Have you ever had that bad feeling

[Ixion]

I remember going through the West side of Lake Taupo once in the thick forest part and was shitting myself at about 11.00pm.

Kept thinking I was going to have a head on with a Big Foot. Talk about erie and freaky. Pitch black except for your lights, cold and weird feeling. I think it's nicer to ride with one or two others in the middle of nowhere at night.

Nay, I love riding alone at night. Especially moonless nights. 'Tis amazing how much you can see by starlight alone, once you are clear of the light pollution of cities and men. And forests , alone at night, are very beautiful places. Do not fear the night.

[NotaGoth]

Haven't gone for a ride and had that feeling at all - As you all know I don't have a bike as yet.

But years ago now, when my olds went on a bike run, they left me at this ladies place for the night. The WHOLE night I couldn't sleep. And kept saying that there was something wrong. "I can't sleep, theres something wrong with my mum." "No no no she's fine you'll see her tomorrow."

Sure enough mum came home next day all banged up from an accident. I guess that all I can say is "at least she came home."

[Bonez]

Nay, I love riding alone at night. Especially moonless nights. 'Tis amazing how much you can see by starlight alone, once you are clear of the light pollution of cities and men. And forests , alone at night, are very beautiful places. Do not fear the night.

Takapau plans can be riden in the middle of the night with full moon and light off . There was a time there when I prefered night riding. You got use looking at the side of the road when facing oncoming traffic. It slowed me down too.

[inlinefour]

You're on the bike. There's something wrong--something you just can't put you finger on. The feeling gets stronger and stronger.
So you stop. No real reason to stop.
Ever had this happen??
Freaky aye??

Generally found the problem also. Must be the way the bike feels at the time? Have not had the problem however since riding newer bikes.

[R1madness]

Ahh the freeky feeling. Yep i stop for it or take a turn off the road i am on. I am too old to ignore myself now. If tis a feeling of "hmmm thats odd why dont i trust the bike" i stop and give it the once over. It is amaizing that your brain can register a new vibartion or noise that the body can bearly detect. I have found all sorts of things over the years. A loose front fork pinch blot, a loose rear caliper bolt, screw missing from the bottom fairing etc. Nothing major but worth the check.
If its a feeling of road danger i get off it.
I love riding at night. The darkness is my friend.

[Wolf]

Generally I'm fine out in the middle of nowhere by myself but a couple of times I've gotten creeped out in an area for no reason whatsoever - buggered if I was going to stop, though.

Usually though I only stop when I need a rest or a ciggy and I don't always wait until the next town so I'll be standing by my bike or pacing to get the blood back into my legs and buttocks out in the middle of nowhere - no worries, nothing but tranquility and peacefulness.

Got bad forebodings one night before riding to Morrinsville with my girlfriend on the back of the bike, kept envisioning someone pulling alongside and deliberately knocking us off the bike. Got to Cobham drive and someone did a U-turn in front of us and I dropped the bike. When I got home mum said "I had a gut feeling you would have an accident but I didn't say anything in case I put the wind up you."


Being a werewolf, my big fear is being chased up the road by humans.

Especially the yokel-looking ones with blazing torches and pitchforks... Even worse if they're in black and white.

[Kornholio]

Being a werewolf, my big fear is being chased up the road by humans.

Especially the yokel-looking ones with blazing torches and pitchforks... Even worse if they're in black and white.

Truce then... you dont attack me and I wont throw pitchforks at you :spudwave:

[justsomeguy]

Nay, I love riding alone at night. Especially moonless nights. 'Tis amazing how much you can see by starlight alone, once you are clear of the light pollution of cities and men. And forests , alone at night, are very beautiful places. Do not fear the night.

Cheenic Dwive at night especially under a new moon. Huia rd too....

Feels a leeettle spooky sometimes when I'm in a weird frame of mind...... total pitch black, blind corner after blind corner....... .............

Which reminds me I need some extra lights pointing diagonally away from my headlights.

[justsomeguy]

Lol thats kinda screwed up dude... it would make a good movie tho!


Don't worry you're not alone, I got really freaked out once when driving at 3am in the country with no streetlights, kept imagining that there were people on the sides of the road but they vanished when I got up to them...

Dam thinking about that now is making me paranoid...

Black Dog (1998)


http://imdb.com/title/tt0120610/

[Cookie]

Sometimes I "feel something in my bones" and take the old cageroony to work instead. Weird. I consider myself not superstitious but I go with my gut on those days. When I park the car at work, I think, "Well that went alright. Lucky I didn't take my bike eh?"

Seriously though - being fairly new back on two wheels, I need to feel fully "on" to feel safe. I think that's a big part of it.

[Shaun]

Years ago when I was driving home from parties I would imagine a werewolf was running along beside the car and used to freak me out and wouldnt look out the side window lol and speed up to get away from it lol..... just lately when being riding the bike late at night and are in the right frame of mind I bloody started imagining this bloody werewolf again and there is no protection from werewolves on a bike.... was waiting for the big claws or teeth to sink into my back lol....heh I think too much

Me thinks you been smoking to much

[sunhuntin]

the two times ive felt that i should slow down, stop or do something, ive not really done it.

the first time was i should slow down and let the lights go red. i didnt...shot through on the green [late for work] and got taken out by a cage that ran a stop sign. that of course trashed the bike, and ive still got a numb lower leg, im guessing will stay that way now.

the second time was out in the country in the wet at about 9pm. i was doing about 60k due to being unable to see properly. car coming from town...i dip my headlight so i dont blind them. see another car behind them, so slow down more and move over slightly away from the center line. bugger me if car 2 doesnt decide to try and pass [?] car one and theres 2 sets of lights level with each other. i freak a bit, stamp on the break and ride towards the ditch. luckily car 2 pulled behind the first and they both kept going. i stayed stopped for a while shaking before heading home. went down the same road the next day and saw my skidmark about the length of the bike. normally the road i was one, i do about 110 cos its a nice long straight. but due to the wet and being late [about 9pm ish, give or take] id slowed right up. had i been going faster, that would have been 2 bikes in a matter of months.

ive learned to listen to my gut...but whether i will do that the next time, i dont know.

[enigma51]

Years ago when I was driving home from parties I would imagine a werewolf was running along beside the car and used to freak me out and wouldnt look out the side window lol and speed up to get away from it lol..... just lately when being riding the bike late at night and are in the right frame of mind I bloody started imagining this bloody werewolf again and there is no protection from werewolves on a bike.... was waiting for the big claws or teeth to sink into my back lol....heh I think too much

easy on the dope mate!

[Wolf]

i stayed stopped for a while shaking before heading home.

I know that feeling. The worst part is not being able to have a calming cigarette as the lighter flame and the end of the smoke are both shaking in different directions...

[Kornholio]

I know that feeling. The worst part is not being able to have a calming cigarette as the lighter flame and the end of the smoke are both shaking in different directions...

...and dont forget the Werewolves lurking in the bushes