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.

I heard a story once about a guy getting his head chopped off when he drove his ATV under some sort of cable.