http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/traffic/2015/07/23/study-finds-poor-road-conditions-in-cleveland-akron/30560901/
Confirming what Ohioans already know...our roads SUCK.
Last week a piece of **** (irregularly shaped solidified metal chunks and other impurities poured off the top of the molten steel heats in blast and air arc furnaces and used by townships and counties as road repair filler) sliced the sidewall of my Goodyear GT II tire...$140 later for a new tire and I was rolling again.
Typically, between tires, alignments, suspension pieces, replacing corroded parts...the $800 figure sounds about right as an average for damage costs per year that are caused by our road conditions.
As far as cycling goes, tire wear is insane and a friend just totaled out his 50MM carbon rear clincher rim on a sharp edge transition from one partially ground surfaced to a repaved surface. Cracked the rim from tire bead right through to the spoke bed...and left it misaligned by almost 1/4" at the crack.
I've broken frames...which is not at all unheard of around these parts. After two very cold winters and two very wet summers our pot holes are now epic in size and number.
Worse, our 'repairs' are just a joke. Yesterday an old high school friend flagged me down to chat at the roadside near his business. He asked me if my hind end was enjoying the rough ride his newly half-assed resurfaced road was dishing out. I told him it was a super-highway compared to what it was a couple of months ago when all the local cyclists swore off riding it...it was actually dangerous with deep cracks that would suck a wheel in and flip a bike over. But, in reality it was almost as rough as what it was before the thin and cheap resurface job...that probably set the taxpayers back millions of dollars.
Yeah...Ohio roads do suck mightily
Confirming what Ohioans already know...our roads SUCK.
Last week a piece of **** (irregularly shaped solidified metal chunks and other impurities poured off the top of the molten steel heats in blast and air arc furnaces and used by townships and counties as road repair filler) sliced the sidewall of my Goodyear GT II tire...$140 later for a new tire and I was rolling again.
Typically, between tires, alignments, suspension pieces, replacing corroded parts...the $800 figure sounds about right as an average for damage costs per year that are caused by our road conditions.
As far as cycling goes, tire wear is insane and a friend just totaled out his 50MM carbon rear clincher rim on a sharp edge transition from one partially ground surfaced to a repaved surface. Cracked the rim from tire bead right through to the spoke bed...and left it misaligned by almost 1/4" at the crack.
I've broken frames...which is not at all unheard of around these parts. After two very cold winters and two very wet summers our pot holes are now epic in size and number.
Worse, our 'repairs' are just a joke. Yesterday an old high school friend flagged me down to chat at the roadside near his business. He asked me if my hind end was enjoying the rough ride his newly half-assed resurfaced road was dishing out. I told him it was a super-highway compared to what it was a couple of months ago when all the local cyclists swore off riding it...it was actually dangerous with deep cracks that would suck a wheel in and flip a bike over. But, in reality it was almost as rough as what it was before the thin and cheap resurface job...that probably set the taxpayers back millions of dollars.
Yeah...Ohio roads do suck mightily
