Highway Biker
Hi. Just a question as its my first summer of riding.... how should I treat sticky/shinny tar on the roads during the hot days? Is it hazardous? Should I avoid it? Does it provide more traction? or will it depend on the road?
Experienced advice would be appreciated...ie save my ass.
Forum whore
Shiny, melted tar is as bad as diesel. Avoid.
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Good to know. Thankyou.Originally Posted by Jim2
Scattering the morning dew
Can I please say that there is no tar on New Zealand Roads. Yes, I am being pedantic, but we use bitumen not tar.
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Ok, you can be pedantic.
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Scattering the morning dew
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Bad. Very bad. About as bad as can be. Not the tar (bite me) , but the oil which distills out of it and sits in a shiney layer on top. Most deadly of all is a hot day followed by a cool night. The next morning dew will settle on that oil: instant off.
Avoid it at all costs.
Ducatisti
Melted roads often have the oils coming to the surface leaving them slippy as shit.
Edit: As Ixion said above, we posted within 1 minute of each other....
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Scattering the morning dew
Technically known as "bleeding" or "flushing".
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Sorry to show my ignorance but what exactly does this look like on the road and
does it happen frequently on our roads?
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Avoid the shiny bits, the hole bits, the roadkill bits, the pebbly bits ... and any other foreign, extraneous matter on the road! Hang back more from the traffic ahead to give you more reaction time...
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Ducatisti
Just looks like a shiny almost wet patch. Happens all the time, most usually on corners and up hills where trucks often have trouble with traction.
Afterwards if it gets wet, it gets really slippy.
I have a stretch of road near me, thats had the same bit of melted tar for years, even now when wet in the mornings it can be lethal.
Just learn to keep an eye out, just like avoiding road markings etc.
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Yup like the plague. Often referred to as Tar snakes.
Simple rule, treat anything on the road with a shiny appearance with suspicion and ride with caution near it.
One of the skills that a motorcyclist must develop to a higher degree than a cage driver, along with many others, is to read the road surface.
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