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helmet on?  ;D ;D

Rode from SF to Carmel last week-end and forgot the iPod...ended up doing something I thought I would *NEVER* do outside of the shower... I started humming (really badly) in my helmet out of sheer boredom...

so who else wants to 'fess up?  [cheeky]

I talk to myself while riding like...

That was a nice turn... Your riding like shit today..... what a stupid F..ing Cager etc.  ;D

I don't ride with an iPod...it's distracting, it's dangerous, and it's mostly illegal (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&group=27001-28000&file=27400) in CA.

So singing inside your helmet is perfectly acceptable.

I have a few staples...
Friggin in the Riggin (Sex Pistols Version)
The Kazakhstani National ANthem (http://tinyurl.com/97ddlh) (Borat version)
Stonehenge (http://tinyurl.com/yp2yxg)

Totally, unconditionally, incontrovertibly, and "Thank-god-you-can't-hear-me" guilty of this.   [laugh]

Beat boxing, singing "move pregnant dog get out da way, get out da way" or "Move upside and let the man go through" while lane splitting, mooing at cows, or just singing horrible little made up ditties.  Whatever it takes to keep myself entertained.   [laugh]  [laugh]

The worst is singing in your helmet at a stoplight, and realizing that a convertible just pulled up next to you with the top down... and yup, they can hear every off-key note.   [thumbsup]   [popcorn]  [clap]

the theme from Mission Impossible is my personal favorite...

I sing almost everytime I ride. For some reason I sing the chorus to "Going the Distance" by Cake at least once per ride, and I hate that song and that band  ???

Um, dangerous? From the guy who wheelies/stoppies/drags knee on the road? Huh?  Pot meet kettle.   [laugh]

*opinion warning* Riding with an Ipod is even less dangerous then having a radio in a car, turn on Ipod, hit shuffle, ride. No station changing, basically have to pull over to fiddle with the thing, overall far less to worry about.  And since you should be wearing ear plugs on the highway anyway, having music playing doesn't really make much a difference in your overall awareness level. 

And it definitely helps avoid embrassing things like having to discuss what songs you end up singing in your helmet without it.   [laugh]

Riding with music makes me ride more aggressive depending on the song that pumps me up.

I try to stay away from tunes like that.  ;D

I've never ridden with my iPod before ... just earplugs.. so I do find myself humming along quite a bit ... mooing at cows ... or cursing at the prius in front of me.

It's illegal...and just try convincing a cop that you had only one earplug in ;D

I've personally seen a pile-up of Monsters caused by wearing an iPod while riding. I figure that I'm going to do wheelies & stoppies anyway, and I don't want Iggy Pop screaming in my ear, pumping the adrenaline, when I do it...that'd be overkill [evil] So I don't like riding with iPods.

And car stereos are distracting too...you may have a point, but that doesn't make iPods any less bad on motorcycles.

Ummmm, I don't ride and do wheelies...it's distracting for others, it's dangerous, and it's mostly illegal in CA   [cheeky]  [laugh]

Have I said how awesome you guys all are?  Well you are!  I love the DMF!  :-*

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One wheel == Less Friction == Less front tire wear ;D
Well, until you put the wheel down for a turn.

I'll worry about being pulled over for having headphone lines running into my helmet about the time I start seeing/hearing about people being pulled over for being on a cell phone.   [laugh]

With the Ipod pile up, was the guy playing with it? Distracted by the music? Or just not paying attention in general? Because not paying attention never happens without an outside distraction.   ;)

Good on you for not wanting to be distracted, though I suppose it's not too much of an issue when you only ride more then 30 miles away from SF once a year.    ;D

(Luv ya DQ!  ~runs~   [laugh]  [laugh])

DQ the Hooligan who hates Footloose  ;D

Its the Devils Music  [evil]

Yer doing it wrong. [cheeky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNa360R75aw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNa360R75aw)

(~wheelies in Jammen's direction~)

You're just mad that I woudn't go to Ouray with you ;D

The wreck in question was in Australia...you can ask the guys down there about it, but the person in question certainly mentioned being distracted by the music. We were slowing down for a turn, everyone with signals on, and he came up the tailpipe of another rider. One more rider went down trying to avoid the mess, and the rider in question ended up with a pretty bad concussion...he went to hospital, couldn't remember what was going on, etc.

We also had a bit of an incident on New Years' Day. Eric (BMW guy) was riding with his iPod on (he always does), and he didn't notice his rear tire spinning up in the first couple of turns outside Saratoga...so he went a little faster, and lowsided. I'm pretty sure the iPod was a factor in that one, but to be fair the ego (I can beat the sportbikes on my tractor!) was another.

OMG...the hair... [puke]...Fran Tarkenton... [puke]

Now, if he'd ridden over the top of a cop car I'd be really impressed ;D

~takes hat off~

Long live the Wheelie King.


Sorry man, you broke my heart.   :'(
Though you did miss a good time, and lots of time on the road to listen to music.   [laugh]

So who else sings in their helmet?   [thumbsup]

I sing in my helmet. I often don't realize I'm singing out loud when I have my ipod on. When I catch myself, I wonder if the people with their windows down could hear me singing as I passed them. A little embarrassing. I've probably creeped out a few people who only hear part of what I'm singing, especially if it's something like "Last Caress." I never hum or yodel, but I do blurt out random groupings of swear words when someone cuts me off, pulls out in front of me or tries to change lanes into me.

I sing all the time, mainly practice for my weekly kareoke routine.  I whistle a lot in my helmet too.

I also like to scream in a really high pitch voice while looking straight ahead when stopped at lights. 

If I see a pretty lady walking on the street, I hit on her in my helmet  "hello lady, you have very nice legs..."
 

With the exception of yodeling, I do!

+1.
I do the American Idol thing too... :-X

in  [thumbsup]

'Right here right now' pops into my head a lot. But mostly its beat-boxing to something a bit more abstract and techno like.
Sometimes I just like to do a little 'call and response' with my engine.  ;D


gaaaaawwd I want to go ride now. I love the 70's for how this kind of crazy sh*t would go on right in the streets with kids running for their lives. Nowadays you'd need permits, roads roaped off, aerial support and permission from 9 city departments.

Jesus Jones or Van Hagar?

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That's messed up... ;D but hilarious!  ;D

Dear God.

I'm old enough to remember watching that when it aired.  :'(

Did your hair look like Fran Tarkenton's? Hell, do you know who Fran Tarkenton is?  ;D

so, so  [moto] [moto]cliche, but "Born to be Wild"

I spare others, including myself, from listening to my nasal singing voice.

One thing I'll never do again is smoke a cigar then ride. I kept burping up cigar.

Fat Boy Angela Bassett

Someone else did it more rocking. Can't find it.

All the time!

FWIW: Shure Sound E2C headphones are amazing with helmets!! Yeah, I know.... They fit comfortably in your ear, the cords go over and behind the ears, so they don't get snagged when pulling the old bucket on. Sound quality is astounding!!!

In short, they rock!!

In town, it's just ear plugs and off key warbling. For long trips (i.e. 1 hr+), I feel that having some tunes is an essential thing...keeps you motivated and zooming along.

I find myself singing "Rider in the Rain" this time of year.

I used to sing "Riders on the Storm" until I took a moment to realize how make the beast with two backsing creepy that song is.

THAT'S INCREDIBLE !!! *

Such a low point in Fran Tarkenton's public career.

* God I hated that show  :-X

Oh yeah, back on topic ...

I actually don't have tunes running through the ride that often. I take things more visually and snap mental pictures along the way.

Some time I just bust out with Ehhh he he he he he.   or   Ahhhh Ha ha ha ha    or something like that.

I will listen to iTunes (wirelessly) if the ride is long enough. Otherwise, I will sing in my helmet. It's very loud and annoying. Once after a very long ride I sang Barney songs for the last hour. I was really tired. iTunes is such an improvement.

Yeah, I do it. Well, not yodeling, but certainly humming. Badly, too.

I don't wear headphones that often, but I will sing, hum and make random noises.  Usually I just hum in tune with my bike.  I almost make a game out of it trying to stay in tune when changing gears and speeds.

It's hard enough to focus on the road and listen to tunes while driving in the cage. As for my helmet, I'm usually uttering any one of these lines over and over:

"Thanks for the fabulous signal!"
"That is a red light."
"Son of a b**ch!"
"The DMV must be handing out licenses like candy these days."

Ducmouse swears by them as well.

I don't vocalize, but I usually listen to music in my head (I guess it's the auditory equivalent of a photographic memory).

I know this sounds hokey, but a lot of times especially when I first started riding I say a quick 'keep me safe' affirmation right after I pull the chin strap tight. Being in my helmet can be a place of quiet reflection where I can hear my thoughts the clearest... Sometimes I express them by yelling, crying, cursing, singing, laughing and yowling outrageously!! But no yodeling  ???

And then there's the songs...lately I keep hearing "Somebody's Watching Me" and sometimes it's Micheal Jackson's "Bad"  [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

I guess it's good I don't listen to an Ipod because I've got the tunes already going.

I know what you mean! I'm always pleading, "Please don't hit me!"

I sing Bon Jovi or U2 pretty regularly.  Not whole songs.  I just repeat the chorus over and over again.   Just my widdle brain can't store any more than that, and I'm pretty cheesy (and stuck in the late 80s). 

I also use the phrase "mothermake the beast with two backser" a lot, especially in traffic, and usually in conjuction with "make the beast with two backs you, go make the beast with two backs yourselfyou make the beast with two backsing make the beast with two backsed-up make the beast with two backs of a mothermake the beast with two backsing useless, stupid make the beast with two backsing mothermake the beast with two backser".  (I have rage issues, ya see . . ).  And it's loud enough that sometimes I catch pedestrians looking at me, even over the sound of the bike.  And drivers with their windows down have taken notice on occasion, especially when there are children in the car.  Oops.   :-\

I found that singing during races was really helpful for going fast, particularly if I had open track.  It would remind me to relax, and I'd ususally drop at least a second a lap from when I started singing.  Talking to myself worked pretty well too.  I never yodelled during a race, but FWIW I threw bike parts (or my bike or myself) at Dan any time he came near me.