Fresh Tar & Chip really grinds my gears.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

I just don’t understand Why. My street got a great coat of smooth asphalt just last summer, it was perfect. I just don’t understand. I know at least one of the township supervisors rides a motorcycle. Wonder who decides this is a good idea? This sucks. A few weekends ago I found a really awesome twisty road through some farm country that went on for miles. Except, yep, fresh oil.

[GS1150Pilot]

Ah, man, that SUCKS.

[Grimly]

The local roads authority did that to the road outside my house last year. They laid a couple of miles of lovely smooth tarmac, like a GP track it was, and the best tarmaccing job I'd seen around here.
A few months later they came out and dumped an inch of gravel chips along the entire length - with the start of the Covid lockdown the amount of traffic on the road was minimal and it took ages to be tamed into a semblence of order. Normally the traffic will flatten the chips into the base and sweep the excess off to the sides, but this time around... it wasn't happening.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Good thing I just put on a fresh new knobby 705 since I now have to go off-road before I can get on-road.

[zuluwiz]

The worst thing about tar and chip is the piles of gravel they invariably leave in the roadway wherever they stopped the dump truck for whatever reason. If I see that it's been done I usually try to take a different road.

[GS1150Pilot]

Flat-track practice!

[Cipher]

Good thing I just put on a fresh new knobby 705 since I now have to go off-road before I can get on-road.

nice drill work!

[Rich82GS750TZ]

nice drill work!

Haha. Wish I could claim that. But alas ‘‘twas the previous highly skilled mechanic what made Swiss cheese of me baffles.

[Rob S.]

I rather like the "Fresh Oil" signs. Lets me know I'm truly out of the city.

[storm 64]

At least your road gets some attention. My street is like a minefield! The one hole is so big, I named it Phil.😃
Nice tire by the way👍

[Rich82GS750TZ]

At least your road gets some attention. My street is like a minefield! The one hole is so big, I named it Phil.
Nice tire by the way

I think Phil almost swallowed my MINI when I visited.

[bobgroger]

THey just did the 20 mile road to my lady friends house a couple weeks ago. I have to say they did a great job. It was a cohesive mass after only a few hours, with almost no loose grave. Mucked up my wheelwells with tar, but I would sure rather have too much tar than gravel.