Too often - you may have heard that people like to move here. There's a lot of construction to make houses and apartments and condos for them. Even that way up north ride, which is where the cleanest roads are, has quarries on it that ensure a plentitude of 1-2" gravel on the shoulder that will usually eventually catch a sidewall. They're also putting in developments up there, so there's construction debris too. The saving grace up there is the shoulder is 6-8' with no curbing, so there's room to dodge and the debris doesn't get too thick before it rolls off the edge. In-town, anywhere but a quiet neighborhood (where we can't get much speed) has that debris trapped by the curb on a narrow shoulder. Tires get killed, and the riding isn't even pleasant. The dam loop has become the damn loop.

Austin has a lot going for it, but not the riding. We're "trapped" here because of jobs (really can't complain overall), but it's the poster city for lots of trainer + the occasional expedition.