We go mountain biking in the dark
It's fantastic. We've got all singing all dancing multi million candlepower lights but turning them off for a second when you're in a forest in buttfuck nowhere is a really wierd experience.
Also riding back home across acres of moorland in the dark, on your own on a path that is 2 scaffold boards wide (with chunks missing) and riding down country lanes where you can't see the bends coming up.

When it's drizzly and you have a helmet light, it's like the stars screensaver as you are riding along!

Can't beat it :D Roll on winter (usually drier than summer too)
( thistle, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 18:14, 2 replies)

Yeah, this is fun!
Don't do as much night riding as I'd like, but biking over to friends down winding lanes, or bumpy, dark singletrack, it's great fun to turn the lights off and blast through sections, knowing what's there, but not seeing it.

Excellent stuff :D

edit: Just remembered some sketchy night riding I did with a friend: I didn't have any lights, so followed my friend as close as possible through lots of winding paths in the woods. It wsa fine until he turned a corner, and suddenly the path in front was pitch black. Great for reaction times.
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 18:33, closed)

Petzl
I had one of the headtorches with the separate battery pack, and the cable was a bit dodgy, so it would regularly plunge me into darkness just in the middle of a bit of technical singletrack. Owch.
(potato123, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 17:07, closed)