Round where I live, [rural, for the most part] pots are regularly gobbed over by a roving team of LA potfillers. Created largely by huge trakerters with even huger tyres[if not actual tracks?].....and 44 tonnie fartiks serving the over-wealthy farms round hereabouts. especially where there are tight turns.
Being a bouncing-along-the-bottom-of-the-pond dweller and pensioneer, whose newly risen council tax just about wiped out the state pension increase.....I do resent having to subsidise the continued application of billiard-table smooth roads so that those with [by comparison with me] overly surplus income to throw about, can ride around at stupidly high speeds in their [chose blobbymotors of choice here]....on equally stoopidly low profile rubber band tyres with impunity without sustaining tyre, suspension or cracked alloy wheels [an equally stupid fitment in my view]...on roads they are quite lucky to have, in a reasonably weatherproof state!!
If I can manage potholes, etc, without bending suspension, blowing tyres or smashing wheels....why can't they?
OK, so avoidance of damage might mean lowering one's speed and applying a tad more vehicle sympathy than modern drivers are either used to, or expect to have to apply.....
Or junking one's motor in favour of a car that has been designed & built to cope with less than smooth roads...I don't mean SUVs, or pseudo off roaders, or overly large [but in reality, more fragile than their thin tin bodies would have us believe.....I've seen them when they get bent]..almost-pickups.....Perhaps looking to manufacturers 'world' models instead?...Cars sold in less smoothe parts of the globe, for example?
Proper thickness of tyres for a start....
Why should I have to subsidise their whims & fashions? They don't subsidise me to anything like the same extent.....[if at all?]
There...rant over.....
Yup, I do have an element of sympathy for motorcyclists, [even, bikers]...and pushbike riders......{It would be even nicer if they reciprocated...even just a little bit..?}
Biggest creator of potholes [IMHO] is, power steering!
Without power steering. all those vehicle drivers would have to slow earlier, plan further ahead, and find near-static steering almost impossible to achieve, using upper arm muscles only.
As it is, drivers can be reet lazy and spin their steering wheels with impunity...regardless of the drag and damage their [overly wide?] tyres do, to the road surfaces?
However I do have the Morris Commercial Drivers handbook for it still.
