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Message: [QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 229621, member: 16469"] I did hit a cable one time in 3rd or 4th gear. I was riding with a friend near his house (read: I didn't know the area). We came around a pond and were heading out toward the road so I got on it and passed him on a wheelie. After I got my him, I looked back to run it in. He didn't signal me or anything. When I turned back forward I saw the cable crossing the trail about 10 feet in front of me. You cover 10' in a hurry near the top of 3rd or 4th gear. I didn't even have time to try laying the bike down. It looked like the cable would hit the number plate so I kept hold with my hands, but jumped up with my body. I figured that when the cable stopped the bike I would make it up and over the bars as long as I held on with my hands. Either the cable was higher than I thought or it slid up and over the bike because I ended up with a decent sized cut right about in the middle of the top of each forearm. The bike went under the cable and I went over and landed on my back on top of the bike. Before I even bothered to check myself, I got up and yelled at him, "Why didn't you warn me!" He said that he figured I saw it. I never should have passed him in unfamiliar territory at that speed...and definitely shouldn't have been looking back. [/QUOTE]