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I'm clearly not normal - i like it! I always leave it until after 8.30 ish and I always ride on my own. Guess I enjoy the solitude. I also live in a city and tend to go straight through the middle of it. Something about a quiet city at night......
Used to do all my training on the road, mainly in the dark. Not an issue.
I work shifts and sometimes commute on unlit roads at silly o'clock. It is far more pleasant than riding at busy times. If you are the only light source in a drivers view, they are much more likely to see you.
Having a hi viz / reflective jacket with LED vest on top accompanied by wrist and ankle bands does help, as do three front lights, three rear lights and flashing front and rear helmet lights. Not to mention a bike and helmet covered in reflective tape. Sexy it ain't but I'm still breathing.
I jump on the Turbos and feel like this......
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Overdone the Turbos. Did some night road rides, but they weren't that inspiring or useful. MTB during the winter nights is your friend.
If only GW was here to belittle everyone and point out how he rarely uses lights when riding on the road at night!
there is something nice about country road, middle of nowhere, miles from light pollution, moonlit night, lights off riding. Jeep a taillight on in case anything catches up with you but you can usually see oncoming cars in time to get lit up again. I've gone all nostalgic for the Trough of Bowland loop at night now.
Ride most weeks on a night time road ride (and MTB). In a group on quiet roads night road riding is great and probably safer than the same roads in the day. With good lights car drivers dip there lights and often come past very slowly.
Me I have been for years I quite enjoy the roads around the Severn area.
I can't be arsed with all that bike and kit cleaning of winter mtb night rides.
I do like the dirty country lanes to add a bit of interest to nightime road riding I don't think riding in a big group would be very easy tho ?
Come to think of it with my long loop to work most mornings in the dark and an extended evening ride some evenings this winter I've done quite a few miles in the dark.