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Blaming the bike? Dumbest thread ever. You fucknuts are going to be the reason dirt cycles are banned from the world. One look at this board by someone who is looking for ammunition to put us under will be done when they get to vital.
The Shop
Nowhere did he compare himself to, or was critical of any professionals. Especially in regards to his post.
Reading your post leads me to believe that you are the "fucknut". If you think the exposure isn't able to cause hearing loss, then millions of doctors and scientists would love to hear the rest of your immense knowledge Einstein.
And on the "people looking to put us under"...Shouldn't you be working on your bomb shelter or burying your guns so they can't take those after they take away your dirt bike?
However the use of ear plugs are a great tip and are used by many, especially road riders due to excessive wind noise.
I never had my ears hurt / ring so bad until I listened to a throttle wide open 125 with a shorty silencer on it. Louder than any 4 stroke on this planet hands down. To me.....the two stroke , high pitch sound hurts my ears a lot more than the 4 strokes ever did. I LOVE both bikes.........just the 2 strokes seemed louder.
You know people that can watch tv and wont hear you if you call their name? That persons brain can separate the sounds properly, whereas if I'm watching tv and someone says my name I hear it fine, but then I cant tell what they are saying on the tv. If I'm in a crowd of people and someone is talking to me, they best be yelling because all I hear is a bunch of unintelligible voices.
I believe it's called Auditory Processing Disorder or APD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
Riding is so much fun and the sound adds to the thrill really!! Well apparently this is basically turning into a public message. I will definitely be using ear plugs of some form going forward. I just like to hear whats going on around me and I constantly monitor the sound coming from my bike. I can't tell you how many times the slight repeative new ting or klunk sound leads to something either going wrong with the bike or something is about to come off the bike like a loose muffler or loose spoke about to break. These slight sounds can prevent a mechanical failure. And your then going to say I don't maintain my bike, but I religiously tebowing to the basic checks before riding to make sure all bolts and spokes are tight.
And it's not just 4 strokes I realize. But I definitely think the loud and long exposure is the culprit over the years. I definitely can relate to an occasional loud concert or in my early days probably had the ear buds turned up when riding bmx. Ah you only live once, definitely just going to try to protect my hearing for the later years. But in 10 years hearing problems and well hair loss will be fixed with technology.
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