Cycling home in the light

Clever Pun

Is awesome, really makes me feel happy

got home with a massive sh!teating grin on my face even though it was windy

Shadowduck

Makes a huge difference, doesn't it? I do twelve hour shifts so I don't see daylight at all for months on end.

Is it just me, or do you go faster in daylight?

Mog Uk

Not only came home in the daylight yesterday, but I wore shorts !!!! It's a funny feeling exposing ones legs for the first time in months, kept looking down at my legs.....

redddraggon

I think it was January the last time I cycled home when it was properly dark, so I've been enjoying the light a lot. I do try to get away before 5, normally leaving at 4ish everyday.

Clever Pun

I wore shorts too... I felt I had to in british summer time... awesome

Yes you do cycle faster in daylight, I think this stems from it being easier to see and be seen, so you can relax a little more and concentrate on going fast rather than avoiding death

bear_bearson

Love the extended light hours.

But I feel I should be in a pub drinking outside 8)

Fuzz Monkey Five

It has been great riding home in the evenings this week along Torquay seafront.

Belv

Mog Uk wrote:

Not only came home in the daylight yesterday, but I wore shorts !!!! It's a funny feeling exposing ones legs for the first time in months, kept looking down at my legs.....

Clever Pun wrote:

I wore shorts too... I felt I had to in british summer time... awesome

Yes you do cycle faster in daylight, I think this stems from it being easier to see and be seen, so you can relax a little more and concentrate on going fast rather than avoiding death

You see this is the trouble with summer - not only are there men wearing lycra, but you can see the doing it. :shock: Cycling or otherwise, just no!

galaxyboy

This summer time lark has done us 12 hr night shift workers no favours . We'll have to wait for anothe month to knock the lights off again. :roll:

patchy

Belv wrote:

You see this is the trouble with summer - not only are there men wearing lycra, but you can see the doing it. :shock: Cycling or otherwise, just no!

*shudder* they're back already, aren't they, Do you think they'd cycle nekkid if they could get away with it (fully shaved and waxed, natch)...

Clever Pun

patchy wrote:

Belv wrote:

You see this is the trouble with summer - not only are there men wearing lycra, but you can see the doing it. :shock: Cycling or otherwise, just no!

*shudder* they're back already, aren't they, Do you think they'd cycle nekkid if they could get away with it (fully shaved and waxed, natch)...

my buns of steel need to be appreciated... plus shorts look better than tights

got to keep the plums and old man in check though

Bassjunkieuk

I really enjoy riding home in the light, especially as I really like that light you get around 5:30-6:00 in the evening just as the sun is starting to set and everything gets that orange tinge :-) The last 2 nights I've been riding back from Thames Ditton to Croydon and join the main road towards Morden Park after I turn off Grand Drive and it's been amazing, riding down the dual carriageway (which is usually deserted as the cars don't get round the corner as easily as I do - it's a right turn from a crossroad!) just enjoying the lovely weather!

I to got the shorts out again yesterday, had worn them a few weeks ago but then it got cold again, the next big step will be the short sleeved top :-) Roll on those lovely warm summer evenings!!!

Clever Pun

I went for full summer kit today... a little cheeky to start with but warmed up soon enough

Bassjunk, where abouts in Croydon?

Shadowduck

Another "Is it just me, or..."

Is it just me, or are the car / van drivers more agressive / idiotic in daylight? I seem to be getting more run-ins with them per day since the clocks changed than I've been getting in a week over the winter.

Do they give us more patience out of sympathy when it's cold and raining, then forget it when the sun's out? :?

palinurus

I always feel like I'm going quicker when it's dark, but only in summer.

Summer darkness is quick, winter darkness is slooooow.

BentMikey

Palinurus wrote:

I always feel like I'm going quicker when it's dark, but only in summer.

Summer darkness is quick, winter darkness is slooooow.

I thought I was the only one who thought that!

sufferingpete

No doubt about it I definitely go faster in the summer and I have got a spreadsheet to prove it with 5 year’s worth of data.

The graph averages out to a gentle curve with its peak at the start of August the slowest time for me is just after Christmas.

I don’t know why. I think that the air temperature and therefore density has a factor. Certainly the visibility of daylight helps there is one bend on a lane that gets covered with gravel from runoff in the dark I always go slow round it but when you can see I can go much faster.
I wonder if your body works better in the summer since in the gym I can get more power.

Last commute should have worn shorts but did not take them!.

thamacdaddy

Been wearing shorts all winter....at one point it did get a little cold need to get me some 3/4 or full length bibs for next winter me thinks!

jonginge

thamacdaddy wrote:

Been wearing shorts all winter....at one point it did get a little cold need to get me some 3/4 or full length bibs for next winter me thinks!

Still in bibtights me. Ok, I'm a wuss.
Buy the kit now while they are in the end of season sales

pete236

I've thought that I went faster in darkness than in the light. It feels faster in th light but looking at the watch its usually slower!
Can't wait for the warm evenings though - that will make so much difference! Shorts and a t-shirt and not needing to worry about a jumper! Bliss . . .