You may have read my earlier loose stone rant. Well, here's another mini-rant about the same subject...
Today, I was out for a cycle and remembered about some of the roads I normally use (in the circuit I was doing) having loose stone over the roads. With this in mind, I deliberately chose other roads and found they were all covered in the bloody stuff too. It's very dicey cycling about on it and I have to say it's not making things easy for me at all. Although I'm not a fast or strong cyclist, I like to think I'm at least reasonably steady and safe on my bike but it takes a hell of a lot of bike control to stop falling over when the road is covered in loose stone.
I shall investigate further and see if there is some means of at least finding out which roads are going to be covered in dangerous gravelly crap. At least I could avoid them for a few weeks if I knew where they were. That way they 'might' have had enough traffic on them to clear the worst of the stone off. Then again, I stick primarily to back roads to avoid motorised traffic and that beloved lack of motorised traffic may be enough to keep the stone sitting right where I don't want it. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Although I do go out cycling in the winter, I wish they would choose to do all their resurfacing then (there may be a plausible reason why they can't then for all I know). There are probably enough crappy days I would end up not being too inconvenienced by it and everything would be bedded in and 'scooted away' by the summer.
Today, I was out for a cycle and remembered about some of the roads I normally use (in the circuit I was doing) having loose stone over the roads. With this in mind, I deliberately chose other roads and found they were all covered in the bloody stuff too. It's very dicey cycling about on it and I have to say it's not making things easy for me at all. Although I'm not a fast or strong cyclist, I like to think I'm at least reasonably steady and safe on my bike but it takes a hell of a lot of bike control to stop falling over when the road is covered in loose stone.
I shall investigate further and see if there is some means of at least finding out which roads are going to be covered in dangerous gravelly crap. At least I could avoid them for a few weeks if I knew where they were. That way they 'might' have had enough traffic on them to clear the worst of the stone off. Then again, I stick primarily to back roads to avoid motorised traffic and that beloved lack of motorised traffic may be enough to keep the stone sitting right where I don't want it. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Although I do go out cycling in the winter, I wish they would choose to do all their resurfacing then (there may be a plausible reason why they can't then for all I know). There are probably enough crappy days I would end up not being too inconvenienced by it and everything would be bedded in and 'scooted away' by the summer.
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