Arris

I've just returned from work trying to dodge & avoid large potholes - there are loads of them here all year round............must be hellish for motor bikes. (No comments about usually having to avoid elk, badgers etc. )

It is a subject complained about alot where I live (Cheltenham, UK) - often mentioned in our local paper - but nothing much seems to be done by our council

What are the roads like where you live?

I'd be interested to hear.

Cheers, Arris

celine_uk

pot holes are part of Canadian life im afraid lol

iaink

Let me see, +30 in the summer, -30 in the winter, countless freeze / thaw cycles, numerous snow plows to tear chunks out of the roads....

Lets just say that dont stay good for long...but at least they try and patch them up.

celine_uk

Yep there no way of stopping them really

Arris

I guessed these were the sort of replies i'd get

Suppose I was actually wondering if anyone actually had only a few, that were dealt with quicky......OOhh, a pig just flew by the window

Steve_P

Lower mainland B.C. and Vancouver Island don't have many.

Butch Cassidy

I was under the impression that Pot use was prolific in Lower Mainland and Victoria????

hot wasabi peas

Yes they do!
http://www.sookepotholes.com/

Steve_P

That it is.

However holes in the road are rather infrequent. Perhaps it's where they are stashing the pot.

Consequently maybe they have lots of "pot holes" but we just don't see them.

startwin

I beg to differ! There's a pothole at the end of my street that's big enough to swallow a small car! Wherever I go I have to zig-zag around them. That's what a spell of freezing weather will do, and now I know what they have to put up with back east every winter.

flashman

According the Beatles there's 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire !

Madmac

Dreadful roads around the KW - Guelph area. Full of pot holes and long jaggedy cracks every 20 feet or so. They seem to patch the cracks with streaks of tar which just breaks off during the freeze/thaw cycles.

They do a lot of roadworks during the Summer months though to repair the damage and keep it at a useable level. Someone once told me that Canada had four seasons: "Autumn, Winter, Spring and Roadworks."

neill

LOL -- i thought this was going to be another Canada observation by a newly arrived immigrant, boy you are in for a shock when you do get here

Motorbikes don't come out between November and April, unless said user is feeling suicidal

iaink

To be fair thats more to do with a lack of traction due to the gravel / snow/ ice that the elephant traps.

I find you dont notice the potholes as much when they are packed with snow.

Arris

Hubby used to ride Sports Road Bikes, but gave them up as way to fast on our narrow & winding country roads. He now has a Super Moto Bike - it's a street legal Dirt Bike - has road tyres on.

It will be converted back to a Dirt Bike when we move over & he will be off with my Cousin & his friends in the foothills & the mountains having a blast.

This is him when we were over last October - he saw a pothole & decided to jump it