Newly paved roads are the best!

[TrekTheKaty]

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!

[redrhodie]

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.

[Geonz]

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!!!

[smilingcat]

I luv'em too. No broken beer bottles. just the whirr of my wheels.

[madscot13]

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.