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Do you ride at night?
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From: AZ
Do you ride at night?
Just wondering how many of you travel at night on your bikes? I don't mean just cruising around town or short rides on familiar roads, I mean actual travel at night. I find myself avoiding riding at night more often anymore. Seems like there's more stuff in the road than what there used to be. Some of the things I've seen in the road - mattress, steel I beam, lumber, clothes, pile of garbage, car bumpers, tires, and piecies of cars from where there had been an accident. Just too much stuff in the road anymore and at night I always worry about not seeing something soon enough.
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Hells fire man, I live in friggin Mayberry and don't have crap like that on roads. Sounds more like Queens or the Bronx. In any case I do try to avoid night riding mostly because the eyes aren't what they used to be but mostly because of the critters.
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Yes.
I live in Los Angeles, and the ONLY way to get out of this state going east (if you go west you run into the ocean) is to ride through the Mojave Desert. I often leave late at night/early in the morning to avoid the sun in addition to the 118 degree heat. I take my time and ride slower than most because I don't want to out run my headlight. The faster you go, the more chances of NOT seeing all the debris or having enough time and distance to react accordingly.
Mark
I live in Los Angeles, and the ONLY way to get out of this state going east (if you go west you run into the ocean) is to ride through the Mojave Desert. I often leave late at night/early in the morning to avoid the sun in addition to the 118 degree heat. I take my time and ride slower than most because I don't want to out run my headlight. The faster you go, the more chances of NOT seeing all the debris or having enough time and distance to react accordingly.
Mark
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real closed-minded comment there, man.
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Not regularly,but I do.Biggest problem here isn't garbage,or stuff in the roads,its the damn deer!
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From: NW NC
No offense intended to anyone in the NYC area. I spent enough time there to see my fair share of blow my mind stuff. I feel for anyone that has to stash a scoot in the city area. I have actually watched cars stripped in minutes, more potholes than Penciltucky (my home state) and all sorts of scary stuff on the roads. I do like the Long Island area but having to cross those bridges on my bike? Y'all have bigger boys than I have!!!! Sorry about the way I worded my post.
Last edited by strtarrow; Oct 6, 2010 at 12:44 AM.