Riding a road bike over cattle grids ...

[Ajax Bay]

If you ride over a big [cattle grid], on a metal bike, at any sort of speed, you feel like you've been right hooked by a gorilla.

Surely a gorilla would not stoop so low as to hit below the belt.

 

[kiriyama]

Did 2 today, very slippy in the pouring rain!

 

[speccy1]

Could you ?
Should you ?

I ask because there is a really ride near me which has a couple of cattle grids in short distance. When I used to do the ride on my MTB I happily rode over them. However since I've started on the road bike I view them with deep suspicion and dismount. I think I'm being over cautious, does anyone else come across cattle grids on their rides ?

It`s riddled with the bloody things here in Devon, and I cringe every time I have to go over one, as my beloved bike shudders in pain, I hate them with a passion, so much so that I want to throttle the bastards who fitted them