Originally Posted by
chidonchea
And if your ride crosses cattle guards.
I've just noticed this.
Be very, very careful about aiming for the plates in wet weather. If they are polished as tram and railway lines are, and you try to run along them, you will come down very fast and very painfully on the grid. Polished steel is like ice, and I and other riders I know have come down hard on train and tram tracks.
I regard cattle grids in wet weather with great caution, to the point of stopping and walking over the last one I encountered.