Yep, it’s been most of my riding over winter, and hope to get out Saturday night for a couple of hours. I spend a lot of time outdoors, including at night, shooting and stuff, proper country boy, I generally never give anything other than the riding a thought, unless there’s a weird rustle in the bushes. I love it, I like the solitude, nature, having wherever I go to myself, hard to beat. It’s quite a smug feeling of satisfaction I get riding back past all the houses full of people sat watching crap TV whilst I’ve been blasting through the woods.
Last week I did ride over a dead bow and and up with a stick through my back wheel, I managed to stop, clear it and get going very quickly!
To my shame, after I’d got home from my own ride, I went out in the car and nearly pulled out of a junction in front of a cycle commuter. Combination of a pretty crap light on the bike, fog, and lots of bright lights around, cars, petrol station, security lights etc. I don’t normally have my own bike lights on flashing mode on the road, but I will next time out!