It's said that potholes do not exist in Wales, with road surfaces being better than the rest of the UK.
This is very much not true. When I recently complained to Wrexham Borough Council, they said that as a border area, they use them as protection against invading English cyclists and they won't be fixing them (*).
(* They might not have actually said this.)
Apologies, but RANT follows...……..
They may not have said that, but as a Cheshire cyclist who occasionally ventures over the border in the Wrexham area (but only when I've had a brain fart and forgotten how bad their roads are), their rural roads (aka cart tracks abandoned even by sheep) are even worse than Cheshire's, because this is the end product of a total lack of local road maintenance. I have reported numerous, lethal, sections of their cart tracks and nothing has been done. And I'm only 3 miles from the border, so their roads would be attractive, if they were not so flaming dangerous.
I suspect it'll take the death of a cyclist, thrown off his bike and under the wheels of the monster farm machinery we now have inflicted on unsuitably-small roads (alright, cart tracks) which were fine in the days of horses and carts, and even the old grey Fergie or Ford 135, before anything is done. Avoid the Penley, Tallarn Green, Hanmer area at all costs.
And breathe......