"Stephen Harding" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Raoul Duke said:Not everyone who is deaf has been so their entire life. Should only
those who have been deaf their entire lives be allowed to ride or drive?Don't you see how silly this is? Hearing is not necessary to safely ride
a bike.I think this is probably true.
You don't really need to hear in your automobile. Some may
not be able to hear with the music cranked up so the bass notes
are audible to those miles ahead.I don't listen to music when I ride. Primarily as I regard it
as a distraction. Might as well be in a car or on a bus.But since people in cars by-and-large are not being overtaken
by those behind them, and bicyclists are, it surely doesn't hurt
to add auditory inputs to your pedaling repertoire while out on
the road.
[...]
Most of us who ride recumbents will have a rear view mirror attached to our
eye glasses or our helmets. I NEVER get on any kind of a bike without a rear
view mirror. I resort to it about every 5 seconds or so to see what is
coming behind me. It is royal pain in the neck to have to be turn your head
about to see what is behind you, but it is especially difficult to do that
on a recumbent. I regard any recumbent cyclist who goes riding without some
kind of rear view mirror as a total idiot.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota