Worst Road in London

Brixton Hill (A23)
F*cking morons in the bus lane! on scooters!!

no point in using it, there are better alternative routes for 99% of journeys that would use this section of road

i remember we did this thread before. i remember agreeing with Slamm about Norwood road from tulse hill down to herne hill. i no longer ride that road but remember it as bad.

that's been mostly resurfaced now, so its not so bad.chiswell st ec2 is the worst in the city at least

So where are the best roads? Where are the best downhill-smooth-wind-behind you places? I can only think of north from Highbury Park where it becomes Blackstock Road. Good Hill. Plenty of visibility so you're not so worried about death at 40 mph.

HTFU, this is london my friend!!

I'll put the same dent in your ShitHouse and then tell you to HTFU. Yes?

This forum is for whinging. Let it be so.

So where are the best roads? Where are the best downhill-smooth-wind-behind you places? I can only think of north from Highbury Park where it becomes Blackstock Road. Good Hill. Plenty of visibility so you're not so worried about death at 40 mph.

The ride to Cambersands had some fast downhills that were straight and clear unlike the shitty roads to Brighton. Also, the last ride to Dunwich was on super smooth roads. In London? Not a fucking chance.

that's been mostly resurfaced now, so its not so bad.chiswell st ec2 is the worst in the city at least

That's a good one! That's an awful bit of road.

That's a good one! That's an awful bit of road.

Make your fucking mind up.

So where are the best roads? Where are the best downhill-smooth-wind-behind you places? I can only think of north from Highbury Park where it becomes Blackstock Road. Good Hill. Plenty of visibility so you're not so worried about death at 40 mph.

I used to get so envious watching US skate videos where they could actually skate on the roads, they were smooth as fuck, now I want to bomb down one of those San Francisco hills on a freewheel, if you picked the right one I'm sure you could get to 50 mph at least

I used to get so envious watching US skate videos where they could actually skate on the roads, they were smooth as fuck, now I want to bomb down one of those San Francisco hills on a freewheel, if you picked the right one I'm sure you could get to 50 mph at least

50mph!
On a push-bike!
Who'dafuckinthunkit?

i remember we did this thread before. i remember agreeing with Slamm about Norwood road from tulse hill down to herne hill. i no longer ride that road but remember it as bad.

They resurfaced a lot of it and made it really good, except the traffic is just as bad.

I would like to regurgitate this thread to vent how much I detest Commercial Rd. By God it is SO BORING! Long, straight and boring, it makes me want to fall asleep. Rarely see any other cyclists on it, and none of them ever want to race.

If long straight and boring is your thing try riding the Uxbridge road from Uxbridge to Shepherds Bush.

Did that a month ago, ealing to central. Mind you is was fun cause it was early evening, with a mate, neither of us had been that far west on a bike before and we were pissed.

Did that a month ago, ealing to central. Mind you is was fun cause it was early evening, with a mate, neither of us had been that far west on a bike before and we were pissed.

That always helps

Malpas Road taking you off Lewisham Way into the depths of Brockley used to be absolutely horrific - recently they've done a super-proper tarmac job on it and now it's like cycling over a baby's bottom.

My slept-on shocker that any Dalstonite who's cut through from the Rio down to Balls Pond will know: King Henry's Walk. A craggy mess of loose tarmac, sleeping policemen and massive gaping holes. Also Grosvenor Rd, back of Highbury, looks like the San Andreas fault runs through it at the moment.

There are two or three very nasty, yet, interestingly, cuboid, holes - roughly the depth of graves - in the middle of the road on Mortimer Street at the moment, heading up to TCR.. they are almost worse cos most of the road is okay. I do wonder how many teeth-jarring incidents there've been recently with people landing in those - most of the time your sightlines are taken up with the backs of taxis and they're suddenly there..

FINALLY they fixed the worse part of the New Oxford Street road, I was in heaven going over that fresh piece of tarmac, it's not a great work, but a thousand time better than what it was.

they still got to fix those bit heading up to Kingsway thought.

True, King Henry's Walk is currently terrible.

It's on my commute, and I think I wrote to the ward councillors a while ago, but I'd have to check. Hopefully, having lavished some TLC on the Essex Road, Islington Highways will have KHW in their sights soon.

I fucked my front rim today.. on Bayswater Rd.

i find bayswater one of the worst. you can always go through kensington park but on a late night ride back home, that road is killer.

I think it's the right turn, Goodman's Yard into Mansell Street E1 going Towards Tower Bridge (north to south); right on the apex of what is a fairly fast and tight bend you're pitted against a drainage cover that is at a strange angle so the elongated holes are paralel to the direction that your travelling in! In effect during the middle part of your turn you go over those holes with your front wheel getting sucked in.

Not sure if that makes sense but at night time, it is a terrible accident waiting to happen.

Yeah, that's an arse of a ride, well bumpy, as is the bit if you follow it up(from Tulse Hill - Christchurch/top of Brixton Hill) round the one way bit on the South Circular

well they've re-done half the norwood road so it's (only!) half as bad. Waterloo road (that bit with the bus stops outside the station) is a sort of obstacle course what with the roadworks as well

Well I have had four nice surprises on my commute this week: the big hole on Grosvenor Road (along the Embankment under the bridge) has been filled, the drain/hole on the bus lane outside Lidl in Tooting Bec has been filled, the bike speed bumps on Clapham Common have been sorted are much smoother and they have resurfaced a part of Horseferry Road.

Thank you!

I am now going to ask TfL to resurface the whole of Kings Avenue, SW4. Fingers crossed.

Camden Road's got a few nasty spots, there's obviously the bus lane that cars are constantly turning left through, but there's also a few 1-2ft long potholes with deceptively smooth sides, no cracks or anything, just an unnanounced wheel-swallowing abyss.

The bottom bit of York Way is pretty shit. Someone said further up the thread that going down Amwell Street is bad, I would argue going up is much worse, may have changed in the last six months since that post though. I go down Copenhagen Street every day and I'm sure it's getting worse, but that could just be the roadworks.

Camden Road's got a few nasty spots, there's obviously the bus lane that cars are constantly turning left through, but there's also a few 1-2ft long potholes with deceptively smooth sides, no cracks or anything, just an unnanounced wheel-swallowing abyss.

I hope you have reported them.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/reportastreetfault/newfault.aspx

anyone gone into a pothole so deep that the front end drops into it so quick that your hands (which i tend to rest on the bars rather than hold) stay mid air, sending you into a sprawling mess ??