Does anyone ever enjoy it more than riding in the day?
i.e. if it were a warm sunny day or a mild-warm night, which would you prefer to ride in.
Traffic is normally heavier in the daytime, which means im going slower, and I still get quiet hot. However at night I just love being a solitude road-user and feeling cool air on me as I ride…
Am I alone in this notion - or are there others too?
Perhaps it’s a cruiser thing… and you sporty-bikey people just like razzing about
Hmmm depends. Full moon, no bugs, absolutely brilliant.
I rode into Prague taking a scenic route in such conditions, the signs to Praha taking a twisty road through massive soviet derelict industrial factories. Floodlights inside some, with heavy machinery moving around, casting silhouettes against men welding. It was like riding through some post apocalyptic computer game. Superb.
However some of my worst rides have been at night. Collisions with unlit vehicles, unseen rocks and potholes in the road, corrupt officials and robbers out for the start of their shifts… Unless I’m in a first world country I now will not ride at night - it’s when everything goes wrong.
Back when I was with my girlie I once actually said I had to go (after I did my stuff - of course) one night, purely because the night was so nice and I wanted to ride :P.
I told her before I got with her though - “there will be many a time in my life, where I have to choose between you and my bike. It WILL be my bike, every time though” haha.
My opinion, which is of course not factual in the slightest
If I could trust all drivers to have their lights on then I do prefer night riding, I.E I feel that it is easier to spot lights way before someone comes to the end of a junction and therefore adjust my riding accordingly, Also there is a vague hope that they are going to notice me more as it is easier to see my own lamps.
But then again :w00t: I could be talking out of my (0) and this is where I get everyone posting up their night time close shave experiences
I do admit it can be a bit hair raising seeing that object on the road a lot later than you would in the day
And of course Able to see around the bends as such with regards to oncoming headlights can make a Good Road extremly wonderful … Night time Via Gellia and even the nearer to home Pirbright - Deepcut