Pothole warning A448

[Radar]

Had a good blast today with Gix (Fiz) and Toggs up to Rutland water.

On my way back home whilst riding along the A448 between Bromsgrove and Kidderminster I went over this huge and rather nasty pothole:

A448 just out side Bromsgrove heading towards Kidderminster

The bike shuddered as I hit and I dam nearly come off, I was doing about 60mph and just coming back onto my side of the road having gently swept past a slow moving c*r.

I was shocked to discover this when I checked the bike over:

Amazingly the wheel seems OK, but the tyre nearly blew out.

Puts me in a cold sweat thinking about it

[HippoDrones]

feck that could have been a lot worse. You reported it to te local council as a danger to road users?

[Radar]

Will be in the morning had to dig out their numbers from a website and it was a bank holiday today

[Radar]

Council have now filled the pothole and sent me a compensation form to fill out

[Radar]

I had the wheel checked at my local bike shop and it does run out from true now by about 2.5mm-3.0mm. Just within MOT limit. So I have fitted a new front tyre in order to get the bike back on the road.

I had a quote from my dealer for a new wheel, bearings etc and that all comes to an eye watering £624. I have put the quote to the council to claim

[Digger]

For peace of mind Tow,why not ask Thumper if you can borrow his front wheel off his cat for France,just swop the tyre.

[Radar]

quote:

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Originally posted by Digger

For peace of mind Tow,why not ask Thumper if you can borrow his front wheel off his cat for France,just swop the tyre.

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It is an option and I have spoken to Thumper about it, he doesn’t mind. I will be out on the T cat over the weekend so I will see how it rides.

[Radar]

Trevor McDonald on ITV tohight highlighting the extent of this problem

https://www.itv.com/news/tonight_22b6382406b8bd1fce689134e3534c0e.html

[Gix]

British roads are a bad state of affairs, makes you wonder where all the road tax and fuel tax money goes.

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