Lower base line

[ATTS]

On the weekend it was covered with hot tar and now so is the undertail and tires on my bike.

Today it was the only way I could avoid some traffic so I went through again to check out the condition and now it not only has the tar but there is a crap load of sand all over the road. It looks like a truck full of sand just drove down the road with it's tailgate open.

Ride safe everyone.

[DY]

I went through there friday. and there's tar all over the bike.

Any ideas on how to get it off?

[Brian P]

Kerosene or WD40 and a rag.

Give the bike a complete wax job after you are done, in case your solvent of choice removes the wax.

[Splash]

I went through there friday. and there's tar all over the bike.

Any ideas on how to get it off?

[ScoTTY88]

30 minutes, 10 blue shop towels, half a can of brake cleaner and elbow grease. God I wish I had a tire hugger. It was all the way from the tip of my tail to down below my battery box and shock.

[FZ1Oakville]

That stuff is nasty when it gets on your bike!!! I use go-gone once .... it took a lot of elbow grease -- (maybe I didnt wait long enough for hte go-gone to do its magic)

[mxs]

Something negative is up with that area. 6th on south of Derry has been resurfaced with cheap alternative to regular tarmac. The road all the way to LBL is a mess with zillions of patches. I wonder whether there's another reason (besides cost) we see those alternatives being introduced so heavily this year.

[Brian P]

Reason #1 cost
Reason #2 cost
Reason #3 cost

Tar and chips surfacing is fast and cheep to do. It actually makes for an okay surface once it has had time to settle and for the loose stuff to go away. But the bugger for us is that it's near impossible to see the difference between loose stone lying on the surface (zero grip) and stone that has been bedded down (sticks like sandpaper).

Someone in a car at the intersection of SR 10 and 4th Line (Halton Hills) had a scare because of that loose stone on 4th Line today. Went through the intersection this morning (on SR 10, which has not been chipsealed). On the way back, there's a skid mark from a car sliding right thru the stop sign because they went for a slide on the surplus stone that has been dragged into the intersection from 4th Line.

[mxs]

Exactly, the ability not to see what's loose and what's not is making me nervous.

The reason why I said, perhaps some other factor besides cost might be a driver behind those decisions, was the fact that I've seen it mostly in the locations where there are a few twisties found. Than it abruptly stops and for the straight stuff they kept the old surface and patched it with new asphalt. Like the beginning of 6th .... but I truly hope that is not the case.

[Gary64]

Loose gravel on Lower Baseline between Sixth Line and Bronte (25) the past week or so. Take it easy.

[MacDoc]

Still there last night and with the rain it's a mess with much washed into piles. Was NOT fun at dusk.