slofox
5th April 2010, 14:26
They are possible. Without busting your arse. As it turns out...luckily... :yes:
We have a wunnerful Waikato autumn day here today - 26C, clear (mostly) skies, low humidity - one of those "see forever" days. So I went out for the mandatory run through lower central areas - south to Otorohanga via 39 and thence east through Otewa Valley and a spider web of intersecting roads eventually ending up on Owairaka Valley Road, Te Awamutu and home to The Tron...:ride:
Now I'd be first to complain about councils doing nothing about bitumen bleed - the whole district is full of it just now. Actually, just as an aside, the local councils solve the problem very easily. They stick up myriads of those signs showing cars skidding...problem solved! "We signposted it, so NEMO PROBLEMO!" :angry:
But even worse, IMO, is patching the road up and not posting that there is a sea of loose bluechip awaiting the unwary. As I discovered this morning in my adventure with the "two wheel drift"
On one of those spider web of roads, I was happily winding through the wonderful corners in that area when I happened upon a left handed, slightly uphill bend - one of my personal all time favourites. "Woohoo!" I thinks, "here's the go!" But. Being as how it was on the south side of a cutting overhung with big trees, it was in shadow. And had been recently resealed. Full width. About 200m long. Not a warning sign in sight. And not swept. Which I didn't see, coming from bright into shadow. First I knew, I was crabbing sideways across the road. Felt like 2 metres but was probably all of 20mm. But both wheels went together and my anal sphincter was given a thorough workout...lucky I wasn't "holding", eh? :shit:
Somehow I stayed shiny side up but there was an adrenalin buzz back of the knees for a few seconds...
To add insult to (lack of) injury, just up the road there was a minor patch of new seal on the extreme left of the road that had about ten million signs around it...:ar15:
Seems to me, there could be a little more thought given to signposting such road works consistently...
All the same, the ride was mint! :sunny:
We have a wunnerful Waikato autumn day here today - 26C, clear (mostly) skies, low humidity - one of those "see forever" days. So I went out for the mandatory run through lower central areas - south to Otorohanga via 39 and thence east through Otewa Valley and a spider web of intersecting roads eventually ending up on Owairaka Valley Road, Te Awamutu and home to The Tron...:ride:
Now I'd be first to complain about councils doing nothing about bitumen bleed - the whole district is full of it just now. Actually, just as an aside, the local councils solve the problem very easily. They stick up myriads of those signs showing cars skidding...problem solved! "We signposted it, so NEMO PROBLEMO!" :angry:
But even worse, IMO, is patching the road up and not posting that there is a sea of loose bluechip awaiting the unwary. As I discovered this morning in my adventure with the "two wheel drift"
On one of those spider web of roads, I was happily winding through the wonderful corners in that area when I happened upon a left handed, slightly uphill bend - one of my personal all time favourites. "Woohoo!" I thinks, "here's the go!" But. Being as how it was on the south side of a cutting overhung with big trees, it was in shadow. And had been recently resealed. Full width. About 200m long. Not a warning sign in sight. And not swept. Which I didn't see, coming from bright into shadow. First I knew, I was crabbing sideways across the road. Felt like 2 metres but was probably all of 20mm. But both wheels went together and my anal sphincter was given a thorough workout...lucky I wasn't "holding", eh? :shit:
Somehow I stayed shiny side up but there was an adrenalin buzz back of the knees for a few seconds...
To add insult to (lack of) injury, just up the road there was a minor patch of new seal on the extreme left of the road that had about ten million signs around it...:ar15:
Seems to me, there could be a little more thought given to signposting such road works consistently...
All the same, the ride was mint! :sunny: