Found my new favourite POTHOLE 😍😂😳

[@johns9121]

That pothole will kill a motorcyclist!

[@binits777]

💯 unfortunately 😞

[@mervwhitney7229]

Yes, really dangerous and one reason why I have reduced my motorcycling after 50 years of safe riding.

[@andrewnevermind4902]

​@BobTheBlue Yeah funny guy.

[@simonroberts362]

Yeah. Then they'll decide to fill it in like they did after that poor Porsche driver died when he served to avoid a big one.

[@tpbcpeople]

​@@BobTheBlueBastard of a comment. I'm sure you wouldn't want a handful of bikers knocking on your door, you imbecile.

[@tomcorniche3844]

I remember in an economics class a tutor said that if you want to know about a countries economy, just look at its roads.

[@toiletrollholder]

More like, if you want to know how corrupt a country's government and councils are, have a look at the state of their roads.

[@richardhowlett7398]

The Moon would be proud of craters like those.

[@msspacecake121]

😆

[@kim007250]

🙃🤣😊

[@Jonathan-yd8ud]

As a motorcycle rider that is absolutely shocking. The fact the council have marked it and then just left it is incredible.

[@andyxox4168]

.. and it can be readily seen that the shoddy council contractors have not repaired the potholes properly on several previous occasions … who in the council is inspecting the contractors work? They need sacking too!

[@gary63693]

It's not the contractors. It's the council themselves

[@chasleask8533]

The standards of materials , and methods used to apply them ,have been purposefully reduced . My mate contracts to the council . He told me 10 years ago .

[@TKro21]

Any work should carry a guarantee if the repair fails it should be redone at the contractors expense this would ensure they get it right first time.

[@nicholasviney5975]

Too busy counting brown envelopes

[@glynnepritchard2526]

@@TKro21 they are but only for a few years as its a repair

[@marksavage1108]

I have just been a road worker for the past 5 years. the local council have to follow some stupid procedures. If we show up to a reported pothole and another pothole is next to it, we cannot touch the unreported one. They increased the wagon weights from 34 tonne to 44 tonnes and never thought the road strength wasn't up to the increased weights. All the EVs are 2 tonne or over when normal cars are 1.2 tonnes upwards.

[@msspacecake121]

Wow, no surprise. Thanks for your honesty

[@chasleask8533]

Yup . They came to fix a hole outside my house , and only filled in half of it ! " That's not us , that's the water board ". Half a hole ? I ask you?

[@marksavage1108]

@@fredflintstone1 Old spelling ton, new spelling tonne. I lost a school spelling contest using ton,

[@joytotheworld9109]

Lots of new cars are overweight for the UK roads (and the roads in many places). EVs are among the worst but it's the average weight per axle creeping up that's the issue.

[@marksavage1108]

@@fredflintstone1 If you crush a road without the base structure being able to hold the weight, the top surface will crack, the cracks let water in, the water then undermines more by washing away the base structure and of course destroys both the surface and the base when it freezes. There are different depths of base structure for different weights, in the 70s, 80s and 90s when the roads were built wagon weights went from 28 tonnes to 44 tonnes. more weight = more damage.

[@AdelinoGambiarras]

Don't worry Geoff the council is waiting for someone to dy first before the fix the pot hole. 😮

[@grahamsmith8091]

You don't want to find that when out on your motorcycle.

[@MattCSLnut]

… especially when it’s dark outside 🙈

[@andyhobbs2812]

​@MattCSLnut And raining 😡😡😡😡😡😈😈😈

[@GT380man]

Councils surely have been told “roads aren’t going to be needed for much longer. Don’t waste money on them”. Because it’s like this everywhere.

[@totalutternutter]

In the 70's when snow drifts brought trains to a standstill after British Rail spent millions on snow ploughs, British Rail responded to criticism by saying it was because it was "the wrong type of snow". What you've got there Jeoff is the wrong type of pot hole.

[@msspacecake121]

😅

[@stephenowens5375]

Come on Geoff lets have a national competition to find UKs Longest, Widest & Deepest potholes, maybe even most in a single road and present trophies to the proud councillors that own them. Your channel could serve as the centre point for road safety awareness ✌️

[@andyhobbs2812]

Great Idea 😊😊😊😊😊

[@pdtech4524]

I'll back this idea 💡 Loads around here I can highlight. 😊

[@anglosaxon5874]

Because as is typical in Britain: Quick cheap fixes but long term costs!

[@TimK2646]

spent 10 Billion on useless PPEs , spent 70 Billion on dodgy furlough. Lots of Dough for the boys connected. great stuff. Welcome to Pothole Tory Britain.

[@jameskrell4392]

I ride a 300cc Vespa in rural Devon and Cornwall and in some places its lethal. You need eyes on your front wheel! 🛵😛

[@Lookup2Wakeup]

I'm in Devon too. I know most of my local pot holes, so I miss them.

[@GHOST5663]

You need to customise a bit. A 19 or 21 inch trial bike wheel will help. Can't do anything about the lack of balance due to the engine being on one side of the frame though. Good luck.

[@eelcosterringa1374]

Previous repair was not done properly thats reason one. And when you are at the stage of patching up the patches probably a more thorough solution becomes due

[@robertnightingale4101]

Whoever painted those white lines to mark the extent of a repair patch wants sacking. That whole stretch needs ripping out and reconstructing. If they repair what was marked they will be back each month to patch more.

[@stevewatkins228]

The Romans knew how to build roads? Today's the councils know how to con us????

[@noggintube]

That's what the councils are hoping to find underneath all the potholes - then they can just rely on the romans workmanship and save money on repairs.

[@janebaker966]

But there are ethnic lesbian mother and baby groups to fund. Get your priorities right.

[@johnmoncrieff3034]

The answer is very simple Geoff, Since the demize of the proper local councils run by local people who cared for their areas and had set standards for things like road repairs everything has been done on the basis of "as cheep as possible". So we can see from that particular pothole it has had a number of attempts to fill it in! None of them complying to road construction standards! More than likely were done in the wet or on a frosty day with no binding material to make sure the new stuck to the old! the first hot day with heavy traffic and it all starts to break up all over again!

[@gug1970]

ive seen 3 council workers in yorkshire pour tarmac into a pothole that was filled with water.

[@hamshackleton]

cheep -- filled in by budgie?

[@glynnepritchard2526]

14 years of the tories defunding the local councils.

[@SeraiNephthys]

Yep same thing up here in Lancs, we have A roads and even dual carriageways with potholes and areas of 'apple crumble tarmac', even on some roundabouts too!

[@MattinLapland]

Was wrecking tyres back 20 years ago when I drove a company car 80k per year….. the UK never changes, still a third world country. Not seen a pothole here yet we have -40.c winters and ice on our roads 6 months of the year. What’s the UK’s excuse? Oh yeah incompetence and corruption with money.

[@davidbarlow350]

Never mind about potholes,at least Ukraine's got another £3 billion ,so they can fix their potholes!

[@happymonkey7068]

They've got to keep that war going, how else are they going to draft the native population to go and die, so they can be replaced by you know who.

[@TimK2646]

Its 3 Billion PER ANNUM!!! sleep tight

[@GHOST5663]

With 3 billion they can afford to fill the shell holes in as well.

[@davidbarlow350]

@@GHOST5663 From bombing their own people,i presume?

[@happymonkey7068]

I see my comment got deleted, again. Must not like why they are replacing our young men.

[@johnlesoudeur3653]

Councils would rather spend money on diversity managers.

[@perspective8460]

You hit the nail on the head, third world Britain. I remember going to a talk over 15 years ago given by Nikolai Tolstoy who talked about the plans for the UK and that was to turn it into a 3rd world country. A 4 week old baby was in a critical condition from the mother hitting a pot hole locally. Perhaps we need a nationwide withholding of payments until the roads are safe to use?

[@BionicRusty]

I can’t begin to describe how we have to drive, locally to avoid damage. I’m sick of trying to claim for vehicle damage and have sold one car which suffered most damage (£3,000 in under 5 years) and replaced it with a huge SUV with off-road tyres. Every time, “We’re not liable.” And I can’t afford the risk of taking them to small claims.

[@barrywhite5622]

Be careful there's not a big cat hiding in one. 😜

[@janebaker966]

Or a troll,fol de rol.

[@ancell711]

I was once told by a contractor " why repair once when you can get paid a number of times for same job"

[@steveshawks115]

One reason I have stopped motorcycling - these are killers, especially on or after a bend.

[@WakieB113]

My parents live near there, I can confirm they have lost 3 tyres to that road!

[@GHOST5663]

You can claim for repairs.

[@WakieB113]

@@GHOST5663 One can only try, but easier said than done, my brother lost 2 tyres on this road yesterday, will be trying to claim for these as well

[@hudsonbear5038]

Daventry was on ITV recently for even worse ones and they had been on the main road going onto the town centre and only 200m from it!!. Oddly enough it turns out a week later they filled them in, in the shoddy manner you'd expect from the council now...

[@kezzaba1]

Stop complaining Geoff, you’ve got it good. On day 3 of a holiday in the Malverns and your potholes are nothing like ours in Sussex! The only problem with the roads round here is everybody’s default speed seems to be 35mph 😂😂😂 xx

[@anglosaxon5874]

Why do these useless councils just leave it open so accidents could happen or damage occur to vehicles? They should put barriers up to cordon off that short section until they fix it. People need to sue the councils more!

[@sisyphussapprentice8976]

They do, but it is probably cheaper to pay the compensation than repair the hole. Soon there will be more hole than road.

[@user-pw5ls9ti2j]

Neither the councillors nor their idle staff pay if an accident occurs. No-one gives a flying f***.

[@glynnepritchard2526]

14 years of the tories defunding the local councils. Its fill in potholes or close down OAP homes.

[@anglosaxon5874]

@@glynnepritchard2526 Only part of the story! Liebour councils [and tory] waste money on their pet woke projects. It's not so much a government thing [as both are to blame over the past 25 years] and funding, it's a competency thing of people not getting out of their offices and doing their job checking the roads and nipping the problems in the bud early so reducing costs. They just don't give a damn. We see that a lot in this country hence why we have no real car manufacturer/have no real heavy industry, everything is bought and brought in from abroad [trains/buses/ships etc.]. Our ultilities owned by foreigners who subsidise their own customers abroad from our bills etc. We need to take everything back, get rid of the 'old boy' network leadership and go only on meritocracy. But it will never happen.

[@user-pw5ls9ti2j]

@@glynnepritchard2526 Silly leftist still believes in the magic money tree. 🤪

[@DW-dd4iw]

The Highways Agency used to regularly 'dress' all the roads with a bitumen and aggregate, this prevented potholes from forming and filled any potholes along the way. About 20 years ago the Highways Agency simply gave up on pro-active road maintenance for some reason.

[@glynnepritchard2526]

Top dressing just hides the poor sub base of roads, its a temporary fix and not a repair

[@DW-dd4iw]

@@glynnepritchard2526 True, but I assume top dressing an entire road is far better than a patchwork of potholes and pothole 'repairs'.

[@glynnepritchard2526]

@@DW-dd4iw unfortunately no. Road structure is made up of a number of different layers, the top 50mm is the wearing course, this is supposed to be planed off and remade. The issue is that the base and sub base is often damaged when you have large potholes, when these are damaged it just spreads no matter what you do. Plus top dressing is a quick fill of any holes, spread bitmac and leave. If it was rollered it would help but they don’t.

[@adrianward7888]

I would sue the ass off that council if that caused a motorcyclist / cyclist to fall off, no joke, it’s a disgrace.

[@David-tt2mt]

The quality of the Gt British highway is second to none! Even when they are filled in, the repairs break up PDQ.

[@trevorrapley2844]

Saw a Geoff buys cars clip on Alex Jones show the other night.

[@BoxFlyHaydn]

Geoff those are tiny compared to what we have in North Essex and Suffolk, all over every other carriageway. Well done for continuing to call attention to the pothole menace mate.

[@nixswatson]

🤣😂 trip advisor 😂🤣

[@dodgerboe]

W Sussex Council application for online claim for pothole damages is 25 WEEKS before they consider your application !!!!!

[@Kwistenbiebel100-ns5ko]

We have those kind of potholes every "winter" here in Perth Australia when there is excessive rain for a longer period of time. They have special council teams that fill them but it can indeed be annoying. A new thing here since last year is that we now have a lot of curb stones that are breaking and lying next to the road in corners. I think it has to do with EV's , large 4X4's and continuous public works (big sand trucks destroying the roads ). Our land rates (property tax) goes up significantly but the roads deteriorate. Perhaps this is a global phenomenon now?

[@dannyjonze]

i ride a motorbike in cornwall, so i know all about it.

[@larryjimbob]

Could be a meteorite impact crater Geoff? 😁

[@kim007250]

Please take a 10/10 for that…..shouldn’t laugh but can’t help it

[@bamboozooka-yk7qn]

tarmac board room: lets make a road surface so soft it gets worn away by rubber

[@user-gu5us6yb1n]

Maybe we should have a competion between you and us in Johannesburg.....

[@johnnyhollis9977]

These are lethal in the dark too! Worst porthole I have ever seen was in Manaus, a city in Brazil, I swear it was over a foot deep!!!

[@cp4512]

The council workers would care if they were held personally responsible and couldn’t hide behind the ‘organisation’. A bit like the Post Office with the Horizon scandal……🤬🤡

[@jagman999]

Come check them out in Oxfordshire. Or is that Cratershire?

[@gtporschers]

Geoff… Come down to Dursley, also in Gloucestershire & see the potholes here… lots to choose from.

[@huffmanaviation7341]

All the tarmac came off our cobblestone streets as soon as cars started using it.... now we've got cobble and gravel streets now.

[@overland_adventure_nz]

That’s life when it rains a load. Time for you to get a truck and a few friends to secretly fix them yourself ❤

[@davidadams3166]

Have you heard about the fire at Drive Vauxhall in Patchway Bristol, also sell MG’s. Several cars burned out this morning

[@jord001]

Even worse when you ride a motorbike, I ride around there and over towards the cotswolds all the time and some of the potholes are frightening.

[@jeffreykreiley7265]

In the northeast States, frost heave plus salting the roads, it’s to be expected but this surprises me.

[@FrankTimms-cs5hl]

The southern states are bad too. I recently was driving in Nashville, Tennessee and the potholes on the highway could compete with NY/PA/MA/MI. Cost me a wheel,tire and I now need new front struts😡

[@daveraggett6365]

It looks a beauty Geoff. 🤣👍

[@ianchalklen1047]

In many cases they just do a cheap quick fix which leaves worse problems in subsequent years. The neglect of roads and other infrastructure has been going on for years.

[@rigamortice]

That pothole looks like most of our roads here in Scotland

[@TimK2646]

Well done, nearly 4k views in 2 hours.

[@teardowndan5364]

Lots of roads where I live look like that or sometimes worse every spring due to snow plows ripping chunks out of them every winter. Not as much of an issue during winter where they are filled with packed snow or ice most of the time.

[@saxon-mt5by]

Pah! Come to Derbyshire and you'll find great lengths of road like that, or worse. I encountered a series of potholes like this on a blind corner which threw my car bodily sideways at least two feet - if there had been traffic coming the other way there would have been an accident - adn no, I wasn't speeding, I was doing less than 20mph.

[@Chongo196]

I live in Mid Devon. I wish our roads were as smooth as that

[@stevebosun7410]

Hello Geoff, if the council didn't use the cheapest contractors, they might stand a chance of getting a decent job done. "You get what you pay for" couldn't be more true!

[@serraios1989]

Visited Germany recently and the quality of their roads is phenomenal

[@arborist554]

that just looks like every road in Edinburgh !

[@James_08_07]

The best bit is those have formed in what looks like a bit of road that’s already been repaired

[@BlueJDev]

Hit one yesterday, it's a straight hole across the lane! No dodging it at all! This was on a slip road onto a dual carriageway..

[@shadowww133]

I've seen much worse in my town, some of them aren't a potholes, they're freaking craters 😅

[@interloperdrones1172]

What an absolutely outstandingly beautiful pot hole, it needs to be signposted and registered with unesco and preserved at all costs

[@waynemarriott7641]

It's like that all over Northamptonshire too

[@stevecoinitin7521]

Commuting through a main traffic road in a Somerset town, it was riddled with some real nasty potholes. The council did highlight them with paint after 18 months, re-highlighted them all again 2 years later and then another 1 year later, finally put down all new top layer tarmac to cover 90% of the nasties! I think they kindly left the potholes at either end just to deter drivers from driving through, but if you did, you'd also pay for it driving out of town! Must be so difficult to include the last 20 metres either end of the half mile of new tarmac planning!

[@750triton]

When I was more involved with this sort of thing, I was informed of criteria which the council uses before it is deemed a "pothole". If it's less than that, they ignore it. I've just reported damage to Coventry ring road, which nearly had me off my bike. It may not meet their criteria but it is deep enough, long enough and because it is lots of potholes joined together, the bike shook its head like a dog playing "rag it". Coventry council reporting form deems it as an emergency. Hopefully it will be repaired before Motofest in 3 weeks.

[@chrisw7220]

You know the old hole has seen some action when you can get four fingers and a thumb in!😅

[@paularmstrong4739]

Reminds me of a girl I used to know! 😜

[@nanookmoose]

I remember my favourite pothole in North Yorkshire having only one half filled in. Incredible. Stayed like that for years.

[@argyllrs]

We had some 'better' than that around the train staion area of Kettering until very recently.

[@nede7527]

those particular potholes have been in various states of disrepair for 10+ years. you can see them patched up on google street view in around 2016. its the same story nation wide. the rural counties are going to need landrovers and tractors to get around in if the road management system doesn't see a change soon

[@davidshanahan5134]

The paint markers show that the council knows the problem is there. The fact that the paint is worn and weathered shows they have known for a long time. The potholes still being there shows it’s either a very low priority or they don’t give a toss. One truck full of hot mix plus a guy with a shovel could at least patch the road and make it safe.

[@Electrowave]

Reminds me of the roads in Africa. In some areas we'd be happily driving along in a pothole and have to swerve suddenly to avoid a bit of tarmac that still remained.

[@edwardsierpowski3839]

GEOFF!!! March 29 - Henley Standard… Oxfordshire County Council trains six VOLUNTEERS (!!!) to pick the potholes to fix in and around Henley. There is already a pothole reporting system -Fix My Street- but in the article the council inadvertently admits it does nothing, but now these VOLUNTEERS will have more clout reporting the potholes onto the very same website. This all appeared about a month after four or five separate pothole related injury and accident cases were reported on in the local paper. And our roads virtually all look like that one.

[@paulmardle8901]

Geoff you should start a competition with who can find the worst pothole

[@paulyflyer8154]

In Wales we've gone way beyond pot holes now. Generally the whole of the top 2 surfaces have been eroded away and we're just driving on gravel tracks. As a regular motorcyclist also, I'm seriously thinking of selling my bikes before I get the hell out of this third world country next year.

[@stellaumbrella3412]

That is a bad one, especially in the dark. Lots of potholes around here too except outside the council offices.Those seem to be fixed very quickly 😕

[@clivecussens2573]

Mate, you want to see the potholes around Tunbridge Wells they make these look small !!!

[@dannycasson2487]

i think it needs a mention that its not only our councils and highways england but the utility companys we pay so much money to. they dig the roads up then relay the tarmac and pat it down with a stick instead of doing a proper job

[@Stuart-qj1ld]

They are almost like kerbs the councils are redundant just like the government i feel a change in the wind 😂😂

[@skyll4141]

It's as bad up here in county Durham.

[@FRFRANKIE]

That's a beautiful Volvo wagon.

[@BenSonOfJohn]

One of our local roads was resurfaced last week. Only they didn't fix the potholes first. The road still has several deep potholes with new thin layers of tar and gravel over them.

[@NiceLoki]

My council went along a country road and put so many yellow paint markers they may as well have painted the whole damn road!

[@AndrewKeyz]

This is why the likes of Wales wants more politicians, so they can think about road repairs a bit more and spend even less.

[@markfroggatt591]

Come to lincolnshire we have ducks in our potholes 😂😂

[@russella7263]

Just play a game of ‘honk the hole’ where you sound your horn every-time you see or feel a pothole in order to warn fellow motorists. That should eventually get through to the councillors and mps when they can’t sleep at night for all the noise.

[@angelakenyon7490]

Good honking idea Though won't make any councillor or mp do anything - ALL BY DESIGN 🇬🇧

[@amandagrimes4138]

Pot holes are rare where I live but a couple of years ago one appeared on the main road past our village. After 6 moths of complains to the local authority a group of locals planted a tree in it and posted the photos to social media. After the local council became a target for mockery it was surprisingly repaired two days later.

[@msspacecake121]

Come see scotland, isn't any better 🤨🧐🤪 pothole spotting with Geoff 🕳️ 💚

[@nrw34260]

I live in spain, and even out in the middle of nowhere, there are no potholes.

[@middknifecrisis]

Turns out it was not a pothole, is was just an old labrador having a lie down in the verge:)

[@AdeReeves]

was out on the bike at the weekend...surprised i got back with potholes and subsiding / cracking roads... bloody crazy... 😡

[@FoxyEmGee]

Luxury! Regards from peru!

[@Paulw358]

You heard about the car showroom fire in Bristol today? started by electric car apparently

[@ghost307]

If you hit that with an EV, you can say bye=bye to your battery.

[@markligget341]

Better using a pogo-stick as transport!

[@roberthiggins6401]

Looking forward to your collaboration with Gazza.

[@PenryMMJ]

The "repairs" are carried out carried out by contractors who are usually on very friendly terms with local councillors. They charge a lot of money for the job, but carry out the work cheaply and to a poor standard. The "repair" then quickly fails creating a bigger hole than the one that was originally there. This allows the contractor to make big profits by carrying out the same "repair" multiple times, charging for each "repair" separately, and putting some of those profits into a brown envelope that gets quietly passed to the councillors. If we didn't have this corruption councils would insist on a better standard of work, and the roads would actually get fixed. If the contractor repairs a pothole and it re-appears in under a year, then it hasn't been repaired, so they shouldn't get paid.

[@Ritte13]

Tory roads……endless austerity equals potholes that can be seen from space 😂😂😂