Best headphones for cycling 2024 indoors and outdoor options

The best headphones for cycling let you safely listen to music, podcasts, or even talk online e-racing tactics

Hannah wearing headphones three ways, on bike, off bike with bone conducting and off bike with ear buds
(Image credit: Hannah Bussey)

From workout beats to race instructions, the best headphones for cycling have an important role to play in helping you get the most out of your bike ride.

With a vast array of options to choose from, cabled to wireless, on or in-ear to air or bone-conducting technology, choosing a pair of ideal headphones for your riding is a complicated business.

You can trust Cycling Weekly. Our team of experts put in hard miles testing cycling tech and will always share honest, unbiased advice to help you choose. Find out more about how we test.

Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.