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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
Several times lately, during organized rides, I've seen people with
speakers mounted on their bikes, playing loud music. Sometimes they're very small. Just an ipod and some tiny speakers, but I can still hear them from a bit of a distance. This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) What are your thoughts on this? I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to keep it to themselves. Thanks, -Bob |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
| Definitely rude and inconsiderate. Once went on a mtb ride with a guy who
| had speakers in his Camelbak, playing the same Led Zeppelin song over and | over and over. I and a few others wanted to kill him. The Song Remains the Same Oh, wait, that's a soundtrack to a movie. Oh well... (More seriously, I would find it pretty annoying and good reason to put some distance between myself and the music. I don't look forward to cell phones on planes either.) --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReactionBicycles.com "Bill Sornson" wrote in message ... | Hell And High Water wrote: | Several times lately, during organized rides, I've seen people with | speakers mounted on their bikes, playing loud music. | | Sometimes they're very small. Just an ipod and some tiny speakers, | but I can still hear them from a bit of a distance. | | This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the | back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) | | | What are your thoughts on this? | | | I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to | keep it to themselves. | | Definitely rude and inconsiderate. Once went on a mtb ride with a guy who | had speakers in his Camelbak, playing the same Led Zeppelin song over and | over and over. I and a few others wanted to kill him. | | BS | | |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
Saw a bike yesterday that had so much bulky electrical stuff on board that I
thought it was motorized. When I looked closer, I discovered that it was all batteries, amp and speakers. Three fairly large oval speakers without baffles, of course. The sound would have to be awful. And the brain that put it together. I put it in the same category as the guy sitting in his car at a stop light, with all the windows down and bass so loud it shakes my car. And the person who holds a loud cell phone conversation in a quiet restaurant. |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
if you're alone, fine...but not in a group. It's rude and totally
inconsiderate. usually i see people with those and they are usually riding beatup old bikes or landriders, smoking while they ride and go abouat 2 miles an hour; they listen to yakking talk shows or really bad music. Bill Sornson wrote: Hell And High Water wrote: Several times lately, during organized rides, I've seen people with speakers mounted on their bikes, playing loud music. Sometimes they're very small. Just an ipod and some tiny speakers, but I can still hear them from a bit of a distance. This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) What are your thoughts on this? I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to keep it to themselves. Definitely rude and inconsiderate. Once went on a mtb ride with a guy who had speakers in his Camelbak, playing the same Led Zeppelin song over and over and over. I and a few others wanted to kill him. BS |
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Leo Lichtman wrote:
Saw a bike yesterday that had so much bulky electrical stuff on board that I thought it was motorized. When I looked closer, I discovered that it was all batteries, amp and speakers. Three fairly large oval speakers without baffles, of course. The sound would have to be awful. And the brain that put it together. I put it in the same category as the guy sitting in his car at a stop light, with all the windows down and bass so loud it shakes my car. And the person who holds a loud cell phone conversation in a quiet restaurant. I was recently running some errands in my car and pulled up next to one of those. At the next stoplight, where we were also next to one another, I rolled down the windows on that side of my car and turned my music to maximum (I was listening to a violin concerto). Surprisingly enough, the teenage drive grinned at me and began to make conducting motions! I did not hear his music any longer, after I turned mine back down to a normal level. -- Larry D. Farrell, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology Idaho State University ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
Hell And High Water and I are about to drop the following dope collabo::
This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) What are your thoughts on this? I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to keep it to themselves. It depends on the context of the ride. Believe it or not, not all group rides take place in the country. On urban social bike rides like LA's Midnight Ridazz, and often on Critical Mass and other urban rides, one or more of the riders will pull a powerful sound system on a trailer and play celebratory music for the group. I've never heard any of the riders complain. -- Percival Cornelius |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
Hell And High Water wrote:
Several times lately, during organized rides, I've seen people with speakers mounted on their bikes, playing loud music. Sometimes they're very small. Just an ipod and some tiny speakers, but I can still hear them from a bit of a distance. This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) What are your thoughts on this? I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to keep it to themselves. A hundred meters does wonders for diminishing the intensity of any objectionable sounds. I have a buddy who uses a Long John-style bike outfitted with a 50W amp smaller than a box of kitchen matches, and a speaker mounted in the end of a five gallon plastic carboy. He is the life of any rolling party. Don't know what we'd do without him. Would you feel the same if the selection was Satie's Trois Gymnopédies? In my experience, the "music" of the countryside is just the sound of cars near and far-- hardly something I'd miss. Chalo |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
Bill Sornson and I are about to drop the following dope collabo:
Percival Cornelius wrote: It depends on the context of the ride. Believe it or not, not all group rides take place in the country. On urban social bike rides like LA's Midnight Ridazz, and often on Critical Mass and other urban rides, one or more of the riders will pull a powerful sound system on a trailer and play celebratory music for the group. I've never heard any of the riders complain. Critical Mass riders being rude and inconsiderate? The hell you say. What part of "I've never heard any of the riders complain" failed to penetrate your blood/brain barrier? -- Percival Cornelius |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
On Apr 21, 10:54 am, Hell And High Water
wrote: Several times lately, during organized rides, I've seen people with speakers mounted on their bikes, playing loud music. Sometimes they're very small. Just an ipod and some tiny speakers, but I can still hear them from a bit of a distance. This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) What are your thoughts on this? I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to keep it to themselves. Thanks, -Bob On a quiet country group ride I'd consider it rude if someone was to play music over speakers. In fact, I'd think it's odd when folks on a group ride wear earphones, and I like wearing earphones when riding solo. Laters, Marz |
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Your thoughts on MUSIC (speakers) on an organized ride?
On Apr 22, 4:05 am, Chalo wrote:
Hell And High Water wrote: Several times lately, during organized rides, I've seen people with speakers mounted on their bikes, playing loud music. Sometimes they're very small. Just an ipod and some tiny speakers, but I can still hear them from a bit of a distance. This past weekend, some guy had a fairly large speaker mounted on the back of his bike. (Facing backwards, BTW) What are your thoughts on this? I kind of like the quiet of a country ride, and would prefer them to keep it to themselves. A hundred meters does wonders for diminishing the intensity of any objectionable sounds. I have a buddy who uses a Long John-style bike outfitted with a 50W amp smaller than a box of kitchen matches, and a speaker mounted in the end of a five gallon plastic carboy. He is the life of any rolling party. Don't know what we'd do without him. Would you feel the same if the selection was Satie's Trois Gymnopédies? In my experience, the "music" of the countryside is just the sound of cars near and far-- hardly something I'd miss. In my experience, the music of the countryside is more likely to be birdsong, the cry of a red-shouldered hawk, dogs barking in the distance, and the soft hiss of my tires on the pavement. And I like it that way. Yes, cars pass - but I choose my countryside routes to minimize traffic. Satie can certainly be pleasant. So can Irish trad like Altan, and medieval music like In Mulieribus, and African pop like Angelique Kidjo. But the pleasure of music has a flip side, and that is, what sounds fantastic to one person at one time can sound terrible to everyone around them. I don't think one should subject everyone within 100 meters to one's taste in music, unless they've let you know they want to hear it. IOW, performing on a stage for the people who came to hear you is fine. Blasting an amp at the world as you're rolling along - whether the amp is in a car or on a bike - is not fine. I think the natural way to fix this is to forbid amplification. If someone wants to sing, whistle, or play harmonica as they roll along, fine. If someone wants to tow a piano on a trailer, fine. (But who would do such a thing?? ;-) Going acoustic means people can easily ignore you if they choose, or get closer if they prefer. But the instant you start pumping out YOUR musical taste using electrons, I think you're crossing a line. And BTW, our club once had a guy who showed up with a boom box on the back of his bike. The guy wasn't exactly shunned, but everyone was obviously uncomfortable with the idea, and he picked up on it. Nobody actually complained, but I don't think he ever brought his boom box again. - Frank Krygowski |
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