Tonight Vernon & I cycled over to the local cycling club meeting. I went on my recumbent. Night time cycling on the 'bent is entirely *magical* The seating position means you have a glorious view of the night sky without having to crick your neck. Tonight was a clear night, no clouds, no moon, so the stars were unfurled in all their glory. Combine that with living out in the sticks so there is minimal light pollution and the heavens positively twinkled and glowed with starlight. I could have pulled in at the road side and stargazed for hours....
To top it off, I won a lovely bottle of Rioja in the raffle :-)
Cheers, helen s
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Night time cycling on the 'bent is entirely *magical*
You're braver than I am. I try to avoid being on the bent at night because I'm harder to see and because I can't see cross-street traffic through the windshields of parked cars like I can in the daytime. I agree that the view from a bent is always better, though!
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:15:14 +0000 (UTC), "wafflycat"
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Tonight Vernon & I cycled over to the local cycling club meeting. I went on my recumbent. Night time cycling on the 'bent is entirely *magical* The seating position means you have a glorious view of the night sky without having to crick your neck. Tonight was a clear night, no clouds, no moon, so the stars were unfurled in all their glory. Combine that with living out in the sticks so there is minimal light pollution and the heavens positively twinkled and glowed with starlight. I could have pulled in at the road side and stargazed for hours....
To top it off, I won a lovely bottle of Rioja in the raffle :-)
Cheers, helen s
Hi Helen.
One of my favorite rides happened on my Tour Easy recumbent last summer. I rode to a neighboring town for the annual fiddler's gathering, then visited friends for a while, making the 13 mile ride home after dark. One stretch of road was very dark, with huge conifers hugging the rode on the right side. No traffic at all, and no ambient lighting for a mile or so, and those trees were filled with millions of fireflys. One even got hung inside my glasses, flashing, flashing...I just had to laugh out loud. It felt like riding through christmas trees!
Night time cycling on the 'bent is entirely *magical*
You're braver than I am. I try to avoid being on the bent at night because I'm harder to see
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By night a bike light is a bike light, irrespective of what it's attached to.
-- Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/> I thought I saw his name on a jar of marmalade the other day, but when I looked more closely, I saw it read 'thick cut'.
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By night a bike light is a bike light, irrespective of what it's attached to.
And I find that I seem to be more visible when I'm on the 'bent, jusgiung by how much room passing motorists give me. Certainly more than when I'm on the upright. Possibly it's the WTFIT? factor at work. Mind you I do use a lot of lights and acres of reflectives...
