I found this at Screams in Hell, MI. As soon as I saw it, I HAD to have it!!
I thought southern roads were bad, but I had no concept of what freeze and thaw do to roads. So many times I had to dodge holes in the road that I feared would grab my wheel and not let go. (I had a friend killed that way a few years ago - her front wheel locked into a hole under the puddle)
The roads are nasty with cracks and grooves and holes. I never had a bike slip on a tar snake in the south, and I'd always thought that it would be worse in the heat. Do they use a different composition of tar in the north?