The joys of rural motorcycling

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Just a short clip from this morning's journey - you can spot the mud and gravel but the diesel on rural lanes is mixed in with the mess so it's hard to spot. If you venture out of town take care on those quiet country lanes.

This is why I keep a hose by the gate - I cleaned it at the weekend

 

 

[Guest]

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I think I'll stick with my type of rural riding MB!

[TimR]

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[dynax]

About time the people responsible for depositing debris on the roads are held accountable, farmers, construction sites, and horse riders should me made to clean up or be heavily fined

[husoi]

Wee correction.

In construction industry it is already legally required to provide wheel wash facilities for HGV traffic leaving sites. The penalties can amount to the 1,000's and it is not rare these to me applied.

True that farming traffic can travel between fields, crossing roads or travelling several miles on tarmac roads without any legal imposition to have the wheels clean before entering a public road.

[Six30]

Damp roads , bike stays in garage .

[Ian Frog]

I work in construction management and can 100% back up the remarks made by [mention]husoi[/mention] Construction sites are regularly held to account by councils and highway inspectors.

Only in the last few months I was responsible for the road outside a site in rural Bucks where every time we put a road sweeper down it the ruddy farmers would track past and undo everything we had done and I was lumbered with the parish and district councils insisting we swept the road again !

Cheers

Ian

[dynax]

So just the farmers, horse riders and 4x4 owners who go off roading, that need to be enforced then

[husoi]

Note that a 4X4 parked on pedestrians sidewalk is not considered off-road...

Those are commonly known as Chelsea tractors

[manxie49]

I ride these sort of roads every day, there's one local farm in particular, notorious in the winter for dragging trailers out of muddy fields and covering the road in crap. There's been a couple of accidents but no action ever seems to be taken, as with most farm vehicles, the tractors he uses all seem to leak oil and diesel, I was down the road last week and could see oil all over the wet road, I did report it but don't know if it got cleaned up. I usually try and avoid the area but it isn't always possible. I was always under the impression that if they cover the road in shite they have to clean it up? I know they do at a nearby building site when the road is a mess, I regularly see the street cleaner there.

[manxie49]

Just a short clip from this morning's journey - you can spot the mud and gravel but the diesel on rural lanes is mixed in with the mess so it's hard to spot. If you venture out of town take care on those quiet country lanes.

This is why I keep a hose by the gate - I cleaned it at the weekend

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You should try a fender extender on that front mudguard, I stuck one on my bike, goes a long way in helping keep the crap off the front of your bike

Edited November 9, 2020 by manxie49

[Gerontious]

About time the people responsible for depositing debris on the roads are held accountable, farmers, construction sites, and horse riders should me made to clean up or be heavily fined

 

 

[S-Westerly]

Some parts of Gloucestershire have roads that at times look mediaeval and you wonder where the tarmac has gone. Thick glutinous slippy mud does not stimulate the inner Rossi.

[learningtofly]

Bloody hell - that road the blood biker came off on!

[Bender]

While I have every sympathy for the blood Nike rider if it was so foggy he couldn't see in front of him he should have been crawling, if he was going slow enough to see what the road turned into he still should have been crawling.

I was out on Sat and we had a roundabout closed off in the sticks, in places visibility was down to 20ft, loonies were still passing me, the roundabout surprised a van driver who obviously didn't know the road, his van ended up embedded in the trees in the middle of the roundabout, if anyone had been going round it they would have been wiped out, I had no sympathy.

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Wee correction.

In construction industry it is already legally required to provide wheel wash facilities for HGV traffic leaving sites. The penalties can amount to the 1,000's and it is not rare these to me applied.

True that farming traffic can travel between fields, crossing roads or travelling several miles on tarmac roads without any legal imposition to have the wheels clean before entering a public road.

 

I wish they all worked to the same standard. A construction site at a school along the road from where we used to live plastered the road with mud. I complained that the road was dangerous and to be fair they then cleaned it up, but it had been like that for weeks beforehand.

Shortly afterwards my wife slipped and fell on mud on the pavement outside their entrance and injured her arm. It took over a year of treatment before it healed, during which she couldn't drive or play any sport. At that stage the firm concerned, BAM, denied all responsibility for the mess they had created.

[husoi]

Wee correction.

In construction industry it is already legally required to provide wheel wash facilities for HGV traffic leaving sites. The penalties can amount to the 1,000's and it is not rare these to me applied.

True that farming traffic can travel between fields, crossing roads or travelling several miles on tarmac roads without any legal imposition to have the wheels clean before entering a public road.

 

I wish they all worked to the same standard. A construction site at a school along the road from where we used to live plastered the road with mud. I complained that the road was dangerous and to be fair they then cleaned it up, but it had been like that for weeks beforehand.

Shortly afterwards my wife slipped and fell on mud on the pavement outside their entrance and injured her arm. It took over a year of treatment before it healed, during which she couldn't drive or play any sport. At that stage the firm concerned, BAM, denied all responsibility for the mess they had created.

 

That's a reportable H&S accident. If BAM didn't took responsibility you should contact H&S office and complain about it.

[dynax]

She can sue and is entitled to compensation.

Also been reading up and farmers have a resposibility to clean up after themselves, if they do not they are liable to fines, so if any roads have mud on them, take a photo with date and time and report them to the local council

[Bender]

I know of a site that had wheel washes as part of its plans, they never appeared, council did fook all, every now and again a road sweeper would be sent out to smear it evenly over the road, was a joke

[mention]Mississippi Bullfrog[/mention] That's definitely a claim to be making.

[Breezin]

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Exactly why it keeps happening. Whose job is it to enforce?

[Six30]

Bloody hell - that road the blood biker came off on!

 

yeh...some one has to be held responsible for that , could of been so much worse , car coming other way etc

[Bianco2564]

Not just sideroads either, my route to the war memorial yesterday was down the A5 and some farmer had dragged a load of mud on there.

Aswell as a risk of slipping on mud but stones can get thrown up by other vehicles passing over it.

[Mickly]

She can sue and is entitled to compensation.

Also been reading up and farmers have a resposibility to clean up after themselves, if they do not they are liable to fines, so if any roads have mud on them, take a photo with date and time and report them to the local council

 

Trouble is in proving the farmer was responsible for the bit of mud you slipped on, unless you actually see them do it it is really difficult.

Think I read a Andrew Dalton piece ( of White Dalton ) about it.

From what I remember, they also have a ‘reasonable’ amount of time to clear it up.

[Mr Fro]

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The "advanced rider" clearly wasn't that advanced if they stuffed it on some mud!