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I can ride in the dark, I can ride in the wind and rain ................ but fog stops me.
I have a nice bright rear light, but I won't risk it because I don't know if I'll be seen early enough.

I had planned on a good ride today, but the fog has stopped me dead. It's burning off now but with all the valleys round here it will linger for a while yet and still be dense and patchy in places. I'll give it to 10:30 before I go out.

How's your fog today?
Pea soup or Scotch mist?

or clear as a bell?

I think if it's a really bright rear light, it'll penetrate through any amount of fog down to visibility 50m or so. Below that, I'd be wary of venturing out in any form of transport.

I was put off for the same reason yesterday, about to set out for my once-a-week stint at work: I took the car . Well, to tell the truth, Mrs P got up first, looked outside and pronounced on the state of the weather, then I rolled over and went back to sleep. By the time I did get up it was too late for the bike. But I probably could have cycled it without mishap, though it wouldn't have been the pleasantest of rides! And the fog was pretty dense in patches.

At least on a bike you can hear cars approaching at junctions when they've forgotten to turn on lights (or got so used to automatic lights their switch muscles have started to atrophy). My problem this morning was mist collecting on my glasses

No fog here today but Tuesday was bad. No cycling on Tuesday for me (mainly due to having to drop kids off at school and no way of doing it by bike [too many kids and too many places to stop and bad roads for trailers]).

Mist on the glasses, and inappropriate fog light usage are the biggest issues.

But then I am commuting - I have to get to work at a reasonable time.

I started off in warm sunshine at 93m. But at the top of the Chiltern ridge at 200m it was dense cold mist with visibility about 30m. I took my glasses off because they have dark transition lenses and I wasnt confident that I could see ahead properly. As I descended again the sunshine was there.

I saw a Yellow Brimstone and a Tortoiseshell and the birds are singing their hearts out. Spotted a red kite carrying a large twig so they are at it too.

Al

I have fog lights.

Well my rear one is - 49 LEDs mounted in two concentric circles - like laser beams - I'm amazed motorcycles don't have them.
For some reason the white one on the front doesn't seem as effective.

I've been weaning myself off using it in ordinary dark conditions and plan eventually to wire it up as a brake light.

This morning however it let me down near the end of my journey and I didn't realise until I came to sound my (car) horn at a lorry driver who pulled in front of me on a roundabout - and nothing happened. My other lights were still working, but the fog lights don't like it when my battery is low.

Thankfully I did think to recharge my spare battery the other day - so I should be OK for the journey home - just as well as the fog isn't clearing.

Thick this morning but I'm working at a school on top of a hill and it was in blazing sunshine all day.

I went to Bodmin this morning to pick something up off another forum member. It was fine in St. Austell but the second I went through Penwithick it was extremely foggy. I've got a very bright rear dynamo light so felt all right but the roads where quite busy.

As it happens, I hung on till soon after ten, as the fog was lifting in the valley.
I pedalled down hill and out over the bridge into Devon and it was freezing cold!

As I climbed up, the sun came out beautifully and I was HOT. My ride took me towards Okehampton and back via Lydford and Brentor, then across the Milton Abbot before coming back down into the valley again ........ and it was still freezing!

Temps in the sunshine were 17degC, but down in the dips it was 8degC and damp and miserable.

Hopefully(?) no fog tomorrow, and if I can get away before 9am, I'll be out via Yelverton and Meavy to Ivybridge and home over Dartmoor from Ashburton. 60miles with a "few" hills.

Trouble is:

Fog at home I didn't have to go out until 6.30 am this morning and I had the car it hung around for most of the morning very cold the view off the top of the building was near nil ( the roof is about 120 ft up) and at about 12.00 it wasn't much more than a couple of hundred yards. I think it's going to be a cold one tonight though

Encountered fog on the way to work yesterday and used the helmet LEDs and had to make use of one of the PCs in work to charge it up. I'm not lucky enough to use a PC so had to ask a cycling colleague. Coming home was a different matter, much thicker & patchier fog and the front helmet LED was flashing and reflecting off the fog right in front of my eyes, very reduced vision too.

I hate the fog, it's twice as bad as pitch black!