Another Strange One…

I set out this morning for a run on my FJ. Not far from home, on a small back road, I notice a car parked and an elderly couple who seemed to be mending a fence. I thought little of this but when I passed them I saw, at the last moment, a length of rope across the road. There was then an almighty bang. I looked round and saw some shattered plastic and the old guy remonstrating with me. I stopped some distance away but didn't want to debate with him so I continued on my journey. I assumed I'd hit something of his but I hadn't seen it.

A while later I stopped for fuel and noticed that the front part of the mudguard was missing. It seems that the rope had ripped it off.

I returned to the scene to find the remains of the mudguard and the couple gone. They were farmers setting up an electric fence. The rope was coiled up on the other side of the road and possibly not connected with their activities.

I fitted the mudguard from my old FJ, that is now becoming a donor bike. It's blue rather than black so I'll look for one on eBay. Failing that it should be a simple matter to spay paint it.

I got a bit of a fright but I'll put this incident down to just one of those things that happen.

***update*** 

Thinking about it I don't now think that the couple were farmers. They were too old and well dressed. I think that they were just passers-by that found the rope that may have blown across the road and were moving it. I'll never know for sure. 

For what it's worth I recovered the debris

I fitted the mudguard from my old FJ

The offending article