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Never done it before.Also I will be up all night.Cheers in advance
Drink some coffee.
In what way are you expecting it to be different to riding during the day or in the evening? Will it be dark? Take lights.
You will be tired - take food, perhaps.
My advice: do it and don't worry/post on internet forums about it, it's great.
Pull one off as the sun rises?
I suppose not losing motivation during the night.Worried about pissheads on any road sections.
Thanks for that word.
push through the tired/aching legs feeling you get at the start.
I always get this if I go for an offroad "detour" on the way home from working nights.
Twenty minutes in and you'll be fine,
as said above, drink coffee before you set off, it'll help.
I've only managed a few but I love dawn rides!
Only tips:
Lights if starting when still dark.
Midges are active at dawn - repellant / DEET.
You'll be tired - take it sensible.
You'll be bloody starving by the end. Guaranteed! Know where to go for brekkie!
Lastly - enjoy the feeling of everyone else being lazily tucked up in bed while you get a buzz!
do not know about dawn but I have just got in from a ride in the gloaming /moonlight. Nearly jusf went on riding it was ace
Take a paper bag and earn a few quid on the way?
I do a lot of early morning rides and also did insomnia at bedgebury last year, which starts at 8pm and finishes at 8am.
Around 3am your body will want to shut down, but keep on going, because as soon as it starts getting light, you get another lease of life.
Without wishing to sound too beardy, bedgebury was magical as the sun came up and the wildlife got steadily louder.
Very atmospheric.
I,ve got a beard and i,m of out at 4.00am.Hope the sun Gods are smiling today in the NE.I,m sick of rain.
working nights here and i'm going to take advantage of the dry weather and head out when i get home about 4. doubly looking forward to it as it will be on my nice new bike.
+1 for a strong coffee to get the motivation.
I,ve got a beard and i,m of out at 4.00am.Hope the sun Gods are smiling today in the NE.I,m sick of rain.
Blue sky and sunny up in mountains of the NE.
Nice in durham to.
+1 for line up a greasy spoon breakfast
Fingers crossed the weather forecast is wrong then.
Tell your mum. She might be worried you're not in your bed in the morning.
Expectation-if you crash, it'll be a long time before anybody finds you.
Reality-when you crash, you'll look up and find somebody walking a dog at an ungodly hour has witnessed the whole embarrasing scene.
i often find when im out early that the trails can actually be busier with dog walkers and trail runners - basically the early crowd
*generalisation alert*
HOWEVER i find them to be much more courteous to other users than the afternoon crowd who just do not acknowledge your existance in the slightest.
lay off the beers the night before
People with obnoxious / uncontrollable / evil dogs tend (in my experience) to walk them really early in the morning so there are no kids about for them to eat.
Some owners think that shouting "careful, he might bite you" while their dog runs at you is acceptable as long as it's before 6am
Perhaps introduce yourself to her first, before mowing her down?
Actually dawn riding is rather cool. The thought that everyone else is getting up for school / work in a bit whilst you're out hammering the trail is very good. Its even nice on a cold frosty morning in winter.
Take a flask.
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dawn riding is awesome. Proper different character set of people out at that time in the morning. Usually quite weird people. Expect to find people with guns, people with large birds of prey, naked people, people having sex, people who don't like pink bikes, dodgy people on their way back from crimes, homless people and really, really shit drivers.
Honestly, if you think day time drivers are bad, wait till you experience a dawn time driver.
Should a went out with a boat not a bike.Some of the trails had turned onto streams/paddling pools.Plus side I saw a deer.