{"id":60,"date":"2008-04-30T23:26:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2010-07-16T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:25:58","slug":"night-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Night Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of weeks I have incorporated some night riding back into my schedule.\u00a0\u00a0 Will has hockey practice at the Escondido Sports Complex on Wednesday nights from 7-9PM.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The facility is only about half a mile from the north side of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/LakeHodgesNorth.htm\" title=\"Lake Hodges\">Lake Hodges<\/a>\u00a0so I have been hitting up Hodges while he is practicing.\u00a0 The first go around was a run up to the top of Bernardo Peak and back and the second time was a speed run to Hernandez Hideaway and back.\u00a0\u00a0 After the first ride, one thing is for certain, my night time skills needed some brushing off.\u00a0\u00a0 It did not help that I had not been on Bernardo Peak since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/Wildfires2007.htm\" title=\"October 2007 Wildfires\">October 2007 fires<\/a>.\u00a0 Sunset was approaching while I was climbing so I got a good look at the damage.\u00a0\u00a0 The vegetation tunnel towards the bottom of the climb has been completely rerouted.\u00a0\u00a0 This was\u00a0a good\u00a0call by the rangers.\u00a0 That section was just one big rut with the cool feature being the tunnel.\u00a0\u00a0 Since the vegetation tunnel is gone, it was a good time to reroute the trail in a more sustainable manner.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I enjoyed the watching it get dark from the top before coming back down.\u00a0 That is when I realized there were a bunch more loose rocks on the trail that I had remembered from the climb.\u00a0\u00a0 The shadows from the lights can make things seem a bit more interesting and I&#8217;m sure my hiatus from night riding had something to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0 The lack of vegetation on the hillside could have caused more rocks to erode into the trail as well.\u00a0\u00a0One other slight annoyance was that I\u00a0my\u00a0current handlebar mounts don&#8217;t work well the oversize bars so the best I could was to have the flood been slightly\u00a0angled to the left.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Either way, I had a downright gingerly descent off the peak.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m leaning more toward the &#8220;I&#8217;ve become\u00a0a night riding weenie&#8221; explanation that those other technical things.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"3\" width=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/481a9529820b1f4939a8c5dd520e807c.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"Sunset from Bernado Peak in August 2005\" height=\"433\" imagescaler=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/3e95b7de999688250323b5cdaff6d840.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second ride the following week went better but I did keep it near the lake.\u00a0\u00a0 I had not been on a speed run ride in a while so it was fun just to try and hammer around the lake and back.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With both rides I was back about 30 minutes before Will was done, so I will have to add some more trail the routine.\u00a0 My goal is to get back with only about 10 minutes before Will is done.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gotta get in the miles when I can.<\/p>\n<!-- Begin Yuzo --><div class='yuzo_related_post style-1'  data-version='5.12.81'><!-- without result --><div class='yuzo_clearfixed yuzo__title yuzo__title'><h3>More Stuff Like This<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"relatedthumb \" style=\"width:165px;float:left;overflow:hidden;\">  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=2512\"  >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"yuzo-img-wrap \" style=\"width: 165px;height:130px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"yuzo-img\" style=\"background:url('http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BW-MBBLogo.gif') 50% 50% no-repeat;width: 165px;height:130px;margin-bottom: 5px;background-size: cover; 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