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Originally Posted by flecc
And not just the West Country, many of the Surrey lanes I use are exactly the same, sometimes with the odd point where I have to stop and lean into the hedge to get something past. Similarly, 60 mph seems to be the target speed of many motorists.
Even slightly wider lanes are often very narrowed by the tarmac edges being broken away by heavy vehicles and eroded into huge treacherous potholes.
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I'll second that! Roads very badly broken and holed at the edges, especially when single lane roads, enclosed with high stone hedges (that you can't see over) are a nightmare. I came home from work today on my conventional bike (I've got the Wisper in bits @ present, doing a few customisations on it) a horrendous trip with 4 seperate heart stopping moments - one involving a large white van flying around a blind bend in the 'road' towards me with his wheel in the hedge on my side of the lane.......Another involved my daughter's school bus deciding to overtake me the second he caught up with me and around a blind bend. Naturally something was coming the other way, and a sharp and painful dive into the nearby hedge was the only way out. I'll be having words with him tomorrow.......(I would have tried to stop him by occupying the middle of the road, but that means they would have followed me up a steep 2 mile hill at 7mph all the way and I wouldn't trust him not to get so frustrated that he just ran me over anyway!!!!! - its the way most of our locals behave (if nobody's looking do what you like, you'll probably get away with it!).
Sorry I'm still fuming, but I'll get over it, until it happens again tomorrow @ least.
Why do we put ourselves through it? Sometimes I can't help but wonder!
Cheers, Phil