The little voice told me not to ride

[Oss]

even tho it was high of 62 today

Glad I listened

Potholes that are 8-12 inches wide and over a yard long all along the route I took today
(the Grand Concourse in the Bronx) if I went into one even at an angle the front wheel would have been stopped. These babies are anywhere from half a foot to over a foot deep, and they were maybe twenty or so randomly spaced in a several block area at one point.  My teeth hurt while riding in the 300m today it was a wild bumpy ride to court

The Grand Concourse is a road which lies over the D subway train and is prone to sink holes potholes and other nasties.  Could easily see blowing fork seals at the least


It is car tire season but I am staying with the cobra which is doing right by me

The Sprain Parkway and the Deegan (87) also has some hum dingers popping up.  I will ride tomorrow cause I will not be riding in the dark and you bet I will be leaving lots of space between myself and the car in front.

Ride carefully during pothole season fellow Valkers

[Big Rig]

Took the twistie drive home tonight in the car to check the pothole locations, tomorrow, I shall ride it like I stole it...WooHoo...now if I can just fall asleep and dream about my ride to work...and  then to the gym and then home for T-ball with the boys...

[fudgie]

Good for you.
Kit and I was taking some back roads thru KY in 07 and was passing thru this town, where Lincoln was born. We were behind the car turning left. We went around him and it happened to be on a bridge. I crossed the side line as we went around and spotted a pot hole. Come to find out it was like a drain for the road. We both saw it but was to late to maneuver around it. We went right over it and felt the tires run the edge. It was like 18" in diameter and you could look down into the water. We OOOOed as we went over it and let out a wahooo after we past it.  It would have taken us down for sure and prob threw us over the rail.

[Tundra]

Potholes, frostheeves, don't miss that! Just have an overpopulation of bad drivers that are all out to get me.

[Jeff K]

Potholes, frostheeves, don't miss that! Just have an overpopulation of bad drivers that are all out to get me.

I'm with you there. Every time I go "home" to Wisconsin, I complain about the roads. They are so beat up.

On the other hand... I'm still trying to figure out if Florida changed the laws about the "passing" lanes. When did it become ok to cruise 5 under the limit in the left lane? I have a 20 mile stretch of I-4 to run and it is almost always at a snails pace, bumper to bumper. Everyone is going the same speed because no one will get out of the way. So now you have all the aggressive drivers bobbing and weaving in and out of lanes trying to pass people. And if it's raining, and it's always raining, it turns into a parking lot.
I hate that drive. 

[Jabba]

One of these days... we're gonna get speeders like on Star Wars or even the new Star Trek.  We'll be able to stay above traffic, and not worry at all about the road conditions...



Jabba

[Doc Moose]

One of these days... we're gonna get speeders like on Star Wars or even the new Star Trek.  We'll be able to stay above traffic, and not worry at all about the road conditions...



Jabba

Sigh, not in my lifetime, but we can dream.

[czuch]

I'm with ya there! We have some real winners here too. The omnipotent potentates have decreed that 750k will go to the repair.
Thats 80 crews of 6 to go forth and repair. The average pot crater will take about 100 lbs of asphalt.
One to drive the truck.
One to pour the stuff out.
One to tamp it down..
One to point out the windshields that get the "overspray".

[alph]

amazingly, all of ours have been filled already!!

we had a foot deep one on my way to work.