cycling

[remraf]

I've recently taken up road biking, you know, skinny tyres and lycra. Much of the experience is a thrill; man and machine in perfect harmony.
But...
The downside is the disgraceful state of our roads! Over a 2-3 hour ride, i'll be lucky to get 10 minutes on decent surfaces. (smooth, unpitted, unreparied-and-patched etc etc)

Watch a stretch of road racing in Franch,Italy,Spain on TV and you witness hundreds of kms of what look like smooth, well-drained and properly engineered highways...

If I get knocked off my bike I know it will be by an innocent motorist who is unable to avoid hitting me as I weave back and forth looking for a smooth bit of road!

Oh and thanks to you if you are one of the drivers that gives me a sensible berth!

Anton

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[hidetheelephants]

BIANCO said:

Well it all our fault for not paying enough for the roads. Just think how good the roads would be if we paid hundreds of pounds in road tax each year and around 75% in tax on all the fuel we buy, oh hang on.

[pedant]It hasn't been roadtax, or Road Fund Licence to give it it's Sunday name, since before the war; it's Vehicle Excise Duty, which means Uncle Alistair can spooge it on anything he likes and there's fk all you or I can do about it, apart from assassinating the lot of the useless lying, moneygrubbing, paperchasing morons in a terrific bloodbath not voting Labour at the next election[/pedant]

[Marcellus]

Living in France I would love to say that the road surfaces are great and just like you see on the Televised races.

Living on the route of the Tour de France this year I hav eto say the reality is;
> In June the road has a rolling roadblock on as it's resurfaced.... not dug up, foundations and several layers of various materials to give it a solid road
> The Tour de France came through on the 21st July
> The Mont Blanc Rally came through on the 5th September
> Now (18th September) the road is as ste as it was before June only with graffiti painted on it.