GO MAG! This is what you get from government who's only mantra is reducing taxes!! Crumbling infrastructure. Great video by the way ! As a biker your increased focus has to be on the next 20 metres of road ahead, in order to weave in and out of the potholes and drain covers. So planning the ride ahead has become a non-starter.
Watched a retired Highways engineer consultant interview and he says the main reason we are getting so many potholes is because the old practise of Tar and Chippings which he says used to protect against potholes for a minimum of 15yrs is a victim of cutbacks. He explained the tar in liquid form sealed the cracks against water penetration and the chippings dressed the surface against premature wear. It used to annoy us driving on freshly laid chippings but the practise needs bringing back urgently.
We have a number of motorcycling clients who have been badly injured due to road surface defects on Scotland's roads. Potholes, surface dressing, wrong use of materials etc. We have sued the local authority responsible on many occasions and been successful. However, sadly, their practices do not seem to alter.
14:20 "We're asking local Authorities to review the competence of their assessors". A good call but also why not contact your local MP and make them DIRECTLY accountable. With so much fake news and media spin/bias its hard to know where the truth is with many things, BUT potholes are real and a clear and present danger to cyclists and motorcycles we can do something if we make our Local MP accountable, there must be enough of us to apply direct pressure, I'm fed up with "asking nicely" as they clearly demonstrate they just don't care about us..
Had a scary slide on a left hand bend this weekend. There is gravel in the middle of each lane on many bends from the road surfaces deteriorating. This is particularly bad in Wales.
Hit a pothole a couple of days ago whilst driving my car - the impact was enough to actually break the suspension spring. I'm only glad I was in the car at the time, not on my bike. The problem is that the authorities bodge the repairs instead of doing proper resurfacing - the bodges last between 2-4 weeks and then the nature of repair makes the pothole worse as well as leaving more debris all over the road.
One of the worst roads in the country must be the Bishops Avenue in north London. It must be one of the most expensive places to buy a property but the road is so dangerous. It has a 40mph limit on it but if you travel at more than 20mph you are risking your bike and life as you have to swerve all over the place to avoid all the potholes and broken surface. Keep up the great work that you do.
How much does the DVLA raise in road tax in a year ? which we pay for the priveledge of using our roads. and why is it not being used to repair our roads.?
We are expected to maintain a certain standard of road worthyness of our vehicles through MOT and if we do not there are legal penalties fines etc if we dont comply,also we pay road taxes presumably for the upkeep and maintainance of the roads and we as motorcyclists are one of the more vulnerable of road users so the under funding of road repairs is a direct threat to our very lives and is totally unacceptable its a disgrace ive toured France,Germany,Spain,Scotland on motorcycle trips and I can tell you our roads are the worst by far.
Hit a large pothole with many others in my subaru £495 for the wheel£195 for tyre.tried to claim but was told as road was inspected within previous 6 months no case to answer!!¡!!!!!@@@@@
Pot holes... Sink holes, bad enough in my little car nevermind a motorbike I only found this because my car fell down one of these today and I'm just sick of it
Diversity management is soooo much more important than potholes.. I'm so pleased as a taxpayer my money being used for Diversity than roads...£500 on road tax £250 on new tyres due to potholes.. no gully emptying... water all over the road surfaces...our roads are so dangerous... roads in France spain and Italy are way ahead of ours. We have third world roads and third world country... we've imported third world what do we expect
What you've got to understand is that the Government needs to save money, so they can GIVE AWAY 11 BILLION POUNDS TO OTHER COUNTRIES. Only 3974 people can be bothered to sign the petition, well they know we mean business now. What a joke. Maybe we could get the saviours of the planet ( cyclists) to get involved, we'd get everything we need at no coast to us at all, other people can pay for it.
MAG, the only National organisation standing up for bikers on a daily basis.
Great Video really sums up the gap between the rhetoric and reality, the United Kingdom's roads are a really danger to road users
GO MAG! This is what you get from government who's only mantra is reducing taxes!! Crumbling infrastructure. Great video by the way ! As a biker your increased focus has to be on the next 20 metres of road ahead, in order to weave in and out of the potholes and drain covers. So planning the ride ahead has become a non-starter.
Yep, even worse at night and/or in the wet when potholes masquerade as puddles...
Watched a retired Highways engineer consultant interview and he says the main reason we are getting so many potholes is because the old practise of Tar and Chippings which he says used to protect against potholes for a minimum of 15yrs is a victim of cutbacks. He explained the tar in liquid form sealed the cracks against water penetration and the chippings dressed the surface against premature wear. It used to annoy us driving on freshly laid chippings but the practise needs bringing back urgently.
We have a number of motorcycling clients who have been badly injured due to road surface defects on Scotland's roads. Potholes, surface dressing, wrong use of materials etc. We have sued the local authority responsible on many occasions and been successful. However, sadly, their practices do not seem to alter.
14:20 "We're asking local Authorities to review the competence of their assessors". A good call but also why not contact your local MP and make them DIRECTLY accountable. With so much fake news and media spin/bias its hard to know where the truth is with many things, BUT potholes are real and a clear and present danger to cyclists and motorcycles we can do something if we make our Local MP accountable, there must be enough of us to apply direct pressure, I'm fed up with "asking nicely" as they clearly demonstrate they just don't care about us..
Had a scary slide on a left hand bend this weekend. There is gravel in the middle of each lane on many bends from the road surfaces deteriorating. This is particularly bad in Wales.
Hit a pothole a couple of days ago whilst driving my car - the impact was enough to actually break the suspension spring. I'm only glad I was in the car at the time, not on my bike. The problem is that the authorities bodge the repairs instead of doing proper resurfacing - the bodges last between 2-4 weeks and then the nature of repair makes the pothole worse as well as leaving more debris all over the road.
One of the worst roads in the country must be the Bishops Avenue in north London. It must be one of the most expensive places to buy a property but the road is so dangerous. It has a 40mph limit on it but if you travel at more than 20mph you are risking your bike and life as you have to swerve all over the place to avoid all the potholes and broken surface.
Keep up the great work that you do.
The issue for me is looking in front of the bike instead of down the road, especially on unfamiliar corners
How much does the DVLA raise in road tax in a year ? which we pay for the priveledge of using our roads. and why is it not being used to repair our roads.?
can we have iron work removed from bends next, 2 lovely examples on the snake pass heading down into glossop,
And those stupid white/ yellowchevrons on some corners, slow signs etc, slippy as hell in the wet.
We are expected to maintain a certain standard of road worthyness of our vehicles through MOT and if we do not there are legal penalties fines etc if we dont comply,also we pay road taxes presumably for the upkeep and maintainance of the roads and we as motorcyclists are one of the more vulnerable of road users so the under funding of road repairs is a direct threat to our very lives and is totally unacceptable its a disgrace ive toured France,Germany,Spain,Scotland on motorcycle trips and I can tell you our roads are the worst by far.
that's a coincident stoke or stafford being the police rider training area. and i can only see that machine being broke down more than being used.
Hit a large pothole with many others in my subaru £495 for the wheel£195 for tyre.tried to claim but was told as road was inspected within previous 6 months no case to answer!!¡!!!!!@@@@@
Whereabouts was this?
Helps.
Pot holes... Sink holes, bad enough in my little car nevermind a motorbike I only found this because my car fell down one of these today and I'm just sick of it
Diversity management is soooo much more important than potholes.. I'm so pleased as a taxpayer my money being used for Diversity than roads...£500 on road tax £250 on new tyres due to potholes.. no gully emptying... water all over the road surfaces...our roads are so dangerous... roads in France spain and Italy are way ahead of ours. We have third world roads and third world country... we've imported third world what do we expect
What you've got to understand is that the Government needs to save money, so they can GIVE AWAY 11 BILLION POUNDS TO OTHER COUNTRIES. Only 3974 people can be bothered to sign the petition, well they know we mean business now. What a joke. Maybe we could get the saviours of the planet ( cyclists) to get involved, we'd get everything we need at no coast to us at all, other people can pay for it.
You think being on a motorcycle is bad. Try being on a bicycle.
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