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I rode through a pothole this morning. Wasn't going at a great speed, just above average commuter pace... so that'd be in the 16 > 18mph area (from the gear I was in and my estimated cadence at the time).
The thing is... I heard a hell of a cracking/whacking noise from the rear wheel and arrived at work to discover that I've had a spoke snap (sheered off near the nipple) and the rim now has a crack in it.
Is this the kind of thing which is claimable against the council that failed to fill in the pot hole? It was a sudden and deep-ish hole and really threw me when I hit it. Unfortunately in moving traffic it wasn't visible until way too late and sudden braking could easily have been more dangerous (I couldn't have swerved either... the traffic was close).