Riding in the dark

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I'd like to ask the more experienced riders here to share their thoughts about riding in the dark. I am fine with riding at dusk (I quite like it actually, feels good) and I am fine with riding in the dark if it's a main road, well lit - but I have to be honest and say that I don't particularly like riding in the dark in badly lit roads.

I find that instead of being able to alternate between scanning the road in front of you and looking to the vanishing point, that my focus is taken up by looking for clues as to how the road flows and that I am not able to scan the road closer to me.

I don't have any problem noticing something like a bit of debris in the road, but I find that in the dark, man hole covers and the like tend to sneak up on me, leaving me better off riding over them and praying, rather than a panicked last minute reaction.

Has anyone else been through this or is it all part of the course? Any advice to offer us newbies?

Cheers,

Soss

[Sossige]

Thanks all for the responses - that link that Outlaw Biker gave was interesting as well.

Cheers,

Soss