Do you see a lot glass on the road?

[arielmoon]

I ride a lovely stretch of highway with a wide shoulder but I am constantly trying to aviod debris. I had my only flat ever on that road and it looked simply like a piece of gravel even though I have hit the occasional baleing wire and other garbage. I very rarely see glass however.

[OakLeaf]

Florida - lots of glass, especially on the bridges and TONS of it on the MUP's.

Ohio - hardly any.

[atombessy]

I see a ton of glass, riding in Philly. I'm not sure what tires I have but I tend not to get flats...I think they have like 12 layers of Kevlar in them or something...if I'm riding in the streets and am forced to go through a bad patch I do try to stop to brush any pointy debri off!

[GLC1968]

Interesting - Just east of where GLC was in NC (~ an hour), we don't have much glass. An occasional broken bottle or wreck remnants, but not too much...

CA

That's because the people in Greensboro do NOT know how to drive cars without hitting each other...constantly! I swear - it's crazy.

[oxysback]

I rarely see glass on the road here in rural Oregon, although the only time I've ever gotten a flat **knock on wood** was because of glass. That happened a few weeks ago.

We have pretty clean roads here in Newberg.

[Jiffer]

In suburbia So Cal, there's glass from time to time. I've yet to get a flat, however, knock on wood! Not sure how much is luck, how much is being watchful and careful, and how much is not riding too far to the right where most of the debris (including glass) typically is.

Dh has warned me that some of the rocks that fall into the road in the hilly areas can be very bad for tires, these particular rocks more so than others, I guess ... so to be careful there. Shortly after he told me that, my friend got a flat and she thinks it was from hitting a rock.

[Blueberry]

That's because the people in Greensboro do NOT know how to drive cars without hitting each other...constantly! I swear - it's crazy.

No way they're worse than Wilmington - highest population density in NC, plus tourists = bumper cars. I did get a glass flat there, and saw lots of it. All over the roads.

People here aren't much better

Please tell me Oregon is better?? Please??

[Chicken Little]

It's raining in Albuquerque and the goat heads are blooming. Big time. I can't wait- in the next 3 weeks they will be throwing spines everywhere!

[GLC1968]

No way they're worse than Wilmington - highest population density in NC, plus tourists = bumper cars. I did get a glass flat there, and saw lots of it. All over the roads.

People here aren't much better

Please tell me Oregon is better?? Please??

Much! In all ways!

[PinkBike]

oh man do we ever have glass on the roads. seems people constantly pitch beer bottles out of their cars and of course it ends up in the bike lane. DH had two flats on the way to church a couple weeks ago.

a friend asked why she was always seeing bicyclists way out on the edge of the bike lane and i told her its because the sidewalk is the target for bottles and the remnants end up in the bike lane.

the good news: as soon as i see it i report it to the city on their web site and they usually have it cleaned up within a day or so. i reported a bunch of broken glass on one corner in scottsdale and they actually emailed me back and said that location was actually phoenix, and they forwarded the message to phoenix, and it was cleaned up the next day!