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PostPosted: 13:07 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Grippy man hole covers wee moto news? Reply with quote
Just read on wee moto news that they've made a composite manhole cover that grips to tire's quite well and is made specially for bikes? how cool is that theirs a demonstration of one also Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:20 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 13:28 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thats cool. Nice to know theres people looking into stuff like that.

Now if only councils looked into potholes and smoothing out the botch jobs of road repairmen.
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PostPosted: 13:33 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jynister wrote:
Thats cool. Nice to know theres people looking into stuff like that.

Now if only councils looked into potholes and smoothing out the botch jobs of road repairmen.


They have known about stuff like this for years, also they have a white line paint that is grippy too, however it costs like 3p more per meter than the slippery stuff so they don't use it.
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PostPosted: 13:36 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
MAG have been actively campaigning for these for a couple of years with some success.

https://www.getagripuk.org/

The arguement from the councils generally ended up as it was too expensive but a number of towns have taken the initative as part of traffic reduction improvements. Totnes was one of the last.

https://www.mag-uk.org/en/newsdetail/a6995
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PostPosted: 14:39 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Trialled in 2006...

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4768887.stm
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Saw these on TV the other day, one council is replacing all of them (probably over time rather than immediately). The benefit they were espousing was because they're not made of metal no-one's nicking em.

It's amazing how a financial pressure suddenly moves things forward no matter how hard the campaigning had been...
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PostPosted: 19:34 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
hahadumball wrote:
About time! they should of started this a long time ago, why the fuck did they event put metal drain covers on the road anyway.


Not sure if you're serious, but the simple answer is that plastics and composites did not exist in the 1800s when they were first installed.
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PostPosted: 21:44 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
So we can thank pikeys for forcing councils to install safer covers. I knew they had to have some purpose. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:42 - 10 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jynister wrote:
Thats cool. Nice to know theres people looking into stuff like that.

Now if only councils looked into potholes and smoothing out the botch jobs of road repairmen.


yeah but think is, if the council laid PROPER roads then they'd have little reason to dig them up again to spend the left over budget!

(this being that each council is given X amount per year and if they spend for example, £1200 out of £1500 a year, the following year they'll only be given £1200 so they spend the extra buy digging up roads to keep thier budget)
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PostPosted: 09:00 - 11 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Marki wrote:
MAG have been actively campaigning for these for a couple of years with some success.

https://www.getagripuk.org/

The arguement from the councils generally ended up as it was too expensive but a number of towns have taken the initative as part of traffic reduction improvements. Totnes was one of the last.

https://www.mag-uk.org/en/newsdetail/a6995


Coming up out of Bridgetown towards Paignton is probably one of the worst stretches of bike-eating manhole covers that I've ever ridden
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