Pothole Top Trumps

Crapaud
Crapaud Posts: 2,483
edited April 2010 in The bottom bracket
Where's got the best potholes?

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    Location: Glasgow south Length: 3 feet Width: 2 feet Depth: 8"
There are better than that out there So let's get our cameras and phones out and let's play Pothole Top Trumps!!!
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill

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  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    I am so going to win this......
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Crapaud wrote:
    Where's got the best potholes?

    4505232084_d4ecc30d9d_o.jpg
      Location: Glasgow south Length: 3 feet Width: 2 feet Depth: 8"
    There are better than that out there So let's get our cameras and phones out and let's play Pothole Top Trumps!!!

    LOL. I initially read that as 8 feet deep and couldn't believe you were so certain that would easily be beaten.

    Luckily for me, all the big nasty ones round our way were pretty swiftly dealt with.
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    markyboy2005 wrote:
    I am so going to win this......
    On no, you're not. :D
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    I can easily beat that.
    Unfortunately I won't be on the route until Tuesday but I will see what I can get then.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Crapaud wrote:
    markyboy2005 wrote:
    I am so going to win this......
    On no, you're not. :D

    Oh yes he is, they had an earthquake 3 days ago :!:
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    Crapaud wrote:
    markyboy2005 wrote:
    I am so going to win this......
    On no, you're not. :D

    Oh yes he is, they had an earthquake 3 days ago :!:
    :(

    Weeeell ... in that case it'll be disqualified. Potholes are due to lack of maintainence, not acts of God.

    Thread back on track ... :D
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Bah, stupid council has filled in the largest pothole - how dare they! :shock: :D
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    There was a beauty in Liverpool right after the snow and ice t'other month, virtually the whole of one side of the road was potholed, fortunately it was repaired pretty sharpish.
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    You need to add an extra stat.

    Wheel breaking potential: 3/10

    You see, there's no big hard edge at the back. Sure, this hole might throw you off, but it is not going to taco your rim.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    There's one near the local Chinese takeway... it's so deep it should have a diving board for when it rains.
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  • essexian
    essexian Posts: 187
    Newport Road in Stafford from past the Vets to the Railway bridge is just one pot hole or other crap piece of road surface after another.

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 9,,0,17.64

    The town direction is worse than the side taken by the Google Van.
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    How about the old road at Mam Tor? :wink:

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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Isn't Manchester one giant pothole? It needs filling in, quick!
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.
  • Heckler1974
    Heckler1974 Posts: 479
    There are some estates in Brighton that are complete holes, leave your bike there and it'll disappear completely..
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Bunneh wrote:
    Isn't Manchester one giant pothole? It needs filling in, quick!

    Nah! it's one giant sh1thole. :wink:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • donnie murdo
    donnie murdo Posts: 986
    I'm with you on that Crapaud..Nearly destroyed my front wheel today on London Road, Parkheed but the Southside looks like a scene from a post apocalyptic movie.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    I thought you'd have done more with this thread!

    But still, from here is this:
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    More of a pothole field than one major one, each of the two big ones is 3 yards long, and with a nice square edge as you ride/drive out of it. Then there's another three 'satellite' potholes orbiting the main ones covering pretty much the whole lane.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • JamesB
    JamesB Posts: 1,184
    Gloucester > Ledbury road, bridge over M50, helpful council sign `Weather damaged surface` no kidding :o drove over last week, maxm 5mph like a series of bomb craters liberally scattered over entire bridge, at least 4" deep and a test of avoidance skills in a car as so many.
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Here's a goodie ...Not only could you lose a wheel you could, potentially, lose the bike and the cyclist in this one.

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      Location: Glasgow south Length: 4 - 5 yards Width: 2.5 - 3 yards at it's widest Depth: 12" - 14"at it's deepest (the large puddle)
    It's impossible to cross without going in in a vehicle; you can only chose a best path.
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    There was a good one about 20 years ago by the post office, near where I used to live in St Helens. Just across the road from the old colliery, so there was the occasional problem with subsidence.... someone woke up one morning to find a hole had opened up in the road and swallowed their car :D
  • LazyBoycp
    LazyBoycp Posts: 320
    And we have a winner:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 025954.stm

    This happened near where I live last year. :)
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    At the back of my home there used to be a set of old garages, there was always some sort of subsidence there with holes getting bigger and bigger. Eventualy the owner of the land realised he'd make more money selling up. Place was flattened and flats built - there's already cracks in the rendering. That's gonna be one HUGE pothole, just hope they catch it soon.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    OK - for me that last ones in the lead so far. Well played !
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Well, i took a while and I am not sure that the photo will load but here goes:-

    Back road into Blackburn, Aberdeenshire taken last night.
    The high spots are where it was fixed last spring and it was smooth last summer.
    Thge worst part is that it is not an isolated bad patch. There are 4 other areas very similar within 100 metres.

    Pothole1.jpg
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Crapaud wrote:
    Here's a goodie ...Not only could you lose a wheel you could, potentially, lose the bike and the cyclist in this one.

    4510751934_64232715e1_o.jpg
      Location: Glasgow south Length: 4 - 5 yards Width: 2.5 - 3 yards at it's widest Depth: 12" - 14"at it's deepest (the large puddle)
    It's impossible to cross without going in in a vehicle; you can only chose a best path.
    Jesus! Where is that?! :shock:
    Emiliana the CAAD9
  • alitodd
    alitodd Posts: 104
    I had a 6 metre by 4 metre collapse in the road front of my house... on a singletrack lane :lol:
    But it was about 6 years ago, and I didn't take a photo of it :oops:
    So just to keep you entertained,
    http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/blogg ... nkhole.jpg
    :shock:
    I know not where I am going, my future will decide. But it's not the destination, it's the glory of the ride.

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  • Richard_D
    Richard_D Posts: 320
    No pictures But hampshires record for fixing holes is not great. Filthehole has a record of a pothole outside Ringwood Police station dating back 5 years, The hole, sorry holes, may not be large but they are still there. Cycling south from Salisbury last Saturday we did not need the sign to tell us we had crossed back into Hampshire the state of the road surface told us. Also going across the forest towards Sway one of the holes is bad enough that they have marked it with a traffic cone that is half visible out of the top of the hole

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