The Road Condition Warning thread

magicbastarder · 04-12-2019 12:01AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Make a planning enforcement complaint to the local authority. There is usually a planning condition about not dragging mud onto the road.

to be fair, i've cycled a lot along that stretch in the mornings and evenings and it's been clean. passing along there today at lunchtime was the first time i've been there in weeks, so it's possible they do have a cleaning schedule.

The Noble Nudge · 24-02-2020 11:37AM

Oil spill/Diesel spill all the way down Gunny hill to Ballycullen(the left road at Orlagh house to Lidl direction)...albeit descended safely not too sure on a night time spin just to give the heads up..

The Noble Nudge · 27-06-2020 08:50PM

Just be careful coming down Sally gap towards Kilbride...
WW CoCo pebble dashed very recently...just after the first bridge for a few km and mounds of pebble on the road in places from falling off the delivery truck.

eeeee · 27-06-2020 11:51PM

Chippings on the descent from Glencree for a k or two also. Big piles of gravel at the mtb place they put the double yellows at too, I really hope it goes on trails and not on the road, but I hold out little hope.

That stretch from Sally Gap to Kilbride is one of my favourite descents

I hit my max speeds along there

bbuzz · 28-06-2020 09:48PM

eeeee wrote: »

Chippings on the descent from Glencree for a k or two also.

The Crone Wood decent is a bit better at the moment, small section with loose chippings, but much shorter than Glencree.

crosstownk · 15-07-2020 03:41PM

The Threecastles road from the bridge at Blessington to Manor Kilbride is closed - local access only. Presumably it's for resurfacing as the road is in bits - especially at the castle ruins.

No doubt Wicklow Co. Co. will lay a carpet of loose chippings in the very near future.

Normally I'd venture up a closed road once there's local access but I was on an extended WFH lunch break so I couldn't risk further delay.

Macy0161 · 15-07-2020 04:28PM

Ashford to Roundwood - Killiskey has been chip and tarred this week, and the Nuns Cross to the bottom of the (not easy) Devils Glen is closed today, presumably for the same treatment (and on up the road towards Garryduff Cross)

eeeee · 15-07-2020 11:10PM

Ugh this is all awful news. Maybe time for an email to the council, see if they can avoid chip and tar on popular cycling routes? Maybe use heatmaps to judge which roads they can put that on?
I think encouraging cycling is part of the government strategic plan for sport, could make a case for it under that.

Plastik · 16-07-2020 10:18AM

I'd love to see what the WCC rationale is for picking roads for treatment, if there is any in the first place. Consistently over the last few years roads have received treatment that didn't need it, and yet they put down a billiard smooth surface on a stretch between Glenmacnass and Sally Gap.

Corker1 · 16-07-2020 11:36AM

Glad to hear that this road is getting some attention at last as it has been in a poor state with potholes for many years now. I hope they do a good job and go easy with the chippings.

CramCycle · 16-07-2020 12:25PM

eeeee wrote: »

Ugh this is all awful news. Maybe time for an email to the council, see if they can avoid chip and tar on popular cycling routes? Maybe use heatmaps to judge which roads they can put that on?
I think encouraging cycling is part of the government strategic plan for sport, could make a case for it under that.

I've mailed them before and didn't even get a cursory PFO letter. Its not my area of expertise so I inquired with those who know better than me. I put in the info I was given but they didn't even acknowledge it. Wicklow CoCo (as a resident) are the most bizarre set up as an outsider looking in. It gets even funnier when you get items that fall under Bray town Council and the pass the parcel with anything that isn't motor tax related begins. Incredibly effective as most, like myself give up. I am pretty sure both have paid roles for several things that their job simply involves responding that you must contact the other crowd.

crosstownk · 16-07-2020 03:12PM

Wicklow Co. Co. put down a billiard table surface on Lisheen Road last year. About a month later they dressed it with chippings.

Wildly Boaring · 17-07-2020 05:58PM

Bellewstown hill. From the school looking west.
Chippy chippings.

Also Oldbridge / Battle of Boyne site up the hill to donore was chippy last weekend.

Wildly Boaring · 17-07-2020 06:39PM

crosstownk wrote: »

Wicklow Co. Co. put down a billiard table surface on Lisheen Road last year. About a month later they dressed it with chippings.

I explained that a bit here previously

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/109976889

Probably DBM was the billiard table, which is unsuitable as a long term wearing course

17-07-2020 07:36PM

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Bellewstown hill. From the school looking west.
Chippy chippings.

Also Oldbridge / Battle of Boyne site up the hill to donore was chippy last weekend.

Had the ''pleasure" of both roads earlier today.

magicbastarder · 17-07-2020 08:03PM

Good to know, I was going to head out that way tomorrow to recce the hill just north of the racecourse for another crack at an hour hillclimb.

Wildly Boaring · 17-07-2020 09:24PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

Good to know, I was going to head out that way tomorrow to recce the hill just north of the racecourse for another crack at an hour hillclimb.

It's fine coming up from julianstown side. Assume the north up/down fine too?

Chips were off to the west. Worn in a bit but I hadn't the heart for it. Chipping descents are my worst nightmare

17-07-2020 10:14PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

Good to know, I was going to head out that way tomorrow to recce the hill just north of the racecourse for another crack at an hour hillclimb.

I await your report :pac:

I struggled up I don't mind saying with lockdown legs. I remember as kids we'd ride up there with ease to go pick strawberries out there in the summer. Herself though was fine up it and took 2 off her PB which meant I was dropped at the bend to suffer alone.

Even with the good legs I'd have trouble after a 3rd or 4th run at that I'd say.

Wildly Boaring · 18-07-2020 06:13PM

Meath co co must have a hill plan in place.

Skryne hill from west next!! (and possible south)

Plasterered in loose chipping signs today. All new shiney ones.

magicbastarder · 18-07-2020 07:03PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I await your report :pac:

Summary of report: a hard no. I had about 400m or 500m in the legs already when I tackled it, and it's too lumpy. Granny geared it up the step section. No chance of getting into any sort of rhythm on it.

18-07-2020 07:37PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

Summary of report: a hard no. I had about 400m or 500m in the legs already when I tackled it, and it's too lumpy. Granny geared it up the step section. No chance of getting into any sort of rhythm on it.

Yeah sounds like my experience on it, theres another road on the same side a little to the west I haven't been up in years. Not sure if it's as steep but it's much more twisty. Which is probably why I haven't been up it in so long and don't see any segments for either.

magicbastarder · 18-07-2020 07:57PM

i did that today too, bellewstown bridge, a little bit before doing the hill above. it's way too twisty a descent for something where you're against the clock.

juicer · 18-07-2020 08:52PM

Why do they put down loose stones like that? Surely it's hazardous?

velo.2010 · 18-07-2020 09:16PM

Maynooth to Kilcock is now chipped sealed just beyond the graveyard. There was a frost damaged stretch for a few hundred meters under some trees, but the rest of that road was decent.

I did mention before about a 3km stretch from Clane towards Straffen that was recently chipsealed. It has to be one of the worst examples of chipsealing in the country. That road will damage cars let alone bicycles.

Just to add to someone else who posted above regarding newly laid tarmac which is subsequently covered a few weeks later in chipseal. The same thing happened along a stretch going towards Ardclough a few weeks back. Felt like the holy grail of smooth surface but apparently was only an underseal before they added the stone chips.

Chartsengrafs · 18-07-2020 10:21PM

Loose clippings on the Dublin/Trim road between Batterstown and Drumree. Looks recent, and rather unpleasant to cycle on. Avoid if you're out that way over the weekend.

sy_flembeck · 18-07-2020 10:26PM

velo.2010 wrote: »

Just to add to someone else who posted above regarding newly laid tarmac which is subsequently covered a few weeks later in chipseal. The same thing happened along a stretch going towards Ardclough a few weeks back. Felt like the holy grail of smooth surface but apparently was only an underseal before they added the stone chips.

I await the inevitable ruination of the glorious surface from Ashford to Hunter's Hotel so. Must be the best surface I've ever ridden on but it's one of the few in that area that hasn't been destroyed with chippings (yet again).

Enduro · 18-07-2020 11:47PM

In case it hasn't been mentioned, new loose chips layed on the road between Laragh and Glenmacnass for a few hundred meters on one of the flatter bits about halfway between the waterfall and Laragh.

Thargor · 19-07-2020 01:20AM

Enduro wrote: »

In case it hasn't been mentioned, new loose chips layed on the road between Laragh and Glenmacnass for a few hundred meters on one of the flatter bits about halfway between the waterfall and Laragh.

Wonder if they're working their way up towards that bit of perfect road from the waterfall back towards the Sally Gap?

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0839817,-6.3573906,3a,75y,357.29h,88.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szAb_pXlIkE0iaqw3x21pvg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Imagine if the whole uplands was like that?

Wishbone Ash · 19-07-2020 07:44AM

Enduro wrote: »

In case it hasn't been mentioned, new loose chips layed on the road between Laragh and Glenmacnass for a few hundred meters on one of the flatter bits about halfway between the waterfall and Laragh.

Yes, we experienced it on the Evil ride yesterday. Thankfully our fears that it would extend all the way up Glenmacnass were unfounded.

Wildly Boaring · 23-07-2020 11:34PM

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Meath co co must have a hill plan in place.

Skryne hill from west next!! (and possible south)

Plasterered in loose chipping signs today. All new shiney ones.

Chipped and VERY loose
Ran up today. Was able to kick stones off the whole road width

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