Last night a cager saved my life... (maybe)

What colour was the carpet? I've been looking for an offcut for my downstairs loo.

Originally Posted by Balky001

This cager, was he a DJ?

First one to spot (or at least mention) the intentional pun

Dante: Looked a sort of browny yellow, with a grey underside. Probably still there if you're interested and the Vale of Glamorgan council are as lax with their roads as usual

Possibly a fortunate escape. Bit scary to imagine what might have happened. Glad your okay.

[Spiderman]

I'm glad you took the hint either way and saved yourself the butt clenching moment of realisation that its there and too late to stop

I would also have wanted to get the thing off the road for the safety of others. If the road is as dangerous to stop on as you guys say then i would deffo have called the cops. They can be really lazy in these kinda situations in my experience...and a little harmless exageration of the size of obstruction seems to gee them up a bit.

If they come back to say it werent that big you always have room to say "well it looked it to me...the speed i zoomed by it at"

OK dont say the last bit, natch, but it was dark.... seemed bigger etc etc.

Just dont ever bother to ask em to retrieve your wallet from a hard shoulder (dont ask..long story) as they say its too dangerous for them to do it at night and they can only do it when the suns up. They will happily pull over on the hard shoulder to arrest you if you wish to do it yourself tho. Pathetic eh?

Originally Posted by Monkey

Possibly a fortunate escape. Bit scary to imagine what might have happened. Glad your okay.

Thanks, yeah it was one of those "what if" moments- not really scary at the time, you just respond and avoid it, but it's later when you can relax a bit and it sinks in, "What if I'd not made it? I could be lying in the road back there..."

I think you can't be too blase about those sort of things, but you can't let it scare you too much. Analyse it, take it on board, do what you can to stop/lessen the chance of it happening again, go for another rider before common sense gets the better of you

Well you would have had a soft landing

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I had exactly the same experience about a week ago. Doing about 50mph and a car comes around a bend and starts flashing his lights at me. I thought that he was warning me of police, I wasn't speeding but am always paranoid when passing them. I started to slow and approached the bend and right in the middle of it was a For Sale sign that had fallen from the hedge next to the road. Yanked on the brakes and slowed but realised that I wouldn't be able to stop in time so eased off, gritted my teeth, and rode over it. Stopped further up and returned the board to the owner, with a few choice words included

i rememeber when i first got my bike.

riding merrily down the road (bit quicker than i should have been)
when a car goes by flashing me. . . .thought - thats strange, probably letting me know ive got my lights on

then another - what they trying to tell me- check make sure ive got everything - helmet, jacket, trousers

and another car does the same thing, just as im checking the bike to make sure its not on fire or something, glance up and a copper in a bush has just decided to start aiming his gun at me.

few evasive manovres, and i pass without incident.


lesson learned.

People just keep leaving their cars in front of me at the moment