Even the roads are out to get us!

[COL595]

If you were getting worried about the new breed of slippery salt that some councils have been using this winter, take a look at this : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4278419.stm

[ali]

:o

As an aside, does anyone have any idea whether the suface used on tracks (Donny for instance) is significantly more grippy than public roads??

Cheers,

Ali

[andyb]

The way our council works around here, it would be nice to get any type of new road surface............

[guest1]

Originally posted by COL595
If you were getting worried about the new breed of slippery salt that some councils have been using this winter, take a look at this : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4278419.stm
Strange and not unnexpectedly, these concerns are not new and the government still fails to do anything about it:
October 2004 (http://www.equinetourism.co.uk/bhssouthwest/stoneasphalt.htm)


In a cynical kind of way I doubt if anything will be done until either the Coldstream Guards fall foul of skidding horses or young master William (or is it harry) comes a cropper on his Triumph.

[Loz]

Originally posted by ali
:o

As an aside, does anyone have any idea whether the suface used on tracks (Donny for instance) is significantly more grippy than public roads??

Cheers,

Ali

I'm pretty sure that your local ice-skating rink is grippier than Rockingham in the wet. A damp Brands Hatch Indy seemed fairly sticky to me, though.

Cadwell has always had the decency to be dry for me, and it grips like grippy thing in a death-grip :D

Someone sensible will be along soon, don't worry. ;)