Best Earplugs?

[GoldOxide_imp]

For the average motorcycle, I find it hard to not wear any half-decent ear plugs for freeway-based riding - no matter the helmet.

+1, never go for a ride without'em

+1, never go for a ride without'em
Yeah, definitely helps cut down on general fatigue.

[the Ferret]

Can't wear em most of the time. I kinda like my Gel ear plugs but one day i was riding with them and went past a buddy's house and tooted the horn, and thought my horn had quit because I couldn't hear it. That's blocking too much sound for me.

Tried the foam plugs and could hear my heart beat, that's too quiet too.

So I just ride without them.

[alprider]

not the best but simple...my favorite since years...

[url=https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-E-A-R-Classic-Earplugs-310-1001-Uncorded-Pillow-Pack-2000-Pair-Case/?N=5002385+8709322+8711405+8720539+3294780198&preselect=8720546+8740423&rt=rud]https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/a...423&rt=rud

[Houtman_imp]

Tev62 , I always use the disposable foam earplugs but thank you for the link , good reading.

I do too, I find them the easiest to use. Mind you I had been putting them in incorrectly for years until someone pointed out a better way of fitting them. I was never putting them in deep enough and they always felt a little loose. Putting your opposite arm over the back of your head and pulling your ear up and back really opens up the canal for a good deep fit. It was a Homer Simpson moment for me.

I do too, I find them the easiest to use. Mind you I had been putting them in incorrectly for years until someone pointed out a better way of fitting them. I was never putting them in deep enough and they always felt a little loose. Putting your opposite arm over the back of your head and pulling your ear up and back really opens up the canal for a good deep fit. It was a Homer Simpson moment for me.
This is the way I put my earplugs into my ears but first I "wet" them in my mouth , same as Rossi does !

[GoldOxide_imp]

not the best but simple...my favorite since years...

[url=https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-E-A-R-Classic-Earplugs-310-1001-Uncorded-Pillow-Pack-2000-Pair-Case/?N=5002385+8709322+8711405+8720539+3294780198&preselect=8720546+8740423&rt=rud]https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/a...423&rt=rud

I remember those from back in the late '80s.

[peterbaron]

Tev62 , I always use the disposable foam earplugs but thank you for the link , good reading.

I do too, I find them the easiest to use. Mind you I had been putting them in incorrectly for years until someone pointed out a better way of fitting them. I was never putting them in deep enough and they always felt a little loose. Putting your opposite arm over the back of your head and pulling your ear up and back really opens up the canal for a good deep fit. It was a Homer Simpson moment for me.

I do too, I find them the easiest to use. Mind you I had been putting them in incorrectly for years until someone pointed out a better way of fitting them. I was never putting them in deep enough and they always felt a little loose. Putting your opposite arm over the back of your head and pulling your ear up and back really opens up the canal for a good deep fit. It was a Homer Simpson moment for me.
This is the way I put my earplugs into my ears but first I "wet" them in my mouth , same as Rossi does !

This way, I consider them Houtman's wet willy moto plugs

[Houtman_imp]

For ears like that you probably need kitchen rolls !

[peterbaron]

[GoldOxide_imp]

With ears like that, most would be tempted to put their finger in.

[j3gq_imp]

I think I've tried most of the popular types and cannot stand wearing any for more than 10 minutes. My hearing is about ruined and at my age I don't worry too much about it. I'd like a helmet with some sealing around the ear.

In general, I sympathize with your attitude, redbirds. But the problem is that your hearing today is probably still quite good - so there is still you might loose. The way hearing problems develop over time, it's the long end that matters. A little more deaf at age 70 goes unnoticed, but translates into totally "isolated" from your environment 10 years on. And even modern hearing aids can only do so much.
In 1000s of interviews by Haward many decades ago, they discovered that the impact on your life by not hearing is substantially more severe than that of blindness. So bear with me and think again.

Try this page then, j3gq, https://audienz.at/en/earplugs/.

As to your other point, no, I can’t guess. Maybe you’d care to enlighten me?

Sorry I missed your question for a while. This site is all about people who need advice as to how to choose your music (artistic intentions ? musical advice ?) and how to hear it "again" when you're slowly turning deaf... , please don't ask. That's why I said it's about "hearing more", not less. Cheerio !

This is a nice article on ear plugs, the effects on your ear, comparisons with a BMW K100 with/without a screen. I drastically lowered the helmet noise on my Tiger by adding a little top lip screen extension ($18 cheapo from Ali-Express). The difference was night and day as it just pushed the airflow up a couple of inches over the helmet. I do find the naked CB quite good though as the airflow is clean.

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/ne...ustom_foam

Good site, thank you.