heh, I'm thinking you nice folks must be riding in the areas where I am riding
One of the little backroads that I can take to get to my home has a couple of serious bumps on it. Enough to send my bike and overweight self airborne each time I hit 'em, even if I'm riding along in the slower speed range (approx. 35 MPH)
It's shameful how badly the infrastructure in my area has been ignored. The political types have complained that they weren't taking in enough revenue via gasoline taxes to cover the costs of upkeep, etc. They've raised the gasoline taxes pretty significantly, and are promising that they'll put the $$ into the roads, but I'm not counting any chickens in this area as the funds should have been there previously but seemed to have gotten reallocated into general funds when there were shortages there.
Anyway, I definitely know the difference between the roads of the late 80's and 90's and the roads of today. The last 5 - 10 years just haven't seem the upkeep on the roads that they should have had, and riding those roads on a bike reminds you of just how bad the surface really is.
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