Bcsmith
Well-Known Member
Hey fellow NC riders I would just like to share a story about my ride the other day. I usually ride the roads less travelled but I was out for a day trip and got up north where there are not many roads and an array of lakes and rivers. I was just kind of winging it as far as directions go and found a bunch of new to me backroads when I kind of got myself trapped by the waterways as most of the roads were dead ending. That’s when I came across Highway 11 and decided that as much as I avoid these roads I would take it to make a little better time on the way home. This is a divided highway with 4 lanes. So out I went and accelerated to keep up with traffic. I at all times trying to stay as far away from traffic as possible and scanning as far ahead as possible. I was behind a truck going into a bend and as I looked around him to search out road conditions I noticed something on the road ahead but then lost sight of it as the truck blocked my view but I stayed on the fact something was up there. Of coarse the truck straddles it and then it is right in front of me. I changed my lane position to avoid it and as I went by noticed it was a large coil of electrical cable. Just glad I was in position to see it so far ahead because of the turn in the highway and to prepare myself. I think it was large enough that it would have caused serious damage and probably would have dumped me as well. Just another reason I like the backroads.
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