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To keep my motivation to go out in the cold.
1. Trails are quiter
2. The stinging nettles have died
3. Colder so get to wear my nice merino stuff
Others ?
4. You can drink proper Ale instead of needing a cold lager at the end
guinness season!
1. Best sunsets of any time of year, by a mile!
2. You start in the light, end in the dark, which ensures the resulting visual confusion has you off at least once
3. The pub is even more welcome at the end as the temperature drops
5. It may be drier than summer...
It's easier to sneak up on doggers.
yeah drier and warmer than the summer
its not as cold as the winter if your mate gets a puncture 😀
The colours! Clear starry nights, they're a real novelty after light skies all summer. Our trails do actually dry out for most of the summer so come Oct you have to learn how to ride again when the roots become permawet and slidey.
Do people still get punctures Jedi?
🙄
heh heh heh 🙂
It's easier to sneak up on doggers.
Especially scaring them with your massive lumens at the last minute!
It's drier than it has been all bloody year!
- No midges
- More cheeky routes available
- Cycling through leaves is a highlight
All the eyes in the trees illuminated by your headlamp 😀
the mud fills in the gaps between the nasty rocks that have been exposed by the summer downpours
beautiful clear autumn nights and the ground is hard , as aid before top sunsets
that fresh smell in the air
4. You can drink proper Ale instead of needing a cold lager at the end
Proper Ale all year round, lager? Pfft!
all the buffoons are safely tucked up front of the goggle box
all the buffoons are safely tucked up front of the goggle box
you're right there! forgot how ace night rides are, not so good on the road bike though
1. Trails are quiter - you will lie there for hours if you bin it on a solo ride
2. The stinging nettles have died - the stags are kicking off
3. Colder so get to wear my nice merino stuff - lose that summer tan
just saying like
Proper dark on the return loop,rather than back in to a low setting sun.
Oh, and no more bugs,we were being eaten alive. 🙂
not so good on the road bike though
Not where I live mate,nice quiet roads with great star filled skies.
Even better with a full moon , Awwooooooo 🙂
cant wait for that week when the leaves come down and almost every visual clue to the trails i know like the back of my hand suddenly vanishes
It's the feeling of a stolen moment, a cheeky ride, a time that shows just how much you love to ride the trails.
Nothing stops us - not darkness, not leaves, not mud, and not doggers.
I'm welling up here......
Just ordered some new lights...
DrR S**** = Spot on.
Ordering new lights..yeh, now were talking, new kit time
who are these doggers who are prepared to shag outside on cold nights, aint gonna see much are ya !!!!
Mr Potatohead - I was thinking more of the cars that bounce up and down in an unexplainable manner.
You often find them 20m or so from the road down a wide bridleway, windows all steamy.....
I often find dimming the lights until the last minute and then putting them on full beam is the best way of seeing a full moon.
has anyone ever come across any doggers? I go down plenty of dark urban sidetracks and qiuet lanes and have never seen any in 3 years of MTBing.
Ive never seen doggers as such but the odd couple making jiggy in a car from time to time .once got to the top of a climb , stuck me head up and there was a couple having oral happiness on a bench
and when you say COMMING ACCROSS DOGGERS ......
best make your excuses and leave
jekkyl - Member
has anyone ever come across any doggers? ........
Coming down off Gower into Clyne woods there was a steamed up car blocking the track, a few years ago. Full daylight and on a reasonably busy bit of trail. I edged past it trying not to disrupt the occupants' rhythm and carried on, turning off that trail into a car park. Where there was a police dog handler about to take the dog for a walk......
Giggling like a child I begged him to walk up the track and knock on the car's window, just to see the response, but the spoilsport wouldn't. He thought it best to leave them be. I ask you, what do we pay the police for.
Back to the op, I think this is one of the best times to ride. Summer is very overrated because everything gets overgrown, too warm and damp, etc. The conditions can be perfect at this time of year in every respect.
1. The trails that are becoming a bit boring get a new lease of life in the dark.
2. The childish boy in me loves the night ride excitement.
3. You ride much faster otherwise the werewolf stalking you catches you up!!!!!
Gay doggers 2 years ago at Macc forest! Not a nice site but they seemed to be enjoying themselves.
The monsters haven't woken from the summer hibernation so it's safe out for a month or so.
Less importantly the trails are nice and dry at the moment and there was hardly anyone about last night.
Just back from a super chilled ride. Trails were ace. Mates wre funny. Beers were good.
Cheers to night riders everywhere (even the Hoff)
twas ok wasn't it 🙂
I think that I am in mourning for the light evenings as I am not feeling any love for dark night rides at the moment 🙁
Maybe I should re-read this thread later today and push myself to go out and get back into the swing of it otherwise it is going to be a long and boring autumn/winter, sigh.