They say when travelling to watch your back, well they where so right today. I was quad biking around a mountain in knysna along the "garden route" on the South East coast of Africa . About 400k above cape town when watching my back took on a whole new meaning!! We where having such a laugh. A young honeymoon couple and myself where chasing the guide round this mountain and really getting a move on, the other couple where a lot slower and the girl was a bit frightened so the guide took her on further upfront. We all had to hang back from time to time so we could get some speed up, enabling us to hammer round the sandy burns. Anyway the slower slightly nervous man was lagging well behind everyone and every time his girlfriend (who was still in front with the guide) stopped or had a mishap!! We would again stop and wait for her to get a good distance in front again. We had stopped just round a bend and on a downhill section when the slower guy behind, had, unbeknown to us got all confident and fast!! I was uneasy at having to stop on a downhill bend so I was looking behind to see him arrive. He came round that bend really really fast and the look on his face when he spotted us at a standstill was something to see. He locked the quad up, hit a bank and left the bike to visit the forest head first!! Meanwhile his bike still airborne flipped up and landed on top of my bike!! But by then I was a long way down the track running from the rapidly approaching underside of his quad. Like I say.... always watch your back ;-) we had such a laugh though and no harm was done.From then on every time he caught up I would be standing next to my bike ready to run (made him laugh) Brilliant just brilliant

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