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The Boxford Tornado in south Suffolk was due to take place on Sunday.
But the organising committee said, having risk-assessed the route, the road conditions were "unsafe" for a mass-participation event.
Suffolk County Council said it was working through a "backlog" of road repairs after the "worst winter".
TBH I cannot remember the roads in such a bad state. One bit of the audax on Saturday was close to unrideable (north of Corrie Common) and there were many potholes that would cause a serious accident. Dumfries and Galloway seems to have roads in a worse state than the Borders.
More locally even ignoring potholes, many roads in and around Edinburgh are in a dire state, with cracks, ripples, bumpiness and just roughness to the point of unrideable on anything other than a mountain bike.
One wonders having had to low a level of maintenance for so many years, combined with extra heavy buses and poor repairs post works, there will be a tipping point.
The councils seem to ignore their obligations for safety, even to the point of painting around potholes then leaving them indefinitely.
I don't know how folk keep un-suspended bikes in one piece in Edinburgh. I'm on 40mm tyres, 60mm travel on the forks and a suspended seatpost and still there's a fair amount of crash bang wallop.
I'd reckon the causes are;
1) The policy of deliberately degrading the public realm sometimes called 'austerity'.
2) The impunity with which utility companies regularly butcher the road surface.
3) The prevalence of unnecessarily heavy goods vehicles in town.
4) The weather.
@IW you might like to repost that here -
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15905&page=2&replies=50#post-280352
IW - you missed out the inability to repair any that are 'fixed' properly meaning that whilst is may be safe to drive over it is still a danger to cyclists. In addition the entire botched repair will normally fall apart in a few weeks meaning it needs done again.
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