Melting roads

[300weatherby]

Tha cause is simple really, our roads are built and repaired to a price, the lowest price, never to a standard. Anything much above 25c and Cantrbury roads start melting, at 30 and it starts being dodgy as. Give your local counciler shit about it.

[skinman]

maybe time to take councilors for a ride & see who can get the longest slide on the molten tar.

[Hitcher]

Tha cause is simple really, our roads are built and repaired to a price, the lowest price, never to a standard. Anything much above 25c and Cantrbury roads start melting, at 30 and it starts being dodgy as. Give your local counciler shit about it.

Sadly, most councillors with no training whatsoever, could probably lay a better sealed highway than the contractors employed to do it.

Last summer, Wellington City Council put coarse chip on top of perfectly good hot mix along Churchill Drive. They must have had spare budget, because there was absolutely nothing wrong with the road. Within two days, the coarse chip surface was peeling off, leaving a patchy bastardised surface. Contractors should have to put jobs like this right at their cost. If I had been a council supervising engineer, I wouldn't have signed off on a job that my Mum could have done better.

[Grizzo]

The Castlepoint road was decidedly viscous in a few places on Saturday. But the seal at the north end of Greytown was festeringly fluid.

Yep, parts of the north end road of Greytown are falling apart.
Potholes and sludge everywhere!

[Jjgres]

Same deal down here. Still ice grit signs between Cheviot and Kaikoura. Dude who usually flips em all over must be on vacation early

I hit a gravel section between these two a few days ago. In a turn, woke me right up.

[Tazz]

I hit a gravel section between these two a few days ago. In a turn, woke me right up.

Yup, good fun eh .
On one of the weirdly cambered 55km/h S bends heading south a shite load jumped out at me too. Almost won a Darwin Award.

[The Reibz]

Had a couple of shocking melting patches during the poker run on the weekend. Lost traction on both wheels at one stage when coasting down the road. Was out of it

[Brett]

The tar melt is pretty bad...going to have to clean the CBR this weekend as all the swing arm etc. is splattered.

[Berries]

Had a couple of shocking melting patches during the poker run on the weekend. Was out of it

Sounds like a pretty choice night there bro.

[SMOKEU]

The tar melt is pretty bad...going to have to clean the CBR this weekend as all the swing arm etc. is splattered.

I remember there being a late model (can't remember what kind) bike that was on TM as an insurance write off due to some minor bitumen splatter on the bottom fairings.

[Madness]

I remember there being a late model (can't remember what kind) bike that was on TM as an insurance write off due to some minor bitumen splatter on the bottom fairings.

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