Originally Posted by
corrado33
Cattle guards here in montana are hard to even run across. Your leg could easily get stuck down in one of the holes and the bars themselves are slippery as anything. I wouldn't dare try riding across one on a road bike. Mountain bike maybe, never a road bike though. Honestly for these, a carpet wouldn't even do anything. As for train tracks? I'd say get used to them, they're not bad.
+1 even as a dumb kid in Montana I didn't ride across cattle guards
and a odd bit of trivia: In Alberta they called cattle guards "Texas Gates"
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