• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Fuck yeah!

    Past 1AM in TO you can ride on major arteries without see a car for minutes. Faster and safer than any other time of day.

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      4 months ago

      I used to ride down on Dundas, Dupont and St Clair W from the Junction to Y&E every night between 3-6AM for work. It was amazing during warm summer nights.

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    4 months ago

    Ohh yes, chill wind, no deadly laser from outerspace so no need for sunblock. Though i only ride in my residential area so no need for high lumen light, i just need to be visible by others.

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    4 months ago

    Definitely depends where you live lmao, I aint doing that in a Socal city unless I wanna get robbed or attacked if I stop. Not to mention the people that drive like maniacs and race down the empty streets.

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    4 months ago

    I like it, but I think it’s dangerous because of crazy car drivers. So if I do it, I stick to small residential roads.

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      My experience is the opposite. The hours 3-6 feel more dangerous to me because many drivers are in a rush and very uncourteous. At night there are just way less cars on the road and in general they are much more courteous. However I generally don’t ride light enough for them to suffer from very bad sleep deprivation.

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        4 months ago

        Well my light is angled downwards hopefully it’s not a problem. But I’m not sure if it’s actually brighter than modern car lights.

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      I’ll be honest i hate those really bright lights. I get blind spots in my vision when coming across them during daytime already and don’t want to imagine how blind they’d make me at night. I also don’t see the use of them. I have my small light that came with my bike and see by far enough at night.

      • sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 months ago

        Make sure to buy lights that follow German StVZO regulations if you’re on the road. They’re not necessarily expensive. they have controlled beams with a horizontal cutoff so they don’t blind people, like motor vehicle lights.

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        Actually I got it on Aliexpress (link). There might be better priced options but I got this one because it comes with an adaptor for GoPro mounts so I could mount it under my bike computer. It’s otherwise much too heavy and large to mount on handlebars.

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    100%, the world is better at night. I am aware where I live there are more dangers, I have had to push myself to go as fast as I could in the past to get away from some people who were out at night, but the majority of the time I have found that the night-life is the best time to go out.

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    I don’t love bikers super bright lights that aren’t designed to point primarily at the ground. Been considering bringing a mirror with me on my runs so they can see what it’s like

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    My city has a nice grade separated trail system that is dead quiet at night with the exception of the occasional homeless person or the time I flew around a bend to find kids setting off fireworks in the middle if the path (extreme fire danger that year too >:-( )

    I have to cross a fee stroads to get from the trail back home and my destination isn’t always perfectly trail adjacent, but on nice summer nights I like to ride the 25 miles into the entertainment district and back 90% of which is trail riding.

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    I don’t have a need for riding in night I can choose quite or separated roads. But I have to say there is something about it I like. Unfortunately I usually do it only when I am in rush to get to bed/somewhere where I needed to be few hours ago (because some unexpected delays on route).