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May 2010 CTC Portsmouth magazine.
POTHOLE DANGER, Another snow and ice related tale.
by Robert Sebley.
It was a lovely day, the sun was shining and all
seemed well on this Wednesday ride (24th
Feb). We had been spotting all the potholes
and carefully avoiding them. Bob Palmer made a
casual remark to me about how
many there were and the impact of
the unusually prolonged period of
snow and ice which causes them.
We all turned into Watery Lane on
the way to Funtington with Bob a bit
ahead and then about 200 yards
along on a straight flat tarmac road,
without warning and for no
immediately apparent reason, Bob
suddenly tumbled off his bike
performing a spectacular roll worthy
of a stunt man.
Having recovered and checked
himself and his bike (luckily no
damage) the cause became clear.
There, hidden by a pool of muddy
water, was a deep pothole which Bob
had unfortunately fallen into. The
photo shows that it was about four
inches deep.
The pothole was reported that evening on the
website fillthathole.org.uk and then lo and behold
was seen to have been fixed when we passed that
way on the 10th March. Well done, west Sussex
CC.
But beware of all the thousands of others,
especially those hidden under muddy puddles,
and make a note of them and then report their
position on the above website - it does work.
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