Autumn Dangers

[steveindenmark]

Mud on the roads from tractors. Lots of it around at the moment.

 

[Mandragora]

Pheasants. Birds looking for an excuse to be run over, by anything at all.

 

[Threevok]

If Friday evening was anything to go by - Rats

 

[KnackeredBike]

Mud on the roads from tractors. Lots of it around at the moment.

A farm on my commute put up a "slippery surface" warning sign a while back. Nothing happening for the first two nights.

However, I got a nice shock the third night to round the corner to find the road covered with hard, tennis ball sized lumps of mud. Was swept off the night after, I'm not sure whether under persuasion from plod.

 

[MichaelW2]

Bump.
Newbie riders should read from the start.

 

[ManiaMuse]

After the clocks go back is another time to be wary. Suddenly drivers forget how to drive in the dark during the evening rush for some reason.

Night driving standards usually improve a bit by mid-winter in my experience.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Bridges with wooden decks. Slippery as hell. That bridge over the road at Manvers used to take me out at least twice a year.
All the thorn bushes will be shedding this time of year too.

 

[Randombiker9]

Not just that but in the new town, same county (been here since 13th). I don't bother using the cycle paths much too many fallen tree branches etc...

 

[mjr]

Not just that but in the new town, same county (been here since 13th). I don't bother using the cycle paths much too many fallen tree branches etc...

Please report them publicly on www.fixmystreet.com or otherwise, to rob negligent councils of a defence if another cyclist hits them.

 

[Randombiker9]

Please report them publicly on www.fixmystreet.com or otherwise, to rob negligent councils of a defence if another cyclist hits them.

Ok, i keep forgetting this is possible but do the councils actually deal with those things or not really?

 

[Drago]

My lot don't, but as MJR rightly points out by making the Carncil aware you deprive them of a defence if someone gets hurt on one.

 

[mjr]

Yeah, it's very unreliable at the moment, but public reports should hit them in the budget eventually, when they actually have to compensate crash victims instead of ducking behind the defence that it wasn't there when they last inspected and no one else had told them.

 

[PeteXXX]

 

[Mrklaw]

Actually looking forward to the clock change to help with low sun on the east-west commute in the evening. Morning it’s behind me which is less hazardous- as long as I’m careful at junctions

 

[BrumJim]

Politicians and Police. Well, they are if you have a Party Conference just around the corner from work!