Riding the Wolf

[Oldwarrior]

I love to ride, long distance, poker runs, toy runs or what ever you have.... Love to ride at night down town in the bright lights. But when there is a full moon I love the highway runs to unusual places. Started out with 3 of us now 20 or more show up. no toys, no moneys needed, no planning just pick a front man and a destination.

Fellow Vancouver Island Captains (and others) can meet us Country club Dairy Queen Nanaimo. 9 pm every Full moon

 

[MikeDeY]

I, too, love to ride under the full moon. There's just something about it. Sometimes I have an urge to ride with no headlights on...

 

[TOMCAT]

I'm really wary of roos .. actually getting worse and worse the older I get. Hate to get taken out by an oversize rodent. Some really huge ***cers over here.

 

[CanberraR3]

Ever had a roo hop down the road in front of you? Every time it goes off to the side and you try to slip past the stupid thing will jump back into the headlights - and bound down the road in front of you. Only way to shake one is to switch your lights off and sound the horn. That's a major drawback with hard wired lights on a bike; you pretty much have to stop. If you have loud pipes and can switch your lights off I reckon you would actually be less likely to hit a roo riding by moonlight that with your lights on. Fact remains though, they will jump in front of anything moving, day or night, and you sure don't want to hit one. Or a wombat for that matter.

 

[Boog]

I, too, love to ride under the full moon. There's just something about it. Sometimes I have an urge to ride with no headlights on...

Fight the urge Mike, fight the urge...

 

[Ogremeister]

Ever had a roo hop down the road in front of you? ..........

We were running down Waterfall HWY?, I think it was...NSW?
Anyway, a roo appears on my left (of course we are riding the left lane there), he is spronging on a parallel course at first.

Then he decides to cross in front, I had already gone for the brakes by then but still would have been a hit, if the little sucker hadn't pulled off a "Curly shuffle" & exited stage left.

http://rebloggy.com/post/gif-the-si...ity-falls-curly-shuffle-the-three/30726644225

 

[Ogremeister]

Too many deer around here to enjoy a night ride...now x/c skiing or sailing under a moon, yeah, I'm good for that.

My favorite full moon memories...

One memorable ski was during a lunar eclipse. We started off in a full bright moon. This was a mostly mild downhill trail and only gets technical towards the end, where it gets a bit steeper and has several turns to negotiate. Of course, when we hit the hard part the moon had become a faint reddish globe.

We got to the car and I gave my best howl.
Something answered in the distance. (There were no other humans around, as far as we could tell.)

Once on the local lake, we had brought a bucket of chicken and shoved off the dock in the late evening. The family retired down below as I remained at the helm on a broad reach to the north. The last lights of the setting sun faded behind me as a gigantic looking full moon rose over the hill in front.

It was a magical night. The stern light was attracting bugs or the fish themselves, not sure which but the wake was just churning with a following of semi-submerged fish.

The breeze was steady but light and I dosed off repeatedly, when I awoke I would panick for an instant until my eyes could refocus and confirm we were still a distance from the Rocky shore.

The moon had shrunk to its normal size as it rose overhead & I lowered sail & set anchor for the night.

 

[Camptc]

I grew up in Western PA fishing and boating on Lake Erie... Beautiful area.

 

[MikeDeY]

No Roos in my world. But I've had countless close calls with deer (one just the other night) and one time I almost hit a bear!

 

[Steel]

No roos here either, but in spring and summer the gators like to get on the road at night to warm up. A little harder to spot than a deer because they are so low to the ground, but it's like hitting a log.