STraymond
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While I am very grateful not to have been injured in my recent interstate crash on the way to FL-STOC, I would like to point out a dangerous road hazard: parallel tar strips installed to seal long patches of road repaired under lane markers on multilane highways. The tar is meant to seal the border between the existing old road surface and the new patch. The photo below shows this engineered condition.
Tar snakes of course become slippery when hot or wet, but generally can be handled safely by experienced riders. The real danger that caused my ST to go into a severe wobble, from which I could not recover, is the combination of wet slippery tar, regular pavement, and then more wet slippery tar and the front and rear wheels encountering these areas at different times. I was simply attempting to change lanes and so the wheels performed the slip, grab, and slip at different times and set up the wobble at 60 mph.
Try to avoid crossing this combination of tar snakes when there is a chance that they may be slippery!
Even though nothing may come of my efforts, I did write a letter to the Director of the Ohio Dept. of Transportation (the accident happened in OH) asking that these "engineered" road hazards be fixed.
Tar snakes of course become slippery when hot or wet, but generally can be handled safely by experienced riders. The real danger that caused my ST to go into a severe wobble, from which I could not recover, is the combination of wet slippery tar, regular pavement, and then more wet slippery tar and the front and rear wheels encountering these areas at different times. I was simply attempting to change lanes and so the wheels performed the slip, grab, and slip at different times and set up the wobble at 60 mph.
Try to avoid crossing this combination of tar snakes when there is a chance that they may be slippery!
Even though nothing may come of my efforts, I did write a letter to the Director of the Ohio Dept. of Transportation (the accident happened in OH) asking that these "engineered" road hazards be fixed.
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