Why We Ride at Night

We ride at night because we didn’t get a ride in during the day and still need our fix.
We ride at night because we long for the feeling of adventure and isolation.
We ride at night to make tired trails new and to make known trails unknown. Our bike lights are lower than the sun and cast a long shadows on the trail, making “baby heads” look much larger and obscuring our depth perception. It’s surreal and spooky.
We ride at night to explore forbidden trails that belong to hikers and horses.
We ride at night to commune with the moon , the dew , the crisp air, and the rising and turning of the night sky.
We ride at night to have the green, yellow and red sets of eyes staring and piercing the darkness from our left, right and center.
We ride at night to encounter the unseen owl with the flap of his wings, the frantic rustling of the deer in the brush, the coyotes laughing from some nearby ridge and to feel the presence of the cat that creeps ever so close. We ride at night to hear the silence, the frogs and the crickets.
We ride at night because we love our bikes and darkness should be no reason to let them sit dormant.
This piece is really written by Chris Wilcox who used to work for a bike light company. I added a few lines that I thought would make the experience complete.