aspencreek said:
Offroader said:
One thing I do notice is the bike is pretty loud. People will definitely think you are riding around a gas powered bike, its pretty damn loud and everyone looks. Hopefully the belt drive will help with this. I wonder if it is loud enough to slowly do hearing damage.
You can pick up one of these Quiet Ride helmets if you are concerned about your hearing while riding. I bought one to use for my regular dirt bikes and it works fantastic. Has earmuffs on the inside that you can adjust with just a few pumps and it goes from just a tiny bit of noise reduction to a ton of noise reduction - almost like you are wearing shooting earmuffs. Then you can release the air with one button and it goes back open again instantly.
http://www.quietridehelmets.com/
I know a lot of people don't seem to care about hearing loss but it is not something you really want and something that you can get very easily if you don't protect yourself. Even the wind noise from riding a bicycle is supposedly loud enough to cause hearing loss. Really, any loud noise will wear out and kill your hearing cells in your ear and hearing cells do not regenerate, once they die they die. You don't want to be that old guy who can't hear anything because their high frequency hearing is gone.
Makes me think about the wind noise when hitting speeds on an ebike over 40MPH, that is really loud.
While I can't really wear a full face helmet like the one in the link because it will draw too much attention I'm just going to try and reduce noise by going with the belt drive to reduce the chain noise, and also maybe getting some wind deflectors for my bicycle helmet.
I'm thinking something like this if this will help at all, I'm not really sure if it will do anything and the only way is using ear plugs.
http://www.slipstreamz.com/products/the-slip
I may use the sur-ron bike to commute to work about 10 miles each way and there is a lot of wind noise from hitting 30-50MPH, maybe this will help reduce it without having to deal with ear plugs.