On Sep 29, 2011, at 10:49 AM, jimD wrote: > One of the main streets in my neighborhood has just been repaved. > That's repaved, not the far more common re-surfacing/chip sealing. > > It is remarkably refreshing and evokes a certain nostalgia to ride on an > excellent road surface. > If this were the usual case I'd start considering 28mm cross-section tires > rather than my default > JBs. > > Given our continuing economic climate I'm thinking that nice roads surfaces > are going to become > even more unusual. I'm thinking the era of the fat road tire is upon us.
Here in Minnesota that's been the case for a long time. Between the climate and political party intransigence, our roads are awful. We seem to keep building new roads but can't take care of the ones we have. Many cities here have eliminated doing preventive care like chip sealing (which extends the useful life of a road surface by up to 30 years, according to one road engineer I spoke to) to save money on the budget now- at the expense of spending 10 times as much in the future. The result is that we have six months of it being difficult to get around due to ice and snow, and six months of it being difficult to get around due to major road reconstruction because we didn't do good preventive maintenance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
