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1.How To Safely Ride Over Tar Strips—From The Archives
Riding your motorcycle on damaged pavement can be dangerous, but even riding on the tar strips that fix that problems can be unsafe. Here are some tips to ride safely over the tar snakes.
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2.Tar Snakes! Motorcyclists Beware | MotorEagles Blog
One of Ohio’s most deadly snakes might just be tar snakes -- that gooey tar used to patch our roads can cause motorcyclists to lose traction.
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3.Is Pavement Crack Sealer Dangerous? - Bike Forums
Advocacy & Safety - Is pavement crack sealer dangerous? - I was out riding the other day on a road I hadn't been on in a while. One part of the road has a sharp curve combined with a shallow downhill. As I entered the curve at around 20 MPH, I discovered that the road had been painted almost edge-to-edge with a
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4.My Letter To WSDOT Concerning Tar Strips
I've hit some really nasty ones lately, wet or dry they are slick as hell. Recently they did it on the I90 near my place, like a den of vipers I tell...
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5.Has Anyone Here Wrecked Or Almost Wrecked From Slipping On Tar Snakes?
The idiots around here love to pour tar over the cracks in the road. It got warm enough to make them super slippery. I was making a slow turn into my...
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6.How Hard Do Tar Snakes Bite?
You know...the tar strips that they cover the cracks in the concrete or tarmac with. They're all over the damned place. Last summer, they were crawling...
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7.How To Handle Tar Snakes/strips
So in my lovely town, the SCDOT decided it'd be a great idea to cover almost every main road with tar snakes. And not just a few snakes, but everywhere all over the road. This is a small town, so any route taken to go anywhere will now consist of more snaked roads than not. They even snaked them...
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8.Road/Tar Snakes
Any tips or advice on navigating road/tar snakes . . . specifically the ones that run parallel to the direction you are riding? I encountered a big tar snake the other day and it almost felt like I was going to lose control of my Ultra Limited. I had no choice but to drive right over the tar...
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9.Tar Snakes Concern Indiana Motorcyclists
Which is worse: an open crack in the road or a patched-up one? For Indiana motorcyclists, both are dangerous. Tar snakes may cause riders to lose control.
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