Great story. Now thats a night ride. I know exactly what you mean about bracing yourself for a bump or a root or a crack in the pavement only to find out that it only an illusion from the lack of light. I like the quiet at night
i usually get two or three night rides a week. usually like 9-12 pm but some times till like 1-2am.
I usually meet up with a trials biker in my village and we talk for half the time, and ride hard for the other. its nice cause there is hardly no one to comment or look at you and laugh when u fall.
All the time. Best time to ride a Coker in the city. Fewer gawpers and all the big flying hunks of steel have shiny lights in the front.
I just got back from a night muni ride with a friend without any sort of flashlights. The sun had set but there was still a little bit of light left in the sky, just enough to tell what was trail and what was woods but not nearly enough to see the many roots or rocks we tripped over. My knee is a little cut up but it was so much fun.
I finally bought a helmet light. I should have bought one a long time ago. Now not even the end of daylight savings time can ruin my day!
1) I do.
2) On average, i ride during the night when i’m become bored of riding during the day. Besides its better cause the weather is cooler the night then it is during the days here in Sydney. 
3) I usually ride with my unicycling friends and it turns out to be a tradition that we ride at least once a week or so.
1) Sweeeet!!!
2) At least you got one now. So it should make it more fun for you, yes??
3) YAY!!!
I decided to bare the horrors of the local forest the other night and my torch cut out and I had to cycle in the blackness for 10 mins befor I got it to work again.
Yes night time riding fun
Due to daylight saving time its usually dark when I ride home from work.
I have a helmet light with 5 led’s and 3 modes (High beam, low beam, strobe).
Also I have reflective tape on my T7 bar and a rear led red light with 6 modes.
The modes are all 5 on, strobe, different on/off configs.
My primary concern at night is to be seen by others. For what ever reason other cyclist and pedestrians are riding with their head phones on and heads down. Its the other cyclist on the bike trails that I have to watch the most. Some times I have to hollar at them to look up and not run into me.
Now that frost is starting to set in the trails are starting to heave, causing a roller coaster effect on the trail. In the dark these whoop-dee-doo’s can challenge my balance.
Crossing intersection in the dark is another time you want to be seen. For this I turn my helmet light on to strobe mode.
Remember to watch were your going and expect that others are not watching out for you.
Ride safe.
I made the mistake of not having a helmet light, front bike light, rear bike light, or any kind of light with me on my last ride and it was on of the first of my rides of the early dusk. This route took me along Hwy 46 in near pitch-black and before I rode down Hwy 46 I rode along a biking/walking/horse trail that was partly paved and partly graveled, in the dark it was really hard because the gravel was loose and the paved sections were all bumpy and cracked… kinda scary when it’s pitch-black and you’re riding down the road and a BIG truck zooms past you within inches of you at 65mph, or when you’re riding down a gravel road at 15 mph and the gravel splis out from under you and you UPD.
flat sessions at night are fun
trials are a little on the scary side. i find i dont go as big at night.
i havent gone on one in a really long time though 
Just got back from the woods, good ride. A fox made me jump after making that screaming noise meters from me haha:D .
I just got back from a short night ride. I usually just go into the center of my small town and hop up the steps and try do 180s. It’s right by the main set of traffic lights so you know when people drive up they are saying to themselves “WTF?!”
I usually ride several nights a week from 1-3am because I get off work at 12:30am.
I havent been on one for a while - its daylight savings here at the moment so i just go after work and it isnt yet dark… i miss my night rides:(
well commuting in a city by night is not something special (though you need to be seen by short-sighted motorists).
This far I have practised Muni by night only twice! but this is a real dream!
Once was in Belgium : I did not have any light but knew the place very well and since I have a very good geographic memory I could ride : even unspotted roots on the path were fun.
the other time was in England with a british friend: rain and good lighting system (from the other rider).
I still not have decided on a lighting system to buy (since I do not ride often in the dark I will not buy an expensive one).
edit : when I was younger I used to run by night in the woods with no light (it tells you how to run!)
but my night vision was awesome (this is no longer the case)
What time do you finish work mill???
Cause if finish at something like 5pm like myself then you don’t need to worry cause it will be dark within 2hrs or so.
I love night rides. It is so much cooler and a lot more calm. No cars zipping past or people staring for the most part. I went on a short one a couple nights ago around 1amish once my father fell asleep, it was awesome. I landed some soomth 180 rolling gaps.
I finish work at about 4:30 - 5:00, get home, have tea, the go uni (usually from about 6 till 7.30… it isnt getting dark here till about 8:30 at the moment… when i get up at 5:45am going out at 8:30 is too late as i would never get to sleep!
There are no amish around here I can ride around. 
It would be funny if you dress up as 1 and ride a unicycle with fluorescent green neons on it at night.
How awesome would that be…that would have total ownage written all over that…
and the other night when i was night riding i ran over a cane-toad and you literally heard it pop…btw they’re a pest…