Old family friends drove home on a Devon road and on a down hill the husband swerved to miss an un-lit bicycle. His wife was dozing and didn't see the cyclist, a week or two later on the same road late at night in the same place, there he was again seen by both husband and wife as the husband swerved to miss the idiot.
After attending a family party near Bude the wife did the long drive home as her husband had 3 or 4 drinks.
As they approached the hill, he warned "look out for that idiot on the bike", "yes yes, ok" as they took a bend on the hill she swerved as they saw the same idiot at the last moment. "Stop the car I've had enough of this idiot" the husband ordered, Relucatantly his wife stopped and they got out of the car a little futher along the road. She'd stopped parked to the left side of the road and her husband stood to the side in the road to block the cyclist's way as the wife got out of the car. Her husband made startled call to the cyclist to stop, she saw the cycling upright figure who just kept coming, then they realised that there was no bike as the cyclist appeared to cycle through the back of their Land Rover and out the front of it and dissapeared.
Both shaken, they got in Land Rover that had been quite warm only to find it very icy cold and cold for the last 3 or 4 miles to their farm.
They had a couple of stiff drinks and went to bed, in the morning they'd both had a disturbed night and had a dreampt of being in a very old lorry and running over a cyclist.
Their Landrover would not start that morning, and had to have a new ignition coil, a week or so later they drove down the cyclist's hill and the engine faltered and stopped near the bottom. The Land Rover wouldn't start, the ignition coil had failed. All was well until they drove down the hill again and the engine cut out, the 2nd hand coil had failed. A new coil fitted they drove up the hill with no problems on another day out to there family near Bude.
On the return journey the husband insisted on taking the usual route to his wifes horror, they rounded the bend and there was no cyclist, as they passed the spot where they beleived they'd stopped the engine died and he lost control of the Land Rover and only stopped after running along a stone wall to the side of the road. The ignition had failed again and the braking master cylinder had failed or leaked.
They had the Land Rover towed away for repair near Exeter and exchanged it for a newer model.
They had some problem with a Potatoe crop that year and sold up and moved to another larger farm in Somerset.
The week they moved they saw the son of a local farmer walking along the road, they stopped and offered him a lift. His newly purchsed used Land Rover had broken down, as they drove him to his home he told that he had been to Bude that morning, on his way back he was coming down a hill and the engine just died.
They dropped him at his families farm and drove off back towards the hill all though it was out of their way. Parked in a field gate way at the bottom of the same hill was their old Landrover.
So just make sure you keep avoiding un-lit cyclists!
They later hear from an old neighbout of a Labourer who went off to the G
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