Traveling down the road at 65mph and looking ahead to set up the next curve and looked up front just in time to DUCK.

A TV cable was hanging about 3 - 4 feet off the ground straight across the road. It was at at a slight angle, I ducked and swerved to the right and the cable glanced off the top of my helmet and also just across the left mirror. It almost caused a tank slapper. I looked in my mirror and my friend who saw what happened had the cable completely miss him.

A cable guy was stringing a new cable with a messenger across the highway. He told us that just as the cable was slipping across his shoulder, he heard us approaching and he may have lifted the cable some or he at least, prevented it from falling further. It rattled him and my friend more than it did me. I guess because they saw it developing more than I did.

If I had been just a second slower, it would have caught me straight across the face or neck and probably would have pulled the cable guy off the 20 foot ladder. I have a small scuff across the top of my helmet as a bit of memorabilia. My mirror? No damage, I just had to re-adjust it.

WOW! I've heard (and only heard mind you) that some border patrol agents on ATVs have encountered near decapitations from booby traps based on that same premise - low slung cable across the road/trail in a place they wouldn't expect to see it. Glad you dodged that bullet my man.

The Cable Guy said that he immediately got on the phone to tell a friend that he almost killed a guy on a motorcycle.

You are very lucky--unmarked cables can cause horrific injuries, particularly if they're secured at each end. Every once in a while you'll hear about an ATV rider hitting a cable strung across a dirt road or trail to close it off, often with tragic results.

Barbed wire + teenaged idiots going fast + ATVs and bikes = lots of flowers being sent in my rural county in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

Glad you're okay!

Phew! Scary! Glad you're ok.