Riding on a moonless night with no lights

[portokiwi]

I have a pair if you want to try it out. Everything is green though. lol
You buy the bttys though. CR123As
I have the helmet attachment. nevery tried it on a motorcycle one though. We used them while driving in Afgh.

[Griffin]

My partners family own a large farm and quite often at night if you have something to do that involves a bit of travel the farmbikes were used without headlights as you can see quite a way ahead of you once your eyes adjusted. I would assert that its reasonably common in rural areas. However, it only takes a decent street light to rob you of it.

Thing is... stupid or not, we have all done things that could have killed us - why arent we being dissed or commented on? Because we got away with it, nothing happened, no news to tell... and it becomes an anecdote, a story we tell at parties and social functions to impress others.

Funny that, if it ends your life or someone elses, causes serious injury or harm - everyone has an opinion on it and it was bad or stupid. But if it doesnt, it becomes a fable, an adventure and is regarded as an event to be loooked upon with merit.

Us humans are a funny breed.

[Motu]

Back in the day it was pretty much standard practice . You can see further at night,once your eyes adapt, without headlights.

Major downer is if you encounter someone with lights you lose your night vision for half an hour. But back then the back roads were pretty much deserted at night.

Yep,done plenty of night time riding without lights,some at good speeds on the open road.Riding down from the Bay of Islands one evening one of the bikes lost it's headlight....we put him between 2 bikes and carried on,cops didn't even bother.

Like everything else that gets the Safety Nazi's here all riled up....like no helmets or protective gear - it's only a problem if something goes wrong.They are all happy to speed - coz speed doesn't kill eh? It's all perfectly safe so long as something doesn't go wrong....duh.

I would hazard a guess that these young lads weren't trying carefully to get from A to B with the knowledge they had no lights and so taking due care....they might have been hooning around on the road at night racing each other....just a guess you understand....

[Timber020]

This is actually alot more common than people think. A mate used to show up to parties in the dark often on a CR125, and to stop his eyes from watering the crazy SOB would be wearing sunglasses. (steady, you know who your are)

We would often get caught out on rides and return in the dark, or pop around to mates place. A couple times I ran my RG250 and RGV250 race bike on state highway 1 to test it before race day in the dark as there was no way to trying it out on the farm effectively. Incredibly stupid.

[cs363]

Stupid is as stupid does.

Sums it up pretty well IMHO... worst part about this, apart from the senseless waste of life is that it becomes just another 'dangerous motorcycles' statistic which will bite us all in the arse eventually

[danchop]

stupid=PC mentality
like others have said,put it in context if you as a young teenager grew up with bikes and loving riding them,so called "stupid" things are done

[de_wood_elf]

Well they did get 10 minutes down the road........

[justsomeguy]

Hope he was an orphan with no friends in the world......

Won't help things but at least a few less people will be feeling as sad.....

Hope he had a good 21 years, poor chap.

[awayatc]

Night vision googles? Like the military. Now, THAT would be COOL.

Multiply all available light by up 50.000x......imagine aiming at a car/bike headlight with that......

[Wiki Drifter]

Multiply all available light by up 50.000x......imagine aiming at a car/bike headlight with that......

Bleh that only happens in movies, I'm sure night vision devices have protection against bright light exposure

[bart]

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not saying i couldn't have won an award or two in the past though