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Had a little explore of some of the new bits around the Olympic park on the way to work this morning. Took a path over a bridge towards the stadium only to find it blocked and incomplete so turned back down an off ramp onto one of the trunk roads. Glided down to join the road which had bollards along it, picked a gap between them and bunny hopped off the path onto the road only to end up on my back with the bike in the air. I had completely failed to spot a blue rope running between all the bollards. They're heavy enough to bring me to a comical stop in mid hop and flip me onto my boat race. I ended up in a right tangle! All blue rope, diagonal Restraps and gravel. This was embarrassing considering the crowd of onlookers gawping at me from the bridge I'd just left.
Minor scrapes and some brake hood wonkiness. All's well.
What a plum!