What is the attraction of cycling through the night?

[Banjo]

FNRttc and other similar rides are popular so there must be an attraction is it just me that cant see it?

 

[dellzeqq]

FNRttc and other similar rides are popular so there must be an attraction is it just me that cant see it?

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try it and see....

it's not for everybody. We do see people on the ride who are clearly not up for it. And, if I'm honest, it's as much a mobile party than a bike ride these days. But, if I may quote myself, it's a lark, a spree, a romance and an adventure.

 

[wanda2010]

I was on the midsummer night ride with Southwark Cyclists and that was a fun ride. I enjoyed cycling in a group through London on relatively quiet roads. I agree with Dellzeqq: it's a lark, romance and adventure and I'll be doing another London night ride some time in December.

 

[Banjo]

The world needs more romance and adventure, put like that how could anyone resist

 

[slowmotion]

It's a Darkness thing....

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...age=2&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:18&tx=61&ty=56

 

[Garz]

I like the saying.. "Try everything once" so I will have to do this one day!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Great fun, everybody should do a group night-ride at sometime in their lives.

 

[jimboalee]

Ride out in the evening southbound, and back in the morning northbound.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

FNRttc and other similar rides are popular so there must be an attraction is it just me that cant see it?

That's because they had no lights...............

 

[yello]

For me, I think it's simply that the world is a different place in the small hours. I don't do group rides as a rule, preferring to go solo, and riding when all is dark and quiet intensifies that solo experience. It's just me and the world. A completely different vibe to daytime riding.

I love seeing the sun come up too. Seeing places stretch and yawn into the new day. There's no experience quite like it and it makes me feel full of existence; brain electric, veins and arteries throbbing with being alive.

It's shoot if it's raining and windy though.

 

[numbnuts]

The wild life at night can be fantastic

 

[dellzeqq]

of course there are those that trace night rides back to Large Group Awareness Training, the most famous example of which was Erhard Seminar Training. The idea is that if you deprive a large group of people of sleep while presenting them with a challenge which is both unusual and safe, it can have a transformative effect - although the nature of the transformation is disputed. At the end of the session participants believe that they have experienced reality as never before and talk of heightened sensory and social perceptions. It's not unusual for participants to form strong personal relationships with each other.

Studies indicate that the effects can be long lasting, particularly if the group is heterogeneous and given to beer drinking. LGAT is widely disparaged by professional psychotherapists, who accuse the practioners of cultism. The practitioners shrug this accusation off and go back to counting their millions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Erhard

 

[Flying Dodo]

The wild life at night can be fantastic

Very true. The things I've seen outside nightclubs at 2 am in the morning have been quite amazing.

 

[jimboalee]

of course there are those that trace night rides back to Large Group Awareness Training, the most famous example of which was Erhard Seminar Training. The idea is that if you deprive a large group of people of sleep while presenting them with a challenge which is both unusual and safe, it can have a transformative effect - although the nature of the transformation is disputed. At the end of the session participants believe that they have experienced reality as never before and talk of heightened sensory and social perceptions. It's not unusual for participants to form strong personal relationships with each other.

Studies indicate that the effects can be long lasting, particularly if the group is heterogeneous and given to beer drinking. LGAT is widely disparaged by professional psychotherapists, who accuse the practioners of cultism. The practitioners shrug this accusation off and go back to counting their millions.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Werner_Erhard

Is that similar to Special Forces selection training?

 

[Fab Foodie]

The wild life at night can be fantastic

During August's FNRttS Kim on a recumbent was ambushed by a Badger half-way up Chinnor hill