- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 17•1 month 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.
- dubyakay ( @dubyakay@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 month 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.
- Annoyed_🦀 🏅 ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 14•1 month 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.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 11•1 month ago
How do you handle the ghosts
I carry a bag of salt to pour around me at stop lights
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 5•1 month ago
Oh that was you?
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 4•1 month ago
The proper way to handle ghosts is to find a nice castle for them
- jaxiiruff ( @jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip ) 8•1 month 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.
- BlackEco ( @BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com ) 7•1 month ago
If it wasn’t for my astigmatism causing me to get blinded by every headlights, yeah, probably.
- Scrollone ( @Scrollone@feddit.it ) 7•1 month 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.
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.
- CounselingTechie ( @CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net ) 6•1 month ago
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.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 3•1 month ago
“Oh no…youths.”
- CounselingTechie ( @CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net ) 2•1 month ago
You call me a youth, I’m only 29, and have been biking at night since I was 19.
Feels safer than day riding too with a 2000LM light.
- Sas [she/her] ( @Sas@beehaw.org ) 4•1 month ago
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.
- yo_scottie_oh ( @yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 month ago
Would you mind posting a link to your lamp on Amazon?
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.
- sping ( @sping@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 month 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.
- fmstrat ( @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ) English2•1 month ago
Based on the link in his other comment, it does have horizontal cutoff
- lazynooblet ( @lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ) English2•1 month ago
You turn it down when a car approaches right?
Right?
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.
- pixeltree ( @pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•1 month ago
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
- plactagonic ( @plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 month ago
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).