- Night riding is loads of fun, and it can feel really
fast when you're flying through the woods.
But just how fast is it?
Modern lights can be super bright and make it almost
feel like daylight, so let's put them to the test.
I've got a downhill trail, it's a few minutes long,
and I'm going to ride it in the light as fast as I can,
and repeat it at night with lights on,
to see how fast I can go.
(techno music beat)
So the track I'm riding today, and tonight,
is actually an old downhill track.
There's a few rocky steepish bits, fairly fast,
but nothing too crazy.
I'm riding my Canyon Spectral which is 140 mil travel,
it'll be absolutely fine.
I've done a practice run so now it's time to give the
full gas in the daylight and see how fast I can go.
Right, run one, let's go.
(fast trance music beat)
Well, there you go, run done in the light,
felt normal obviously, so it's time to go set up my lights.
Okay, so, to my lighting setup.
I've got two lights.
One for my handlebars, and one for my head,
and that really is the ideal setup.
I've got a bigger one to go one to go on the bars,
this is the Exposure Sixpack, it's super powerful,
it's got 3,600 lumens, but actually bumps up to 4,750,
using this reflex technology.
So, it's got an accelerometer in this and senses
so it knows when you're riding downhill and gives you
that maximum power when you really need it, and then
backs off when you don't.
So if you're standing around chatting it bumps it down
just to save the battery.
Then I've got this Exposure Diablo that's gonna go on top
of my helmet, and you really do need that so you're
looking around corners quite often more than you think,
and your bars maybe not pointing in the right direction.
So two lights, I should have loads of power.
(techno music)
So that was a load of fun, I've got to say riding in the
dark as fast as I could was pretty scary,
although the lights are super bright,
still there's a lot of shadows and actually
the blind brows are the scariest bit,
I was second guessing myself,
I know that trail really well,
but I was coming over those brows thinking
is this a big drop, or is there a werewolf or something
on the back of there?
So it was actually, it was good fun.
Um, but what about the times?
The times are really close.
I did a 2:35 in the daylight and I did a 2:39 in the dark,
so in my book, that's actually really close.
So there you go, lights are brilliant,
definitely for those more mellow rides,
it feels like you can see everything.
And it always felt like I'm going fast tonight,
and actually, maybe I am.
I can't believe how bright these things are.
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