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its no fun on a motorbike when they do this, when you have ridges of loose chippings
Why are road chippings put down??
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Why are road chipping put down? They're put down by order of our lizard overlords when they think that we might be beginning to suspect their existence. We then have something so irritating to think about we forget about them. So, basically, the same reason wasps and midges exist.
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Cheap for the council. My bonnet looks like it's been dragged down a gravel path and I don't fancy the £500 respray bill.
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I had to drive the length of the a500 from Nantwich to the newcastle turn off after the m6, wish I went the long way round tbh.
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Don't respray it then. It's not like the car will stop working if it's got a few stone chips.
[TW]Fox;24678289 said:It's a nasty way of resurfacing that's done because it's cheap. When it's finished you end up with a rubbish surface with tremendous road noise. I would almost rather play dodge the pothole
typically, road chipped roads are not left road chipped. They are used as a substrate for the tarmac layer. If you are thinking about the older stone chip roads, mixed (while laid) with tarmac, like the section of the M3 that runs passed Winchester as dual carriage way, then yes, these are annoying and loud.
That's not really the point, is it?
I know it's a diesel Honda and thus possibly the greatest car ever made, but I don't think it can change the laws of physics to kick chippings up onto its own bonnet.
But then again, it is possible. I am a pretty talented driver.
Especially when they do it on low-traffic roads. Then you effectively just have a gravel track, because it never gets bedded in. I've come off a bike at low speeds (about 20mph) on the stuff, trying to go round a bend. Wheels just slide through the chippings like ice.
The way I understand it, when the tarmac is laid, it is rolled to compress the mix together.
This is too smooth to give adequate braking force on roads. So after the top layer of surfacing, they spray a bitumen tack coat and then sprinkle the chippings on.
The chippings are given a *light* rolling over with a hand roller (that barrel thing with the handle that laborers walk up and down with) and the rest of the chippings are left to be naturally embedded by traffic.
The chippings are meant for safety, to increase braking force, but it is annoying for road users
This is too smooth to give adequate braking force on roads. So after the top layer of surfacing, they spray a bitumen tack coat and then sprinkle the chippings on.
The chippings are given a *light* rolling over with a hand roller (that barrel thing with the handle that laborers walk up and down with) and the rest of the chippings are left to be naturally embedded by traffic.
The chippings are meant for safety, to increase braking force, but it is annoying for road users
The way I understand it, when the tarmac is laid, it is rolled to compress the mix together.
This is too smooth to give adequate braking force on roads. So after the top layer of surfacing, they spray a bitumen tack coat and then sprinkle the chippings on.
The chippings are given a *light* rolling over with a hand roller (that barrel thing with the handle that laborers walk up and down with) and the rest of the chippings are left to be naturally embedded by traffic.
The chippings are meant for safety, to increase braking force, but it is annoying for road users
What we're talking about here is the council doing a dressing of stone chips to fill in very minor pot holes and smooth the road out a bit which involves just spraying some tar over the road then dropping stone chips on top of it leaving it for a few days and let cars bed the chips in and then use a road sweeper to pick up the excess.
A proper resurfacing is what you're talking about.
The put this **** down on the way to where the wife works, told her to take the Mondeo to work and leave the mini till its cleared.
I've not long had the front end resprayed, I'm not having wrecked by some knuckle dragging fen boys charging around spraying stone everywhere.
I've not long had the front end resprayed, I'm not having wrecked by some knuckle dragging fen boys charging around spraying stone everywhere.
Actually no, what we are all talking about, is, where roads are completely covered in stop chippings with a sign that says "Slow 20mph" and a little picture of a car with stones flying up, which can last for a good half a mile, or longer, of the entire carriageway, not a little repair the council come and do......
Its been a nightmare by me the main bypass on the motorway has been done so I had to try and head out the back roads to get on the motorway only to find more roads covered. It was like playing dodge the gravel tracks.
I'm on the bike so its a nightmare going to have to avoid all those roads for a week or two
I'm on the bike so its a nightmare going to have to avoid all those roads for a week or two
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They seem to always put these bloody chippings down on the best country roads ie nice straight sections and then put signs up for 10mph etc its almost like they are trying to stop people having some fun.It takes ages(months) for the road to go smooth again and then theres always the odd chippings missed on a bend etc no fun for a motorcyclist.When they put road chippings down they literally ruin the road.