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Newly resurfaced road
To celebrate the newly resurfaced one-time deathtrap section on the B818 down from Carron Valley to Fintry, has anyone else got a bit of good news to share on what was a nightmare to ride and now is near bliss?
The Tak Ma Doon/Crow circular route has just got a whole lot better. There still a few dodgy bits after the bridge but at least they are on a fairly straight part so little risk of getting chucked into the path of an oncoming vehicle compared to what was above there before. To those who don't know that bit round the back of the Campsie hills, it was hellish. Old repairs on older ones, that turned it into the asphalt equivalent of corrugated iron, down a decent drop with a blind bend to negotiate.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- slappop 44 min 37 sec ago
Hopefully it'll still be allowed for recreational use.
- Bungle_52 1 hour 36 min ago
Well Gloucestershire are getting better. I'm being told whether or not action is to be taken, but not what action, within a few days of each report...
- belugabob 2 hours 23 min ago
Surely Lincolnshire is a prime location for UK cycle infrastructure - after all, it's flat, so should assuage the most common excuse that people...
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- Zazz53 3 hours 57 min ago
I did my first BC intro to coaching course last year and really enjoyed it. But I am not a member of a cycling club and ride with groups of like...
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Hmm - crashing off the side of a mountain at 48kmh sounds a lot safer than crashing off the side of a mountain at 55. Yeah....
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Churnalism nowadays - mostly clickbait stuff and regurgitation in the local rags/comics and beyond.
- DogOfOB 4 hours 17 min ago
I'm glad the barrier wasn't damaged. Whew, close one there! \s
- bensynnock 4 hours 27 min ago
I repurposed a bent rear derailleur hanger into a keyring. It's very useful, and you can use it to open bottles of beer.
- Secret_squirrel 4 hours 41 min ago
My bum hates Flites. Worse saddle ever for me.
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We don't know what newly resurfaced and flat roads are here in Cambridgeshire....not since 1993 when the public works act was repealed by the then government...
They've just chip sealed about 3 miles of my local 27 miler. It's horrible and I found a blob of tar stuck under my saddle over the weekend which was novel.
Some very lovely new bits of Tarmac in Essex.
And some horrible stretches of chipseal for some reason.
@SuperPython59
How much did the court order cost? If not a great deal I'm tempted.
@ Ad Hynkel
I knew they were fixing the Carron Valley Rd but I wasn't holding my breath, was half expecting surface dressing bollocks. Is it from the reservoir dam down to the river? That whole shitty section?
If it's the part from the car park next to the dam down to bridge above the waterfall (Loup of Fintry?) you mean, then that was redone a year or two back. The newly resurfaced section is below the parking space for the footpath back to the waterfall and runs down to the next bridge over the burn. Roughly here (56.051215, -4.153476) to here (56.051215, -4.153476). Maybe next year they'll get the remainder fixed, but for now it's a whole lot better.
Newly resurfaced, West Quay Road in Southampton going past Ikea. Previously rutted by HGVs with huge potholes and raised ironworks, now billiard-table smooth. Will be knackered again in a couple of months because drainage is bad and there's an insatiable export market for Range Rover Evoques & big JCB earth-moving eqpt.
Newly re-surfaced: Walton Head Lane, Kirkby Overblow
The assortment of loosely connected potholes on this single track road has now been replaced by a smooth road.
I know it well from my late teenage years on (mid 80's). Terrible road - difficult to drive never mind cycle on.