Hi All, Last weekend I rode my GS to SoCal and back (there are wonderful roads around the Central Coast & Southern California ... unless that would increase traffic on those roads, in which case the roads suck: they have gravel, oil spills and snipers) On the way back Sunday, between Paso Robles & Salinas there was *strong* gusty wind: It blew the map case halfway off my tank bag and kept opening my helmet visor. I pressed on through it and the noise was something awful (note: I was wearing a flip-face helmet). In fact, I still have a little tinnitis - so that's some hearing I'll never get back. I was using ear-plugs but even so the high pitch wind noise was too loud . I heard that in-the-ear protectors (ear-plugs) stop low-frequency sound better and over-the-ear (ear-muff) protectors are better at attenuating the high frequency. On my GS the low-frequencies aren't too bad - it is the high frequency wind noise which gets to me. So this begs the question: are there any over-the-ear style protectors which work with a helmet? Perhaps inserts which are pressed against the ear by the helmet? Also, I have figured out that I should use a non-flip face helmet for touring.
