Well I'm riding a country route, so the chip seal actually makes some sense. Not that riding on it is any fun and, as I found out, it's not particularly safe.

The sticky rocks through the fender were only bad the first day, climbing a hill with the rocks slowing me down was no fun at all.

What gets me about the local road maintenance is their excessive use of gravel on highly travelled roads. That turns into a washboard mess within a couple of days and it takes them weeks to smooth it out and when they do the ADD MORE GRAVEL! Someone should make the guys maintaining the roads ride bikes down them for a couple of weeks, it would probably give them some new insight.