Night riding feels amazing

[Iainj837]

I often ride at night and love it

 

[Iainj837]

Rural cycle commuting in Germany features this frequently.

My commute is rural lovely but not so good In the fog

 

[PeteXXX]

@JPBoothy One is a Fluxient 1,600.
T'other is the Halfords 1,600 £60 light that I got for £28 😉
I get 3½ hours on full from the Fluxient and 2 to 2½ full beam from the Halfords..

 

[bobsinatra]

How do you know?

Lot of press coverage fella.

 

[colly]

Another thumbs up from me for riding in the dark. Love it. And I am another one who finds hills a breeze at night.

A couple of years ago on a down hill section out in the sticks I stopped under the tree canopy and switched off the lights front and back. Like being down a coal mine. Absolute pitch black. Maybe a few mins would have given my eyes time to adjust but out in open country it's a weird feeling. Across the hedge to the side I heard a distinct growling. I didn't hang about long.

Lights on and ride off pdq.

 

[chris-suffolk]

T'other is the Halfords 1,600 £60 light that I got for £28 😉
I get 2 to 2½ full beam from the Halfords..

Do you know the specs for the battery? up to 2½ hrs + at 1600 lumens seems good considering I get about half that from my light with a 6000ma battery. Halfords, helpfully, don't give voltage, mille amps, watt hours or run times at various outputs on their site.

 

[PeteXXX]

Do you know the specs for the battery? up to 2½ hrs + at 1600 lumens seems good considering I get about half that from my light with a 6000ma battery. Halfords, helpfully, don't give voltage, mille amps, watt hours or run times at various outputs on their site.

I'll check the box when I get back from work later 👍🏼

 

[PeteXXX]

@chris-suffolk Hopefully you can read this. My bad, it's 2 hours on 1000 lumens.
The Fluxient, from Torchy the Battery Boy, is discontinued I think. One x 18650 - 2,600 battery lasted nearly to the end of the Dunwich Dynamo swapping between full and half power.

 

[RichardB]

Across the hedge to the side I heard a distinct growling. I didn't hang about long.

Lights on and ride off pdq.

A field full of cows in the pitch dark sounds like the Big Cats cage at a zoo - grunts, growls, sounds of tearing (grass, probably). Keep riding, keep riding, it's probably only cows ...

 

[Blue Hills]

Lot of press coverage fella.

Lots?
What sort of press do you read that gives lots of coverage to such things?
Feel free to provide links.

 

[bobsinatra]

Lots?
What sort of press do you read that gives lots of coverage to such things?
Feel free to provide links.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-53260967

Here you go fella. Lockdown boredom has seen dogging activity increasing massively.

 

[Blue Hills]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-53260967

Here you go fella. Lockdown boredom has seen dogging activity increasing massively.

please spare me the "fella" - am concerned that it's a doggin come-on.
That's a single spot in gloucestershire.
Hardly a nationwide scientific survey.

and it says "rises"
not massive increase
and
"according to residents"

I see the News of the World lives on.

Loved the quote from the bloke:
"Lunchtime and on the way home from work, those are the worst times," Mr Laurens said.

who seems to take very regular strolls through a car park.
Did his google (maybe not maps) tell him that he had to walk that way?

 

[JPBoothy]

Another thumbs up from me for riding in the dark. Love it. And I am another one who finds hills a breeze at night.

A couple of years ago on a down hill section out in the sticks I stopped under the tree canopy and switched off the lights front and back. Like being down a coal mine. Absolute pitch black. Maybe a few mins would have given my eyes time to adjust but out in open country it's a weird feeling. Across the hedge to the side I heard a distinct growling. I didn't hang about long.

Lights on and ride off pdq.

It was probably an injured Dogger

 

[bobsinatra]

please spare me the "fella" - am concerned that it's a doggin come-on.
That's a single spot in gloucestershire.
Hardly a nationwide scientific survey.

and it says "rises"
not massive increase
and
"according to residents"

I see the News of the World lives on.

Loved the quote from the bloke:
"Lunchtime and on the way home from work, those are the worst times," Mr Laurens said.

who seems to take very regular strolls through a car park.
Did his google (maybe not maps) tell him that he had to walk that way?

I don't think there will be scientific studies into the rise of dogging fella.

 

[Tribansman]

I don't think there will be scientific studies into the rise of dogging fella.

There could be, perhaps published in PNAS