Bone conducting headphones.

For mountain biking I use ear bud style wireless (like original airpods) due to allowing sound in and not having to deal with transparency mode. I’d recommend going that route as the convenience is worth the loss in audio quality IMO.

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Sony xm5 with ambient mode

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AirPods Pro with transparency, unironically.