Listening to music on the bike is a bit of a contentious subject as blocking out audio cues from the trail, bike, and nearby traffic around that could be potentially dangerous. Up until now, the best option I have found is Shokz OpenRun Pro headphones. They use bone conduction to shortcut your ear drum leaving your ear holes free to hear sounds around you. Although the sound quality is decent, they can’t come close to matching proper earbuds.
Shokz then released the OpenFit – which uses DirectPitch technology to improve audio quality but maintains an open-ear design and solves some of the gripes I have with the OpenRun Pro. On paper, the OpenFits have what it takes to supersede the Shokz OpenRun Pro as the best headphones for riding, to find out I have been blasting the tunes on rides to put them to the test.
