The pot hole thread.
- Thread starter Milzy
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'm not terribly keen on that new feature. I found it would start nagging me about a pothole, repeatedly from quite a distance. That pothole could well be on the other side of the road. Then afterwards it started nagging me about whether I'd seen it or not. I decided that all that attention would be better spent looking out for potholes. So I switched it off.
Mike Ayling
Veteran
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
I have no intention of ever acquiring a garmin
Chief Broom
Veteran
I have a 'favourite' pothole on a regular route which ive sworn at umpteen times 
its a sneaky stealth pothole and not very visible until ive jarred my fillings yet again. I keep thinking to get some yellow grease chalk and mark it for myself and others but still havent got round to it. Spose i could get a garmin and beat it into the hole with a hammer that would level it up a bit....
its a sneaky stealth pothole and not very visible until ive jarred my fillings yet again. I keep thinking to get some yellow grease chalk and mark it for myself and others but still havent got round to it. Spose i could get a garmin and beat it into the hole with a hammer that would level it up a bit....
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Same here. It’s useful seeing them shown on Garmin Connect when planning a route. But a pain when actually out riding.
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
Does Garmin pass on this info to the local authority? Because the only site I use to normally report PHs is https://www.gov.uk/report-pothole
OP
OP
Milzy
Guru
Sadly they don’t it’s just for the users. It also has animals, obstruction & slippery surface reporting. I think it will become a distraction and get turned off.
However on a group ride people should just point to them. Some shout very loud & make people jump. There’s just no need for it.
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
I'll have a play with my Garmin Edge later, I mostly use it for tracking not following a route but some things (road closure?) could be useful.
OP
OP
Milzy
Guru
Yep, I’m not that far from fish lakes near Doncaster and after heavy rain roads can be blocked unless you walk through knee deep.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
How about Cueto Coventosa in Northern Spain.
A short entrance tunnel leads to a 300m vertical shaft, though there is a ledge 200m down. A rather exciting abseil but you don't have to come back up as you can walk out the bottom - which takes some 12 hours or so.
Picture is a side view so to speak rather than a plan.
Ah, you didn't mean that sort of pothole ...
A short entrance tunnel leads to a 300m vertical shaft, though there is a ledge 200m down. A rather exciting abseil but you don't have to come back up as you can walk out the bottom - which takes some 12 hours or so.
Picture is a side view so to speak rather than a plan.
Ah, you didn't mean that sort of pothole ...
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
The only one I ever liked was that Little Fluffy Clouds, by?
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
A horrendous sport for me.
More than happy with heights, I really do suffer from claustrophobia, and the thought of slithering through very tight spaces freaks me out.
I read of the Nutty Putty cave incident a few years back and I literally struggled to sleep for several nights after. What a hideous way to die.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
A horrendous sport for me.
More than happy with heights, I really do suffer from claustrophobia, and the thought of slithering through very tight spaces freaks me out.
I read of the Nutty Putty cave incident a few years back and I literally struggled to sleep for several nights after. What a hideous way to die.
I can get the heebie jeebies with heights, particularly so on the above trip. I was last down the shaft so at 40m intervals I could see the lights of the other 5 members of my group with the furthest one nearly 300m straight down! The rope is bolted to the wall every 40m or so with a decent ledge at 200m, so once someone's changed over at the belay, the next person can start their own abseil.
Further along in the trip there is a tightish bit - "La Turbinia" where the hitherto massive cave narrows down to a squeeze so the wind really roars past you. As well as the noise, back then we had to use naked flame carbide lamps for long trips and the wind would blow the flame out. There's a short abseil half way down the The Turbine which is sufficiently constricted that you have to have your abseil device at head hight on a short line as there's no room to have it in the normal place at your waist. It's only a short squeeze, but quite committing. There's a rubber dinghy section later on too; an epic trip altogether
Regarding the "getting stuck" scenario, it is objectively a very low risk - perhaps a valid comparison might be the risk of lightening strike for a cyclist, thus a non-zero risk that you might have to consider in some cases but not something particularly to concern you as a rule. I've been "temporarily inconvenienced" in tight passages a few times, but as I once said, to the amusement of my comrades "I'm not stuck, I just can't get out", after rather foolishly blocking my exit by moving a large rock. I've never felt claustrophobic in a cave, but did get a claustrophobic panic attack in Ikea on one rather unpleasant occasion. I ended up barging down the up escalator to escape but had managed to hold it together to avoid kicking open the fire doors. In retrospect I rather regret not doing just that, given I'd been deliberately manipulated into the state I was in. Hey ho
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
For a short period in my skinny twenties I dabbled in caving. Never did anything particularly difficult.
Anyway, I was always too busy trying to do stuff, like crawl along or wiggle through or climb things to stop and think about getting claustrophobic. I do feel a bit queasy when I think about it now.
