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« Reply #3575 on: 31 August 2020, 12:50:34 am »
Good biking roads being spoiled by arbitrarily sticking 40mph limits on them  :foc

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« Reply #3576 on: 31 August 2020, 08:44:05 am »
Good biking roads being spoiled by arbitrarily sticking 40mph limits on them  :foc

Or worse yet when they 'resurface' them by scrapping off the tarmac and throwing loose stones everywhere. The amount of my favorite back roads I've had to avoid recently down to that.... absolutely boils my piss because its so dangerous to bikers 🤬🤬

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« Reply #3577 on: 31 August 2020, 09:21:37 am »
My local parish council does that, never understood the logic behind that other than its a cheap albeit shit road surface. WIll ping my local counciler for an explanasion.

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« Reply #3578 on: 31 August 2020, 11:48:41 am »
Or worse yet when they 'resurface' them by scrapping off the tarmac and throwing loose stones everywhere. The amount of my favorite back roads I've had to avoid recently down to that.... absolutely boils my piss because its so dangerous to bikers 🤬🤬

Oh gods, yes :(

I didn't mention that, but there was a section of the B2150 around Hambledon that had had bloody tar and chip top dressing done recently.

What really pi$$es me off is that they just leave the chippings there to be pressed into the tar or swept to the side of the road by vehicle tyres, except, of course, they also end up in the middle of the lane and the carriageway, right where a bike often wants to be...


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« Reply #3579 on: 31 August 2020, 11:54:30 am »
My local parish council does that, never understood the logic behind that other than its a cheap albeit shit road surface. WIll ping my local counciler for an explanasion.

"its a cheap [...] road surface."

You've already answered your own question.


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« Reply #3580 on: 31 August 2020, 06:53:13 pm »
My local parish council does that, never understood the logic behind that other than its a cheap albeit shit road surface. WIll ping my local counciler for an explanasion.


Trust me, as a parish councillor it wouldn't of been them. Speed limits are set at county level. But it is all to do with road surfaces. When a limit is reduced from national speed limit to a 50, the level that the road has to be maintained too is reduced, therefore saving money. Look at how many 50's sprung up after 07 economic crash.
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« Reply #3581 on: 31 August 2020, 08:03:29 pm »
In thiis instance it was my village high st, so its a 30. No reason I can see for resurfesing when there was nothign wrong with the old surface that required a complete resurface.

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« Reply #3582 on: 01 September 2020, 10:05:03 am »
Probably a local council contractor getting a wee hand up from a senior council officer, know what I mean.


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« Reply #3583 on: 01 September 2020, 10:08:55 am »
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[size=78%] No reason I can see for resurfesing when there was nothign wrong with the old surface that required a complete resurface.[/size]

Quarterly budgets to be spent. 'Use it or lose it'.


We've just had a big  4 inch deep pothole repaired on one of our busiest streets. It was so famous, drivers would all steer round it in convoy. They had to keep renewing the red circle around it. Finally repaired with a tarmac patch after about 3 years.
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« Reply #3584 on: 01 September 2020, 10:55:09 am »
Good biking roads being spoiled by arbitrarily sticking 40mph limits on them  :foc


Since i've been back to work on one of the routes i take on the way home they've made THREE of the roads 20mph  :eek


Most days there is rush hour traffic so it doesn't affect you too much, but riding at 20mph on a clear road just feels wrong.
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« Reply #3585 on: 01 September 2020, 01:13:36 pm »
Most days there is rush hour traffic so it doesn't affect you too much, but riding at 20mph on a clear road just feels wrong.

In the past I've come out of London on the A3 and there's a long 40mph section.

That's fair enough if it's busy, but trundling along at 40 on an empty road at 2am is ridiculous :(

As I've said many a time before, speed limits are such a blunt instrument and often the people who were the cause of them being imposed in the first place are going to ignore them *after* they were imposed, knowing there's virtually no chance of them being caught or punished for doing so...

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« Reply #3586 on: 01 September 2020, 05:18:18 pm »
I've come across yet another average speed camera zone up here in bonnie Scotland.

A few weeks ago I discovered a stretch running fae Tyndrum doon tae Crianlarich.  And by the way, blink and you'll miss the warning sign and camera.

On Saturday I was up early and heading fae the hills.  I was heading for Glen Lyon, and I found another stretch running from Crianlarich to the junction for Killin.   Road was still quiet being still early when I reached that bit - so stuck at 60mph.
I get the feeling they are gonna end up all over the trunk road network.

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« Reply #3587 on: 09 September 2020, 10:36:55 am »
lock down --no lock down, it's like the grand old duke of York--ahm gettin pissed off wi the lot o it.


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« Reply #3588 on: 09 September 2020, 02:43:46 pm »
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« Reply #3589 on: 09 September 2020, 03:03:27 pm »
The 'Boomer Removers'  :eek

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« Reply #3590 on: 09 September 2020, 03:57:36 pm »
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« Reply #3591 on: 09 September 2020, 06:29:35 pm »
The youngsters in school are masked outside of the classroom, 2 metres apart in it. Once beyond the school gates, theres a mask perhaps one in a hundred and no social distancing whatsoever. Second wave imminent.

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« Reply #3592 on: 09 September 2020, 08:00:26 pm »
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Keep hearing them on the telly and radio bleating that it's not them spreading it and then in the same sentence whinging about how they only want to enjoy themselves
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« Reply #3593 on: 09 September 2020, 08:35:46 pm »
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« Reply #3594 on: 09 September 2020, 08:38:16 pm »
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.

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« Reply #3595 on: 09 September 2020, 08:51:11 pm »
Aperantly the term "household" has had to be clarified to ethnic groups as they have been interpreting it as meaning all of their family ~ as in all the sharps as they are all the sharp household ~ as in "the house of Saud.
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« Reply #3596 on: 09 September 2020, 08:56:01 pm »
On the other hand, reducing it to 6 (in England) is too few. Two families cannot meet together, if one family has one child and the other has two  :rolleyes

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« Reply #3597 on: 09 September 2020, 09:05:04 pm »
 
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« Reply #3598 on: 09 September 2020, 09:11:25 pm »
On the other hand, reducing it to 6 (in England) is too few. Two families cannot meet together, if one family has one child and the other has two  :rolleyes

Just means the wives and kids meet together in the house/back garden while the blokes talk bollocks in the garage :pokefun
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« Reply #3599 on: 09 September 2020, 11:06:58 pm »
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[size=78%]Just means the wives and kids meet together in the house/back garden while the blokes talk bollocks in the garage[/size][/size][size=78%] [/size][/size]
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All at the same 'premises'. £100 fines all round  :b [/size]