Dragon difficulty set to extreme?
 

Looks like the dragon may get tougher to tame if they continue with this new addition they are doing on 129. They are slowly creeping up from where 129 left 411 towards the lake. The equipment disappeared when they hit the lake, but it may be a new addition next year. Hitting these at lean will be bad.

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Looks like every road in PA, we have the grooves cut into the white lines too.

Hold your lane and you'll be ok. Easier said than done I know.

Yep.

Keep it in your lane.

For the harley guys, this is going to be a nightmare. Some of them can barely hold their lane well below the speed limit with how poorly their bikes handle. Stupid fags.

Holy shit! What is the purpose of these grooves?

Something to spend taxpayers money on.

keep you in your lane. It's rumble strips, like the ones that wake you up on the interstate.

Now Karl won't have to rely just on the washer during spin cycle for a little "action"

Damn that sucks for folks who cant stay in their lane...saves your hand tho huh?

hey bite me bimmer boy...lol although i must admit the first peg scraping on mine came from following a bimmer. yeah it used to be a lot easier to ride with him when i had a cbr600

scraping a peg in those things probably wont end well :(

Tom

I'm wondering if it's geared toward bikes or toward idiot cagers and truckers who won't stay in their own lanes...

I would say both, they can use the guise of safety as an excuse and make it more unrideable for bikers.

Tom

You guys are puss's. Man up and ride.

Thats easy for YOU...hell riding on rumble strips would make YOUR ride seem smoother :lmao:

hmm thinking about making a trip up this weekend if you are going to be around

I already told ya, every road in PA has been gouged up like this for years. Not to mention the overall shitty condition of PA pavement.

And my shit only shakes teeth loose at idle. redflip

So the bumps cancel it out :lol:

remember I have the fine hwys of NYC to navigate so thats just as bad.

Tom

Man, I know you saw these grooves when you over here last month.

Yup, were used to it here though so its not as bad for us.

Tom

Since the double solid is now broken up, can you pass there?

Jabroned up pavement is the norm here. Anything PennDOT can do to make your ride shitty.

here it's the slalom of death with potholes. much more fun if played at night. in spring we have lifts of asphalt that will send you airborn.

Sounds a lot like Pennsylvania.

You forgot the tar and chip :td:

Ugh. How could I forget that. Fucking PennDOT.

:lol:

Yeah I don't miss PA roads at all. I dont know how you guys ride up there. The tar snakes and potholes are EVERYWHERE. That and those damn concrete highways with expansion joints so ever 1.5 seconds you are like gugunk gugunk gugunk.

This stimulus bullshit is awesome for our roads. There are soo many that used to be all fucked up that are now brand new fresh paved.

That looks like every road all the way across in Florida...

:lol

ah but do you guys do the "oh this road is bad let's put fresh oil and pea gravel over it" all better now. then leave it that way.

Thats what "tar and chip" is. Assholes.

Thats all of southern Illinois......I bought a brand new WHITE Altima in 96 2 weeks before we had to make a trip in july to my wifes family to show off the baby...they live out in "children of the corn" Centralia where all roads intersect at 4-ways between 500 miles of corn. After 2 days I gave up trying to keep the tar off the car and just came home and bathed my new car in diesel fuel to get all that crap off

I have a little road tar on my Maxima. Diesel fuel wont hurt the paint?

oh it will remove the finish :lmao: but it was ALL OVER THER CAR...I didn't have any other choice....I mean COVERED. I put several coats of some kind of polish a detailer buddy of mine gave me and it was all good

welll eeexxxxxxccccuuuuussssse me for not knowing that you guys didn't know how to say oil and pea gravel. :lol

I think he was refering to the assholes putting down the "tar and chip"

Heh- except around here, they aren't hitting the really bad roads. They're blowing it on stupid shit in town- like "back in only" angled parking on one side. So you CANNOT park if you go into town the wrong direction. (And no, they're not one-way streets)

Exactly.

oops LOL I was wondering why you were calling me multiple assholes. :lol

No worries, my friend. Carry on.

they do the chip seal ("tar and chip") stuff here too... thing is, they do it too late so the road is already effed so all the process really does is make already screwed up roads worse.

And then most of it gets scraped off by snowplows.

Bottom Line: FUCK tar and chip, or whatever the fuck it's called in your state. FUCK IT in it's STUPID ASS.

we scrape the crap out of it with the sleds too at trail crossings

it has it's place... like in the mountains... good traction under snow and takes more ice to make it completely slick

but yeah... everywhere else it's just cost savings.... they have it in quite a few places here in MS...



FWIW: it was called Chip seal... or Chip and Seal in Oregon...

I just call it tar and pea gravel. :idk: Whatever, it fucking sucks whether you you are on a bike or in a hummer.

Fixed for accuracy. Unless it's a chopper w/ retarded rake, Harleys handle just fine, especially at 'cruiser' speeds - there's no excuse for them wandering all over & out of their lane other than having an inept operator.


As for the gouging - other than being a minor annoyance when passing, I have no problem with it since I treat the double yellow as a concrete barrier except when passing. It will likely cut down on on the asshats that routinely use both lanes, riding like they're on a track - that would be a positive, IMO.

Depends on your comparison, if it's to choppers, they handle better. If it's to what we ride, they handle a lot worse. My comparison is to what I am use to, so my assesstment was accurate.

agreed

The Harleys I've ridden handled nice enough. No issues what-so-ever when ridden at legal speeds. Clearance can be an issue but if you are "cruisin" they are fine.


I'd have no problem with double yellow because the only time I cross them is when turning into a driveway or parking lot.

Clearance is the complete issue here, I consider that part of handling, you need to go well below the speed limit as I stated on a lot of these customized harleys to make some of these turns without leaving your lane. You will notice a lot of them going at parade speed to make it through the gap in their lane and still scraping parts.

Neither of you have it as bad as it is here. I know PA is WAY better.

Remember, we have it just as cold as WI yet we have much much higher truck weight limits. I think one of the highest in the country. So that just jacks the roads up like you wouldn't believe.

There are roads out here that Ford uses to test their cars suspension on in real world.