Just coming home from Tauranga the other night in the car, thinking about the poor chap that hit a cow in car at Hinuera, killed himself and injured his passenger.
I was remembering the number of times I have travelled at night, on my bike, probably too fast for the conditions, and even with the excellent lights on my SV have put myself at risk by not seeing all the obstacles that present themselves on NZ highways, like animals, cowshit, dead opposums, lumps of wood, trees, shredded truck tyres etc etc
I got thinking that probably travelling at night you are safer to travel behind a car than venturing out in front all by yourself. At least if there is an obstacle the car driver will alert the bike rider to it.
Not long ago I had to swerve to miss a large sack of wood the middle of the road on the way to Raglan, if it was dark I doubt I would have seen it.
Any thoughts on this from other night riders.
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