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I love riding newly paved roads! :D I have a short stretch on my commute on unbelievably smooth pavement and it is heaven :)
I think more people would commute/ride bicycles if all roads were this smooth! :)
What is better than feeling like you are gliding on air?
Me too!
It is indeed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ana
I call it "Zamboni smooth"
Now I'm imagining driving that smooshing road machine down all the roads ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by withm
Driving home the other day, my DH and I almost ran off the road when we discovered a section of road we bike ride was repaved including A NICE WIDE SHOULDER. It was a really bad section and could barely control ourselves until we got home and saddled up!
Just waiting for the highway department to wake up this spring and sweep the shoulders!
I wish that were true here, where a lot of the newly paved roads are oil top. Really icky for about a year. Sucks the life out of each pedal stroke.
We get those, too... but one time we came across a road just as the construction crew was removing the cones.
VIRGIN ASPHALT!!!!!
And it *wasn't* soft. Oh, My!!! Hard and smooth and fast fast fast!!!
I luv'em too. No broken beer bottles. just the whirr of my wheels. :D :D
I do love those roads. They are akin to new plush carpet with padding underneath- heaven to sit upon. I am going to look up where all of the economic stimulus spending for roads is going and head there- on my bike.
LOL! I thought you were our gravel maven. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ana
We have quite a few subdivisions that got paved and curbed and lighted, and then went bankrupt, so no houses were ever built. Do we love cruising around the two miles of virgin pavement? Yes, we do! So much that we take two or three laps!
Karen
FInding joy in the hard times... now sneak in and put gardens ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
When I need to improve my climbing I ride up Hwy 9, which is 6 miles of twisty/turny road up into the Santa Cruz mountains. It's not exactly a hard ride, just tedious as it's 6 miles of up. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I saw that road had been freshly paved for a mile at the top! That made the ride so much nicer. I, too, enjoy a freshly paved road!!!!
I'd rather let a road cure for a month or two before I ride on it. Let the cars get all the fresh tar on them!
On the MS-150 route, there was a point that the tour router had painted on the road:
Now
Begins
7 miles
of
HELL
Boys was that right, worst piece of road ever! Seriously broken pavement. MS folks were very appologetic.
So the next year they were a bit smug about the route saying they were sorry, but had heard that they highway department had been doing road repairs in the area....
no more 7 miles of nastyness, but nice smooth pavement, finished just in time for us! Maybe the highway department didn't like our road label.:rolleyes:
But I agree, freshly paved and smooth roads are SOOOO nice.