On a camping/ cycling holiday with a group of mates in Devon when we were younger ( a lifetime ago now) we were camped at Newton Abbot and used to cycle into Torquay for the evening. Riding back always seemed different at night to in the day on those country lanes and pacing ourselves on the climbs always seemed difficult. Mind you I don’t suppose the alcohol we’d consumed in the pub helped. Youth has no fear.
Night riding feels amazing
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One of my favorite damn things ever. I ride at night in the summer as it's way to hot to ride in the day where I am on the Mojave desert in California. I turn off my light when there aren't any cars which is most of the time in the rural aria I live in. The stars are crazy pretty, you look up into the whole galaxy and it's just insane. I feel like I've lived maybe 5 hours in a few minutes of doing that.
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- London
re this turning your lights off to appreciate the heavens, I'd be nervous about turning my rear off. Would a rear interfere with your view?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
It is particularly great at the moment with all the fantastic Christmas lights out there
LJR69
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Don't you crash into trees doing that?
No never touched the rear, I can only see a soft red glow from that anyway and only if I look back and down to look for it.
Andy in Germany
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- Freiburg im Breisgau
I always left my back light on at night, even when turning off the front.
Landsurfer
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I love riding in the dark with the lights off .. on my bicycle and motorbike.
An amazing feeling on a moonlit night ... hard to describe but my heart soars as i ride along ...
And if anyone has any fears about safety, remember you ride a bike ... thats a hundred times more dangerous than any virus we have around at the moment .... "staying safe", like fear, is the little death.
An amazing feeling on a moonlit night ... hard to describe but my heart soars as i ride along ...
And if anyone has any fears about safety, remember you ride a bike ... thats a hundred times more dangerous than any virus we have around at the moment .... "staying safe", like fear, is the little death.
rockyroller
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- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
maybe where you are, but COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in the U.S. (last week) ((& the covid death rate will be worse this week))
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-leading-cause-of-death-united-states-this-week/
so Ill be riding my bike, later this week, away from ppl! ;-) ;-)
Landsurfer
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Thank god i don't live in the US ... I'll be spending all my working day close up to lots of other people ... many of whom i've never met before ... Life ..
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" "staying safe", like fear, is the little death." boy you got that right. I've even heard a woman at a protest on youtube actually say "we don't want to be free , we want to be safe". At that point you're basically already dead.
This is where I liveDon't you crash into trees doing that?
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I wouldn't put too much stock in that or anything else from our tabloid news over here. I live in the US and there just aren't that many people dying from covid, typically people catch it like a cold and in a week or so they're back to work.
