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Protect your Eyes and Ears. Use dark UV and polarized sunglasses AND soft foam ear plugs. It is a safety thing.
The soft foam ear plugs at your local drug/hardware store will attenuate 33db or 2,000 times quieter. Your human hearing has over 100 db of dynamic range. That is a range of 10,000,000,000. So stuffing ear plugs in your ears, you can still hear, since you still have 67 db of range left! You are not in a cage. You are fully exposed to the elements and the sound levels sitting on a motorcycle puts you at risk for long term hearing damage. But with earplugs you are protecting your hearing while still being able to hear better than someone in a car.
15+ hours of loud high frequency noise will wear your nerves very quickly and is the main reason after a long ride why you are so tired. Ear plugs will protect you from this and you will find after a very long ride that you will be not so tired!
Your vision has about the same amount of range [28 F-STOPS] (starlight to noon sun in a snow field). We all know the value of sunglasses. So protect your vision. You put on sunglasses and you can still see. You put in ear plugs you can still hear. Save your senses so you can ride another day AND you will be less tired!
This is somehow not in the IBA AOW - I think it needs to be. I always wear ear plugs on long trips motorcycle, car, planes, when I get to my destination I am ready to work or play where my colleagues are heading for the hotel and a nap...
The soft foam ear plugs at your local drug/hardware store will attenuate 33db or 2,000 times quieter. Your human hearing has over 100 db of dynamic range. That is a range of 10,000,000,000. So stuffing ear plugs in your ears, you can still hear, since you still have 67 db of range left! You are not in a cage. You are fully exposed to the elements and the sound levels sitting on a motorcycle puts you at risk for long term hearing damage. But with earplugs you are protecting your hearing while still being able to hear better than someone in a car.
15+ hours of loud high frequency noise will wear your nerves very quickly and is the main reason after a long ride why you are so tired. Ear plugs will protect you from this and you will find after a very long ride that you will be not so tired!
Your vision has about the same amount of range [28 F-STOPS] (starlight to noon sun in a snow field). We all know the value of sunglasses. So protect your vision. You put on sunglasses and you can still see. You put in ear plugs you can still hear. Save your senses so you can ride another day AND you will be less tired!
This is somehow not in the IBA AOW - I think it needs to be. I always wear ear plugs on long trips motorcycle, car, planes, when I get to my destination I am ready to work or play where my colleagues are heading for the hotel and a nap...
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