Mid Week Beach Night Ride...

One Day i will have a decent camera that can take photos at night, asking a lot out of a £60 compact. But technology is getting cheaper all the time and hopefully it will come to cheap cameras.
In the meantime you will just have to take my word for it i had an ace night ride along the coast.
Riding from North Berwick at 5pm i rode tacking into the gale force westerly that's been blowing all week now along trails and through woods through Archiefield to the sandy trails east of Gullane as the sunset (5.35pm) and across the Forth the lights of Edinburgh came on as i rode to the cliffs and descended down onto the beach with retreating low tide...

It was kind of surreal with the wind howling, sea roaring and the clearing sky was lit up with stars as i rode along the beach on the Pugsley picking my way through rocks and single track trails that often did not look familiar in the dark...

Even 2 Magicshine lights on ful power do not penetrate the darkness on the beach when it is flat and open...

Yellowcraig Lighthouse blinked in the dark out at sea and the coast seemed alive with wildlife, a few pairs of white eyes blinking at me before disappearing with a bushy tail, Foxes are on the increase, as any Green keeper will tell you by the tracks left in bunkers every morning.

Once at Yellowcraig the glow of North Berwicks Town lights came into view, riding along the beach to the Harbour as the Town Clock chimed 8 pm. It could have been midnight , except for the guy in the harbour with headtorch checking mooring chains, rumaging around in the mud...

North Berwick East Beach has the benefit of being street lit...

So no worry if your light batteries are getting low...

Glad to be riding the Pugsley for the ride into the wind out to Gullane. but noticed it harder work on the sand that is very soft in places as dried out from the weeks Gales, and the tyres felt hard on the pebbles and exposed rocks  compared to the Moonlander, still a great bike for tonights ride...