Cassettes or CD'S?

Listening to music while riding is suicide, and illegal in most states.

Now if your riding a trainer I recommend a CD Player, even the cheap ones these days don't skip.

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Hi, My cassette player that I use on almost all my rides is worn out. Should I replace it with
another cassette player or with a CD player? does anyone have experience with a cd player they
especially like? Thanks Sharon

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Hi, My cassette player that I use on almost all my rides is worn out. Should I replace it with
another cassette player or with a CD player?

Clean the tape guides with isopropyl-alcohol-charged Q-tips, and give 'em a couple o' swipes with a
demagnetizing wand. Take care not to scrub grit into the tape heads. I bet with a little TLC, your
tape player would be good as new.

Tape players don't wear out, as much as they build-up a bunch of [removable] crud.

And portable tape players aren't as wont to skip as portable CD players.

If you feel like it, have a listen, for me, to "Swamp Thing", by the Chameleons (UK) on their
"Strange Times" album. (I once had a bike I dubbed "Swamp Thing".)

I wish I could toss ya ('n everybody else) some jim-dandy tapes. But, unlike certain recumbent
advocates, I'll leave yez all up to yer own devices, choices, and preferences -- and respect 'em.

cheers, Tom

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"roseofsharon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi, My cassette player that I use on almost all my rides is worn out. Should I replace it with
another cassette player or with a CD player? does anyone have experience with a cd player they
especially like? Thanks Sharon

I have a TDK Mojo CD/MP3 player, with an *8 minute* skip protection (when playing mp3's). The disc
is actually not spinning quite often during normal play, and instead just reads out of the bffer.

Skip? what's that?

Pete

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Listening to music while riding is suicide, and illegal in most states.

And what do you have against Darwin?

( :-) if it's really necessary)

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Now if your riding a trainer I recommend a CD Player, even the cheap ones these days don't skip.

"roseofsharon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi, My cassette player that I use on almost all my rides is worn out. Should I replace it with
another cassette player or with a CD player? does anyone have experience with a cd player they
especially like? Thanks Sharon

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Listening to music while riding is suicide, and illegal in most states.

No, wearing headphones is illegal. You can listen to music, just not through headphones.
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Actually, I recommend using glass cleaner (ammonia based) on the pinch roller and capstan. If you
clean the pinch roller (little rubber thingy that looks like a miniature race car tire) often enough
the alcohol can dry out the rubber. Windex works great but I would still use alcohol on the guides
and heads.

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In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]

(roseofsharon) said:

Hi, My cassette player that I use on almost all my rides is worn out. Should I replace it with
another cassette player or with a CD player?

Clean the tape guides with isopropyl-alcohol-charged Q-tips, and give 'em a couple o' swipes with
a demagnetizing wand. Take care not to scrub grit into the tape heads. I bet with a little TLC,
your tape player would be good as new.

Tape players don't wear out, as much as they build-up a bunch of [removable] crud.

And portable tape players aren't as wont to skip as portable CD players.

If you feel like it, have a listen, for me, to "Swamp Thing", by the Chameleons (UK) on their
"Strange Times" album. (I once had a bike I dubbed "Swamp Thing".)

I wish I could toss ya ('n everybody else) some jim-dandy tapes. But, unlike certain recumbent
advocates, I'll leave yez all up to yer own devices, choices, and preferences -- and respect 'em.

cheers, Tom

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