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9:47am on Monday, 13th October, 2025:
Anecdote
I was out on my bike yesterday, turning a corner at the bottom of a hill on a narrow, country lane, when I encountered a string of six Men in Lycra zooming down on bikes in the opposite direction. The lead one was acting as spotter, it being his job to warn those behind him of oncoming vehicles. This, he did:
"CAR! ...oh, bike ... BIKE!"
He was lucky I wasn't a car, because had I been one he'd have ploughed right into me. That narrow, country lane was very narrow.
I don't know why it is, but all the narrow, country lanes in our vicinity that have a hill in them curve behind trees when they get to the bottom of the hill so you can't see what's round the corner as you barrel down them at speed. We must lose many Men in Lycra to nasty accidents because of this, so I understand why the council would be reluctant to improve visibility there.
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