Gunter Hauschildt wrote: > > A further caution for the parkway ... > > Two years ago I did my first ride in the park in April sometime, and > the roads were mostly clear ... except under the Kingsmere Rd. bridge, > at the bottom of the hill just before Penguin ... whose underpass I > was approaching at about 65kph. There was a shadow under the bridge of > course, so I couldn't see the 2-3ft of snow/ice that hadn't yet melted, > also on account of said shadow. The ONLY person I saw in the park the > whole day was a runner who was heading up the hill at the same time I > was screaming down ... he was able to yell and warn me. I shudder to > think of how bad I would have wrecked. > ......been there, done that too, about 4 years ago. No advance warning - realized that the shadow was ice about 50 m away, must have hit it doing at least 30 km/h. My recollection was that it was at least a couple of metres "long". Released the brakes just before going over it. Survived. I skied under there last weekend and it all came back.... -- Peter James Ottawa, Ontario
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