head on a swivel while I ride. There are plenty of incompetent a-holes out there who couldn't handle having some music on, but they're the same guys who don't have any track etiquette to begin with.
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cody41 9/30/2019 4:45pm
9/30/2019 4:45pm
I ride a 250 smoker so no need for headphones or ear plugs, pure music 💨
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Kelz87 9/30/2019 7:53pm
9/30/2019 7:53pm
I don’t like to ride without them anymore. Plus the seal of the earbuds muffles the bike a bit and I feel more in touch with the throttle. Kinda hard to explain
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TbonesPop 9/30/2019 9:40pm
9/30/2019 9:40pm
Love riding with tunes, been doing it for +10 years now.
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Scott54 10/5/2019 10:32am
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Isaish305 wrote:
So last week I couldn't ride worth beans at the track. I just felt like I just couldn't focus. So I put my fanny pack on...
So last week I couldn't ride worth beans at the track. I just felt like I just couldn't focus. So I put my fanny pack on and my bluetooth headphones to listen go music while i ride.
It helped me a lot I felt like i could focus more and muffled the sounds around me. I listen low enough to hear bikes around me. Does anyone else do this at the track?
I dont use headphones!
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