Logged off (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Logged off

4:07pm Tuesday 13th January 2009

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No doubt some joker found it hilarious… to bury a great big log of wood under a great big pile of fallen leaves on the bridleway path.

Fortunately (as seems always to be the case in these tales of biking woe!) I was pedalling uphill in the wooded area on our morning jaunt, and wasn’t going at break-neck speed. Far from it, in fact.

Nevertheless, by the time I’d spotted the tip of the wood poking through the leaves it was too late, and I was heave-hoed off the bike, fortunately into some benign, soft banking.

In the event it didn’t bother me too much, and it brought a bit of a smirk to the lips for a moment, thinking I had fulfilled someone’s little jape.

But, of course, had someone been coming down the hill, at a decent rate of knots, it could have had far more harmful consequences for the rider of the bike, or maybe even of a horse that could have stum-bled.

Falling from a bike is bad enough. But tumbling from the back of a horse at several feet above ground is no laughing matter.

Lesson learned, though. Be wary of leaves piled high on pathways!