Wrecked suspension etc?
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Having trouble with the roads?
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Can we report speed humps?
They knacker suspension just as much and are often equally dangerous to bikers.
I also remember reading that the ambulance service once calculated how many of their 'passengers' died as a result of speed bumps (not just through being bumped about but mainly through increased journey times). If I remember correctly, it outweighed the number of people that were supposedly saved by the speed bumps being in place.
Combine these 2 things together and you'll really get me started .... Traffic Infuriating (sorry, calming) schemes that:
1) are inherently dangerous
2) cost a lot of money - presumably money that isn't being spent on road repairs
3) are placed on top of already crumbling stretches of road without the road being fixed
4) compress both streams of traffic into one strip of road (one at a time) thus accelerating the wear - resulting in even more potholes (then how do you repair it as there is no width left on which to run the traffic while it is repaired
5) force bikes onto those long longitudinal gaps that have developed between sections of tarmac and never been repaired
6) include those small speed humps with the sloped edges on all 4 sides - can avoid them in the day but when it's dark, raining and, maybe on a bend, these things are potentially lethal
.... time for a lie down - maybe I'll take the bike through some traffic calming - that should increase the chances of a lie-down.
They knacker suspension just as much and are often equally dangerous to bikers.
I also remember reading that the ambulance service once calculated how many of their 'passengers' died as a result of speed bumps (not just through being bumped about but mainly through increased journey times). If I remember correctly, it outweighed the number of people that were supposedly saved by the speed bumps being in place.
Combine these 2 things together and you'll really get me started .... Traffic Infuriating (sorry, calming) schemes that:
1) are inherently dangerous
2) cost a lot of money - presumably money that isn't being spent on road repairs
3) are placed on top of already crumbling stretches of road without the road being fixed
4) compress both streams of traffic into one strip of road (one at a time) thus accelerating the wear - resulting in even more potholes (then how do you repair it as there is no width left on which to run the traffic while it is repaired
5) force bikes onto those long longitudinal gaps that have developed between sections of tarmac and never been repaired
6) include those small speed humps with the sloped edges on all 4 sides - can avoid them in the day but when it's dark, raining and, maybe on a bend, these things are potentially lethal
.... time for a lie down - maybe I'll take the bike through some traffic calming - that should increase the chances of a lie-down.