I dont mind the covers, as noted, they serve as speed bumps which while I may not like them, I dont necessarily see them as a bad thing. What I have much bigger issue with is the jackpole who poured the concrete on the bike path on the brooklyn downhill section. On an aluminum langster, Ive never had my body shaken as much as flying down that section of the bridge. Id take a smooth path with a bump in it over that nonsense anyday.