Tarred and pebbled - Sutton Bank

North Yorkshire have it in for bikers.

Someone else who frequents UKRM must have been one of the many bikers who
got caught out by the sutton bank tar pit.

About a mile of newly laid tar and loose chippings - on what must have been
the hottest day of the year.

Scores of us at the side of the road afterwards trying to get said tar and
chippings removed from tyres. Squared off tyres have nothing in this. Ours
had a wall of chippings built on them.

I resorted to gunk and jet wash at a nearby garage. Stuff what it does to
the tyres - I couldn't ride on the thick layer of tar that Id picked up. It
was sliding all over the place.

It took 50 miles for the tyres to feel 'right' again.

By the way, does anyone know what effect 'gunk' does have on tyre rubber ?

Maybe North Yorkshire Council will contribute.

 

John Heath wrote

Fucks them up completely dunnit.

Why not just go straight ahead and sue them? The bunch of thoughtless
cunts that they are for repairing the roads in the first place.

 

Sounds grim. Carry a disposable camera under your seat at all times. Take
pictures. Send cleaning and tyre bill to council.

 

Porl wrote

Yeah, fucking right on. Punish the cunts for fixing the road.

 

As Steve says, punish them for not signposting it. Then post the scraped off
crap to him to fix his false teeth with.

 

Or alternatively put it down to experience and get a life?

**** it, it's happened to me and I simply scraped the tar and grit off
the tyre; took about 10 minutes and cost nothing.

 

Pardon me if I don't waste my time explaining my perspective again, Max
Power.

 

Max Power?

You seem to be taking umbrage because I have a different view to you,
why is that?

 

Porl wrote

Good idea I reckon, you not wasting your time explaining the world from
"your" perspective. Certainly if past experience is anything to go by.

Brother Burnt is right, for once. Deal with it and move on.

 

It's a Simpson reference, the last resort of scoundrels.

 

Uh huh.

Umbrage? Good lord, no. I find it amusing, and so you.

 

[hangs head]

 

Thanks for the clarity. If it's a Simpson's reference it makes no sense
to me since I watch little television.

Well, I'm glad that I amuse you. It gives me a purpose in life serving
my betters.

 

I can see why you're so busy now.

 

Is there no end to your wit?

 

You keep setting them up....

 

As a North Yorkshire resident but non-biker I can sympathise with the
bikers who drove into the tar and limestone chippings. Every summer
the NYCC spread thousands of tons of this muck on the roads
irregardless of the damage and potential danger it presents for cars,
bikes etc. They spend just under £3,000,000 making North Yorkshire's
roads safer by supposedly improving the surface grip. I have yet to
find another county where you can find such attention paid to its road
surfaces.It is unecessary as better road surfacing materials are
available which produce a quiter and smoother ride.(Private contractor
resurfaced A1 near Leeming producing lovely smooth and quiet surface)
If chippings produce such a good grip why dont they spread them on
airport runways.
I would encourage anybody affected by the Sutton Bank chippings to
write to:
Mr Jeremy Walker
Chief Executive
North Yorkshire County Council
Northallerton
N Yorkshire
Email: mailto:

and convey your feelings to him.

regards

Norman

 

Uh huh.

Umbrage? Good lord, no. I find it amusing, and so you.[/QUOTE]

I take umbrage for me rheumatics.

 

I was told degreasers have a detrimental effect on rubber, in the case I
was discussing at the time it was seals, but as you washed it off I can't
see a problem.

 

Good new word - I like it!

Si