Iwasgoodonce
Old School Grand Master
Let me make this clear. I really like my roadbikes. This is a rant over the state of our roads which seemed so bad that I'm not sure I want to risk using my skinny tyred steeds.
I had to collect my car this morning after having the fuel pump replaced. It was a nice morning so rather than get the wife to drop me over to the garage in her car, I decided to ride the 30 or so miles. I rode a road I don't generally cycle on and was shocked at the condition of it. On a main A road there were small holes, large holes and holes so big one of those new Fiat 500's was stuck down it!
Even where there were no holes the wearing course was so knackered as to make sitting on the saddle very uncomfortable. I actually had to stand up on the pedals rigid MTB style! Even then my vision was blurred and the handle of my brand new pump (not cheap and it hadn't even lost it's tyre pumping cherry) vibrated loose and is gone forever. Even the small local road requires a pretty good slalom technique.
So Mr Brown/Darling my question is with fuel and road tax rising exponentially, why are our roads sh!t?
Here endeth today's rant. I'm off to enquire about plum transplants on the NHS>
I had to collect my car this morning after having the fuel pump replaced. It was a nice morning so rather than get the wife to drop me over to the garage in her car, I decided to ride the 30 or so miles. I rode a road I don't generally cycle on and was shocked at the condition of it. On a main A road there were small holes, large holes and holes so big one of those new Fiat 500's was stuck down it!
Even where there were no holes the wearing course was so knackered as to make sitting on the saddle very uncomfortable. I actually had to stand up on the pedals rigid MTB style! Even then my vision was blurred and the handle of my brand new pump (not cheap and it hadn't even lost it's tyre pumping cherry) vibrated loose and is gone forever. Even the small local road requires a pretty good slalom technique.
So Mr Brown/Darling my question is with fuel and road tax rising exponentially, why are our roads sh!t?
Here endeth today's rant. I'm off to enquire about plum transplants on the NHS>