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Earphones in bici

"Over a century ago, the first riders praised the bike AGAINST 'car for the absence of noise. By the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the third millennium the introduction of a tool such as the headset used to communicate with team managers during the competition, the ear of the athlete makes it insensitive to the soundscape that surrounds it. So, for example, Gianni Mura, one of the best known sports journalists, referring to the Tour writes: "Perhaps they just might inspire a warm and windless day, with nightingales singing, but so they do not feel, feel alone the ear '. "

Stefano Pivato, Century of noise. The soundscape in Novecento, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011, p. 143.

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