Travellers spending their holidays in Spain risk being subject to fines of more than €200 (£174) if they cycle while wearing earphones, authorities in this country have warned.

“Cyclists who are caught wearing earphones can expect to pay a €200 (£174) fine in Spain,” 

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27 Comments

  1. The logical conclusion to the argument that one should be able to hear while riding a bicycle is that deaf people shouldn't ride bicycles. That seems strikingly ableist to me.

  2. having scrolled through most of the comments here it would appear that most commenters believe that you can only ride a pushbike if you can hear everything around you. Surely then they must also believe that deaf people should never be allowed to ride?

  3. Well, when I lived in Spain, the cyclists were a menace! I lived in a city and every man, woman and child who had a bike would bomb it on the pavement, full speed too, forcing you to take evasive action! Tarragona is a hilly city and the bike nutters would just freewheel it downhill, footpaths, whatever. This wasn't just teenagers but also 'proper' lycra wearing cyclists using the pavements as their private speedway. Honestly, if you got hit by some of them, you could be dead or at least very injured. I am not sure of the laws in Spain, regarding pavement cycling, but they all did it.
    I have to state though that I am not anti-cyclist; I think more of us need to use this clean healthy form of transport. We just need to make our cities and infrastructure suited to cycling.

  4. One mans common sense is not anothers. Thats why you need regulations . Obviously thee must be stats to display how much of an issue this is but given if you come off a bike there is not a lot of safety features.

  5. Frankly, I can’t understand peoples outside, be it on bike or foot, who have to move themselves acoustically to somewhere else. When I walk through the woods, I want to hear nature, not some todays noise called music.

  6. As a driver of large heavy vehicles I have found the only thing that reminds cyclists with their ears filled with plastic stoppers delivering loud music into their heads, I'm coming up behind them is a long loud blast from the four highly polished chromed quad air horns sitting atop the cab. A short sharp blast doesn't have the desired effect.
    But a deliberate and very prolonged release of deep skull shattering tones works an absolute treat often resulting in the cyclist raising a middle finger as they get smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror.
    A middle finger is much easier to shrug off than it is to clean your tyre treads of tenderised cyclist and their Trek, Cannondale, Specialized, Kona, Marin, Bianchi, Scott or Raleigh.🚴 🚴 🚴

  7. Anyone on the public roads cycling, motorcycle or cars should have all their attention on the road. I live in Belgium and yes we have cycle roads but it’s really dangerous when the cyclist doesn’t hear you and our cyclists think they have right of way regardless. It’s also getting worse with electic cars because they are less noisy.

  8. Where does that stop? Ban in car music and entertainment in that case. Car drivers are exposed to the same risks.
    Worst offenders for being unaware of their surroundings are pedestrians!

  9. Agree there is lack of infrastructure in U.K.. I used a cycle all the time when I lived in Copenhagen and used a bike in preference to a car.
    Not in the U.K. it’s way to dangerous to use a bike in the U.K. better to just pollute the town with some diesel. Safer and you can’t get a fine for using headphones on a bike!!! 😂

  10. I fail to see the difference between cycling with earphones and people being locked in tin boxes with the radio blaring. It's plainly irrational. People shouldn't have absurdly loud headsets on. But, just listening to YouTube or the news very quietly, perhaps just in one ear, poses no greater risk than having the radio blaring in your car.

  11. Studies show it’s no more dangerous for cyclists to wear earbuds than listening to music inside a car. It’s not the cyclists job to make you feel justified in not running them over. Much to do about nothing…

  12. In large European country thousands of people each year are killed by cars, lorries and motorbikes. But not cyclists.

    The authorities should look at who kills the everyone in all the road traffic accidents and focus on that.

  13. Actually, allshorters, Spain have always been particularly heavy about this. I remember driving rental cars on business back in the naughties when a Madrid motorbike traffic cop tapped on my window at the lights. The only reason that I wasn't fined €50 back then is because I wasn't on a call and wasn't listening to the radio…

  14. Absolutely right. If people are unable to exercise common sense and become a menace on the highway they deserve to be sanctioned. 200€ is pretty lenient in my opinion. However, by the same logic car infotainment systems should be illegal too, and screaming kids or nagging partners.

  15. As a cyclist myself, watching this practice increase over the years has been infuriating. Should be no headphones. You need the best possible appreciation of your surrounds when on a bike, even more so now that we have more and more EVs and scooters. E-Scooters need better safety regulation, too.

    I used to live in Oxford, which, for the UK is fairly good for cycle lanes, but still crap by EU standards.

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