I bought a pair of the Alpine Motosafe Tour earplugs. I’ve worn them twice now in conjunction with Shokz openrun Pros. The first time the wind noise was a bit better. The second time I had them in more securely. I listen to podcasts when I ride. First thing I noticed was that the sound was louder before I got on the bike. My regular route takes me down a 3/4 of a mile hill where I regularly reach 36-42 mph. I usually lose the sound from wind noise as soon as I hit 25 mph. Yesterday, I could hear well up to 30 and I could still make out some of the words at 40. Thanks for the recommendation. They are comfortable, and they work.
Glad you like them! Your use case is pretty similar to mine, too.
Interesting! I have a pair of windblox that do a decent job of reducing wind noise (did a with/without comparison the other day and it was enough to make me see past the looks)…I’ve always felt like a better solution would be something that either attaches to glasses or something that goes on your ear directly. The helmet strap solutions tend to be uncomfortable, especially with glasses. Thanks for sharing this detail, something for me to tinker with!
I have found that wide glasses, such as POC Devour, significantly reduces the wind noise. Also they look cool (depending on who you ask).
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Hey @Joe_Lindsey , would you mind adding a photo of your custom cats ears when you’re wearing them, so I can see where the fluffy bit is sitting on the side of your head? 
This is the very article that got me into importing these and I think they‘re good. I couldn‘t care less for looks, but you have to make sure the Straps are tightened against the Head.
I have no solution but I also believe that cycling may have contributed to my tinnitus - recently I’ve had a notifications on my watch after fast headwind descents about noise at a potentially hearing damaging magnitude. Thinking about most of the older guys I know who ride are mostly deaf also!
I use the shockz. Just a note that they are think 30% off for a Black Friday deal.
they work great unless I am descending at anything over 20mph on my mountain bike at which point I can’t hear over the wind noise. For climbing though no issues.
I’m going to try a few of the suggestions here to see if that helps.
Importing to where? 
I’ve developed tinnitus in my left ear, and I am pretty sure that it comes from always riding with an ear bud in my right ear and leaving my left unprotected / exposed. I am tempted to start wearing both AirPods but just in transparency mode so I can hear my surroundings.
I’m pretty sure the watch noise detection is just wind noise on the watch microphone- not the ambient noiseemphasized text
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I‘m based in the middle of Germany. The Import was way before the tariff things going on.
It’s been like 7 years and they’re still going strong! Just needs a little rinse now and then.
How do cat-ears attach to the helmet strap in their standard intended fitting?
Do they have velcro on the inside to hold them wrapped around the strap?
Yes. There is an internal strip of Velcro.
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Thanks Patrick, I assumed it was something like that but couldn’t find it mentioned anywhere. 
Yep, one side on the long axis opens/closes with velcro. They can slide up and down the strap, so I’ve found glasses temples are helpful in keeping them in position.
At the risk of crossing streams (well, community threads) the answer is decent in ear buds that fit you well and don’t have long stalks that catch the breeze and generate wind noise.
A few of us in the other thread use budget Anker Soundcore A1. No ANC needed, I can still listen to podcasts at 30mph but with enough “transparency” available that I can hear cars etc, and block out wind noise so well I find riding without them jarringly noisy. I’m also wearing a Trek Velocis helmet which has a reputation for being noisy and is the worst helmet I’ve ever worn for wind noise.
I think the fit is the key - I’ve also got a pair of more expensive Soundcore Space A40s which look similar in size and shape but suffer from far more wind noise than the A1s - and ANC has no effect.
That’d be this thread… 
I sometimes wear Shokz OpenRun Pro2 earphones - they sit in front of the ear and I find they block a fair bit of wind noise.
Jeepers, after all this time I only just noticed the wiley spelling typo in the topic heading. Thank goodness there’s no journalists here. 