The other day I went for a gentle cruise on a road I know well, and got dumped by a gravel patch. Turns out they'd resealed this section of road recently but there were no signs up warning of loose stones, so when I came around a corner at a cautious 40km/h (I did notice the change in seal but didn't realise how fresh it was) I promptly hit the ground. Ruined $1000 worth of gear and shredded half my bike. I'm okay (bruised and sore) and the bike still runs almost perfectly, but I'm thoroughly pissed off. I only just got the bike back together after a full fork service. Grumpy. Casualties: Tank Left handlebar All controls on left handlebar Left mirror Gear shift lever Speedo and tacho Left rear panel Seat (holes) Headlight surround (but not the glass??) Both left indicators Whatever mechanism stops the bars from turning too far left Subframe? Front fender? ??? who knows what else Helmet (LS2 Arrow R EVO) Jacket (Dririder Apex 4) Pants (Bullitt Covec something something) Left boot (Dririder iRide 3) My pride All the time and effort I put into repairing, servicing, overhauling this bike All the time and mental effort I put into not being killed by other idiot road users Be careful out there, friends.
It certainly did! PS sorry for the enormous embedded images; when it said "thumbnail" I was imagining something smaller...
Glad you took pictures. When the council does work like this , they must have signs placed out in both direction's to warn you of loose surface. This was the practice when i was on the road gang's.I think i'd be making some phone call's myself.
Also I forget to mention , the ganger that was in charge of that job , will / should get his arse kicked from the powers to be.
I changed them to full images so dont apologise ... I hate thumbnails ... I like to see photos quickly as Im reading the text Good u posted photos of the event .... not much fun but a reminder of how fallible we can be If I ever see any 'new work' I immediately look for gravel and slow right down ... and then ride in the car 'wheel tracks' till its past That road doesnt look like its been done just recently to me but more like a shite job with way too much loose gravel left .... new work usually shows more definite marked car tracks pretty quickly
Summit Road (between Gebbies and Dyers Passes, Christchurch) gets blasted by speedy boys in their dad's cars all day and all night (including as I was standing there waiting for a trailer) and it's hard to judge from a few phone camera photos, but I would say it was a week or so old at the most. Not super gravelly but with definite patches of loose, coarse chip. There's tar all over my gear, and it was a cold day. I've ridden plenty of crappy road surfaces (that's all we've got around here) including fresh re-seal, but this time the bike just immediately fell out from under me. Appreciate all your helpful responses BTW. Posted the same thing on the KiwiBiker forum asking if I should contact the council or something and got told I should've taken my earphones out, I'm a computer retard because their 20yo forum won't upload images, and someone should've swept the road for me.
Glad that you're OK with only a damaged pride that will heal and bikes can always be repaired and riding gear replaced