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Out on the bike today, zipping around the vineyards over to Oppenheim which is an easy-ish 22km with a few decent gradients.

Between Zornheim and Mommenheim, there’s the most seductive concreted farm road.

It drops away from 230m ASL to 130m ASL in about 700 metres and I’m tanking down there, touching 45kmh and looking at the vineyard shelter in my immediate future.

Do I cut right onto the rough track or keep going on the concrete road?

No choice.

Full speed ahead..

But I couldn’t quite see where it went so I braked a bit.

And a bit more.

And a LOT more.

I came to a stop just before the road ceases to exist and a track does a sharp hairpin to the right.

What’s ahead?

Oh, a sheer 10 metre drop and vineyard posts and wires about 20 metres away neatly aligned to cushion the fall.

Bloody hell….