what music when riding

lennymc · 13-02-2012 3:54pm #1

i listen to an ipod on my commute - its about 50 k each way, and it helps break up the commute. Ive just loaded a couple of prodigy albums for the way home. What do you listen to on the bike?

colm_gti · 13-02-2012 4:02pm

Sorry to hijack, but what headphones do you use that don't fall out? My iPhone headphones are useless for popping out

IF I could get them to stay in though, what I listen to would depend on my mood, today it would be the stone roses, the naked and famous or phoenix, yesterday it was deadmau5 and calvin harris (I listen to the same music when I'm working in the lab :cool:)

seamus · 13-02-2012 4:12pm

I listen to the radio while commuting. Music feels odd for some reason, but it is only 10k. If I'm out riding solo I just stick the 2,000 songs on my iphone on shuffle.

Although I'm big into music and would usually do a lot of skipping until a good song comes on, there are also long periods where the music is white noise and there are 30 minutes at a time where I go into a "zone" (especially when climbing) and have no idea what I've been listening to.

Though I do get the odd "zen" moment such as the day I was just about to begin descending Stocking Lane from right up at Military road. It was a beautiful warm day, very little wind, and White Limo started playing. Epic.

ROK ON · 13-02-2012 4:14pm

lennymc wrote: »

i listen to an ipod on my commute - its about 50 k each way, and it helps break up the commute. Ive just loaded a couple of prodigy albums for the way home. What do you listen to on the bike?

I have several pairs of shorts that have a pocket half way up the back for a race radio/ipod.
I dont actually own a ipod - but if someone coould suggest what is a good device to listen to music - (Iam not really interested in buying music from an istore etc, but I would like to be able to download some of my CD library onto a lightweight device that would be suitable for cycling - ie gets wet from rain or sweat).

Sorry for the hijack Lenny.

manafana · 13-02-2012 4:22pm

ROK on, a simple mp3 player from creative or like should do and just av it wrapped in cling film or in waterproof bag. Yeah miss my shorts that had pocket in back that i ripped.
I would have earphone for climbs but only ever av it in one ear outside ear is for hearing cars.

seamus · 13-02-2012 4:30pm

ROK ON wrote: »

I have several pairs of shorts that have a pocket half way up the back for a race radio/ipod.
I dont actually own a ipod - but if someone coould suggest what is a good device to listen to music - (Iam not really interested in buying music from an istore etc, but I would like to be able to download some of my CD library onto a lightweight device that would be suitable for cycling - ie gets wet from rain or sweat).

Sorry for the hijack Lenny.

http://en.store.creative.com/entertainment-devices-mp3-players/zen-style-m300/948-20615.aspx

I had an ancestor of this device. My biggest problem with mobile music has always been having cables all over the place. The one I had hung around my neck with short earphone cables, so it stayed nice and neat and didn't tug on my ears when I moved about. Weighs nothing so you don't feel it hanging around your neck.
The one above actually has bluetooth, so you could buy a pair of wireless headphones and keep the device in a pocket.

Now I use bluetooth headphones with my phone, but if I wasn't going that route, I'd probably buy the above one.

lennymc · 13-02-2012 4:33pm

i have a pair of philips headphones with a lanyard (thing that goes round yer neck) which seems to work ok. Im using an ipod or an old mobile phone that has a radio on it.

RobFowl · 13-02-2012 4:46pm

Last time I listened to music out cycling it was with a walkman.....

cdaly_ · 13-02-2012 4:50pm

colm_gti wrote: »

Sorry to hijack, but what headphones do you use that don't fall out? My iPhone headphones are useless for popping out

I use a set of Sennheiser CX300 II earbuds which I find really nice. They cut surrounding noise without blocking it entirely.

ROK ON wrote: »

but if someone coould suggest what is a good device to listen to music

My son got a SanDisk Sansa Clip+ recently. Really small and light, 8Gb onboard with a microSD slot also. Good sound so long as you set the region to 'Rest of World' rather than Europe (silly EU volume restrictions).

I have my iAudio on random/repeat with a combination of mid-life crisis - 'what I used to listen to as a teenager' and newer stuff that my metal-head teenager makes me listen to...

km991148 · 13-02-2012 4:50pm

back to original Q..

I go down the podcast route with one ear in.. dont need full stereo sound..

as for actual podcasts.. I vary widely.. but for now Frank Skinner (absolute) Moyles (BBC) and Mayo & Kermodes movie podcast keep me entertained most weeks..

blorg · 13-02-2012 4:51pm

ROK ON wrote: »

I have several pairs of shorts that have a pocket half way up the back for a race radio/ipod.
I dont actually own a ipod - but if someone coould suggest what is a good device to listen to music - (Iam not really interested in buying music from an istore etc, but I would like to be able to download some of my CD library onto a lightweight device that would be suitable for cycling - ie gets wet from rain or sweat).

Sorry for the hijack Lenny.

I swear by the iPod line, I have owned six or seven of them, I have had at least one of all the different types. They are solid, easy to use and you can rip your own CDs onto them fine, you don't have to buy it from iTunes (and I never have.)

I don't actually like Apple too much for anything else (computers, phones, tablets) but I am a fan of the iPod.

Brendog · 13-02-2012 4:55pm

I hate trance and dance music.
But for some reason I find it a great genre to listen to while cycling. Is that weird?

Especially "Underworld - Born Slippy" (The song from Trainspotting)

I always find myself able to cycle longer and faster than usual.

McTigs · 13-02-2012 5:02pm

I've only ever once listened to music whilst out on a ride and three times i had the bejaysus scared out of me by trucks passing from behind i didn't hear coming.

I make do with listening to birds and traffic.

lennymc · 13-02-2012 5:06pm

Brendog wrote: »

I hate trance and dance music.
But for some reason I find it a great genre to listen to while cycling. Is that weird?

Especially "Underworld - Born Slippy" (The song from Trainspotting)

I always find myself able to cycle longer and faster than usual.

I think songs with a beat per minute of roughly twice your cadence are good for training. Born slippy is a great oul song, i could listen to it on repeat....

RobertFoster · 13-02-2012 5:08pm

RobFowl wrote: »

Last time I listened to music out cycling it was with a walkman.....

Is that your way of coming out as a hipster?

I've not listened to music while cycling for a few years now, but when I did I found podcasts to be too low to hear over the noise of traffic, so I'd miss chunks. Something with a fast tempo would probably be better.

smacl · 13-02-2012 5:11pm

Don't listen to anything on the road, but on the turbo I usually go for anything with a fast beat and loads of attitude. Mostly older stuff like Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Talking Heads, The Clash, etc...

daragh_ · 13-02-2012 5:17pm

I don't listen to music when I'm on the bike, but if I did it would be stuff like this, this and maybe a bit of this. But not this.

Junior · 13-02-2012 5:22pm

i wonder should we start compiling spotify playlists or the like ? Lately it's been all the Kyuss albums on shuffle ..

Hungrycol · 13-02-2012 5:46pm

Tiesto podcast. Nowt better.

langdang · 13-02-2012 6:10pm

Hungrycol wrote: »

Tiesto podcast. Nowt better.

Yeah, good stuff. I like the way he has chapters built into the podcast so you can skip around in it, rather than it being one big music file. (Marco V and Marcel Woods do good podcasts too, no chapters tho...)

Deadmau5 is good "euro beats".

Hungrycol · 13-02-2012 6:26pm

lennymc wrote: »

I think songs with a beat per minute of roughly twice your cadence are good for training. Born slippy is a great oul song, i could listen to it on repeat....

Prodigy it pretty good for red-lining it.

feck sake lads · 13-02-2012 6:31pm

show me age off here lenny boy but love listening to led zeplin/pink floyd/bob dylan/ planxty come back concert.
when i
m out for the day on my touring bike i love to listen to books my son downloaded for me sherlock holmes.the adventures of tom sawyer pure magic

8kvscdpglqnyr4 · 13-02-2012 6:35pm

Wouldn't dream of having headphone in while on the road.

On the trainer on the other hand, I can't do without music. I have the trainer setup in front of the PC and software from http://www.trainerroad.com/.

I've a few playlists on Youtube - all dance music with a good beat ... they really help me get through a really tough workout. Some of my favourites:
Avicii - Levels
Chicane - Poppiholla
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuVq-RnNSxQ&feature=BFa&list=PL323AA0EC9E205FC9&lf=mh_lolz
"]N-Trance - Set you free 2k9 (Spencer & Hill Classic Radio Mix)[/URL]

superlav · 13-02-2012 6:55pm

Depends on what type of spin you have planned.
I'm a big fan of Chemical Brothers, Deep Dish, Faithless and Underworld for the a short hard session, but not for 4 hours in the hills.

The currect mix of choice is from the free Radio Soulwax app, which has 24 x 1 hour mixes from 2 Many DJ's.
You can stream or donwload the mixes. Perfect for flogging yourself half to death if you only have 60 mins for training in the evening

Some are rubbish, but the 2 'Under the Covers' mixes are top notch!!

GTDolanator · 13-02-2012 6:59pm

hard trance and acid techno gets the legs goin!

pantani · 13-02-2012 7:05pm

not mad bout listenin to music when im on the road as i think its a little dangerous,but when im on the turbo it has to be nickle back .the new album" here and now" a great one for pedalling at a high cadence!

Junior · 13-02-2012 7:51pm

These podcasts also have been getting decent reviews - can't vouch for them however yet http://www.velobeats.braynardwebdev.com/

DrZeuss · 13-02-2012 8:13pm

I'm partial to a bit of BBC Radio One Essential Selection or Essential mix, a good 2 hours of music obtained from er7radio.net.

PurpleBee · 13-02-2012 8:14pm

Brendog wrote: »

I hate trance and dance music.
But for some reason I find it a great genre to listen to while cycling. Is that weird?

I listen to music whilst cycling that I'd never listen to otherwise too.

For example... Good Feeling by Flo Rida, amazing cycling song

doc1976 · 13-02-2012 8:23pm

Junior wrote: »

i wonder should we start compiling spotify playlists or the like ? Lately it's been all the Kyuss albums on shuffle ..

Is Spotify available in Ireland now?

Seaswimmer · 13-02-2012 10:40pm

lennymc wrote: »

i listen to an ipod on my commute - its about 50 k each way, and it helps break up the commute.

Never mind the music....I think if I was commuting 50k I would listen to some kind of hypnosis tracks and only wake up when i got to my destination...

lennymc · 13-02-2012 11:22pm

some interesting replies. ended up going for some metallica (older stuff) ratm, prodigy and a couple of random songs that were on there anyway.
@seaswimmer - i came home the long way today for a change. 62km. lol.

Mycroft H · 13-02-2012 11:22pm

Radio generally. RTE/Newstalk. Earbud in the inner side of the road for traffic reasons.

DaveyDave · 14-02-2012 3:32am

11.7km commute each way with two or three 40km evening spins in the week. Right now I'm listening to electronic/dubstep, house or metal. A lot of tracks are from MTB movies. When they come on it seems to just click and get me going lol.

I've got Data Romance, Germany Germany, Magnetic Man, Skrillex, deadmau5, David Guetta, Chase & Status, Pryda, Nero and DIM to name a few on the electronic-dance side and on the metal side just some Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet For My Valentine.

Adrian Lux - Teenage Crime
REID - Diptera
Chase & Status - Blind Faith
D.I.M. - Is You (Le Castle Vania Remix)
Germany Germany - River
Moby - Wait For Me (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix)
Nero - Promises
Nero - Me & You
Data Romance - The Deep
Data Romance - Streetlight
Magnetic Man - I Need Air
Magnetic Man - Anthemic
Boysetsfire - Rookie
Alice In Videoland - We Are Rebels
Killaflaw - Set Me On Fire

g0g · 14-02-2012 5:49am

Weird, two and a half pages with a thread title like that and not one Marvin Gaye joke or similar! :pac:

Back OT, I've only ever listened to music once while cycling - I find I don't hear cars coming otherwise!

torturedsoul · 14-02-2012 8:36am

How can you listen to music on the bike!!!

Christ do you really think thats a good idea? I think anyone who does so is crazy and reckless.

lennymc · 14-02-2012 10:09am

torturedsoul wrote: »

How can you listen to music on the bike!!!

Christ do you really think thats a good idea? I think anyone who does so is crazy and reckless.

Yes. Surrounding sound is not fully drowned out (no more than riding a motorbike with helmet and ear plugs. I find I can still hear pretty well what's going on.

Anyway, I don't really want to start an argument over wearing or not wearing earphones when cycling.

ednwireland · 14-02-2012 10:17am

torturedsoul wrote: »

How can you listen to music on the bike!!!

Christ do you really think thats a good idea? I think anyone who does so is crazy and reckless.

+1 i prefer to keep my ears to hear traffic

seamus · 14-02-2012 10:25am

I've ridden without earphones, with earphone in but no sound (when the battery dies), and with earphones in and playing music.

I've found no subjective difference between the three in reality, my ability to hear traffic is identical in all cases because without earphones the wind creates a lot of noise in your ears anyway.

Though I don't listen to it particularly loud, just enough that I can no longer hear my bike creaking.

cdaly_ · 14-02-2012 10:33am

seamus wrote: »

Though I don't listen to it particularly loud, just enough that I can no longer hear my bike creaking.

Funny though. You can never drown out the sounds of your joints creaking...

Junior · 14-02-2012 10:34am

seamus wrote: »

I've ridden without earphones, with earphone in but no sound (when the battery dies), and with earphones in and playing music.

I've found no subjective difference between the three in reality, my ability to hear traffic is identical in all cases because without earphones the wind creates a lot of noise in your ears anyway.

Though I don't listen to it particularly loud, just enough that I can no longer hear my bike creaking.

Is that your bike or your body doing the creaking ?

DirkVoodoo · 14-02-2012 10:35am

seamus wrote: »

I've ridden without earphones, with earphone in but no sound (when the battery dies), and with earphones in and playing music.

I've found no subjective difference between the three in reality, my ability to hear traffic is identical in all cases because without earphones the wind creates a lot of noise in your ears anyway.

Though I don't listen to it particularly loud, just enough that I can no longer hear my bike creaking.

Totally +1. There is no substitute for looking over your shoulder when making a maneuver so I can't see why not being able to hear should make you any less safe. You can still hear important things (sirens being one) unless you are a complete muppet and wear a big pair of noise cancelling jobbies. I think people "feel" less safe rather than actually being any more at risk.

Having said that, I was behind a guy on my way home yesterday and a girl crossed in front of him, back to traffic, ipod in. Despite ringing his bell and shouting she kept going and he was forced to take evasive action (segregated facilities don't leave you with too many escape routes). We had a chuckle about it at the lights.

smacl · 14-02-2012 11:31am

seamus wrote: »

I've found no subjective difference between the three in reality, my ability to hear traffic is identical in all cases because without earphones the wind creates a lot of noise in your ears anyway.

Subjective is the key word there, you'd need some kind of objective test to know for sure one way or the other. I suspect it depends on volume, type of earphones, etc... If you're looking over your shoulder for any manoeuvre involving crossing traffic, i'd doubt its going to make much of a difference.

I don't listen to music cycling, purely out of habit, but might change that for some of the longer solo country spins where zoning out can become an issue, and a bit of music might actually help. Was thing of something like this to avoid the annoyance of headphones, but it looks pretty awful. My wife is fancies a radio for her bike, so I'll doubtless borrow it to try out.

droidus · 14-02-2012 11:37am

lennymc wrote: »

I think songs with a beat per minute of roughly twice your cadence are good for training. Born slippy is a great oul song, i could listen to it on repeat....

Bingo! I listen to loads of different stuff, but jungle is the most effective as Im usually aiming for a cadence of about 80, and early jungle runs at 160-170 bpm, so a decent jungle mix with no gaps between the tunes is perfect.

Something like born slippy is in the 130's, techno/house in general runs between 130-140, hip hope is usually in the 90's.

uberalles · 14-02-2012 12:08pm

Extended mix of "tour de France" is a great tune for up hill.

Cycling and music is such a natural high.

Wheely GR8 · 14-02-2012 12:15pm

Since I started using my road bike ,I've stopped using headphones and find it easier to cycle without them. I actually discovered my front break was loose because I didn't have them on.
Can't see myself ever using them again, it's just to hard to focus on everything with a noise in my ear.

uberalles · 14-02-2012 12:17pm

Podcasts could be good.
Just found this

http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tatw.co.uk%2Fpodcast.xml#b1

lennymc · 14-02-2012 1:18pm

Wheely GR8 wrote: »

it's just to hard to focus on everything with a noise in my ear.

im married, so quite good at zoning out

langdang · 14-02-2012 1:26pm

uberalles wrote: »

Extended mix of "tour de France" is a great tune for up hill.

Reportage sur moto...

Camera , video et foto...

This version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQz-CZvkY8k

worded · 15-02-2012 1:29am

langdang wrote: »

Reportage sur moto...

Camera , video et foto...

This version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQz-CZvkY8k

==========

Best version - 8 mins ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0al9-89ovE

Colmhayden76 · 15-02-2012 9:09am

I don't often listen to music when on the road but when I'm out on the mtb I'd always listen to music. All time favorite is Queens of the Stone Age but my wife bought me the ultimate angry album that is great for long climbs : Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica check it out:D

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