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Favorite music while bicycling
I don't use headphones or carry a receiver so my music comes from
within and rises to a crescendo when I reach summits of great climbs. I hear "Joe Green" (Giuseppe Verde) Va Pensiero from Nabucco: http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/0/...-pensiero.html http://www.paloaltobicycles.com/alps_photos/f51.html Jobst Brandt |
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Favorite music while bicycling
i'm not sure if this is the same thread from a few years ago, so forgive me
if I'm double-dipping. Two years ago, I rigged up an mp3 player with a speaker that sits on my handlebars. My biking mix is about 1000 classic pop and rock songs from the 1920s through the 2000s. Essentially, it's every great singalong song that was ever recorded. Because most of these songs were popular during my childhood (60s and 70s) they always bring back the joy I felt when I rode my bike everywhere as a kid. For those of you who prefer to hear the music in your head, I understand that sentiment, too. I own hundreds of CDs and my house is wired for sound upstairs and down. However, I find that I rarely need to turn on my home sound system - because all the music from my lifetime is playing in my head all the time. |
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Favorite music while bicycling
Oh, and what I forgot to say is that, regardless of my habits at home, I
still prefer bicycling with music playing. When I first got back into cycling in 1996, I thought it was going to be a great social thing; but I soon found that cyclists don't strike up conversations very easily. Thus, my little music rig serves two purposes: 1. It's a conversation piece that often results in a nightly nod on the trail or road from other cyclists, and 2. It keeps me company when people aren't being friendly and I want to appear like someone who doesn't care that much! Actually, it has also made riding with my wife a lot more fun. As much as we enjoy each other's company, when it's quiet around us, we end up filling in the silence with nonsense chatter. That gets old and annoying after a couple of hours of riding. Now, when I crank up the singalong tunes and turn on the auxilary speaker I've added to the BACK of my bike, we can sing along and just have a great time without having to work so hard. "Papa Tom" wrote in message ... i'm not sure if this is the same thread from a few years ago, so forgive me if I'm double-dipping. Two years ago, I rigged up an mp3 player with a speaker that sits on my handlebars. My biking mix is about 1000 classic pop and rock songs from the 1920s through the 2000s. Essentially, it's every great singalong song that was ever recorded. Because most of these songs were popular during my childhood (60s and 70s) they always bring back the joy I felt when I rode my bike everywhere as a kid. For those of you who prefer to hear the music in your head, I understand that sentiment, too. I own hundreds of CDs and my house is wired for sound upstairs and down. However, I find that I rarely need to turn on my home sound system - because all the music from my lifetime is playing in my head all the time. |
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Favorite music while bicycling
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TomP writes: wrote: I don't use headphones or carry a receiver so my music comes from within and rises to a crescendo when I reach summits of great climbs. I hear "Joe Green" (Giuseppe Verde) Va Pensiero from Nabucco: http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/0/...-pensiero.html http://www.paloaltobicycles.com/alps_photos/f51.html Jobst Brandt I can worm Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath, Aqua Lung, and Thick As a Brick, depending on the conditions. Locomotive Breath is great for chasing down a bogie in front... Sometimes Rick Wakeman's Merlin the Magician works for me, especially when followed by Holst's: Uranus. Then there's ELP's Abaddon's Bolero. And Softer Ride, off Status Quo's "Hello" album. Tunes with syncopation just screw up my cadence. One needs a Biopace rig for syncopation. I mostly favour tunes of which I know the lyrics, so I can sing along. That rules out a lot of opera (or as a friend of mine refers to arias: girdle-poppers.) I'm told I can "do" Alice Cooper's Under My Wheels quite convincingly, but that, like Tarzan-yodeling, requires a li'l inspiration. I can also sometimes "do" David Bromberg if I stick a clothespin on my nose and do the quivery voice thing. If it doesn't come out right, I can always switch to doing Neil Young or Corky Siegal. Chuck Berry is impossible to imitate well. So are Van Morrison and Steve Winwood. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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