The pot hole thread.

[Dirk]

Are you expecting potholes on the way...?





Or have you been banished from the retirement thread!

Oops! Senior moment.

 

[Time Waster]

Potholes around the village are being patched up today. One outside out neighbours house. I want them to leave it as it makes people slow down, it is effective as kind of sleeping policeman. Otherwise there are way too many drivers doing 40 plus MPH in the 20 mph zone it is.

Plus that pothole repair usually fails in a lot shorter time than one year!! It really does not last.

 

[Milzy]

Going back to the OP and Garmin's pothole warning thingy. As above I switched it off because I found it distracting, but I still look at the warnings on the map. But gradually the whole of the UK road network is being covered with pothole warnings, beginning with areas popular with cyclists. So the prevalence of warnings doesn't mean more potholes, it just means more cyclists with Garmins reporting potholes. It's a kind of heat map but focusing on cyclists who use this feature.

Here's a view of the Surrey Hills.
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Aggregated, there are 17 reports around Peaslake and 14 around Box Hill. Are these particularly holey areas? No I don't think they are. There are holes, yes, but there are holes bloody everywhere.

Mine is really starting to cheese me off. How do I turn it off? I can’t be bothered to google it. It’s a load of B***ox. We are experienced cyclists been riding before this kind of tech, we use our eyes to take a line on the road.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Mine is really starting to cheese me off. How do I turn it off? I can’t be bothered to google it. It’s a load of B***ox. We are experienced cyclists been riding before this kind of tech, we use our eyes to take a line on the road.

Go to your road activity profile, select Alerts and Prompts
https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/web...UID-423EF83B-CF83-45E5-A6A6-FB02DAFB50A2.html

 

[Sharky]

15th January ...
National Pothole Day!!!!

The History and Significance of National Pothole Day | Cycle SOS https://share.google/chvJaebDEJHejl7b4

 

[ianrauk]

Hit a bloody pothole yesterday on the commute home. Raining and very dark made it hard to see.
Checked the rim and spokes at home and luckily no damage. I was worried as the previous (same make) wheels I'd only had for 3 weeks before cracking a rim/spoke hole on a pothole.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Before retiring I'd commute daily (eg Oxford->London->Oxford by car and drive to meetings horrendous mileage and never any broken suspension springs ever. In last few years had 3 broken front suspension springs, latest just a week ago. And in all cases repairing garage commented "we're doing loads of broken springs these days".

 

[Drago]

And in recent news our district councils highways authority (AKA Kier Group PLC), are one of the 13 worst in the country for pothole repair.

Strangely enough theyre much more diligent when it comes to paying shareholders https://www.kier.co.uk/investors/shareholder-centre/dividend-information/

 

[DRM]

Round this here corner of the world, Leeds City Council seem to think that a pothole repair means sending a repair person out, with a blow lamp and a handful of tarmac, which appears to have been thrown into the pothole, heated with the blow lamp, and jumped up and down on 2 or 3 times to flatten it out.

 

[fossyant]

Hit a bloody pothole yesterday on the commute home. Raining and very dark made it hard to see.
Checked the rim and spokes at home and luckily no damage. I was worried as the previous (same make) wheels I'd only had for 3 weeks before cracking a rim/spoke hole on a pothole.

I've dinged a brand new rim before, and written a few off.

Lucky !

 

[Dorset Boy]

Wiltshire are one of the few counties to have been given a 'green' in the new system.
Anyone from Dorset knows instantly the moment they have crossed into Wiltshire - the roads are simply shocking.
Clearly whoever set up this new system hasn't visited most of the counties.