People putting obstacals on cycle paths!

[night cycler]

Fortunately I came by this obstacle in daylight hours. Others cyclist may not have been so fortunate if cycling at night.

I snapped it off to make safe.

 

[Paulus]

looks like it as been snapped off and bent deliberately to get a passing cyclist. That is the calibre of some of our wonderful population

 

[Smudge]

Good job you made it safe, could have been costly.
A yoga instructor could have tripped over it and the fence owner would have been at least 50% at fault in a compo claim.

 

[MontyVeda]

Nasty!

I occasionally see a strategically placed pile of glass on the local shared paths, which will be more of a problem for dog walkers than cyclists.

 

[ColinJ]

Nasty!

Mind you, it gets MUCH worse... e.g. barbed wire at chest height!

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Looks pretty benign to me. Probably not aimed at anyone in particular. Just mindless vandalism I guess. Undoubtedly the work of a bored pensioner. Thugs.

 

[MontyVeda]

Looks pretty benign to me.

 

[Globalti]

Who would walk along there and think: "I'll just break off this fence stave and bend it over the path to catch a cyclist"?

It would take a massive effort to break that steel away from the bolt holding it to the top rail, definitely more than a human could manage with their hands. It looks to me as if it got damaged by a falling branch. Where did the spiky top go? Probably snapped off forwards by the branch, causing the distortion you can see around the bolt hole.

 

[Salty seadog]

Who would walk along there and think: "I'll just break off this fence stave and bend it over the path to catch a cyclist"?

It would take a massive effort to break that steel away from the bolt holding it to the top rail, definitely more than a human could manage with their hands. It looks to me as if it got damaged by a falling branch. Where did the spiky top go? Probably snapped off forwards by the branch, causing the distortion you can see around the bolt hole.

Some people do think and act like that though.

 

[lane]

On the local cycle paths we had a spate of stolen ebikes being used to knock cyclists off thier bikes. The scheme has now been suspended because the majority of bikes were either stolen or vandalised.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is that a cannabis farm the other side of the fence?

 

[MontyVeda]

Is that a cannabis farm the other side of the fence?

Fern the police!

 

[gavroche]

"Obstacles" is the right spelling in your title.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Fern the police!

And grass them up!

 

[Heltor Chasca]

And grass them up!

Ask for Special Branch.