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Title: Make sure your ear can tolerate this before you buy it
Review: We evaluated the earbud/mic for bicyclists coordinating a tour. Ultimately we abandoned them because: 1. The earbud HURTS after wearing it for hours on end! (Plus having a sound source like that inside one's ear probably isn't great for our hearing.) 2. The open-cell foam rubber pad disintegrated -- probably due to some of the chemicals in sweat and <shudder!> ear wax. 3. The mic could not be clipped in a position that excluded road noise and included our voices -- we ran down our TalkAbout radios' batteries because wind and road noise triggered the VOX switch, also jamming our communications. 4. It wasn't the most sanitary solution going (see 2). ... For cyclists (bicycle and motorcycle), I recommend the headset/boom mic combination. It just worked much better, and the band fits over a bicycle helmet. (Motorcyclists might want to check this last statement out for themselves ... your helmets look a little bigger than ours.)
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