Surface dressing

[B5234FT]

This stuff

https://rnsurfacing.co.uk/surface-dressingMEDIA/SurfaceDressings.jpg

It's awful for the first few weeks in any vehicle, seems to be permanently awful on a bike as the loose cravel doesnt clear outwith the car/lorry tracks and lasts about 6 months before it needs done again.

Why do they do it? How do you ride on it?

[P.addy]

You ride as normal, just less heavy on brakes.

Reason, quicker and cheaper.

[doggone]

The thing is they mostly do it in fine weather - when you are more likely to be out.
It really needs a cool spell or some rain to settle down fully.
Try to follow car tracks for best experience

[B5234FT]

Yeah I tend to try and go slower, more upright and less braking to avoid loading up the tyres, and then follow the car tracks which never feels great. It's hard to see whats fixed and whats loose until the fixed stuff gets covered in tar and changes colour.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Restrictions should be placed on using this method so that it can only normally be done in winter and cooler times of year when the tar will set quicker, and there'll be more rain to wash the excess chippings "away" (i.e. down the drains to clog them and cause more issues in flood prone areas).
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[Llama-Farmer]

It would be absolutely fine to use this method, if they just fucking pressed it in with a roller.


The vast majority of "sealed" urban roads in New Zealand were made using this method (although a massive amount of urban roads were unsealed gravel), by laying tar, sprinkling gravel, and then rolling it flat. It worked a treat and was usually really grippy. Because they actually prepared it properly and then only opened the road once it was ready.

In the UK in an effort to save money it seems they've done away with rolling it and let the traffic do half the job for them. But that means lots of loose chippings everywhere which not only strip the paint from your car but are scary in the corners on two wheels.


I can't imagine a proper steam roller would make it a much more expensive process.
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[Aceslock]

AArgghh!!

They have done this on the A4059 on the Brecon Beacons, a lovely stretch of road to open up the throttle (watching for sheep!!), to which i am now scared to in case of the loose gravel.....
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[Rogerborg]

I demand to pay more taxes!
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[Kris]

[Aceslock]

They have been using that method around here all winter..... 2 weeks later pothole is back!

A lot of resurfacing has been done lately (& properly) which is a good thing, but too little too late tbh
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[ScaredyCat]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

They've been doing it in the Northampton area for the last couple of months, one stretch they did twice, but stopped 20 yards from a pothole ridden roundabout :-

https://goo.gl/maps/YwyVaScUr172

Not very clear from the picture, but it's been like it for years. Has a bastard of a camber switch on the left hander, too.
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[Kaya75]

its a pain in the arse, they have done this on a main stretch of my commute, gravel slippage and cant filter cuz my filter "lane" now has 3 inches of gravel kicked out from the cars.

I don't demand to pay more TAX I demand that the taxes produced from motoring are spent soley on the roads. Fuel TAX is £0.5795 per litre then add on 20% VAT on sale - nearly 70p a litre on each and every litre + Road Tax on a tiny island with too many people and too many vehicles. We should have the best laid roads in the world not some bastard botched up potholed gravel spreading mofo's of a path... grrrrrrrrr

Not only that but the dust kicked up is a nightmare on a bike too, makes my cigs taste like shite!

I want to hire a road sweeper and go sweep it all away then empty back at the council offices..
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[ADSrox0r]

They've just done it last week through my village it's a fucking nightmare. We have a blind junction blocked by trees and foliage that's a pain to take normally but now I might aswell get off and walk round the fucker.

That and the stone chips twanging off the fairings makes me cry, and one in the face yesterday. Mint.
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[WULFSTAN]

There seems to be a few myths here it's called tar and chip or surface dressing it's not designed to fill pot holes in anyway they should be filled before hand and it always gets rolled but there's always going to be some loose chippings come off which is why they put up 10 or 20 mph skid risk signs. It's designed to be quick cheap and once sweept to look good it also comes up with the first frost half the time. micro asphalt is better lasts longer fills holes with less loose and is almost as cheap which is why many councils are using it more and more.
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[andyscooter]

As him above said I know a few lads who do this for a living

it's from April onwards as can't do it in winter



Lads I know did Yorkshire and are now in devon
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[Llama-Farmer]

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[WULFSTAN]

All I can say is the two companies I've done it with in the past have always rolled it RMS and Eurovia. Can I ask how long you watched the process for as the roller driver can be miles behind in some cases.
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[yen_powell]

It's you, the great unwashed, doing the rolling, by driving over it spitting stones at the bike/car/lorry behind.
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[New Sarum]

The Highway Authority or its representative (i.e. contractor) should take reasonable steps to sweep away the excess chippings. If you feel that the chippings are a real hazard, write/telephone to the Highway Authority and make them aware. That may reult in the road being swept; due to constraints on public authority spending, a decision could be made to take the risk not to do so and that no one will have an accident.