(OT - almost) Cycling to Music

yesterday I discovered the pleasure of listening to music while riding my
bicycle - not that famous IPod, but my mobile phone. Not classical music,
which is more my style, but more like the doof doof ear splitting rock.
Can't hear classical music over the roar of the wind and the traffic. With
the rock, not only you can hear it, but the beat is very conducive to faster
riding.

Having had a breakfast of eggs, toast and bacon (once a week for me), I had
to atone for my sins - not the sin of eating bacon (I'm Jewish) but rather
for the sin of eating bread! Bread makes my bg skyrocket, and I always work
it off afterwards with a brisk bike ride - to work during the week after my
single morning toast, and just a 6 mile burn after my indulgent Saturday
breakfast. Suffice to say that an hour after eating my bg would have been
200 or so, but I came home after the bike ride with under 75 (half a
diamicron helped). With the rock music blaring into my ears, I figure that
as well as my leg muscles burning off the bg, the pounding on my eardrums
may have helped....

Henry M.

On Sun, 6 May 2007 08:26:13 +1000, "hemyd"
<myd!!!hen@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>yesterday I discovered the pleasure of listening to music while riding my
>bicycle - not that famous IPod, but my mobile phone. Not classical music,
>which is more my style, but more like the doof doof ear splitting rock.
>Can't hear classical music over the roar of the wind and the traffic. With
>the rock, not only you can hear it, but the beat is very conducive to faster
>riding.
>
>Having had a breakfast of eggs, toast and bacon (once a week for me), I had
>to atone for my sins - not the sin of eating bacon (I'm Jewish) but rather
>for the sin of eating bread! Bread makes my bg skyrocket, and I always work
>it off afterwards with a brisk bike ride - to work during the week after my
>single morning toast, and just a 6 mile burn after my indulgent Saturday
>breakfast. Suffice to say that an hour after eating my bg would have been
>200 or so, but I came home after the bike ride with under 75 (half a
>diamicron helped). With the rock music blaring into my ears, I figure that
>as well as my leg muscles burning off the bg, the pounding on my eardrums
>may have helped....
>
>Henry M.
>
Good results Henry - just be sure you can hear the traffic
approaching as well...

One of these days I'm going to discover the home address of
one of those kids that I can hear coming and going with the
amp up full and the car windows wide open (doof, doof, DOOF,
DADOOF, DOOF, doof, doof) at 1 am as I'm trying to sleep. It
would be worth losing the old stereo to set it up with a
timer outside his window to go at 4am with EL&P's "Fanfare
for the Common Man" at 150W. Or maybe a selection from the
1812 - the cannons and bells sections...



Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.
--
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/
latest: Venice, Aquileia and Trieste

On May 5, 6:56 pm, Alan S <loralgtweightandca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2007 08:26:13 +1000, "hemyd"
>
>
>
>
>
> <myd!!!...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >yesterday I discovered the pleasure of listening to music while riding my
> >bicycle - not that famous IPod, but my mobile phone. Not classical music,
> >which is more my style, but more like the doof doof ear splitting rock.
> >Can't hear classical music over the roar of the wind and the traffic. With
> >the rock, not only you can hear it, but the beat is very conducive to faster
> >riding.
>
> >Having had a breakfast of eggs, toast and bacon (once a week for me), I had
> >to atone for my sins - not the sin of eating bacon (I'm Jewish) but rather
> >for the sin of eating bread! Bread makes my bg skyrocket, and I always work
> >it off afterwards with a brisk bike ride - to work during the week after my
> >single morning toast, and just a 6 mile burn after my indulgent Saturday
> >breakfast. Suffice to say that an hour after eating my bg would have been
> >200 or so, but I came home after the bike ride with under 75 (half a
> >diamicron helped). With the rock music blaring into my ears, I figure that
> >as well as my leg muscles burning off the bg, the pounding on my eardrums
> >may have helped....
>
> >Henry M.
>
> Good results Henry - just be sure you can hear the traffic
> approaching as well...
>
> One of these days I'm going to discover the home address of
> one of those kids that I can hear coming and going with the
> amp up full and the car windows wide open (doof, doof, DOOF,
> DADOOF, DOOF, doof, doof) at 1 am as I'm trying to sleep. It
> would be worth losing the old stereo to set it up with a
> timer outside his window to go at 4am with EL&P's "Fanfare
> for the Common Man" at 150W. Or maybe a selection from the
> 1812 - the cannons and bells sections...
>
> Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
> d&e, metformin 1500mg, ezetrol 10mg
> Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.
> --http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/http://loraltravel.blogspot.com/
> latest: Venice, Aquileia and Trieste- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Maybe your diabetes is making the music sound louder than it is.

"hemyd" <myd!!!hen@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:463d04a6$0$31764$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> yesterday I discovered the pleasure of listening to music while riding my
> bicycle - not that famous IPod, but my mobile phone. Not classical music,
> which is more my style, but more like the doof doof ear splitting rock.
> Can't hear classical music over the roar of the wind and the traffic. With
> the rock, not only you can hear it, but the beat is very conducive to
> faster riding.
>
Sounds pleasant. I see people peddling down the road with headphones on now
and then. But, I wonder if I see something they don't.... and have to yell,
"Look Out," will they hear me.

John

Alan S <loralgtweightandcarbs@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of these days I'm going to discover the home address of
> one of those kids that I can hear coming and going with the
> amp up full and the car windows wide open (doof, doof, DOOF,
> DADOOF, DOOF, doof, doof) at 1 am as I'm trying to sleep. It
> would be worth losing the old stereo to set it up with a
> timer outside his window to go at 4am with EL&P's "Fanfare
> for the Common Man" at 150W. Or maybe a selection from the
> 1812 - the cannons and bells sections...

Many decades ago I lived in a block of flats opposite a large
mainframe computer centre in London. Twice a week they got a data
delivery in the middle of the night from a young bloke in a very
expensive sports car which which he left parked outside for five
minutes with disco music thumping very loudly out of it. I wasn't the
only resident of the block who leant out of the window to shout at him
for waking me up. He appeared to think this was very amusing. I wrote
to the manager of the computer centre who wrote me a dismissive reply
about stuff in the street and folk who didn't work for him not being
his jurisdiction. He ignored my request to tell him who the guy did
work for.

So I made a catapult. A large metal nut crazed part of his front
windscreen very pleasingly. He got the message, because from then on
our sleep was uninterrupted :-)

--
Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

johnniemccoy@ <johnniemccoy@nospamhotmail.com> wrote:

> "hemyd" <myd!!!hen@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:463d04a6$0$31764$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>> yesterday I discovered the pleasure of listening to music while riding my
>> bicycle - not that famous IPod, but my mobile phone. Not classical music,
>> which is more my style, but more like the doof doof ear splitting rock.
>> Can't hear classical music over the roar of the wind and the traffic. With
>> the rock, not only you can hear it, but the beat is very conducive to
>> faster riding.

> Sounds pleasant. I see people peddling down the road with headphones on now
> and then. But, I wonder if I see something they don't.... and have to yell,
> "Look Out," will they hear me.

Since their bicycles don't have windows they can close they'll
probably be able to hear you a lot better than a car driver with
closed windows.

--
Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]