for riding - any recommendations? I'd like something to reduce the noise, to be able to speak over the blackberry (so it needs an in-line mic with a button), and listen mp3s from the same blackberry. And they have to go inside my ear, as my ears kinda non-standard
Thanks!
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If cell phone distracted females in cages aren't bad enough, now you have the need to gab while riding a bike??? [:@]

 

why did you decide I am gonna talk while riding? Usually when I get called, I stop, take off helmet, and redial the last number. I'd like to get rid of steps 2 and 3. Thanks for understanding.
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you asked for recommendations.
Here is my recomendation:

leave the damn phone off while you are riding!!!! no phone call is that important. Pay attention to what you are doing.

listening to music is a little more acceptable but to hear it you have to turn up the sound very loud and that will hurt your ears after a while.

I recommend you ride listening to the heartbeat of your pony and the sounds of the world around you.

IMHO

 

Sorry but I fail to see how you are going to eliminate Step 3 unless you intend to answer the phone while the bike is still in motion and you are looking for a place to pull off the road all while being distracted by the call in progress. If I had my way, driver cell phone use would be illegal, no hands free exceptions either.

 

My advice is to put the phone away and just check it when you stop. I wouldn't use earphones/earbuds either, you'll need those ears to hear the blind, stupid cagers that are trying to hit you. but that's just me.

 

Can you possibly hear the convo while riding? I can barely hear the phone when I'm in my wife's convertible. No way I could hear it on the bike at speed. Probably not even at idle.

 

Vibration on my belt.
You all have a point here. But - I am adult enough. All I asked was an earplug model, not how to live my life. I am not suicidal, so please do not tell me what to do and I will not tell you where to go. Besides, that thing has a gps integrated and I'd like to hear voice prompts as I ride a lot countryside.
Thanks,
Elena
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Dainese makes a helmet with Blue Tooth in it. It's not an ear plug, but it does what you are looking for. I saw one at Cycle Gear it was about $500. Dainese makes great gear at expensive prices.

 

I for one wasn't trying to tell you how to live your life, excuse me if you took it that way. Just don't want to read about a scooter wreck where the rider couldn't hear the traffic is all.
As for finding an earbud that will work for you, try radio shack.