Cattle grids how to ride them on a road bike?

[Ian H]

They're seldom a problem if you're sensible. The only difficult ones are uphill when it's wet. As for bottoming on the rim, tyre's too soft.

 

[SS Retro]

but there are round barred ones on Exmoor which are very nasty.

There all round bars round here lots on busy'ish roads so there polished too. Like this one fine when its dry, its in a dip so you get plenty of rain run off from the fells above for hours after the rain has stopped.

 

[SS Retro]

This a close up of the same grid shows the profile of the bars, pointy with nice exposed sharp ends to the longitudinal supports.

 

[Nebulous]

I did a sportive last year in the wet and slid on a cattle grid fairly early on, but recovered ok. Several people fell off and it finished a couple of them right away. Since then my approach has been - square on to the bars, medium speed, stay seated and relaxed and don't pedal!

 

[Alun]

Just ride over them at 90 degree's and you will be fine! Don't over complicate it.

+1, and keep off the brakes !

 

[gaz]

I've got one on a climb near me, can take it as low as 5mph without a problem, it has flat beams though and not rounded bars.

 

[Cyclopathic]

..."I've never come this way before"; the second one replies "Must be the cobbles"

That one?

Yep.

 

[hobbitonabike]

This a close up of the same grid shows the profile of the bars, pointy with nice exposed sharp ends to the longitudinal supports.

Oh thats a fave view!! Love Coniston. Not ridden over it but have run over it when I did the Coniston 14 earlier this year. Oh and I always walk over cattle grids because I'm a total wuss while hubby just flies straight over them.