Prevent hearing damage
After a good motor ride do you
still have the feeling being on the highway? During motorcycling hair
cells in the ear get to endure a lot of noise and there’s not enough
time to repair. After riding do you have a beep in your ear, then you
can take for granted that some hair cells have died: a definitive
hearing damage. Alpine hearing protection can help you prevent this.
Your motor, the traffic and intercom
It’s dangerous when you’re
completely isolated of your environment and the traffic that surrounds
you. Also you do want to keep hearing your motor! This is the reason
Alpine hearing protectors have special filters, that filter only harmful
wind noise.
Which risk a motor cyclist is running?
The safe and statutory limit to
which the hearing may be exposed is 80 decibel. Regular noise above 80
decibels will irrevocably lead to hearing damage. According to (police)
tests it appeared that wind noise under the helmet exceeds this limit
way to far and that thus already during a short ride unconsciously
you’re running the great risk of hearing damage:
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speed
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Wind noise
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max. being exposed to noise time
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100 km/h
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94dB
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15 minutes
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120 km/h
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98dB
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7 minutes
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140 km/h
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102dB
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3 minutes
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Not one helmet offers sufficient protection against…
According to an
extensive test of in the German leading motorcycling magazine Motorrad
it appeared very clearly that not one helmet offers sufficient
protection against the risk of hearing damage. Alpine MotoSafe is the
best protection.