swansonj
Guru
Doesn't sound like a bridleway gate, more like a footpath type installation. Are you sure of the path status?
If it is a bridleway then it might be worth contacting the local council R-o-W officer to inform them of the unsuitable infrastructure.
In the meantime if it is elegance you are looking for then i suggest you dismount and pass through the gate the sensible way.
It's a bridlepath - it comes along a private road then cuts across a field at the gate marked by the red pointer.
The whole area - road, fields, farm which is now light industrial-cum-artisan units - is owned by a private estate. They actually keep it in very good order and it would seem churlish to complain about a gate that does, after all, open. I'll keep my complaints for Sustrans paths where you end up lifting tandems over locked gates....