I fell off my bike, so I'm ravin' mad ....

[ToughButterCup]

Ok, I bounced on impact, nuffin broken, just a lovely multicoloured bruise starting : but still - look at this 

 

Yes I was distracted, yes I was a bit careless, full of the joys of early Spring. Happy to be on my mountain bike, fizzing with annoying amounts of energy.

 

So whatcha gonna do about it?

 

Be positive: fill the damn thing 

Be normal: ignore it 

Be negative: moan about it.

 

How about all three:

 

Fill it, moan to the Council, and ignore the consequences?

 

Advice from the Commentariat please. 

 

[Nickfromwales]

Just popped a £300+ tyre in a fecking pothole. 
 

Roads in the UK are looking more and more like a WWII, heavily shelled runway.

 

Going to claim, been told 4-26 weeks, and still may get rejected. Ffs.

 

Zero joy, no bastard spare tyre. Pulled all the boot apart and Mercedes had fitted the factory upgraded subwoofer in there instead……sounds fabulous, not great if you get a puncture.

 

UK roads are getting to be like we’re living in a 3rd world country, plus we keep getting street lights turned off, permanently, and then just chopped down to ugly stubs which have been left to avoid the cost of the electrics needing isolation etc. Looks terrible. 

[Mulberry View]

All whilst we fund road projects in the Far East. I wonder if their roads will soon be better than ours.

[kandgmitchell]

41 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

UK roads are getting to be like we’re living in a 3rd world country,

I was thinking this myself over the weekend when we travelled down to Stamford to see friends, there were potholes everywhere on all classes of roads. At least during the day you can weave around them but at night on unlit country roads it's just dangerous as per the OP's experience.

[ToughButterCup]

Folks ours are not as bad as East German roads in the 80s. 

 

Road decks that in a bit of sunshine melted enough for braking vehicles to cause a runnel across the line of traffic: meaning that at every single traffic light you drove over what looked and felt like corrugated iron sheeting.

 

And that's the problem, generally our roads are reliable. Increasingly not so, but the vast majority of our roads is at least OK. 

 

Shoulder's aching now 😞

Edited yesterday at 14:12 by ToughButterCup

[Nickfromwales]

11 minutes ago, kandgmitchell said:

I was thinking this myself over the weekend when we travelled down to Stamford to see friends, there were potholes everywhere on all classes of roads. At least during the day you can weave around them but at night on unlit country roads it's just dangerous as per the OP's experience.

My son drives down to Illfracombe and popped a front tire in what he described as a canyon sized pothole, got a £150 breakdown fee to get him off a bloody dangerous stretch of road, and then popped the replacement brand new tire down there on the way back home. 
 

Double ffs, with added (expletive deleted). 

[ToughButterCup]

OK, lets see what's to be done here....  (Its here)

My thoughts -- its a single lane track

• Dry Lean mix
• Fill
• Level
• mark with 'spare' road furniture for a while 
• Wait an hour or so
• recover the traffic cones
• Deny I did it
• Blame @Pocster ( tell them he was waiting for hair to grow on it ???)

For / Against / Dunno / Don't be so daft / Steal proper road furniture and block it off good and proper 

 

Your vote please....

PS : just drop a spare bag of cement on it?😑 ?

Edited yesterday at 14:32 by ToughButterCup

[ProDave]

There was a pot hole here at the edge of a road that every day someone put a traffic cone in it. As soon as the council removed the cone, another one appeared, until they took the hint and filled it.

[jack]

This winter's been bad for tarmac health. It feels like it's barely stopped raining since the first week of January, and I've really noticed the potholes in the last couple of weeks. 

 

I saw something the other day from one of the larger county councils (I think) saying that their entire annual budget for potholes would, if they could spend it all at once, fix less than 10% of current reported potholes. 

 

1 hour ago, ProDave said:

There was a pot hole here at the edge of a road that every day someone put a traffic cone in it. As soon as the council removed the cone, another one appeared, until they took the hint and filled it.

 

There's a massive crater near my inlaws that's had a traffic cone in it for weeks. There are bigger potholes on bigger roads that will need to be filled first so I can't see it being done in the foreseeable future.

[Nickfromwales]

The ones on the motorway get me, bad enough in a car but must be horrific for bikers.

[ToughButterCup]

Right oh, I get the hint.

 

Lean mix it is with a water-filled plastic barrier on it for a morning or afternoon. Or Both 🤔 - but not overnight

Piccyz to follow.

Edited yesterday at 17:01 by ToughButterCup

[Nickfromwales]

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Blue-Circle-Quick-Set-Concrete---20kg/p/133769?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PMAX Shopping||Cement %26 Aggregates&gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=20270986274&gbraid=0AAAAADs4IsYOANBSeLHJsbmqj-njvueG3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAy6vMBhDCARIsAK8rOgnDqse4ZsMWkB6Z9L53s2aHSe14vWE4qM_8lLBu7BpXN81UQ7X4ZrsaAogrEALw_wcB

[SteamyTea]

I hit a new pothole at work. Two hours later 20 metres of the car park was disintegrating, that became 40.

Pot hole is now about 3 metres deep.

 

[Onoff]

32 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

I hit a new pothole at work. Two hours later 20 metres of the car park was disintegrating, that became 40.

Pot hole is now about 3 metres deep.

 

 

Dawn French could fill that.

[mjc55]

It could be worse!  I fell off my bike about 4 years ago, broken leg and wrist!  🤕

[Onoff]

Not boasting but compared to here that is nothing but a skid mark. A foot deep isn't uncommon. They are proper tyre/alloy killers. Managed to hit a rain filled one and it displaced the tyre off the rim the other week. 

 

Doesn't help my road is a seasonal water course / raging torrent at times. I did think once to kayak the 3.5 miles to the pub at the end of the valley. 

 

Posted a while back but this was the "road" at the bottom of my drive:

 

 

Once that gets under an existing pothole it just tears it up. 

[Conor]

Unrelated, but one of my worst mountain bike crashes was due to a pothole. Towards the end of the Mega Avalanche qualifying, cruising down a short section of connecting road, had one hand off the bar to give it a rest from the brake pump. Hit a hidden pothole, next thing I knew I was about 20m further down staring up at the trees. Knocked myself out, broke my helmet and cam, slightly concussed and had whiplash for three months. 

 

Worst part was I was running well in the top 25, maybe 10, and was only 5mins from the end of the run. bike was fine tho 🤣

[ToughButterCup]

So it looks like I'll be Livestreaming from Potters Brook Potholes in 't mornin'. 

 

Fanx @Nickfromwales

 

Has anyone ever watched concrete harden live on Tinternet? 

 

Suppose I'd better get one of my road plates to cover it for a while. That'll be a pig. 😳

 

You saw it here on Buildhub first!  

 

Might give the local paper a ring just to sex things up a bit eh? 

[ToughButterCup]

Anyone know how to prepare the hole? 

 

( Shaaadup @Pocster )

[Onoff]

I've thought about filling potholes with a heavily, SBR laden mix as it sets super quick and seems pretty resilient. 

[Onoff]

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

Anyone know how to prepare the hole? 

 

( Shaaadup @Pocster )

 

The hole is presumably down through layers of different substrate. I've thought about this myself. Do you take out as much loose stuff as possible in the hope of bonding to the sides or undercut a bit more to make like a dovetail detail?

 

 

[ToughButterCup]

I'm just going to take my Stihl blower, a stiff brush a clay spade and spare bit of OSB -

 

blow>shovel>sweep>mix>pour>level>cover> wait >polish my halo> uncover> tea, medals.

 

I might scratch the date into the surface - or maybe play a game of noughts and crosses on the semi-dry surface. 

[SteamyTea]

Is one allowed to repair a public asset without permission?

[Nickfromwales]

13 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Is one allowed to repair a public asset without permission?

That's a very big "no".

[SteamyTea]

2 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

That's a very big "no".

Not like the Dutch, they are allowed to put a finger in a dyke to stop the dribbling.

So much more liberal.