Tar snakes
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My Bad gent's I thought you meant just from the tar and asphalt patches, not molten/semimolten or wet tar patches. Here is Michigan the tar rarely gets hot enough to be a problem, and when it's wet it's just like those traffic marking stickers they use instead of paint. but for uneven surfaces and cracks, a bagger brace definately helps on my FLH
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Let the air temp get up into the 90s under the hot sun and these babies WILL move under your tires.
Let the air temp get up into the 90s under the hot sun and these babies WILL move under your tires.
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Im laughing at some of these remarks, not because there funny , but because we've all been there, In fact this last friday at the Dundee exit in michigan going to Cabelas off of US-23, it was 90 degrees , we made a nice sweeper around the corner the tires broke, as my wife says WOOOOohhh, and I say sh** hold on,. Yes, what a feelin, So I am here to say,, the tar snakes are in Michigan Tooooo... TIm
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Tar snakes and grated bridges make my heart skip a beat, but what I really hate is a windy road that just had the big asphalt grinder go over just before repaving. Those grooves are deep and I have to keep reminding myself to loosen my death grip and let the bike track into a better spot.
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FWIW, one reason we get bike squirm, especially in a straight line, is the differential in tire width. The way the front tire tracks over a pavement anormally is slightly different than the way the wider rear tire tracks. That causes the bike to react differently when each tire contacts the snake, groove, crack, whatever. As an example mount a set of narrow tires on front of your car or truck and a set of wide tires on the back. That vehicle will "nibble" back and forth going down the road as the tires encounter longitudinal cracks and ruts. Ummmm, I own a tire company - I can't help myself - I have to weigh in on this stuff
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