Bone Conduction headphones and road cycling

bone conducting headphones block less of the noise coming in – so if you use in-ear headphones today even with them off you’re losing quite a lot of background noise, and with them on you lose loads. the aftershox I have are less of a compromise for that (letting me hear traffic better whatever is going on – generally quiet roads here anyway), but more compromised in terms of audio quality etc.

I don’t find the bass too bad, but its very dependent on placement. If one of them gets knocked out of position or rests on my hair I get almost none, placed well its fine

Oh and j had a knock off paid of eBay specials before I bought the treks. Don’t do that. They were shite. Poor immitation poor sound poor quality and the battery didn’t last long -as in didn’t continue to hold charge at all after very long)

I have the Aftershockz Aeropex. They’re good for music but you’d struggle with speech over the wind noise.

No issues with distraction but I tend to know what’s going on behind me anyway with the Varia radar.

Don’t think it’s been mentioned, but I have a pair of the LG FN4 in-ear buds – they have a mode where they allow you to mix in the ambient noise (picked up by the microphone) with the music, so you can always hear what’s going on around you.

I have some aftershock bone conduction headphones.

I don’t use them on the road as they block less noise than normal headphones, but I still can’t hear cars approaching behind me.

I use mine on the road all the time. can listen to music well enough as well as hear cars approaching.

also the beep from the garmin varia. seriously, if you want to ride on the road, get a varia.

if you want immersive surround sound get followed by a truck like in mad max.

I’ve not tried bone conduction earphones, but I commute with Bluetooth ear buds (cheap skull candy jib ones).

The roads are quiet when I commute. BUT I rarely listen to music on the road, generally only podcasts. I find that spoken word doesn’t isolate you from the road like music can do.

Plus, I’m not sure what I can do if I do hear the car that’s about to clip me anyway…