While researching the UK’s growing pothole problem, I didn’t expect another incident to occur – yet such is the terrible state of the roads, it did.
On the way home from a club ride in the middle of August, in good conditions, a rider in my group went over a pothole, and came down hard. There might have been no serious injuries, but there was road rash to be treated, and bike parts to be sourced.
“The rider in front warned of a pothole but I didn’t manage to move in time. I hit the side of it and my hands came off the bars. I came down on my right side and slid along the road for about 25 metres,” my ride buddy Rich Thomas explains. “I also took out the rider behind me, who rode into the back of me and went over their handlebars.
“The accident could have been
