My local council recently ad to pay me for damage done to a wheel by a pothole that I first reported almost a year before.
I had avoided it for over a year and then one dark, wet, night had to dodge an oncoming car and wrecked a perfectly good rim (and got a puncture in the pouring rain).
They have resurfaced the entire stretch now, the inspector who came out to look at it was astonished at how my wheel could be placed into the hole (which was a long crack) and the bike would stand unsupported.
They're now working on a whole load of other potholes elsewhere on my route.
