i like the idea of the earplug earphones. When you listen to music when you ride you really want to get 'in the zone', just the music, the empty curvy country roads, and your machine ripping down the pavement. Wind noise is distracting and sucks, the same drone of the engine gets old (okay not really cause who's engine 'drones' ), it would be more like starring in your own first person riding video. HewhoisCD is right about earplugs not canceling out "important" noises, when I shoot at the range and whatnot you can talk and have conversation with people and even hear some background noises, it just keeps out 'static' sound and softens the loudness. <--- I dunno, but that sounded good ya?