18-09-12, 10:20 AM
About 2 months ago on a trip to Brecon with the missus.
I'm going 5 mph down a hill on a single lane track, with a blind corner to the right in about 15 m...we'd just left the farm we were staying on about 1 min earlier. Suddenly a tractor screams up the road aiming for a gap in the hedge 10m in front to my left. I slow down, pull over to the right to let him through....I put my right foot out to find with horror that the solid bank has suddenly turned into a 1 ft ditch filled with water. Both me, the bike and her on the back go right in...absolutely soaked with the bike almost at 45 degrees facing down. I'm a bit trapped so can feel the water running down the back of my trousers, into the boots, into the gloves etc, she somehow manages to keep her footing and jumps straight off the bike like the gazelle she is.
The farmer and my wife were p*ssing themselves laughing as we lifted the bike back out...
I'm going 5 mph down a hill on a single lane track, with a blind corner to the right in about 15 m...we'd just left the farm we were staying on about 1 min earlier. Suddenly a tractor screams up the road aiming for a gap in the hedge 10m in front to my left. I slow down, pull over to the right to let him through....I put my right foot out to find with horror that the solid bank has suddenly turned into a 1 ft ditch filled with water. Both me, the bike and her on the back go right in...absolutely soaked with the bike almost at 45 degrees facing down. I'm a bit trapped so can feel the water running down the back of my trousers, into the boots, into the gloves etc, she somehow manages to keep her footing and jumps straight off the bike like the gazelle she is.
The farmer and my wife were p*ssing themselves laughing as we lifted the bike back out...
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