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Riding home from college today I was coming the usual way home; down Preston Hill.
http://i42.tinypic.com/66yvd5.jpg
Now as you can see it's not a particularly large or steep hill, but you can definitely get up some spped(computer said 35 but I think that's off, more like 25/2).
Where I turn off the hill is a relatively sharp left turn that has, quite recently, been sharpened further to stop drivers gunning the blind corner.
http://i44.tinypic.com/sm7ccy.jpg
All well and good, except you can't see the road surface for the bollards, so you don't see this crap ALL over the road until it's on you, going around 20 on a fully leant corner in drizzle.
http://i39.tinypic.com/mvp0ky.jpg
Oh shit! precisely.
Luckily, there was no oncoming traffic, so I ducked onto the other side of the road and missed it, but I'm pretty sure that I would have slid out had I not. I got off to take the photos and saw that it was diesel, but it's not just this patch;it continues for about 200m down the road. Bloody buses...
Apologies for the huge images, I couldn't find a way to resize them.