Cheap Tar N Gravel Roads

wazza300 · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:01

Stop!!!!

everywhere lately they seem to be slapping this cheap and dangerous road surface down,facefull of stone's flying plus the damage to your bike fairing and every turn off road is slippy as hell due to the gravel that gets flung

just lay a proper tarmac road,its god awful surface to ride on

wazza300 · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:12

its rubbish,spoils a very nice road

and takes months to fully bed in

wazza300 · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:16

it still throws up garvel at slow speeds and its very slippy,fine for cars dangerous for bikes

with the road tax they have off us it should be paved with gold

wazza300 · 6 Aug 2014 at 22:19

edd1e said:
at least they sign post it well over here... in France last week I hit a patch at rather high speed and nearly soiled myself.

the sign does say "20mph skidders risk"

wazza300 · 30 Jul 2015 at 20:49

seems the council are doing the rounds again with this stuff,few roads by me and one lovely country road I used to love riding/getting up to speed on ruined

whoever thought it up should be force fed gravel sandwiches

terrible for your bike,it almost grit blasts your poor fairing

wazza300 · 30 Jul 2015 at 23:59

All ours goes on propping up immigrants,just cheap gravel for the roads

wazza300 · 31 Jul 2015 at 12:56

It cheap that's why they do it

Is it safe to ride on? Hell no

The worst part is after the newly gravelled surface has ended and you get swathes of gravel strewn all over the tarmaced roads,so easy to slip and come off

Just burn the old surface off and re tarmac it,do a proper safer job