Just a couple oh thoughts after cycling down to east coast park for a picnic yesterday. Now these may apply globally but I only cycle here.
My wife says that my in the ear headphones aren’t safe for walking as I can hear cars. So the guy yesterday on his x thousand dollar bike, with big Bose headphones covering his ears and playing on his phone was lucky to be alive. Also he wasn’t going that quick as I passed him! Perhaps I should have asked for a donation towards a new bell that I was wearing out pointlessly.
On the way home it was dark, at least half the cyclists didn’t have any lights! ECP has a lot of lampposts but still it’s not all lit. There was at least one occasion where I nearly took out another bike, which as we both has little ones in the back roils have been nasty.
Anyway little rant over hope you all had a good weekend.
Have you tried those ones where they reckon you can still hear ambient noises? Saw them once advertised as great for parents who want to talk on the phone in the park and still keep an ear out (but haven’t tried them).