Bloody Gritters!!!

Its not like there wasnt warning:

http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=39891

:P

Since last month Ive been kind of expecting them to be out again, but I guess in this heatwave people forget that weekend in June it was bloody hot and the roads were melting.

Originally Posted by flynn209

In Canada we have our own problems (ontario anyway). Constant construction from ice cracking up the pavement (hit minus 45C last winter), and fairly HUGE rutts in the road from constant traffic in very hot weather (hit +45C last summer). There are a few highways that the rutts are so bad I wont drive on them in my car, the thing gets pulled all over the place.

And it doesnt end there...the cops have been putting gravel in corners of popular bike roads to try to slow people down

s'true. not only do they have to put up with straight roads and no roundabouts but there are bleedin' great fissures in the tarmac from the extremes of temperature. It's bad enough driving a car on it, never mind riding a bike. It's the same in Quebec (state).

Mind you, the Canadians are prepared for big snow, and most bikers put their 2-wheels away nov-april. In this country, we run our cars on the same tyres all year round - Candians keep 2 sets, one for winter, one for warmer months.

I was riding my SV out of Metz a couple of years ago, and it was so hot that the bike in front of me was pitching the tarmac up over my bike. We never did get it all off.

Originally Posted by Razor

I've been on a few roads today where previously they were nice and smooth but now they're all rutted and torn up from the HGV traffic.

What do they do in the US and Canada where they see extreme tempertures in both summer and winter?

Are our roads built by pikeys who had a little bit left over from their last job?

The roads here, certainly around NYC are in absolutely terrible shape. It was 40C (~100F) yesterday, and essentially, the roads collapse and fall apart, and split.
You can drive over bridges here, look through the road, and see water below you. They have to fence off areas below bridges due to falling debris.

Upstate NY... they are not so bad. But, the ones that get really frozen are always cracking too.

Originally Posted by CoolGirl

...It's the same in Quebec (state)...

Trying....to....resist....cant....help...myself

Quebec is a province, we dont have states, we have provinces.






Sorry, I tried to hold it back

Originally Posted by flynn209

Trying....to....resist....cant....help...myself

Quebec is a province, we dont have states, we have provinces.






Sorry, I tried to hold it back

Originally Posted by flynn209

Trying....to....resist....cant....help...myself

Quebec is a province, we dont have states, we have provinces.

Sorry, I tried to hold it back

and we have counties....

[carelesschucca]

Not up here we don't...

Originally Posted by flynn209

Trying....to....resist....cant....help...myself

Quebec is a province, we dont have states, we have provinces.






Sorry, I tried to hold it back

I was wondering if they'd changed it all since I left...

So where abouts in the USA is Canada then?

Originally Posted by sharriso74

So where abouts in the USA is Canada then?

It's the 52nd state, after us but before Australia.