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hondafanatic

It's dark out there... :shock:

:shock:

mcmullej

On my desk in front of me I have 3 reflective armbands, one with flashing LEDs and a new hi-viz vest.

The Bowery downstairs is all Mad-maxed out with two Tesco specials added to the 4 Smarts.

I dunno. Is it enough.....?

cjcp

Isn't it just. There'll not be a sniff of sunlight now on the commute home for months to come.

daniel_b

It is isn't it, and I'm not off for another 40 minutes, will be proper pitch by the time I leave.

The first proper outing for the Ayup's tonight on the way home :twisted:

hondafanatic

It's been really sunny here all day...cold, but very bright. Then BHAM....it's pitch black. I've got my lights etc, have done all month, but wow it's a bit of a shock for someone that's is normally half way home by 17:10.

Littigator

welcome to winter riding

gb155

I made it home in low light just before darkness fell, I normally leave between 4.30 and 6 oh joy this will be fun.....

el_presidente

I shouted at 3 people GET SOME LIGHTS on the way home

daniel_b

el_presidente wrote:

I shouted at 3 people GET SOME LIGHTS on the way home

Did any of them have lights?!

That would confuse them

ansbaradigeidfran

While driving to pick the missus up, I passed a cyclist with small basic lights. Damn, (s)he was invisible except for that flashing red LED. A few miles on, I passed an oncoming cyclist with two bright headlights on his handlebars. "Good one", I thought, as I looked in my wing mirror in order to see his rear lighting. I was a bit surprised to see a row of four tiny blue LEDs gracing his seatpost! :shock:

NGale

me, I;m lit up like christmas with my bike during the winter months, even had a light fitted to my rucksack just in case the other three fail...methinks I am a little paranoid! :shock:

Gilbie

hondafanatic wrote:

It's dark out there... :shock:

:shock:

It did seem dark tonight! My 10 mile off road was pitch black most of the way. Got the major spooks at seeing eyes looking at me in the woods. All I can hear is the crunching of leaves under my nobbly tyres. :shock:

Kieran_Burns

Bridleway tonight - utterly, utterly pitch black. I'm basically 1/2 a mile from the nearest road and it is DARK.

One second I'm tanking along, enjoying the solitude and this bloody body-shaped mist appeared in my front light beam and i shot straight through it!!! :shock:

Scared the living poo out of me! No, I did NOT go back to check what it was. There was no ground mist, just this sudden shape right in front of me.



I've got to go back down there again tomorrow night....... :roll:

iain_j

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bridleway tonight - utterly, utterly pitch black. I'm basically 1/2 a mile from the nearest road and it is DARK.

One second I'm tanking along, enjoying the solitude and this bloody body-shaped mist appeared in my front light beam and i shot straight through it!!! :shock:

Scared the living poo out of me! No, I did NOT go back to check what it was. There was no ground mist, just this sudden shape right in front of me.



I've got to go back down there again tomorrow night....... :roll:

Did a winter evening ride a couple of years ago, ground mist was starting to form as the light was fading, suddenly there's a black "shape" in the middle of the road, down in the mist. As I rolled past slowly, it was a black cat, curled up asleep in the middle of the road.

Meeting a black cat is good luck...? I had my first crash next morning, went over on a greasy corner and got a great big scrape on my hip

nwallace

I looked out side and continued to fail to understand this BST/GMT rubbish.
Saying that it was nice and sunny on the way to work but on the way home it's just added 10 min to my walk from the Bus on those days, due to a steep, unlit mulchy path being the local short cut.

Due to a meeting tongiht and a footy match tomorrow night it looks like my first proper test of my Single Shot Plus will be Wednesday asuming the forecast for dundee remains as is Sunny, max temp 5 degrees, 10mph wind :-) Much better than the 20mph wind, snow showers and 2 degrees max temp previously forecast.

hondafanatic

Just to add.....it fecking cold as well....

Journey home last night was spooky as hell...I ride home with a mate and both of us have got very bright lights but going along the canal was just plain spooky...

Do you remember being a kid and playing catch or 'it' and you were being chased down and you got that weird 'I'm running scared but really like it'...t'was a bit like that at one point...

Anywho....as you were

david

Kieran_Burns

Ongoing theory about my mist thing was that it was a wil o' the wisp. Rotting vegetation causing gas to appear.

It sounds logical, but doesn't half spoil a good story! :P

jedster

Just got a new fenix torch / bike light - awesome power for £40

salsarider79

Okay, so its dark and its damm cold. But don't you feel good just being out there? That clip of shoe and pedal first thing in the morning. The cloud of your breath as you set off...Makes me feel alive

p.s. A sign of a true cyclist is one that keeps riding through the winter. Keep going guys.
[edit] p.p.s. And girls of course.... :oops:

lost_in_thought

It was freakin' cold last night going across London at 11pm. Not dark, London never gets dark, but cold to the extent that I was too cold in my shorts, by legs were aching as they warmed back up when I got home - in that 'thawing out' kind of way...

brrrrrr...

Got tracksuit bottoms for today, may have been slight overkill!

don_don

cold to the extent that I was too cold in my shorts, by legs were aching as they warmed back up when I got home

Shorts in October? Eeek :shock:

Mind those knee joints!

ride_whenever

It was insanely cold in oxford this morning. There was ice on the motor in the coaching launch i was using and it kept cutting out whenever the revs dropped. I ended up getting towed back because i couldn't start it again.

el_presidente

salsarider79 wrote:

Okay, so its dark and its damm cold. But don't you feel good just being out there? That clip of shoe and pedal first thing in the morning. The cloud of your breath as you set off...Makes me feel alive

p.s. A sign of a true cyclist is one that keeps riding through the winter. Keep going guys.
[edit] p.p.s. And girls of course.... :oops:

It was very agreeable coming round the park this morning, bright sunshine but a chill in the air. I need to dig my tights out...

toshmund

Must say, the Aldi gloves have been superb! Altura Night Vision - I can only wear a Speedo triathlete base layer underneath, otherwise it turns into a sweatfest.

Kind of baulking at the thought of 34 miles a day, on a mountain bike. Very strange groupset ratio. Was a bit tentative on the 700 x 23 today though. Think I might have to sacrifice the old Claud Butler supermarket run/train station runabout and get a cyclo cross bike in its place. Seem to be a lot of Kaffenbach' going about at the moment!? Anyone with any experience of one?

nwallace

On my way into work there is a bit of a drop on a 1 way road to the old ferry terminal. It's just above sea level, though never seen ice at the bottom I have whiel walking to Dundee in the past discovered ice forming on my jacket round there. It;s good for oh 30ish in the summer.

Came across a Stealth Ninja in the hopsital groudsn tonight, he seemed a bit amused at me flashing my lights as he passed the car park exit, even more confused when I shouted into the freezing night, "Lights, get some fucking lights".
Sure it was one of the Med Students as well.

daver1

It's not dark or cold here in Sydney, although it is a bit wet today.