Mud on roads
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Arsen Gere
Über Member
- Location
- North East, UK
Mud, a luxury. On the north side of the pedestrian tunnel under the tyne there is a diesel spillage on the roundabout. If that is not enough they dumped a load of fine red sand on top to soak it up. Now oily sand in the dark is a challenge, chuck a bit of light rain on the top and road bike tyres.....
I hit it in the dark and felt the steering go really light so took it steady and slow, didn't fall off of but front end slid a bit before getting grip.
I hit it in the dark and felt the steering go really light so took it steady and slow, didn't fall off of but front end slid a bit before getting grip.
Hitchington
Lovely stuff
- Location
- That London
Yes, I saw the thread title and instantly thought of the Viz cartoon
lulubel
Über Member
- Location
- Malaga, Spain
There's a stretch of road just outside town here that's ankle deep in mud every time it rains. And I rode down a lane today (the access road for quite a lot of rural houses) that must have turned into a brown river last time it rained. They've scraped the worst of the mud off it, and they're busy putting in huge new drains, but I was still glad I was on the mountain bike because it was very steep and a bit slippy.
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Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Starting to wish I hadn't even brought this up 
It's obviously perfectly acceptable to go out for an hour's cycle on the roads with a bike fitted with mudguards and come back with a bike and self looking like I've gone through a ploughed field. Silly me complaining about it.
It's obviously perfectly acceptable to go out for an hour's cycle on the roads with a bike fitted with mudguards and come back with a bike and self looking like I've gone through a ploughed field. Silly me complaining about it.
Berties
Fast and careful!
I've got a 25 metre stretch on my commute where a tractor has gone in tight to a six foot high verge and ripped tonnes of mud onto the road,the council have had a team call out who obviously look and put signs out and that's been it for 2 days,riding it is ok if you ride a tyre gap,but its slow going,I am country born and bread but some of the farmers do take the rise,one farmer has elevated a stretch of byway between two gates so he can drive faster in his tractor,but has caused a right mess,and is un passable for the byway,not always townies moving to the country for riders but hobby farmers with money forgetting they are not the only ones using the roads
Starting to wish I hadn't even brought this up
or without mudguards
Ha. All that does is turn the mud in to a nice slurry to conveniently aid transfer of mud from the road to your bike. Took me a week of cleaning a bit each night on my mud guard equipped bike to get it back to spotless after one club ride.
The farmer considerately put a 5 gallon bucket with "Mud on road" painted on it as a warning.. About 1/2 a mile in to the muddy section - Thanks for that!
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Its all mud and cow poo around where we are. The MTBs are being hosed off after every ride, the roadies are snug and warm, locked in their bike box in the shed. In some places, our MTBs are sliding about and we have had a couple of near fall-offs, which with that much cow poo about, would just not be funny (to us I mean, hilarious to everyone else I suspect).
