Was out for a ride this morning on the B2141 towards Midhurst. Just outside Chilgrove on a right hander I hit a load of pebbles that had been dumped into the middle of the road. The front slipped and wobbled but I managed to steady it. Have to say it was a bit of a 5p 50p moment. I'm presuming the debris was dumped by a tractor or other farm vehicles. This time of year there will be more tractors on the road so go careful on those twisty back roads.
yep that combined with a bit of rain we've had of late has left a lot of debris in the middle of the road in these here parts
I live in the country we get cows, sheep ,horses on the road its a nightmare at times and also cow,sheep shit on the roads till you get on the a/b roads
Yesterday while I was out for a ride I encountered the same issue - a line of gravel deposited on the B2139 at Amberley right on the bend before the station. The odd this it was neatly on both sides of the road to catch bikes going both ways. I've also noticed that roads just aren't being looked after like they used to be. Debris and grit by traffic islands seems to stay for months, just in the place you would offside a line of traffic and then pull in at traffic lights etc. And why do we have so many traffic islands anyway? Each one is a hazard for a motorcyclist to negotiate and God forbid if you come off it's just another lump of concrete to stop you sliding down the road. I'm wondering why the motorcycle lobby is so non-existent when it comes to road planning. If we all rode 2 wheels without an engine we would enjoy cycle superhighways and be able to jump every red light. Aargh - rant over!
not good and if it's a hazard phone the Highways Agency. Riding often in Wales there is loads of crap at the start and end of the summer season from farmers. Not fun when your coming around a tight corner at legal speeds and hit a load of crap
Set of three roundabouts near me had a car fire a week ago , so emergency services dealt with it, then highways proceeded to spread about 2 ton of sand everywhere and just left it, still there waiting for the rain to wash it away
Adrian mate, if you've got a half hour to spare take a read of this. If I can find it, I'll post a PDF of what the council considers 'acceptable' from these monkeys with regard to the crap they spew onto the road. http://1000rr.co.uk/lounge/6025.htm
Yep, here it is. I'd like to see the pen pusher in question ride a bike down the 'acceptable' option...
Welcome to my world, I could be here all day ranting about the farmers. The problem is most farming folk round here can’t read or write it would be better if they put a tick and cross over the pictures then at least they are aware that they are ignoring the rules....... I might even copy your pictures, over lay the tick and a cross and stick them up on all the posts. We even discovered a bloody hay bale in the middle of the lane the other morning, one of the big round ones and right on a blind bend. On the return journey we noticed hay everywhere so some poor sap must have hit the thing. Now you have really got me going, they might be harvesting 24/7 but racing huge tractors down our lane all night is starting to piss me off.
Living in a rural area makes riding that much more fun Pretty much always gravel and mud on the roads I ride, I often do a 'sighting' run to check on the surface and amount of tractor traffic and then run the route again, but things can change quickly. I particularly love the water throwers that make a nice dry road into a slide when you come around a blind bend. At least on most of the roads there is very little camera pointers, although there are some of these 'wannabees' who shoot their camera and log your speed and then report it to the police, who in turn come and give a warning. I love them I sometimes slow right down and give them a friendly wave.
Ask Remal, when his kit car went for its registration test, every protrusion on it was tested so that none had a radius likely to cause injury to pedestrians. Then compare with what these clowns are dragging behind their 40 year old shit buckets.
Absolutely Exfire, L has been caught twice in the same village on the way back from the station. Entailing two letters from the local police and one visit. Funny the “nothing better to do brigade” never seem that committed to be out sticking their noses into other people’s business when the sun is not shining and they can’t sit in their deckchairs with flask and sandwiches. Like you say I always give them a cheery reverse wave that involves keeping three fingers and a thumb firmly clamped down. Their faces are a picture and I bet it keeps them in gossip fodder for days.
I really love them, never see them when it's raining though. One guy near Newmarket actually signalled me to slow down, I was doing 30 in a 30 zone. I went past, turned around and parked up, walked over to him and then asked why he wasn't in uniform and asked to see his police ID. You should have seen his face.
My Ducati used to have the grunters in the village waving slow down gestures and holding their hands over their ears at 15 mph indicated. BEt they were shit hot at fecking charades. Still we've had a couple hard winters and one or two heat waves since then. That usually thins 'em out.
Probably, but they do stop the rangerovers abandoned by the feckless, lard assed mums dumping their kids at the school from running away after the dozy mares forget to leave them in 'Park' when they stop on the pavements...
Ahh the problem is that everyone is related in the village. A population of 50 with three surnames ;-)
As many as that, you must live in a very cosmopolitan area. Around here they all have the same surname but due to the lack of education they all spell it differently.
