The future = chip and seal
09-06-10, 07:00 PM
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09-06-10, 07:07 PM
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Chip seal provokes all sort of reactions from cyclists, most of them negative. Let's keep this to cycling. Otherwise this conversation will continue in the cesspo...... errr... P&R.
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09-06-10, 07:13 PM
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Seems to be the way they're doing it around here too. I was riding home on a common route and I cross a street and WTF IS ALL THIS GRAVEL CRAP?? They threw down the chips and I guess left sealing it for another day. It's sealed now, but you still have the chips that didn't get sealed being tossed up by my tired. Not to mention road vibration is horrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_seal#Installation
09-06-10, 07:14 PM
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Well I'm still here and they're still using the crap. I haven't been able to use some roads for over a month now since they put the crap down. Almost all the roads I ride are chipseal and man is it a luxury to get a 1/4 patch of real asphalt.
09-06-10, 07:15 PM
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09-06-10, 07:15 PM
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Y'know, it's been said that the health of the Roman Empire could be extrapolated from the state of her roads. 50+ years ago we were a nation that could build amazing roads...
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09-06-10, 07:16 PM
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It's part of the process...they'll come back and sweep up the stones that don't stick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_seal#Installation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_seal#Installation
09-06-10, 07:18 PM
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They local guys here actually do a decent job.
09-06-10, 07:19 PM
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Chip seal roads smooth out fairly quickly, though never smoooooth. It's the shoulders I complain about. The loose gravel stays forever as there is no traffic there.
09-06-10, 07:22 PM
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Chip and seal is better than gravel, but way worse than normal old pavement.
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09-06-10, 07:28 PM
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Then I tried to have a civil conversation with a county representative about the widespread chip-seal. I was told in no uncertain terms just what regard he held my opinion in.
Thank God I'm moving...but it probably won't be any better anywhere else.
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09-06-10, 07:29 PM
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09-06-10, 08:10 PM
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They are using Chip and Seal on most of the roads here in NW Missouri. I lose about 2 mph once I hit them from a normal asphalt road, not to mention the extra vibration.
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09-06-10, 08:42 PM
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Yeah, they're doing that here too. I hate it for the first little while, a lot of loose rocks. But one of the roads they did a year ago is just fine now. Don't recall how long it actually took to smooth out though, one day you just stop noticing that rocks are flinging everywhere. I don't know if they swept it but I kind of doubt it.
10-13-22, 12:13 PM
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We get mostly Chip and Seal around here. It's rough as guts in the country. They don't sweep either, just let the vehicle tyres sweep the loose stuff off to the side, usually into the bike lane (if there even is one). The surface is just so slow and dead compared to a smooth hot mix.
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10-14-22, 12:31 PM
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Haha! Awesome thread revival. So I guess the Chip and Seal roads really were funded by Big Gravel to get the masses to buy more bikes.
We get mostly Chip and Seal around here. It's rough as guts in the country. They don't sweep either, just let the vehicle tyres sweep the loose stuff off to the side, usually into the bike lane (if there even is one). The surface is just so slow and dead compared to a smooth hot mix.
We get mostly Chip and Seal around here. It's rough as guts in the country. They don't sweep either, just let the vehicle tyres sweep the loose stuff off to the side, usually into the bike lane (if there even is one). The surface is just so slow and dead compared to a smooth hot mix.
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We have that crap here in Wa state. They hit all the best rural cycling roads with it. But then people get all huffy about paying more taxes, so they get what they pay for - a super cheap alternative to new pavement.
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Cant remember the last time I used my high pressure tubular wheel set... Ha
I don't think the roads are going to get any better really. We have to adapt and overcome.
I don't think the roads are going to get any better really. We have to adapt and overcome.
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