Here a couple of the main roads on my routes have been repaved so things have improved a bit. One was nice for a couple months, then they came through and rolled a rumble strip into the shoulder, so you have to take the lane which makes it not quite so nice. It has a long downhill where I average 30-40 mph spinning easily in the 50X12 or 11. Before I had to watch the road like a hawk for potholes (though I ride this route weekly so pretty much knew what line I had to take). The county and state argue over who is responsible for some roads, result is nobody does any maintenance on them. Our current mayor has made it a priority to do more repaving; my entire suburb was repaved over the last two years.

scott s.
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