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Cannon
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 20 Jun 2006    Post subject: It's a bloody sign summers here Reply with quote
Why is it that as soon as we have a few days of nice weather our local council feels it needs to start putting friggin chippings down on all the major roads !!!!
I have come home from work tonight onlt to find my route littered with 20mph signs and tar/chippings as far as the eye can see. No sooner do we get some weather which I can really enjoy riding in than they bugger it all up for me again.

Sorry for the random rant but this really does my nut in.
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CoronaBoner
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PostPosted: 19:57 - 20 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Silly question but what is this tar chippings stuff and why is it done?
I have been through one road which was having the treament, 10mph signs the lot. This was on the way to Mallory park.

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PostPosted: 20:30 - 20 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its called 'surface dressing' and its the councils way of trying to save money, rather than re-laying a full stretch or road they spray it with tar and drop chippings on it...Then let the cars do the work of rolling it and sweeping them away.
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 20 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its chipping the nice layer pf Mr Fucking Sheen i put on Evil or Very Mad
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colin1
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PostPosted: 23:44 - 21 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
i tend to go at 30 through them, what do u lot reckon is a safe speed to avoid chips on paintwork ? shd i really drop to 20mph ?
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TOM M
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PostPosted: 00:06 - 22 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
colin1 wrote:
i tend to go at 30 through them, what do u lot reckon is a safe speed to avoid chips on paintwork ? shd i really drop to 20mph ?



Id imagine what the sign tells you to do Thumbs Up
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Finglonga
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PostPosted: 08:20 - 22 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
colin1 wrote:
i tend to go at 30 through them, what do u lot reckon is a safe speed to avoid chips on paintwork ? shd i really drop to 20mph ?


There are usually signs (usually on the side of the road) with a speed on them that give the clue on what to drop down to. Rolling Eyes Mr. Green

Its the twats coming towards you going faster than they should that throw all the chippings up. Evil or Very Mad
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john2
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PostPosted: 08:31 - 22 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well there is this massive group of country roads near mine and they have all been chipped Twisted Evil Evil or Very Mad Middle Finger Middle Finger
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numark1
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PostPosted: 09:05 - 22 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
colin1 wrote:
i tend to go at 30 through them, what do u lot reckon is a safe speed to avoid chips on paintwork ? shd i really drop to 20mph ?


There is all that crap on the a30 from bagshot to camberley. Managed 130 no problems. Laughing
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colin1
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PostPosted: 18:42 - 22 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:


There are usually signs (usually on the side of the road) with a speed on them that give the clue on what to drop down to. Rolling Eyes Mr. Green



yeah the sign says 20, the cars tend to do 30 so i do too but i noticed that on pheonix's description of a bike he is elling he said he has marked paintwork due to stone chippings so i was wondering if biker are more sensitive to stone chipings.

i guess i shd ask pheonix what speed he thinks he was doing to get the paint chips and I'll go a bit slower than that.
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JonB
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PostPosted: 21:43 - 22 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wouldn't wanna go too fast due to the lickelihood that if you braked hard you would slide off the bike like in gravel.
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colin1
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PostPosted: 03:59 - 23 Jun 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
its not that bad on straights

i did have a slight rear wheel slide at 50mph on them today round a bend but not hard to correct

havnt hcecked my paintwork yet to see if i now have paint chips
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