Riding on a moonless night with no lights

[Tank]

Was never going to end well.

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[imdying]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Strang0r]

RIP common sense....

[sincity]

Was never going to end well.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4686364a11.html

Discuss.

Your correct in that, the poor guy. Its such a waste of a young life. What were they thinking when they done that? I mean, who rides with no lights on, on a moonless night?

[dipshit]

I mean, who rides with no lights on, on a moonless night?

Trail bike riders in Alexandra do apparently.

It was also trendy for Harley riders not long ago in NZ.

[Ixion]

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.

[slofox]

Years ago was riding the Port Hills road above Christchurch one dark night...half way round a long tight corner with a vertical face on the right and a ten million foot sheer drop on the left and the friggin headlight went out......bulb blown......now THAT was scary for a second or two.....but did manage to stop safely...obviously, or I wouldn't be talkin' about it....

[portokiwi]

I just feel sorry for the families. At the end of the day its another biker who died.
RIP.

[Badjelly]

I mean, who rides with no lights on, on a moonless night?

People with no lights on their bike, apparently.

[magicfairy]

Years ago was riding the Port Hills road above Christchurch one dark night...half way round a long tight corner with a vertical face on the right and a ten million foot sheer drop on the left and the friggin headlight went out......bulb blown......now THAT was scary for a second or two.....but did manage to stop safely...obviously, or I wouldn't be talkin' about it....

BusaJim and I discovered that his headlight bulb had blown when we reached the Homer tunnel, going to Milford.
That is a very dark place..downhill and rough.

[bomma]

stupid.....only people who are hurt are the family and unfortunately for them, it will haunt them for the rest of their lives.....gives young people and bikers a bad name

[<Rhino>]

He paid the ultimate price for what we can all sit here and say is poor judgement. but who can honestly sit here, put your hand on your heart and say you havn't done somthing stupid and got away with it? I cant! just means we got away with it......that time at least.

Dont be too critical, next time you do somthing stupid it could be you were all talking about!

RIP rider, thoughts to families.

[saltydog]

Have light should use. No light no see, no see.........crash for sure.

Theres a similar case within the surfing fraternity. Surfing by moonlight..... sounds great but in reality a different kettle of fish. I have done this twice in my 25 years of surfing and each time (although we had fun) some one got toasted. The second time in Indonesia we had the local cop row out to the reef in a dugout to stop us, saying...."Big shark like din-dins at nitetime", and "very bad if something happen" "you come in now". We all had tasted the coral by this time and cag'd a ride back to the beach with him.
Funny at the time.
But F__k that riding with no lights!

[ital916]

just ride with night vision goggles.

[Ixion]

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