Cheap Tar N Gravel Roads

Glaucus said:
Nothing wrong with it, if you stick to the advised speed. It works and works well. Far cheaper and extends the life of the road significantly.
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Nothing wrong with it? Don't be so completely daft, they are horrendous on anything with 2 wheels, and positively dangerous for pedestrians when there is a pavement next to the road. It damages cars, increases the risk of accidents and the resulting road surface is very short lived.

Yeah, nothing wrong with it at all :rolleyes:
 
They have done this to one of the roads on my commute. Can't avoid it as they have closed the other road I can take. Hate it. So slippery. Even at a crawl it's awful.
 
Mostly done around April time on North Yorks Moors roads (up to Hawes) where I ride. Makes the roads nigh on unrideable as it's all twisty bends and this slows traffic to a crawl. Best to leave it a month or two to settle down. I ride my bike for enjoyment, not to get from A to B (take the car for that).

I guess it's necessary and keeps costs down, but the increased risk on two wheels means I generally change my route when my favourite roads are covered in marbles.
 
The worst is **** tar mix to fill in pot holes. In sun it just gets soft again and then molds into a wonderful lump and an even bigger hole.

Roads in this country are dire compared to others who pay similar tax.
 
Glaucus said:
I bet you wouldn't support a massive increase in tax to fully relay roads though.
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actually decent roads are one thing i'd happily pay for.plenty opf crap that could be cut im pretty sure our foreign aid budget (the non bribe section of it at least~) would pay for all the roads to be done nicely
 
I'd much prefer knowing that the road tax, fuel duty, any insurance premium tax **** take garbage and everything else motorists be slapped with are going directly back into maintaining and improving the road network. Pipe dream.

Bumping road tax up by a tenner each with that promise (roads and nothing else) would probably get universal approval. Problem is the Govt of the day won't stick to promises (that's regardless of who is in charge).
 
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.
 
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:D

terrible for your bike,it almost grit blasts your poor fairing
 
Glaucus said:
Road tax what is that?, it doesn't throw it up at the designated speed and it really is fine on a bike.
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its that thing they brought in with the new budget where they decided that it wasnt emisions based any more and was going to be ringfenced for road use.
 
It's weird - they did a load of roads round here in Kent this was at the start of summer, gravel everywhere.

Yet on my trip to Wales a lot of the roads had recently been re-surfaced in awesome smooth as you like 'proper' black tarmac.

Maybe it's the less used roads that get the proper stuff, as the rain would wash away the gravel chipping before they had time to bed in (and it'd be more dangerous on a twisty road).
 
A section of road around here has been resurfaced correctly and it is like a race track, as soon as you ride over it the bike feels amazing and perfect!

Shame the section is about 500 yards in a 40mph limit with three corners :(

Everywhere else has been bodge job gravel in pot holes, tar and gravel over cracks and none of it lasts more than a few weeks before they have to go around and do it again!
 
The roads in the UK from my observations have changed drastically due to the climate change, UK had snow in the past couple winters and the temps went well below what it use to be couple years back.

On some roads my little 125 just jumps around, its that bad. I once stopped next to a biker on a bigger bike, we had a chat and even he mentioned that these roads use to be so good tarmac-wise. The twisties were nice, some parts of that road had wood bits and generally some corners were like 90 degrees

I saw an article about plastic roads being a thing in the not so faraway future, I wonder how true this is?
 
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