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.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I busted a wheel a few months back on a pothole, was especially annoyed as I managed to hit it on 2 seperate days because I forgot it was there. Council does not offer any ability to submit damage claims for bicycles either.

 

[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