Originally Posted by
Speedo
...a pothole 2 meters long and 0.5 meters wide and 0.2 meters deep opened up over the course of 24 hours...
I usually notice something that size
and use avoidance techniques. The sort of potholes I hit tend to be smaller.
I agree that potholes (as opposed to your chasms) would be less of an issue if I was using a larger wheel, but at any reasonable speed I don't fall into them even with the small wheel. The other point is that the rider is not a fixed weight on the bike (or shouldn't be!) so I move my weight right back before hitting such road perils and then forward before the back wheel hits, so that tends to minimise the impact anyway.