Cyclist injured by ‘medieval’ booby entice studded with four-inch nails
A well-liked mountain bike path has been booby-trapped with sinister home-made units studded with four-inch nails.
One bike owner has been injured by the medieval-looking spikes, which had been partially buried on the foot of a steep downhill path on the Philpstoun Bing close to Linlithgow, West Lothian.
Mountain biker Tich Kent was fortunate to flee critical harm after being spiked. The steel gadget – which had 11 four-inch nails welded to a base plate – shredded each tyres on his bike and left him with a puncture wound.
He believes it was laid as ‘path sabotage’ and should have been geared toward riders of motocross bikes.
The 50-year-old mentioned of the spikes: ‘This is next-level harmful sabotage.’
Mountain biker Tich Kent was fortunate to flee critical harm after being spiked. The steel gadget shredded each tyres on his bike and left him with a puncture wound
The steel gadget had 11 four-inch nails welded to a base plate and the 50-year-old mentioned of the spikes: ‘This is next-level harmful sabotage’
The well-liked mountain bike path close to Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland has been booby-trapped earlier than and a comparable gadget was discovered close by
A second comparable gadget was discovered close by, sparking fears a rider could possibly be severely injured.
Mr Kent, an IT employee, was out biking along with his spouse when the incident occurred on Saturday. On social media, he described driving over the gadget: ‘It slashed each my tyres, and my rear wheel flung it up with a lot drive it went by three layers of garments, together with padded shorts, and I’ve a puncture wound.
‘I’m nonetheless considerably in shock that somebody truly welded this factor collectively and put it on a path – it might have brought on real critical harm.’
Another bike owner who discovered the same gadget plans to return with a steel detector to verify for different traps on the paths.
Police are investigating and urged path customers on the bing, near the Union Canal, to be vigilant and are available ahead if any extra of the units are discovered.
