{"id":2219,"date":"2012-10-10T22:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2012-10-10T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:33:26","slug":"night-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Night Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of late, I’ve decided I need more exercise, both to counter the beer\/curry\/bacon consumption and to help my back out, so after replacing the front light that I managed to somehow knock clean off while ascending the now notorious Black Cock Bridge<\/a>, I’ve been out in the evening on my bike- something that, excepting one visit to The Swan<\/a> last year, I’ve not done since I was a teenager: what cycling I do is usually on a Sunday morning, but for the last few weeks I’ve persuaded my lazy self out for an evening spin midweek: Rushallish, Pelsall, Brownhills, usually heading out by canal and back by road.<\/p>\n

It’s quite a different experience: for a start, you don’t generally encounter a group of lads smoking cannabis under Black Cock Bridge on a Sunday morning (the smell alerted me first), and the solitary angler appeared very suddenly in my smallish LED light on the canal towpath just past here<\/a>: a bike approaches quietly and quickly :-), though not over Brownhills Common<\/a>, where lack of familiarity with the track and limited light kept the speed down.<\/p>\n

One thing that surprised me: most<\/i> car drivers seem better at seeing and taking notice of me at night: one exception, but most give enough room and have a bit of patience: more than the Sunday daylight drivers. I’m not a terribly confident or capable road cyclist, but getting better. The key is, as Bob<\/a> says, is to act like traffic: claim road space, without obstructing other traffic, but it’s noticeable that a run through Clayhanger or the Ryders Hayes estate can easily see even a fat, unfit, over-40 bloke on a hybrid bike outrun the traffic through the traffic calming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of late, I’ve decided I need more exercise, both to counter the beer\/curry\/bacon consumption and to help my back out, so after replacing the front light that I managed to somehow knock clean off while ascending the now notorious Black Cock Bridge, I’ve been out in the evening on my bike- something that, excepting one … Continue reading Night Rider<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}