The joy of riding without lights

[speccy1]

It works driving too - cruising the empty country roads with hood down and the lights off.

 

[Soltydog]

Funnily enough i did just that last night. Riding home about 8pm I was on an unlit country road, no other traffic, & as I was riding past a small wind farm I turned my front light off & enjoyed the moonlight. Not fussed either way about wind farms, but last night in the moonlight it was rather enchanting

 

[tony111]

I once tried riding with my eyes closed, but it only lasted for 3 seconds before I ended up with a mouthful of gravel.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Our club has full moon rides. I don't know whether I'd care much for that. I'd probably be blinded by every car that came past.

 

[Fnaar]

I have spent my life ambling through life with my eyes closed, and one of these days I'm going to bump into my pension requirements

 

[summerdays]

When I was a scout we were discouraged from using torches at night on the grounds that you can only see what the torch is pointing at, whereas if you wait for your eyes to adjust to whatever light there is, you can see everything. This is on night walks and the like, mind...not on two wheels.

When I'm camping and wandering around the campsite at night time I always do the same. As you say if you use a torch everything not illuminated by it seems pitch black, whereas without a torch you can see much better all around you.

Not tried it cycling though.

 

[robjh]

My ride last night didn’t disappoint, and was made the more dramatic by the orange glows of distant bonfires. I did about 12 miles across country, and although the villages were busy with people returning from firework displays by car and on foot, there were still enough deserted rural stretches where the moonlight alone lit up the road, and I could enjoy the magic undisturbed

 

[Tin Pot]

Yeah, I guess if two people have the same idea travelling in opposing directions on the same road it could be quite a slapstick scenario.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I once tried riding with my eyes closed, but it only lasted for 3 seconds before I ended up with a mouthful of gravel.

Errrr ..... Why?

 

[MontyVeda]

Back in the days before LED lights, turning off my front light whenever possible was the only way the batteries would last long enough to get home.

 

[tony111]

Errrr ..... Why?

I was young, and wondered where I'd get to if I shut my eyes and count to 10. I still don't know the answer.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I was young, and wondered where I'd get to if I shut my eyes and count to 10. I still don't know the answer.

Older and wiser now

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I'm wondering why @potsy hasn't posted on this thread

Someone turned the lights off............

 

[Scotchlovingcylist]

The farm track I often cycle down is lovely by moon light. Only on the smoother bits mind

 

[Gravity Aided]

The insurer will say the government, the government will then say the Japanese Government for letting ninjas run about loose again.