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A lot of people just enjoy having someone to hate for no good reason

its simple Dan if they fix the drains and theres no flooding they cant blame it on climate change....

Fantastic video as always,the roads sure look better over there

Local councils the world over, depending on their political stripes will only do any repair if its of advantage to garner votes for them.

I feel your pain, Were Riddled. Sunken Drains, Pot Holes, Poor Road Surfaces are worse than ever, takes the fun out of cycling.

Exactly a month ago from today I hit a multiple pot hole sequence on a major road which not only completely collapsed my rear wheel but broke my carbon bicycle chain stay. Thankfully I was not injured but gobsmacked at the lack of no reply from my local council. Needless to say my bicycle is a right off 😢

you pay your rates to avoid the violence that will be met upon you by your relevant government agency!

I came off my bike a couple of months ago thanks to a pothole (50cm x 70cm with a depth of 7cm) - I didn't spot it in the shadows, it ripped my handlebars to the right and I was thrown off the bike. The result was a lot of road rash, all the skin taken off one elbow, hand and wrist injuries, a damaged helmet, torn jersey, and various bits of damage to my bike - I claimed on my bike insurance, the total bill for the helmet/jersey/bike was over £2500. I could have claimed against the council and gone further with my personal injuries, to be honest I was just happy that they carried out a repair and then a resurface of the section of road.

Me thinks you stumbled onto some old Roman roads. Actually, the Romans would be outraged to see the state of these roads, LOL.

Living in central Texas, I am only about 10 minutes away from well-maintained farm-to-market roads with decent shoulders and light traffic. However, as more people move to the countryside and nearby towns, traffic can get busy at certain times. When I need to, I am flexible and adjust my rides accordingly. The roads though, are generally very nice and you really can't beat Texas weather, especially during the winter when Northerners are all buddled up, dealing with freezing weather and I am out on my bike wearing the same bibs I do during the summer. Other times, I am out and about, driving those same roads on my highly modified (i.e., stiff suspension) 2012 MINI Cooper JCW, enjoying the drive. Life is good!

Earlier this year I spent a week riding a 12 year old Carbon Granfondo race bike around Cesenatico Italy (Pantani's favourite routes), the potholes there were almost every 2 or 3 meters the whole time, long rides out were just a constant exercise in pothole avoidance. Next year I will visit the UK, your roads there look SO much nicer :-) Thanks.

It's getting to the stage where you can't ride a road bike on UK roads in some areas. In the winter especially I put the road bikes away - definitely needs something sturdier with chunky tyres! Unless you want a potentially dangerous peril-avoidance challenge it's just not safe. Maybe local councils have become a money laundering operation...not sure where the money we pay actually gets spent.

And don’t forget to mention the Tour of Britain starts today.

If you tell them that these potholes are bad for immigration they will promptly fix

The bike technology nowadays would not contribute a great deal to being much faster

Bike technology would not make that kind of difference

Better off in France

They are not potholes,come to. Melbourne,we have had potholes2-3 ft deep,damaging many cars before fixed When they are fixed,not done properly and often recur after first heavy rain

Having driven on UK roads on holidays in 2006, 2008, 2017, 2022 and 2023, I have noticed the deterioration. However, your roads are generally better than Australian roads where I live.

My wife & I both have 60.1's 2012 Olympics colours one of the nicest paint schemes ever (like the sparkle in the silver). Great lightweight bikes 7.4kg & 7.7kg respectively and ride very well. Just managed to get 25mm tyres in the frame. PS chap from our club recently came off on pot hole & broke his collar bone. The roads are in the worst shape in 40 years of riding something needs to be done. Thanks for the videos, love all the bikes.

Lol..." Tour de Pothole"😃

Yep, definitely West Kent, East Sussex, Surrey borders, Not sure which is the worst, all just as shockingly bad from my experience!

You got a great soundbite there. You sure you didn’t pay her?

East Sussex council Dan ?

Get a gravel bike, 19 mm tyres don't cut it on modern British roads!

Hey Dan,with the roads in Britain being so bad,it’s surprising that there aren’t more British cyclists winning the Belgian classics. Great video. Looking forward to seeing your next video. All the best!

These are not recently built roads. I cannot understand how it is that the removal of the army barracks, and the enormous mental hospital in this area, both of which released acres of land for new housing, which must have meant a huge increase in rates income, failed to result in any expenditure on roads at all.

I'm glad you got that off your chest, Dan. You're not alone The state of roads and pavements in the UK are pretty depressing. A pain & a danger for everyone cars, cyclists & pedestrians. Dont know what the answer is. I would like accountability of where our money goes and to who.. but I fear that's another debate entirely. Keep smiling and cycling roll on the next bike video.

We have the same problems here in NZ.The main culprit here are the many logging trucks we have here

Maybe your government should cancel the purchase of those good for nothing F 35 planes,and actually invest to the local infrastructure 😅 Greetings from Croatia from Kris 😎

Simply put potholes are a result of putting infrastructure down that a government cannot maintain because it costs MORE than the economy can bring that those roads are built around. Want to fix them: 1) have more businesses around the area these roads are 2) slow traffic down 3) increase infrastructure spending All of this needs political action. Best of luck

Hi Dan, you got a more than an acceptable finish on those forks especially when a bike simply isn’t worth what re-chroming costs but still needs to look as nice as possible (my 1951 Rudge Aero Clubman fork and rear triangle ends for instance!) what grades of paper were you using in this video please? Thanks for a great tutorial. Regards Vaughan

Remember Sean in the Tonbridge by-pass 1 minute behind me (not for long!) and he does a 20min ride riding for 34th Nomads

I will ride this year with my Legnano Model 54 speciale. I love the shirt, any idea where I could get a Legnano shirt like that?

I find all your presentations excellent - no bullshit, clear presentation. Thank you.

You are a menace in the roads and a menace on the pavements. ˙uodn pǝɹᴉɟ ǝq oʇ sᴉ slǝǝɥʍ oʍʇ uo ƃuᴉɥʇʎu∀

I have a lot of vintage stuff being in my 60's now. Like an amazing red and white hooped 80's Alfu Lum jacket (made in Belgium), the red on the sleeves has faded to a very bright pink and takes a lot of guts to wear through a S Wales valley town, when there is a rugby match on, but it is very warm.

nice vid, great bike, thanks!

i would LOVE to see a blind test of this...a real and a fake one, specced up to look identical and run the test again...obviously not practical to make happen, but I often wonder with bike comparison tests how much comes down to bias and knowing which is the inferior bike, therefore looking for defects. Like being told youre drinking cheap wine and thinking it tastes bad.

I’ve often thought that blanket hatred of cyclists has become socially acceptable in certain circles. There are definite parallels with racism and other forms of bigotry. It’s almost as if some people need a target for their hate. Recently, I was on a train and overheard two retired men talking loudly about how they deliberately nudged a cyclist with their car bumper. Apparently, she was going too slow with her shopping when riding along the high street.

I still ride a DeRosa from the same period, 1984. Yes, it rides best, hard and fast. It never gives up road feel, but is comfortable over a 100 mile ride, the genius of DeRosa. I attribute it to steep geometry front and rear, 74, 73.5, investment cast lugs, and long top tube, 55cm on a 54cm seat tube. it climbs like a bandit and descends like a motorcycle. No other bike I've ridden rides the same. 75,000 mies, still going strong.

when I looked at ALL of Lance's previous TdF results long BEFORE he was busted and quit racing - almost the entire Top 25 of each TdF he WON was populated by DOPERS who had been caught - that meant that a CLEAN Lance was somehow defeating guys who were doped to the gills - does that make logical sense ? - NO - no matter at the time guys like Phil Liggett were defending him and the rest of the media as well - Pantani and his unique climbing style in the drops - was a phenomenal talent WITHOUT doping but he did indeed DOPE heavily - I personally think this occurred AFTER his horrific head-on collision with a wayward car on the race course that broke nearly every bone in his body - regardless - his blood hematocrit was hyper elevated - over 60% at times if I recall - he was being woken up by a heart rate monitor in the middle of the night and had to climb on his indoor trainer for half an hour to circulate his THICK blood or risk heart attack - that is what killed many doped riders - so to think that a CLEAN TdF rider aka Pog-a-Bike - would SMASH Pantani record seems as plausible as the Lance argument back in the day - you already have the EVIL DOCTOR and his ZONE 2 training plan to try to dupe people - like YOU for instance - into believing it is all natural - recall the Carmichael Plan used by Lance - and high cadence climbing technique - that GURU Doctor always seems to be sniffing around DOPED riders - sure today's bike's are more advanced but the weight still has to meet UCI limits - stiffer frames - you are grabbing at straws - body weight - blah blah blah - when you find yourself working HARD to find excuses you are being suckered - AGAIN - reminds me of the "I have never failed a doping test" comments - you will yourself to believe the rumours and EVIDENCE just can't be true - all the Lance Fan BOYS did the same and shouted down anyone who disagreed - if it wals like a duck - quacks like ducks - yellow like duck it is NOT a Buffalo - THAT s what you are arguing for - he did not just beat the Pantani record he SMASHED IT - does that make LOGICAL SENSE ? - NO !!! - and guys like you who come one here to reassure YOURSELF are showing just how DESPARATE you are - how much you want to BELIEVE he is clean ... dude he is almost certainly DOPED - HATE TO BUST YOUR HERO BUBBLE - the REAL road cycling heroes are the nobody's who wake up at 5:00AM and ride for 4-5 hours without a pay check fans or media

Cool vid, little more time learning key players names would help your next vid. Phonetically his name sounds like Taday Poegatcha

All of Asia ride these with great groupsets. Honestly can't justify the massive difference in the real deal.... But lots of friends have no issues with these. Put 1000ks on these, and not a thing. Supply and demand.....lol. probably made from the same factory ...

Equality is the thing. If everyone dopes its a level field, right?

As a former sports journo who has followed doping in cycling/ triathlon I am sorry to inform you but whatever UAE are doing, doing it they are. We have a team of former dopers running the squad (Gianetti) and its lab rat Poggy. I find the spectacle rather disconcerting in the difference in performance between the UAE rider and the rest. I think your arguements of tech, diet and other factors weak (sorry) human physiology doesn't change, if you put up a juiced up Pantani on a new Bianchi he'd be no worse off than what he did 25 years ago. Unless you know how it works (paid doctors/supplements not sanctioned) then romantic notions of modern era cycling as advanced doesn't cut it.

you mentioned some aspects correctly. And then there are totally different team tactics today. Watch videos of bike races 40 or 30 or even 20 years ago, the GC guys rode much greater parts of the stages on their own, without teammates - and the stages where much longer! On a mountain stage (of ~250 km) they attacked each other at least the last two climbs (while having burned excessive amounts of carbs before). Today they ride in the slipstream of their domestiques until 3 - 5 km to the finish, "burning" one domestique after the other and then go the last km's with carb stores almost full. And when the stage is over the recovery program starts - lots of things riders never have heard of back in the days. If Pogacar or Vingegaard would have ridden the tempo they did with the preparation and under the conditions of 1990 or 2000 they would have bonked half way through the first hard stage. Cycling back than for todays athletes would look like absolute amateurs style

well if you think one can put 7 watt/kg for 40 minutes at the end of the tour, and look like he did a weekend group ride 5 minutes after just by eating training and sleeping well, then no they didn't...

Another great video,Dan! Agree with your views ,regarding the three points you covered. Looking forward to seeing your next video. All the best!

Of course not! They are all clean just like the uncle cycling highlights.