Originally Posted by donnamb
I know, ILTB, but remember these 2 things:
1) I'm a
girl. I like to see my bike pretty and shiny sometimes.
3) When there's snow and ice, they "sand" the roads here. The sand is actually this coarse gravelly stuff.
#1--how do you guys stand to have dirty drivetrains? Shiny and pretty is good!
#3--that's why the stuff is called 'grit' in the UK. There's no sanders in the UK, but there are
gritters .
Nasty stuff. Don't know about Portland, but King County has been rather lax at cleaning up the mountains of the stuff on my local roads
.
Oh sorry! I didn't mean to hijack...
East Hill