Potholes

For once in a while, I did a Ewell Village circuit today, anti-clockwise, so starting on West Hill rather than Longmead Road.

Quite struck by the poor state of the roads from a cyclist's point of view, with plenty of potholes plenty big enough to give one a painful jolt, or worse, with the stretch from Ewell Village down to Pound Lane school being particularly bad.

So as far as this cyclist is concerned, the hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on the barely used cycle path from Malden Rushett to Epsom would have been much better spent patching up these potholes in the roads. But to be fair to the council, they were probably only responding to pressure from some middle aged and not very representative pressure group made up of greens, cyclists and eco-warriors. Probably the same people that inflict hornéd cows on Epsom Common.

All the real cyclists, the young lycra types, charging up and down Horton Lane, stick to the roads, as I generally do. And I might add that while I have never worn lycra, I do now wear a helmet.