"Surface dressing"

piston

Why oh why do the local council insist on putting this sh!t on otherwise perfectly good road surfaces?

A road near my home had a nice tarmacced surface applied by a sub contractor a while back. Now Donegal coco have put about an inch of loose chippings on top of it. It's lethal on a road bike, passing cars pelt me with gravel, it's nowhere near as smooth as the original road surface, it saps your pedalling effort and will cut up and be a mess in a few months time. They keep doing this to perfectly good bits of roads while not fixing the other stretches of the same roads that are full of potholes. WHY? Don't they realise how dangerous this is to both pedal and motor powered 2 wheelers? I can control my speed but the passing cars don't and I'm sick of being pelted with chippings. :mad:

t'bear

Yeah, here here.

I have a nice little stretch maybe about 2 km all in that was in crap order, I went across it on Monday on a beautifully newly surfaced tarmac, came back Tuesday to dust from cars and a thundering spray of gravel. It also now has line piles of loose gravel in the middle and sides of the road as the cars carve a path through this ****.

I assumed the dressing is to protect it from frost etc, but I am not any way knowledgeable about such matters.

macadam

For grip as the surface underneath is probably only a base course, it also should be swept immediately with only minimum loose chips

ednwireland

yep hate cornflakes, its not so bad once it beds in worse now when it fresh it just remelts in weather like this

noticed donegal coco have a habit of putting lumps of tar to divert water off the road absolutely lethal if you hit them at speed (just on it on leagans hill outside inver just ride in the middle of the road now)

triggermortis

piston wrote: »

Why oh why do the local council insist on putting this sh!t on otherwise perfectly good road surfaces?

A road near my home had a nice tarmacced surface applied by a sub contractor a while back. Now Donegal coco have put about an inch of loose chippings on top of it. It's lethal on a road bike, passing cars pelt me with gravel, it's nowhere near as smooth as the original road surface, it saps your pedalling effort and will cut up and be a mess in a few months time. They keep doing this to perfectly good bits of roads while not fixing the other stretches of the same roads that are full of potholes. WHY? Don't they realise how dangerous this is to both pedal and motor powered 2 wheelers? I can control my speed but the passing cars don't and I'm sick of being pelted with chippings. :mad:

+1 on this. Same thing has just happened a mile from my house in Monaghan. Not been on it on the bike yet, but already noticed more chips on my car caused by others not going slowly enough across it :mad: