Do you mind riding at night?

[struan80]

I hate it. Ever since I got lost in the rain in the dark with a dark visor.

This video of a drunk driver rear ending a motorcycle at 85mph. Should have got a tougher sentence.

https://news.sky.com/video/surrey-moment-drunk-driver-hits-motorcyclist-at-84mph-on-a3-12629427?fbclid=IwAR1TwJrbHeqrNMkPlM7Y2zdoG59LTUt3gnqd4LsdYoujQpo8orS3naJToKg

[pepperami]

I can drive my car and ride my bike at night in the dark, I prefer not to do either.

I must admit with visors and all, riding at night can be a bit of a faff!, especially if its raining..
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[defblade]

No.

If it's dark, wet, busy, generally 'orrible, and roads I don't know, I slow down a bit.

If it's moonlight, dry, empty and I know where the road goes, blink and you'll miss me
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[Zen Dog]

Doesn't bother me really. Though I did have an issue on the VFR800 where switching between normal and high beam would cause the lights to go off completely, for *just* long enough to scare the crap out of me.
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[grr666]

Um, no... Can't more than won't given my bike exhausts literal fire on over-run and gear changes. I have been followed
after dark and apparently there's quite the firework show somehow I think Mr Policeman might want a word were
he to witness this given that I regularly get cagers chasing me to watch the spectacle, it's a blue flame so not nearly so
visible in daylight.
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[doggone]

In some situations like narrow rural roads you get more warning of vehicles approaching but there are generally far more risks not least being a bit tired yourself.
In the past I have been pretty bold like get off ferry in France about midnight and ride through the night to reach the Alps by early afternoon next day.
It's surprising how many big lorries are still about.
But in that journey I wasn't in any way compelled to keep going it just felt Ok since I had a snooze on the boat and had been hanging about waiting for sailing beforehand too.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Its still preferred to the potential 2 hour commute each way if I were to drive.
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

Night is the best time to ride... Less traffic and even fewer twats, especially compared to around rush hour times.
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[Bhud]

In the summer, I tend to prefer the late evening and early night, for a quick run around the villages. It might have something to do with the fact that it gets very hot in leather, and I just won't wear textiles - don't feel properly dressed for the ride unless I'm dressed my own way. It's cooler in the evening. However, there are certain times (and places) I won't ride. Urban/suburban area or wherever there's a car park (e.g. park or supermarket) - avoid. Drunks are an obvious hazard, but also the overindulged kids, who gather in car parks at night and then show off to each other.

[Polarbear]

I cannot ride at night with a visor. Even brand new ones I get weird reflections or a sort of 'warped' view for want of a better word. I have to ride with my visor up and wear optical quality glasses.

Luckily on my bike that is easily possible with a big old screen.

In other words, I do if I have to, but really don't like it.

As an aside, one of the scardest I ever was, was chasing a bunch of mates back home along unlit country lanes on our Fazer 600 hack with the headlight power of about 1 candle.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

I used to be ok with it, but nowadays everyone seems to have fucking white hot IMAX bulbs fitted, so even if you shut your eyes you lose what little night vision you had for 5 minutes.
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[DJP]

As a shift worker I don't have much choice. To be fair, it's OK in London (just watch out for the drunks) but out in the sticks it's a bit dodgy with animals in the road, judging from the number that get splatted, and you wouldn't want to hit a deer on a bike.
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[ThunderGuts]

I don't choose to do it but I have done it (including rush hour around Manchester in winter on the old ER5). I'm actually less fazed by riding in urban areas at night (drunks/cretins/chavscum aside) as there's enough light to see everything usually and the headlight is more of a position marker. Country riding at night is a different matter; it's better now on my VFR than it was as I've got some aux lights, but until I have a bike with self-levelling cornering lights, I will always find the physics associated with motorcycle cornering just makes illumination horrendous. Also a higher risk of running into some wild animal on the lanes (and having come within feet of a massive deer in Scotland once that jumped out of the trees while I was doing 60mph, it's f'ing scary).
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I mind it - but not very much. I find rural lanes easier than other roads because they're so dark that oncoming vehicles are nearly always visible long before there's a sight-line. I mind a lot more when you throw in night, rain, cold and lots of traffic. I definitely start to run low on spare capacity then.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[t121anf]

Rarely get the opportunity to, don't seem to recall it bothering me when I have, as said you just adjust to the conditions.

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[Jayy]

I used to enjoy blasting around at night because the roads were empty but then you'd have to contend with drink drivers on a Fri / Sat, police hiding away, etc.

[WD Forte]

Had a lot of enjoyable long night rides in the past but try and avoid them nowadays
especially if its raining as the glare from oncoming headlights affects
me a lot more, riding or driving.
Motorways not so bad, but busy A roads not fun any more.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[c_dug]

I don't think it's something that has ever occurred to me to be different than normal riding, but my first few months riding on CBT way back when was night-time commuting in winter on a little TS50X to my part time job at the shopping centre, so I suppose maybe it's just engrained as a normal?
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