In a message dated 3/16/04 10:39:22 PM Pacific Standard Time,
chuckschmidt@earthlink.net writes:
> I've been overtaken by darkness on some long rides and rode the last
> five or ten miles in total darkness through the suburbs. Great learning
> experience because you not only have to ride like you are invisible to
> traffic... you ARE invisible to traffic. I highly recommend the experience.
>
offlist I've been out on a track bike at night, unlit country road, and had a car come around turn with it's bright lights in my eyes. Blindingly bright, all sense of up/down obliterated (temporarily), glad I knew the radius of the turn. Stevan