When getting ready to ride your motorcycle you wear leather to protect your body from harm, wear a helmet to safeguard your head if you ever fall off, but why not protect your ears? Wind and road noise when travelling at a high speed can seriously affect your hearing and can have damaging effects, so it is always a good idea to make sure you are wearing all the protection you need to have.
Road noise is a problem of which no one can control.
They commonly come from other vehicles such as their engine, their tires and also the noise coming from your own engine and tires.
Each noise from each vehicle are audibly different and generate different levels of damaging noise; theoretically the bigger the engine the louder the level of noise generated and more damaging.
Wind noise is also similar to road noise, as the faster the speed of the vehicle the more wind noise it generates.
Wind gusts can also have an effect on your ability to steer the motorcycle as well as damaging your hearing.
Evidently the power of the wind gusts cannot be controlled, but the damage it can cause to your hearing can be.
The best way for motorcyclists to decrease the level of damage wind and road noise can have on your hearing is by wearing motorcycle ear plugs.
They are designed to be worn at high speeds and under a helmet as well as reducing the harmful sounds to a safer volume.