Off in the Edgbaston Tunnel

[GrahamG]

That bit is amazingly dodgy - I near shat myself first time I went through there. I was on 23mm tyres, riding fixed and blinded by sunlight before hitting the dim tunnel. Fun!

 

[Will1985]

That tunnel is renowned for having a crap surface - I know of cyclists who have gone down like MrP and of runners who have rolled ankles in there. The lights help, but invariably one is out.

I run through and take off my sunglasses which make it hard enough with the lights on, but there was one occasion when a light had blown and I was running 'blind' - it's weird because you can always see the light at the end (the tunnel only being 95m long)

 

[4F]

Well it obviously isn't lit *enough*, is it.
The night sky is lit, by the moon. But it isn't lit enough to cycle without lights. That isn't the council's fault!

The fact is you went careering down a blind duck path little more than 2 feet wide at breakneck speed into the pitch blackness without lights, heard a quacking noise ahead and instead of braking to spare the duck, you decided to accelerate and mow it down, but unfortunately it wasn't a duck but a large goose and in running it over it caused you to fall off. Due to fatness, you then became wedged in the railing.

You then decided to concoct a cock and bull story about it being a pothole that caused you to fall off, in order to blame the council.
You are hoping you are going to be believed because conveniently no-one else was in the tunnel to witness this incident.

I for one however can see through this little ruse, because the fact is that you have ridden through this tunnel countless times before so if there was a pothole, you would have known where it was.

If you'd cycled on the road this wouldn't have happened!

I think you have hit the nail on the head Bonj.

 

[Will1985]

RichK - I've looked back at your posts and see you work at UoB. If you're still doing that Raddlebarn/Bournbrook route, we must have passed each other at some point.
Which area do you work in?

 

[magnatom]

you shouldn't rely on there being lights in a tunnel!

In fact council-run tunnels are probably best steered clear of. did you not read magnatom's recent thread about how he got stuck in a tunnel because the council locked him in there - after he'd gone in one end and they locked it behind him, but then wouldn't let him out the other?

Uuumm... that's not quite what happened...