Horse Poo

[NormanD]

I pray to gawd you lot don't have to cycle around Newmarket, the place is built on the stuff

 

[Archie_tect]

...but the grass is lovely.

 

[Archie_tect]

Try weaving your way down the back lanes round here after the cows have been returned to their fields after milking...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Try weaving your way down the back lanes round here after the cows have been returned to their fields after milking...

Mudguards required!!

Now elephant poo - that has to be treated as a roundabout

 

[vernon]

Mudguards required!!

Now elephant poo - that has to be treated as a roundabout

Or my poo. It gets its own post code.

 

[classic33]

This thread is so funny. Horse poo for gods sake being a hazzard. what will people complain of next.

Wait until you're waist deep in sh!t.

 

[jack smith]

You should never be going faster than the distance you can see to stop in, vanishing point and all that. That dog poo you did not see could have been a child or any other person.

Slow speed is the issue when taking sharp u bends if you hit a 23mm road tyre on anything it knocks you off. You cant go fast around them anyway

 

[NormanD]

It's a myth about horse poo being good for making things grow, if that were true, how come stable staff are so short??

 

[screenman]

Slow speed is the issue when taking sharp u bends if you hit a 23mm road tyre on anything it knocks you off. You cant go fast around them anyway

I live in a very rural area with a lot of horses and cows, I know what poo looks like and in 47 years of fast cycling am yet to fall off in it, I know how to go around a corner. 23mm that is wide compared with the 19mm that were used in the past.

 

[jack smith]

Wow you obviosuly dont know where im talking about. A series of sharp u bends called a "maze" you can not see anything, you have to constantly call out/ring a bell to avoid hitting another person nevermid see stuff on the floor. At such a slow speed when your wheel is turned near 90 degrees if it hits anything your off simple as that.

 

[Julia9054]

Mudguards required!!

Now elephant poo - that has to be treated as a roundabout

I lived in Zimbabwe for a bit.
If you drive through elephant poo, the acacia thorns they eat pop your car tyres!
Maybe they should make puncture proof bike tyres out of elephant intestines!

 

[screenman]

Wow you obviosuly dont know where im talking about. A series of sharp u bends called a "maze" you can not see anything, you have to constantly call out/ring a bell to avoid hitting another person nevermid see stuff on the floor. At such a slow speed when your wheel is turned near 90 degrees if it hits anything your off simple as that.
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No, you are correct I did not know where you were talking about, I doubt anyone else did either.

 

[vernon]

A series of sharp u bends called a "maze" you can not see anything, you have to constantly call out/ring a bell to avoid hitting another person nevermid see stuff on the floor.
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Doesn't that suggest that perhaps cycling is an activity that's best performed elsewhere?

 

[Globalti]

Ive fell off on the stuff atleast twice i can remember, once(probably more) on the maze/tight tarmac corners on the route 7 c2c i cycle daily on this lath basically its a series of tight chicanes and its always covered in the stuff, and another descending a country road and a big lump of it was in the middle, i went over the bars into a hedge. Disguisting if you ask me its alot larger than dog stuff so should definatley be picked up harmful or not.

Bad luck but when riding on country roads you ought to be expecting horse poo, as well as gravel, dead animals, mud, bits of tree and so on. It goes with the territory, as they say.

 

[jack smith]

Doesn't that suggest that perhaps cycling is an activity that's best performed elsewhere?

If you've an issue with the route feel free to petition to have it removed from the coast to coast.