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WTF have they done to the Ecce road from near Cresswell to Great Bridgeford? It appears to have been resurfaced with giant size gravel. Fine in a council RangeRover, maybe, but like riding over rubble on a non-mountain bike. Apparently they spread it over the cracks and potholes, so you can't see them until it's too late. Nice one, CC.
 
Laurie61

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It sounds like the same as was put down outside here, you can hear cars about a quarter mile away. I would think the contact patch with the tyres is about 50% compared with a normal surface. It is already coming up on the bends along here.
 
Gramaisc

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I remember some French students being asked their impressions of England a few years ago.

"The buildings are all brown and the roads are noisy" seemed to be the general consensus.

The stretch of tarmac outside the Main Gate of the MOD on Beaconside, between the "surface dressed" stretches, is almost silent..
 
Trumpet

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Large stretch between Great Bridgeford and Woodseaves too. Appeared on the same day. Signage now up warning of a convoy system in operation but not happening yet.
 
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ATJ said:
Time makes a fool of many a road.

I assume its been surface dressed? If there's '10mph' signs and skidding bikers, that sounds like surface dressing.

I've stumbled across this website a few times in my search for answers: http://www.highwaysmaintenance.com/SDtext.htm
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Surface dressing is all right as a cheap repair, but not when they use big stones instead of fine gravel. They did Derrington to Doxey about a year ago and it's still as rough as a bear's proverbial.
 
captainpish

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If its the same thing ive seen whilst working in wednefield this week they lay the gravel down and then put asphalt over it a couple of days later. Knowing our council its probably just the gravel.
 
Gramaisc

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It's not very obvious in the picture here, but there's a bloody great lump of tarmac that is very obvious if you hit it on a pushbike. They just "re-surfaced" over it, making it much harder to spot.....
 
Gramaisc

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Well, I drove over this "resurfaced" part of the Creswell / Great Bridgeford road yesterday (on a return trip to Yokelsville) and it could well be the noisiest surface that I've ever driven on. You have to feel sorry for the people in the cottages half-way along - living next to the country's longest rumble-strip.
 
peggy

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My brother once came off a bike on recently graveled stretch of road. The doctor at the local surgery spent hours picking bits of gravel from his face. 30+ years later and you can still see the scarring.
Ride carefully
 
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Been over this giant rumble strip about six times on a bike now. Completely ridiculous, not to mention dangerous. The stretch near Woodseaves is just as bad. Can this really be the top surface?
 
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gilesjuk

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With Stafford being a very large building site at the moment there's a lot of sh*t on the roads. Stones, gravel, tarmac etc.

A concrete truck went past me on the other side of the road and some concrete debris hit my windscreen, no damage but it could have been bad.
 
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gilesjuk said:
With Stafford being a very large building site at the moment there's a lot of sh*t on the roads. Stones, gravel, tarmac etc.

A concrete truck went past me on the other side of the road and some concrete debris hit my windscreen, no damage but it could have been bad.
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This is really starting to get on my tits now... I drive a very very brightly coloured car and every time I wash it I have to spend about two hours with the clay bar removing all of the gooey sticky nasty shit that's stuck to it. It stands out like a sore thumb otherwise, and anyone who knows me will tell you I like to take care of my vehicles.

Apart from Henryscat, he won't. :bananafunk:
 
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