Earplugs...

[BongoCaterham]

I'm thinking it would be a good idea to get some, so I don't go completely deaf! Any recommendations?

P.S. Picked my car up on Friday in glorious sunshine, had a brilliant day blatting around! Love the car even more than I thought I would.

[aidan8888]

Id pop down to your local motorbike dealer when you go past and pick up a handful of the 30/40/50p ones.

[timrw81]

I had some attenuating earplugs made when I was playing in a band. The make was 'Elacin'. I went to a hearing specialist and he took a mould of my ear 'ole to make them up. They weren't cheap - about £150.00 I think. The beauty of them was that no clarity of sound was lost - only volume. he said a lot of bikers use them. I've used them in a hired Caterham and found them to be just the job.

Tim

[Aeroscreens]

Do a Google search for ER20 and that should find you musicians earplugs. There was a bulk buy on BlatChat some time ago. I have some and find them much better than the standard 'Christmas tree' type as they have a noise filter. SWMBO and myself use them in our aeroscreened car and find them excellent at filtering out certain sounds whilst still enabling us to talk fsirly easily. Recommended and less than £10 per pair.

[jingars]

I just use foam ear plugs from Screwfix. I did 200 miles with 'em in yesterday and they worked really well.

At that price you can keep a few pairs handy for passengers and don't ask for them back at the end of the journey

[2slo]

I've used the screwfix type for many years when shooting and in combination with Peltor ear defenders. Never had a problem.

[Murph7355]

If it has a screen, and you're not tall enough to warrant sitting behind where the rear of the sidescreen ends, I probably wouldn't bother at all. The foam ones work OK though.

Mine now has an aeroscreen and I won't drive it without a full face helmet. That debate's been done before. But I have chips out of the helmet and large bug splats on my visor that make me very glad I had it on. Plus you don't need ear plugs...

[Tonsko]

In some Boots they have a hearing test company, David Omerod iirc. You can get moulded ones there that take filters in 5,10&15 dB... Cost around 180, but I use them at gigs, festivals, data centres etc... Well worth it.

[Smollet]

I use a pair from this company
http://www.hearingprotection.co.uk/index.php?optio...
Not cheap but excellent and very comfortable.

[Tonsko]

I recognise that case. Same ones as I was talking about above ^

[Smollet]

Tonsko said:

I recognise that case. Same ones as I was talking about above ^

They cost me £110. I did get a 10% discount as I belong to the L7Club. Got them from the opticians Leightons who did the moulding for my ears.

[Tonsko]

I love the internet. It's always so quick to tell me when I get ripped off.

(Not having at go at all, just a general observation )

Although I did buy them about 5 years ago, if that makes any difference. (He says, furiously trying to backpeddle and not be too embarrassed at paying over the odds.)

Edited by Tonsko on Sunday 27th March 11:55

[viper blue]

I had fitted ones made from ACS; went through Leightons Opticians.

They did cost ~£100, fit into middle ear canal. Figured my hearing was worth it. They stay in and are comfortable.

Really good.

[Pothole]

Xlites from Hein Gericke, you can get bags of 100s for a few quid.

[Nicodema]

Murph7355 said:

...helmet... Plus you don't need ear plugs...

You reckon? wow, without plugs I find the helemt's almost worse due to the booming of the exhaust. Maybe that's just becuase the duratec exits just by my right elbow.

We got impressions done by Autotel at the Autosport show, and they've made us intercom sets and shooting (high attenuation filtered) sets. The shooting sets work just great for driving with the windscreen on. For aeroscreen (mostly on track) it's the other sets and Stilo WRC DES intercom. Have to say, Autotel

Martyn