Originally Posted by BengeBoy

No problem.

Anyway, back to my obsession with the concrete on the lane (I really am picky, aren't I).

It's not the expansion joints. They're not too bad. And it's not the "roughness"...there is just enough scruffiness on the concrete to prevent slipping.

What I'm sort of mystified about is the sort of bumpy/lumpy/wavy feeling of the concrete...if you're moving along at a pretty good clip it feels to me like the concrete has waves in it; almost like a junior version of the root heaves that we see on the Burke-Gilman trail. Again, the concrete isn't damaged...just lumpy.

I've found that when you are headed West on the bridge, if you ride w/your elbow almost on the northern guard rail, you can find much smoother concrete. I haven't tried that driving toward the East because it always seems there is a lot of road debris/trash along the southern edge of the lane and thus I don't want to ride over there.

More importantly, I probably need to find something else to complain about....