My first Night Ride - Nov 6-2007

Spring ahead and Fall back.... Each year the time changes, and for the winter riding season when the time rolls back an hour, it leaves very little daylight to ride after a working day is complete. Sunday after our ride at NRT, I payed close attention to what time the sun set and at around 5:20 or so, it's pretty dark outside so you can imagine what it would be like within the trees.

I called up Bike Cycles to see if the had any MiNewts in stock, and they did, so I headed over to purchase one. When I got there, all they had were the MiNewt X2 which mounts on your bars, so I decided to demo one for my first night ride.

I learned one thing real quick last night on my first lap, if you are only going to run one light, put it on your helmet, NOT your bars... I was really impressed with how well the MiNewt worked. Riding at night was a totally new experience for me in biking, and a lot of fun. Before I realized it, I had already pedaled ten miles.

Im going to head back over to my buddies at Bike Cycles and pick up one that will mount on my helmet, probably the SolMate to use for this year. If I get to use it alot, next year I will upgrade to one of the bigh 600+ lumens lights...

If you haven't tried night riding, call your LBS and barrow a light, and give it a try, you won't regret it.

See ya in the woods...