You probably know it, those deep gutters in the roadway with upright, sometimes centimeters high edges where, when you want to turn out at a slight angle, your bike wheel gets caught and you can then fall.
Super annoying and life-threatening. The solution for this is super simple, see the drawings of the 10-degree stone with which you can lay an equally deep and functional gutter without those life-threatening upright edges.
I tried to get this done with the municipality of Middelburg, but what you end up with; officials who say, “Yes, but we always do it this way” and/or: “these are the guidelines of the crow (or some other institution that trains road builders) we cannot work outside the guidelines”
Unfortunately, thinking for oneself and using common sense is not involved.
If you also think this 10-degree gutter is a good idea, please sign this petition:
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Have you or an acquaintance/family member ever experienced a fall because the wheel got stuck in such a bad gutter?
Was that fall possibly caused by that deep upright gutter in the pavement, as we can see in the shown photos?
If you fall with the bike, you often first think of your own clumsiness, and although you can often prevent that fall because of skill, it is not always possible to cut that gutter at an angle because of other traffic. You then fall because of that bad gutter!!!!
In my opinion, it remains a gross mistake and/or negligence of the municipalities to lay these gutters so poorly while it can be done better, please send information about how and where your fall happened to info@rowingbike.com so we can make an inventory of the victims, that might help to get the bureaucracy to change.