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Slurry on the roads

My riding buddy has just spent several days in hospital with D&V, severe headache and swollen joints, probably caused by a bug she picked up on the Round the Isle of Wight ride where overnight rain left suspicious brown mud at the entrance to various farms. We think a bug splashed onto her drinks bottle; an instance where cheaper bottles like Decathlon's, with a protective top, seem to give an advantage over expensive ones. I have ordered a cover for my Camelback bottle; with no front mudguard and a bottle on the down tube you are in effect applying an aerosol, and farmers are busily applying slurry to the fields at the moment. Lesson learnt.

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Fish_n_Chips | 8 years ago
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Happened to my lady, had no cover and slurry on a gate.

Gave her severe runs...

Think I better order my plastic cover too!

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Batchy | 8 years ago
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The farmers concerned are in fact in breach of the road traffic act by knowingly leaving slurry on the highway !

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bechdan | 8 years ago
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savour the flavour!
and then get a mudguard

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