Claiming from the council

benjamess wrote:

Only one winner if you claim. The blood sucking solicitors taking in their fees.

reacher wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

reacher wrote:

Webboo wrote:

In this case if I'd been walking I would tripped over this lump, it was that hidden.

In that case you have learned a lesson then, slow down when you can't see what's ahead
And suck it up as a hard lesson and stop trying to jump on the claim off the council gravy train that you and others seem to think that tripping over stuff on the road or pavement requires a substantial reward funded by the taxpayer, do you realy think that with all the thousands upon thousands of miles of road and pavements in the UK that every single yard is going to be billiard table flat ? If you want perfect flat stay on the turbo your completely unrealistic to expect every yard of road to be perfect.

At what level of intervention/fault do you consider that you get off the gravy train and onto the justice train?

none, learn to ride a bike, keep your eyes open and stop trying to get money that needs to be spent on things that are essential not people scraping theirs knees because they fell off the bike on a road they did not need to ride on, you want smooth road then go and find one an go up an down that particular piece of road, like bike riders have never fallen off bikes an all of a sudden you do so you now need to get a reward for doing so ?
Jesus, wish i had known about this particular wheeze when i was a kid, would be a zillionaire by now

1)A person (“the complainant”) who alleges that a way or bridge—
(a)is a highway maintainable at the public expense or a highway which a person is liable to maintain under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, and
(b)is out of repair,

DavidJB wrote:

I manage to ride 12,000 miles a year and not once have I fallen off due to a bad road surface. Sounds like you need to develop some bike handling skills.

ZMC888 wrote:

I complained about smashing a wheel and ruining a new Conti GP4000 on a pot hole. Reported where it was and that the road (country lane) was cracking due to water damage and would need repairing soon. I detailed the exact places by GPS and with a local OS map.

I got a short response from the local CC engineer.

1. We don't care about cyclists - if the road is passable with care (eg a car) screw you.
2. We don't care about country lanes, only main roads as we don't have enough money to maintain country roads as main roads are important for the economy.
3. You can't simply tell us about something like frost or water damage or a road that might need surface dressing or drainage unblocking before it looks like a lunar landscape, that takes too much of our precious time.
4. You may ONLY mark on a map where there is a pot hole on our council website. No other type of damage is acceptable to be reported. No other kind of road than an A or B road.

In short they don't care, you'd have to take them to court. You'd probably lose, they'll just say it was 'passable with care' and that you didn't use enough care and attention. Bad luck if you didn't know the road and some giant pot hole is under a puddle. :roll:

Fudgey wrote:

The view at night, the red light is obv my bike, using my front light to show what i could see.



And in the clear light of day


I spoke to a guy working on the farm and he said it had been like that for years and he had seen a car hit it and spin... So i kept on at the council to put uneven road signs up, which they did eventually and now the road has been repaired.

reacher wrote:

Yet you want the local councils to go and put every yard of road and pavement to a perfect condition if they said ok we can do that but we want cyclists to pay a tax to use the roads much like motorists I presume your quite happy to do so in order that they can repair roads for you ?

Fenix wrote:

Can you expect a 'perfect' road surface ?

Debeli wrote:

I have no experience. I have crashed many, many times over the decades. Sometimes I have been unhurt; sometimes I have been injured. Sometimes the bike has had a wallop; sometimes it has escaped injury.

On occasion the reason, beyond my own momentary inattention, might have been ascribed to a poor road surface.

These things happen.

Life is full of such incidents. I am not sure why someone would want to pursue another party in an attempt to attach blame to them and generate some financial benefit.

To my mind it is slightly egregious and gauche even to consider the action. The local council is not a 'baddie' in a cowboy film. It is the local-government body that attempts to manage local finances to the wider benefit of the community. What a strange instinct it is to see them as a party from whom to squeeze money after falling off a bicycle. I may be wrong.