Yep. Twats did great swaths of the roads on my commute. Luckily I can take diversions till the worst of it is bedded in. When I drive the car to work I tend to go off line on newly gravelled stretches and try to roller in the bits that don't normally get driven on... Like to think I'm helping (myself mainly!) Then there are the special car drivers who need to cross the carriageway to straighten the bend even though they can't see around the corner. Don't get me started on them.... Ok, rant over...
North Yorkshire have always been big into top dressing like this, however, last years Tour de France surprisingly saw some of those top dressed roads replaced with lovely smooth new Tarmac, including one of my favourites, The Buttertubs Pass. Shame it took a major cycle race to get them to lay proper Tarmac, however, we reap the benefit now.
Not a road that I am familiar with but as it’s probably not too far away from home I will have to find where it is.
It runs between Hawes and Thwaite, you need to ride it a few times, a) to ride it, b) for the scenery & c) to stop and look down into the Buttertubs bottomless holes! Oh, and then d) ride it again
Cheers Nick, I go to Hawes quite a bit as its only 40 miles from home so will have to dig out a map. I either go to Sedbergh and onto the bridge or head out towards Leyburn and Ripon or just go back the way I came knowing that plod isn't out (I hope!!).
No, they tend to Police the more busy roads such as the Helmesley TT, A684 and then out out towards Scarborough area. There are so many other options in the dales area.
Yep loads of chipping being put on numerous A and B roads around my part of North Yorkshire A19 to York and there was feck all wrong with surface !!! I have had several bikes over the years damaged with these bloody chippings and no fault of mine as I don't tail gate other bikes or cars. Cheap nasty way of repairing the roads at the expense of the damage caused to us Motorcyclists and car drivers. You try and claim and you will be told that advisory signs of 20 mph are displayed and they are not responsible for other motorists ignoring them.
Does any one know what can be done if you bin your bike due to this stuff? Does the council have a duty of care to clean it from the road?
I think as kblade said above that their get out clause will be the 20mph restricted signs...you would have thought they had a policy of sweeping up the swept aside chippings that mount up but I doubt it as someone who regularly off roads across the bloody things!
There was no warning signs out, think the road was done a while ago but still loads of chippings around
I would suggest you contact your local Councilors and give them some serious ear ache on the safety aspect of the state the road has been left in, you usually find when they take it up with the powers that be something gets done. Obviously they will want your votes in the future!! I know for a fact that this work generally is contracted out by County Councils etc and there is a time scale for sweeping up loose chipping after the have been laid, but if the Highway inspectors are not checking the contractors work on completion then it will never be sorted. There is still a stretch of main road near me where it has never been swept as it should and it was done in July ....tossers !
I would have thought then in that case they are under the same obligation as farmers/building contractors are when they mess up the road! Let's face it we are just second class citizens on the roads & it's about time we had a ' million man motorcycle ' day ride down to the capital to protest and even if it achieved diddly squat what an amazing blast it would be
