Howard Leight MAX Earplugs
Reviewed by pbx
Motorcyclists need to wear earplugs. Not because of their great roaring exhausts (*you* have a nice quiet exhaust, I am sure), but because of wind noise. Even inside a full-face helmet, wind noise at highway speed is capable of causing permanent damage after just a few minutes. Earplugs can block out the roar while still letting you hear things like horns, sirens, and low-flying planes.
These earplugs are cheap, fit well, offer great noise reduction, and come in a box of 200 individually wrapped pairs. They are sometimes billed as disposable/reusable, which means you can 1) use them once and throw them away, 2) use them and reuse them until they disgust you, then throw them away, or 3) run them through the washing machine in a mesh bag and reuse them until they lose that magical squishy quality and won't stay compressed anymore (then you throw them away).
I bought a box of these several years ago and am just getting to the bottom of it now — even after giving them away every chance I got to fellow riders, people going away on trips to strange places, and spouses of people who snore. That works out to something like $5/year for an essentially unlimited supply of earplugs. I'm ready for another box.
Available at the "Cops Plus" online store and many other fine retailers.
