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not resolvedMy headphones fell outta my pocket while crossing the road this morning and were subsequently smushed by a passing car. Harupmh.
Play has replacement Sennheiser PMX60 ones for £9.99, but was wondering if anyone had any other recommendations for under the helmet headphones. Cos of my weird ears I can't use iPod earbuds or their ilk, need neckband ones.
I don't use iPod earbuds cos they're rubbish. :P
I think my current ones are Panasonic, but again in-ear. Allegedly they cut out external noise interference, but this is completely screwed up by the noise of the wire scraping against fabric when it's in the pocket.
On the look out for a good pair myself really.
May just stick to m' knitting. They are pretty good quality, chirpy cheep cheep, and sit behind helmet nicely. Just very car tyre resilient.
I can use the ones you bung in your ear canal, my ears aren't that weird , but it just seems to amplify all the internal sounds (inner demons, maybe).
I'm in love with my Bose in-ear headphones. Great sound quality like my QC3s but no noise cancelling so can be worn on the street. At £125 the in-ear headphones are quite a lot but I love the sound.
What kind of budget do you have?
I used Sennheiser PMX 100 with the neck band for years but when they broke recently I got the ordinary version of the PMX100 II. THe neck band version didn't work well when boys borrowed them because boys don't have a head the right size.
Sadly I'm not in the Bose bracket, the low end sennheiser is more mine. I bought some stopgap Sony ones, but again the 'antihelix' (apparently) of my ear is the wrong shape, and they just don't sit in there right, even with the stupid over the ear bits.
Had the PMX100s (which annoyingly I just pulled the jack off, and which was unfixable) sound is much better than the 60s, but the 60s are more comfy.
The cable on my old PMX100s broke at the jack end. I could see it starting to give way but the jack was too big to fit some heat shrink over it.
The new jack looks a bit narrower so I might slip some heat shrink on there in advance of any trouble.
I'm not sure I'd be comfortable writing a sentence with "pulled" and "jack off" in it.
replacing jack's is a bit fiddly but perfectly doable with a soldering iron and a bit of patience. need a hand?
I've never been interested in headphones for cycling as I find that I rely on my hearing a lot to know where to point me head and look sometimes. However I do like the idea of a bit of music for longer rides on your own when there's not much in the scenery to keep you company.
I've just read a review about these in Cycling Plus and I'm tempted. They sit outside the ear, so much better allow ambient noise to be heard. Almost like a tiny wee speaker on the side of your head pointing into your ear. I'm very tempted.
Surely it's on the long rides on your own without much scenery that you *particularly* want to retain your sense of hearing?
After all, in town it's a safe assumption that wherever you look, there will be a vehicle (or something silent like a faster cyclist or electric mobile).
I think you would need in-ear ones or you'll hear nothing but wind-roar.
I would fit some wee speakers to my handlebars pointing up at me - can't be as noisy as a oontzoontz car stereo with windows wide open to annoy passers by and also I like to have my senses alert to surroundings rather than drowned in pleasing tunes.
For what it's worth, I've just picked up a pair of Sennheiser MX680. 
They claim to be designed with "activity" in mind and therefore not to fall out. I didn't want an ear loop as that I find interferes with sunglasses / helmet strap / cap but these have a novel solution to keep them in the ear called an "ear fin". It's a soft, flexible rubber fin that tucks in behind the "rim" of the outer ear.
Good sound quality and well made as you might expect from Sennheiser.
In-line clip / volume control useful for keeping plenty cable slack to allow maximum head turning and if someone at the lights wants to have a chat.
Good colour range (yellow and black only).
Very comfortable, wore them for about 5 hours on Sunday as I pottered about East Lothian in the sunshine. (There was a Tiger Moth doing some aerobatics at Archerfield. I put on Ron Goodwin's Battle of Britain soundtrack)
Good fit as there are a selection of rubber find and little yellow jackets for the earpiece to suit a a range of ear sizes and shapes.
Claim to be "sweat proof". Not sure what depth of sweat they have been tested to.
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