Tuesday 11 January 2011

Want to plan your daytime (or night -time) riding?

This time of the year is quite limiting for daytime riding, for those of us with regular jobs anyway - the options being: get up early for a pre-work ride, ride during the weekends, or to take a day off.  It'd be nice to know when the daylight will be sufficient for a nice evening, post-work ride.

Thankfully, there is a website I use to help you out! http://www.gaisma.com/en/


Click the pic, select your continent, select your country and select your city, and you'll get the following information:

...detailing sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk times along with how this will change over a period of time.  Whereas this graph...


...shows the data graphically.  Don't worry about the apparent shift in the lines - this is due to the effect of British Summer Time and the +/-1hour where we all change our clocks.

...Not sure what this graph means, but it looks scientific!

So now you know what daylight you have available and when, so there's no excuse to get planning!  Alternatively, give night-riding a try - it's what all the cool kids are doing!

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