Black death

[nutjob]

Maybe you should all go for a good thrash...... instead of this little ole pootle thing

Yeah isn't that a type of dog?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Think mid-corner, tipped over in a downhill series of sweepers. Now imagine the stable road you've been "pootling on" (read: thrashing the bejeezus out on) suddenly turns into what feels like a 5 to 10mm thick layer of golden syrup laying on top.

There's hot tar, then there's hot tar.

Give me moss & lichen in the winter any day.

because I am a riding god, and where I ride there is no oncoming traffic, or dangerous objects to hit, and I am riding a bike with teh power and control of a MotoGP bike, but with the stability of a Can Am Spyder, All I usually do is stick my knee out, do a fantastic knee save, then straighten it up and go on to win, and stuff.


Have I mentioned I recently bought a Playstation?

[fliplid]

All I usually do is stick my knee out, do a fantastic knee save, then straighten it up and go on to win, and stuff.
Have I mentioned I recently bought a Playstation?

Wonder what effect dipping a plastic knee slider onto hot melted tar would have? Just curious, not planning on testing it out. Only time I've "had me knee down", as it were, was the same time as my elbow, wrist, shoulder, chest- you get the idea!

Too much overly melted tar round this way as well- with no pootling involved

[Madness]

Normally you can smell the road conditions...
And using your sense of smell, can be a potential life saver..
Moss has a smell, melting tar has a smell, cow shit/diesel etc...

Aaah, that's where I'm going wrong. I'm still going through a pack of Marlboro a day & I've been bunged up with a cold for a week now. I can hardly smell my own shit at the moment - and that's saying something!.

[Grumpy]

Normally you can smell the road conditions...
And using your sense of smell, can be a potential life saver..
Moss has a smell, melting tar has a smell, cow shit/diesel etc...

.... and that "OH F##K!" moment when you hit that wet tar can leave a lingering smell too ....

[Maha]

.... and that "OH F##K!" moment when you hit that wet tar can leave a lingering smell too ....

No so bad if Madness is behind you, he can't smell shit....

[buellbabe]

Seems a few of us had the same idea (going for a pootle I mean). I was out doing the manurewa-whitford-maraetai-kawakawa-kaiaua-hunua stretch on Tuesday and I actually thought the road was fine til on my way home...I had stopped for gas and the back end twitched as I was going around a little roundabout I use every day!

Made a mental note of that and will be wary as summer progresses cos the wear and tear is only gonna get worse.

One summer I was riding over the Kopu-Hikuwais and was stunned to see a water truck spraying the melting road...ok maybe there is some chemistry thing I am not getting here buuuuuut...seriously how can that possibly HELP the situation???

[caseye]

Seems a few of us had the same idea (going for a pootle I mean). I was out doing the manurewa-whitford-maraetai-kawakawa-kaiaua-hunua stretch on Tuesday and I actually thought the road was fine til on my way home...I had stopped for gas and the back end twitched as I was going around a little roundabout I use every day!

Made a mental note of that and will be wary as summer progresses cos the wear and tear is only gonna get worse.

One summer I was riding over the Kopu-Hikuwais and was stunned to see a water truck spraying the melting road...ok maybe there is some chemistry thing I am not getting here buuuuuut...seriously how can that possibly HELP the situation???

For a bike rider it simply adds to the problem, hot melting tar plus diesel and other oils rising to the surface on the little bit of watrer that the truck can drop on a piece of road at any given time.
Real solution, when building the road in the first place.
Put the right amount of Tar in the pot and don't use turpentine to thin it out and make it do another Kilometer or so.Did I mention making sure that you ring, go see in person your coulcil, politician. local beaurecrat and make an OFFICIAL COMPLAINT, seriously, this then has to be actioned and a result has to be achieved.
Ride safe out there guys and girls.