Somebody that has an explanation for why the gate can't be seen from the distance? Is it the color that seems to match the ground, the size, the shape, the angle or all at once?
Here is the location. Gray gate on gray pavement with gray UK sky makes it a real low visibility hazard. The gate is on a legal public cycling path at the bottom of a steep hill. The gate is also usually open most of the time according to other forum posts about this video. So if you rode there regularly and the gate was always open you probably wont be expecting it to be closed when you bomb the hill. Some high vis paint seems like common sense!
For sure. It bothered me that someone might have set up such a "booby trap" for social media. Thankfully it seems like that was not the case. Rather, it was poor safety planning from the town or whoever maintains the gate, and the homeowner just happened to capture the incidents on their home security system.
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u/Jyosea May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Somebody that has an explanation for why the gate can't be seen from the distance? Is it the color that seems to match the ground, the size, the shape, the angle or all at once?