Do you mind riding at night?

[c_dug]

The worst for me, I think, is damp roads after road salt has been down.

I hate the covering of slimy grimy greasy gritty spray that is just about wet enough to flick up off of the road and cover your visor, but not wet enough to run off under it's own steam - and don't dare wipe it with a glove of you'll see nothing at all! Doesn't matter if it's day or night, it's awful either way.
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[Prawny]

I hate it and don’t mind it depending on what road I’m on and how the weather is. In town (small town anyway) it’s not so bad, streetlights and low speed make it pretty much an exercise in manhole cover dodging, but half of my commute is NSL forest roads across Cannock chase and completely unlit. Bad when it’s dry and dark but hateful if it’s wet. The wet road sucks up all of the light from the headlights, it’s up and down so constantly getting dazzled even by dipped beams, there’s crap all over the roads and then there’s the ever present threat of deer.

Car commuters make no allowances either and bollock it down there at 60mph no matter what the conditions, will have to see what the Meteor is like this winter. Will be a bastard to clean I’m sure ☹️
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Generally I don’t mind riding in the dark but the onset of GMT did end my motorcycle commuting last year. Most of my journey is along the A1(M) and it’s not even far but the car idiots come off one slip road and are desperate to get to lane 3, then within 2 miles the same fools are carving their way back to the off-slip. I can cope with this in daylight but at night I’m powerfully aware that I’m potentially invisible in a sea of 4-wheelers.

On a previous, more rural commute I was always looking out for deer which were quite common in the area, even in daylight.

On the other hand I recall travelling from North London (Edmonton) to Harlow on my very first bike one late Autumn evening to visit an old mate who had just moved there. I had been quite fearful of wet roads but when I got home at midnight it suddenly occurred to me that the roads had been wet, though it didn’t rain on the journey, yet I had ridden confidently, unwarily, and survived! I couldn’t see the road surface in detail so I didn’t worry. It made me realise how much grip there actually is.

[to v or not to v]

never bothered me in my younger days. dont like it at all now.
my eyesight is nowhere near as sharp, and the headlights on my bike are worryingly poor for a machine capable of 160 mph.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[ThatDippyTwat]

Like it? Not really.
I commute, so it's a thing that has to happen for a few months of the year.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[Ariel Badger]

Hate it but my bike has no lights so I can't do it anyway.
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