Wow I love these things. For years I had been putting off getting a set because I just couldn't bring myself to spend $130+ on headphones. Of course, for riding, regular ear buds sortof work, but between the road noise and the increased volume levels you are quickly headed for deafness if you do it for very long. Earplugs are fine for normal riding when you've got some scenery to deal with, but the long commute I'm doing down I5 was getting to me. I mean, after 3hrs a day of nothing but road noise, you start talking singing and to yourself in your helmet... well, at least I was. Anyway, when I recently priced these out again it turned out they'd come down in price to the somewhat reasonable amount of $75 which coming from Amazon also yielded free shipping.

I've been using them for about a week now and I can definitely say they are worth every penny. They keep the road noise out just as well as flanged earplugs and they let you listen to music or audio books at a respectable volume. So why waste all that commute time listening to road noise, listen to music or buy some audio books and learn another language. At the rate I'm going, I've got 15hrs a week of time I can use for learning something.