SS1000 / Bunburner Attempt

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koji52 · #41 Post by **koji52** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:01 am

I'm sure you'll be fine riding with someone else...just have to watch the lane positioning and speed.

#42 Post by **dr_bar** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:28 am

I wonder if anyone knows how to post without quoting a novel from previous posts, or maybe even editing it down to a manageable size...

Sorry to be off topic, just a pet peeve...

RhadamYgg · #43 Post by **RhadamYgg** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:05 pm

You might need to teach a course on that Doc!

But then again, all this reading and disregarding the unnecessary might help keep Alzheimers away.

RhadamYgg

RhadamYgg · #44 Post by **RhadamYgg** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:11 pm

koji52 wrote:I'm sure you'll be fine riding with someone else...just have to watch the lane positioning and speed.

I did follow a guy for most of an hour on the way back.

South Carolina is the worst for road maintenance. They had minimal signage on route 95 for construction and it was the worst kind of construction - an additional layer of blacktop on top of the white asphalt they had as the primary road surface.

So, we both changed lanes down over these uneven edges, but for the way back - we both waited for the next overpass bridge thingie were mysteriously the extra layer wasn't there and changed lanes.

RhadamYgg

Johnj · #45 Post by **Johnj** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:22 pm

RhadamYgg wrote:we both waited for the next overpass bridge thingie were mysteriously the extra layer wasn't there and changed lanes.

RhadamYgg

Bridges are built to hold x lbs and can't take the extra pavement. Underpasses would lose their height if the pavement was laid underneath them.

RhadamYgg · #46 Post by **RhadamYgg** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:59 am

Johnj wrote:bridges are built to hold x lbs and can't take the extra pavement. Underpasses would lose their height if the pavement was laid underneath them.

Ah this does make sense, but I still haven't figured out the reason for the extra layer of pavement.

Johnj · #47 Post by **Johnj** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:55 pm

They build a road... ten years later, they fix the potholes with asphalt and add two inches of asphalt to the road, except across and under bridges and overpasses, to smooth it out. The added weight of the asphalt would overtax the bridges and the raising of the roadbed would mean the 13'5" clearance underpass becomes 13'2".

If you want to know how to build a road, look into the German Autoban and how it was designed and constructed.

RhadamYgg · #48 Post by **RhadamYgg** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:33 am

It was a little bit different than that. The road seemed ok where the blacktop wasn't there.

There was open road surface, then one lane had an extra layer of blacktop approaching the overpass then on the bridge, no extra pavement - then it started again, for another 1/8 of a mile.

I think, maybe they are preparing to do work on the overpasses themselves.

I should learn more about road building though.

RhadamYgg

Flesher · #49 Post by **Flesher** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:51 am

RhadamYgg wrote: Just because you can do a thing - doesn't mean you have to. Besides, I'm only a single threaded 8086 processor with a 8088 math coprocessor...

RhadamYgg

I thought you said you were young and in relatively good shape?

BTW grats on the ss1000!!

Lion_Lady · #50 Post by **Lion_Lady** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:26 am

MZ33 wrote:
Lion_Lady wrote: There is no way that I'd consider riding one with a stranger.

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Oh, I don't know about that, LL--you practically did just that, a couple of months ago!!

And, um, about that 90mph business, Rhadham . . . uh, I'd, um, take it seriously. Never thought a radar detector would even make my Top 100 list for accessories, let alone my Top 10 list . . .

Well we weren't exactly under an absolute time limit (and I did spend the night at your house before we set out). WELCOME BACK!!!

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