The opposite to a pot hole??

[Brommie77]

Having reported numerous pot holes this winter, I noticed that the council had been out in force reparing them - very efficient of them. HOWEVER they have filled them, and filled them, and mounded the tarmac up so that there are now humps and bumps where there were holes.

I'm not sure which is worse at speed for knocking you sideways - has anyone else noticed this new phenomina about?

 

[pshore]

Yeah.

I got a few on my cycle(foot)path about 2ft long, more like a speed bump and you have to be out of the saddle for 80psi touring tyres. They are never going to be squashed down.

Also, in the main carriageway there were some big cracks parallel to the white line. They have filled and gone over them with a strip of tarmac about 1ft wide. I discovered on my motorbike that they have quite a big lip on them. It's like trying to mount a dropped kerb while almost parallel to it. Quite unsettling.

In the past I have noticed the new patches are flush with the existing carriageway and have melted tar at the edge to seal without making a lip. I guess they have to dig out carefully before filling and the new way is cheaper.

 

[DrSquirrel]

This is what I call Anti-Potholes, and they are annoying and an obvious sign of a bodge job.

pshore, the last way you mention is the proper way in which they cut out a section slightly larger than the hole. But they are going for the cheap fill and forget, because they get out of their liability as they "repaired it", ignoring the long term cost of such repairs.

 

[XmisterIS]

I like speed humps when I'm on the mountain bike, you can get serious air on the big ones!

 

[gaz]

I like speed humps when I'm on the mountain bike, you can get serious air on the big ones!

I destroyed my hardtail catching some air on a speed bump.

 

[HLaB]

My Ridgeback sees too many speed bumps but I particularly like going down here ; its got a wee gradient to get you started and a nice long drag.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

I always have a chuckle to myself when I read you guys going on about pot-holes.

You don't know what pot-holes are until you've been here. Most of the main routes are reasonable, but once off a main road it's a joke.

I have to drive one particular stretch that currently it is impossible to avoid a hole because there are so many, and when they are 'repaired' in the spring (when the rainy season is over) they become, as quoted above 'anti-potholes'. The road is like the Vauxhall Motors test track.

I posted a vid on here not so long back, someone commented that it was pretty steady considering I was off road. I never explained that technically I wasn't and that the road I was on had a classification (just no surface).

I understand your definition of an anti-pothole, what would you call this;
The road was originally tarmaced but is now so bad that it is down to the base stone/hardcore, with a few 'islands' of crumbly tarmac sticking up (with particularly nasty sharp edges).

Honestly, you really have to see it to believe it over here. Think of some of the documentaries you've seen where African roads have been involved and that's Spain.

 

[HLaB]

My only of experience of road cycling in Spain was about 1200km in the South around the Costa Blanca and I thought the roads were great compared to ours.

 

[tyred]

I always have a chuckle to myself when I read you guys going on about pot-holes.

You don't know what pot-holes are until you've been here. Most of the main routes are reasonable, but once off a main road it's a joke.

I have to drive one particular stretch that currently it is impossible to avoid a hole because there are so many, and when they are 'repaired' in the spring (when the rainy season is over) they become, as quoted above 'anti-potholes'. The road is like the Vauxhall Motors test track.

I posted a vid on here not so long back, someone commented that it was pretty steady considering I was off road. I never explained that technically I wasn't and that the road I was on had a classification (just no surface).

I understand your definition of an anti-pothole, what would you call this;
The road was originally tarmaced but is now so bad that it is down to the base stone/hardcore, with a few 'islands' of crumbly tarmac sticking up (with particularly nasty sharp edges).

Honestly, you really have to see it to believe it over here. Think of some of the documentaries you've seen where African roads have been involved and that's Spain.

Sounds like typical Irish backroads to me.


This is one of the good oroads in my area. I had to abandon my usual riding route as it so badly broken up, the wheels sink into it, like riding across a boggy field.

 

[HLaB]

Sounds like typical Irish backroads to me.


This is one of the good oroads in my area. I had to abandon my usual riding route as it so badly broken up, the wheels sink into it, like riding across a boggy field.

If they paint a yellow line up it, they'd call it an N Road. Its a while since I've been to the west of Ireland but some of the so called main roads are a joke.

 

[tyred]

If they paint a yellow line up it, they'd call it an N Road. Its a while since I've been to the west of Ireland but some of the so called main roads are a joke.

That is a reasonably busy road between two towns and carries a lot of traffic, especially lorries. It's not a main road a such but certainly not a minor one either.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Oh yes. One of my favourite hill climbs has had work done and instead of the potholes we now have tarmac hills but not filling the whole of the hole. Spot on job RCT CBC.

Having reported numerous pot holes this winter, I noticed that the council had been out in force reparing them - very efficient of them. HOWEVER they have filled them, and filled them, and mounded the tarmac up so that there are now humps and bumps where there were holes.

I'm not sure which is worse at speed for knocking you sideways - has anyone else noticed this new phenomina about?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just googled ''hot pole'' which I thought might have been pretty much the opposite of a pothole. This is the first image google came up with...

 

[ThePainInSpain]

My only of experience of road cycling in Spain was about 1200km in the South around the Costa Blanca and I thought the roads were great compared to ours.

Costa Blanca is not southern Spain, it's a 5 hour drive north from Malaga.

I did say that the main roads are generally ok, it's when you get off them onto the 'B' and 'C' roads that the fun begins.