Hole load of trouble

secretsam
secretsam Posts: 5,120
edited March 2014 in Commuting chat
Right: name and shame the hole time

This one just outside Hughendon Valley

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40855741@N04/12948983964/

Hit this in the pi55ing rain and dark the other week

Beat that
It's just a hill. Get over it.

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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Pffft. Easy.

    hole.jpg

    ... taken the day after it flipped me over the bars, leaving me with a broken T6.

    ...waits to be trumped...
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Pffft, you call those holes? I can see the bottom...
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,812
    edited March 2014
    Didn't hit it (or more accurately fallen down it), but saw a veritable moon crater on Rookery Road on Clapham Common this morning. Will try and get a pic next time I pass.

    ETA: seems to have been filled, which is good. The rest of North Street is however still the worst bit of tarmac I know in London.
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    How do I turn my URL into an image?
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • bobbygloss
    bobbygloss Posts: 317
    notsoblue wrote:
    Pffft, you call those holes? I can see the bottom...
    Does this count?

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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    davis wrote:
    Pffft. Easy.

    hole.jpg

    ... taken the day after it flipped me over the bars, leaving me with a broken T6.

    ...waits to be trumped...

    I reckon mine's bigger
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    SecretSam wrote:
    How do I turn my URL into an image?

    Like this;

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    Put your url between the brackets.

    Hope that helps. :D
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Graham. wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    How do I turn my URL into an image?

    Like this;

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    Put your url between the brackets.

    Hope that helps. :D


    Or got to full editor - paste the url in, highlight it and click the Img button above
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    This dwarfs even the holes that appear on Putney Bridge:
    ground_hole.jpg
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  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    SecretSam wrote:
    Right: name and shame the hole time

    This one just outside Hughendon Valley

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/40855741@N04/12948983964/

    Hit this in the pi55ing rain and dark the other week

    Beat that

    That's a pretty standard size one for Bucks. Saw/dodged at least 3 worse than that on my 20 mile ride over lunch today. The really bad ones will still have water in them!!!
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Coopster the 1st wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    Right: name and shame the hole time

    This one just outside Hughendon Valley

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/40855741@N04/12948983964/

    Hit this in the pi55ing rain and dark the other week

    Beat that

    That's a pretty standard size one for Bucks. Saw/dodged at least 3 worse than that on my 20 mile ride over lunch today. The really bad ones will still have water in them!!!

    indeed though hitting them on a road bike or at least one with narrow tyres has the potental to end badly, its the awkwardly placed ones I don't like.

    there is one on Hampton Court road in the cycle lane I hate, its not that big but its in the wrong place.
  • RedWheels
    RedWheels Posts: 56
    As they say in South Africa, hayibo!

    also why i only owned a mountain bike when i lived in SA
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    a hole like those are considered buttery smooth tarmac in these parts

    FACT

    when i'm fit enough to get back on the bike i'll snap a few for you
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  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    This thread just shows how crap the roads of Britain are and that we can all easily find some terrible potholes to photograph :(

    It reminds me of Majorca last year and where it took me 11 miles of riding before I saw my first pothole and it was a small enough one that could have been ridden through. I doubt there are many roads around me where I could even ride for a couple of miles before having to avoid a pothole! :evil: :(
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    davis wrote:
    Pffft. Easy.

    hole.jpg

    ... taken the day after it flipped me over the bars, leaving me with a broken T6.

    ...waits to be trumped...
    If you'd had a bicycle attached to your wheel, you might have stayed upright...
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Graham. wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    How do I turn my URL into an image?

    Like this;

    *****************
    Put your url between the brackets.

    Hope that helps. :D

    Didn't work?
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • memsley89
    memsley89 Posts: 247
    davis wrote:
    ...waits to be trumped...

    There's a good 'un on my commute, the edge of a drain cover has broken away so the pothole is actually the depth of the drain... i'll snap a pic later.

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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    There's one just outside Marsh Gibbon Service Station on the Bicester Road that's not just as big as a dinner plate but could probably accommodate the whole dinner service + butler. Reported, via the usual channels.
  • LiveGiantly
    LiveGiantly Posts: 348
    TGOTB wrote:
    davis wrote:
    Pffft. Easy.

    hole.jpg

    ... taken the day after it flipped me over the bars, leaving me with a broken T6.

    ...waits to be trumped...
    If you'd had a bicycle attached to your wheel, you might have stayed upright...

    :lol::lol::lol:

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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,041
    SecretSam wrote:
    Graham. wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    How do I turn my URL into an image?

    Like this;

    *****************
    Put your url between the brackets.

    Hope that helps. :D

    Didn't work?

    You need to right click and 'view' the image, until you can see a url finishing with .jpg - grab that and shove that between the img's as shown above and Robert is your brothers Auntie or something:
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Daniel B wrote:
    You need to right click and 'view' the image, until you can see a url finishing with .jpg - grab that and shove that between the img's as shown above and Robert is your brothers Auntie or something:
    12948983964_0820cb6340_b.jpg

    Oi! Where'd you get that photo of my bike??? you been following me?!?!?!?! :wink:
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • mattgeezer
    mattgeezer Posts: 1,805
    Heading through Turville towards Marlow the whole road surface is breaking up, massive holes with cones in them to protect cars!
    Water is still draining off the fields and through the roads!
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    mattgeezer wrote:
    Heading through Turville towards Marlow the whole road surface is breaking up, massive holes with cones in them to protect cars!
    Water is still draining off the fields and through the roads!

    There's a bit of a Bucks theme developing here. Are we the only ones to have suffered from the pothole deluge?
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    itboffin wrote:
    a hole like those are considered buttery smooth tarmac in these parts

    FACT

    when i'm fit enough to get back on the bike i'll snap a few for you

    +1, these shots all look like most of my commute. It was too wet to show off the worst holes (looked like you could see the bottom), but I thought I'd show off what passes for a cycle facility in these parts:

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    You need to up your game, nice bit of mud washed onto it for good measure

    Bi2fI4IIgAAhREj.jpg:large

    oh and i can confirm its ankle deep :x
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    I spotted a repair team out on Brewood Road, between Coven and Brewood in Staffordshire. I think they only do one hole at a time because when I next rode along that stretch there were three patches of repair, but at least ten other more deadly potholes in sight.
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  • mudcovered
    mudcovered Posts: 725
    itboffin wrote:
    You need to up your game, nice bit of mud washed onto it for good measure

    Bi2fI4IIgAAhREj.jpg:large

    oh and i can confirm its ankle deep :x

    That has to be Wiltshire. Only place I ride where the canal towpath is smoother than the road. :cry:

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Yup Windshire it is and that not the worst road either :evil:
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