2 Re: roadworks Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:51 am
Holister
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Ain't that the truth Dale.... an' yet, here in NSW we have the worst roads in the whole country.... go figure
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3 Re: roadworks Sat Oct 29, 2016 11:26 am
Point-Seven-five
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Around here they will completely repave miles of highway so they are smooth as silk to ride on and then about a month later they come back and cut holes and slots all over the place refilling them with something called "cold patch" that has the durability of oatmeal. Less than a year later the road is as bad as it was before.
Job security...
Job security...
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4 Re: roadworks Sat Oct 29, 2016 4:22 pm
Kando
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Point-Seven-five wrote:Around here they will completely repave miles of highway so they are smooth as silk to ride on and then about a month later they come back and cut holes and slots all over the place refilling them with something called "cold patch" that has the durability of oatmeal. Less than a year later the road is as bad as it was before.
Job security...
Oh that is sooo wasteful! Here in UK the Highways people wait until some other work is being planned by the water or electric or gas people, then they quickly get the road resurfaced so that someone else has to dig it up
5 Re: roadworks Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:34 am
blaKey
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"then they quickly get the road resurfaced so that someone else has to dig it up"
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6 Re: roadworks Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:34 pm
Two Wheels Better
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Having just ridden 5400kms from Queensland to Victoria and back I can say that Australia is seemingly perpetually under roadworks somewhere! Buckets Way, Thunderbolts Way, The Putty, Bells Line of Road, Waterfall Way, the Pacific Coast highway, and the New England highway, were patches over patches in many places...then my lower shock stud busted four hours from home.
In fact,Australia with about 24 million souls and being as vast as it is, does a reasonable job of keeping the surfaces sealed as compared to, say, the US, with 330 million and the taxpayers to make it just that little bit smoother going.
In fact,Australia with about 24 million souls and being as vast as it is, does a reasonable job of keeping the surfaces sealed as compared to, say, the US, with 330 million and the taxpayers to make it just that little bit smoother going.
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7 Re: roadworks Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:52 pm
Holister
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Hey Darren, that's a very positive slant mate!
Here's a bit of useless information.
List of countries by road network size
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only the top ten shown
Here's a bit of useless information.
List of countries by road network size
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only the top ten shown
Rank | Country | Road length (km) | Expressway Length (km) | Date of Information |
1 | United States | 6,586,610 | 103,027 | [1]2013 |
2 | India | 4,865,000 | 1,324 | 2014 |
3 | China | 4,500,000 | 123,000 | 2016[2] |
4 | Brazil | 1,751,868 | 11,000 | 2013 |
5 | Russia | 1,396,000 | 929 | 2014 |
6 | Japan | 1,215,000 | 8,050 | 2012 |
7 | Canada | 1,042,300 | 17,000 | [3]2013 |
8 | France | 1,028,446 | 11,882 | 2013 |
9 | Australia | 823,217 | 3,132 | 2011 |
10 | South Africa | 747,014 | 1,400 | 2014 |
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8 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:47 am
Dai
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Trust me - even you outback Ozzies do NOT want to go riding some of those roads in India.
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9 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 10:26 am
92KK 84WW Olaf
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Holister wrote:Hey Darren, that's a very positive slant mate!
Here's a bit of useless information.
List of countries by road network size
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only the top ten shown
Rank Country Road length (km) Expressway Length (km) Date of Information 1 United States 6,586,610 103,027 [1]2013 2 India 4,865,000 1,324 2014 3 China 4,500,000 123,000 2016[2] 4 Brazil 1,751,868 11,000 2013 5 Russia 1,396,000 929 2014 6 Japan 1,215,000 8,050 2012 7 Canada 1,042,300 17,000 [3]2013 8 France 1,028,446 11,882 2013 9 Australia 823,217 3,132 2011 10 South Africa 747,014 1,400 2014
Yes its useless alright.
Don't see Ireland in it!!
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1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles.
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles
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10 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 11:47 am
Born Again Eccentric
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...Ireland gains a nearly undeveloped status with 96.6k km earning a 51st placing...
UK crawls in at a lowly 19th with a mere 394k km, falling a fair bit short of Italy (confirming the saying " what did the Romans ever do for us"?)...Having just suffered many, many, miles of roadworks on a recent drive up to Inverness, Scotland, I can confirm that we are doing our best to try and patch up most of it.
...but the place definitely not to own a K100 is Tuvalu with just 8km of roads.
Now, if the table was how many vehicles per km of road, then I reckon we would see a surge in our rankings and even Tuvalu wouldn't need many vehicles to smash their way up the league.
UK crawls in at a lowly 19th with a mere 394k km, falling a fair bit short of Italy (confirming the saying " what did the Romans ever do for us"?)...Having just suffered many, many, miles of roadworks on a recent drive up to Inverness, Scotland, I can confirm that we are doing our best to try and patch up most of it.
...but the place definitely not to own a K100 is Tuvalu with just 8km of roads.
Now, if the table was how many vehicles per km of road, then I reckon we would see a surge in our rankings and even Tuvalu wouldn't need many vehicles to smash their way up the league.
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11 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 12:40 pm
92KK 84WW Olaf
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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles.
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles
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1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
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1968 Honda 125 SS
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1973 Honda CB500-4
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12 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:21 pm
Born Again Eccentric
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But Olaf - Belfast is in Northern Ireland which is currently part of the UK and therefore Northern Irish roads are in the stats for the UK and the Southern Irish roads do fictitiously stop at the (long may it last) imaginary, blink and you'll miss it, border with Northern Ireland92KK 84WW Olaf wrote:Wonder about the accuracy then....
Dublin to:
Belfast
Galway.
Limerick
Cork
Waterford
Gorey.
All motorway...........a lot more than 96.6km.
Cork to Belfast is over 250 MILES and motorway all the way. Unless Brexit puts a barbed wire barrier back in the middle of it.
Also...it's not 96.6km it's 96.6k km i.e. 96,600 km, your Dublin to Gorey trip (the long way round) is a lot less than 96,600km
All said and done, it's not the amount of road a country has, but the quality of the scenery that surrounds those roads that is important...and Ireland (all of it) has that in abundance!
See what you've gone and done Nigel...total de-railed the roadworks thread and made it a willy measuring contest.
Uh oh...now I've said de-railed...how long until someone posts a table of who has the most railway track?!
Actually, I wonder in Tuvalu has any trains?
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13 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:43 pm
Ringfad
Life time member
Born Again Eccentric wrote:But Olaf - Belfast is in Northern Ireland which is currently part of the UK and therefore Northern Irish roads are in the stats for the UK and the Southern Irish roads do fictitiously stop at the (long may it last) imaginary, blink and you'll miss it, border with Northern Ireland92KK 84WW Olaf wrote:Wonder about the accuracy then....
Dublin to:
Belfast
Galway.
Limerick
Cork
Waterford
Gorey.
All motorway...........a lot more than 96.6km.
Cork to Belfast is over 250 MILES and motorway all the way. Unless Brexit puts a barbed wire barrier back in the middle of it.
Also...it's not 96.6km it's 96.6k km i.e. 96,600 km, your Dublin to Gorey trip (the long way round) is a lot less than 96,600km
All said and done, it's not the amount of road a country has, but the quality of the scenery that surrounds those roads that is important...and Ireland (all of it) has that in abundance!
See what you've gone and done Nigel...total de-railed the roadworks thread and made it a willy measuring contest.
Uh oh...now I've said de-railed...how long until someone posts a table of who has the most railway track?!
Actually, I wonder in Tuvalu has any trains?
As they say in Ireland "It will be Grand" - I think Olaf missed a Grand or a k.
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14 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:05 pm
92KK 84WW Olaf
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Time for a Guinness....
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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles.
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles
Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
15 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:23 pm
Stan
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Some years we went to the Cook Islands....32km around the main island at 40 km per hour. The do have a bus service called clockwise and anticlockwise, comes every 10 minutes. But the biggest hit is that the country does not recognise any other driving licence, permit, etc. a.To drive you must have a Cook Island licence at $20 NZ. To obtain this valuable item you must attempt to enter the MAIN police station and fight with chickens and roosters to get to the counter. A 16 year old girl takes your photo and money. To ride a bike/scooter they ask whether you can ride and then take your money. Roads are interesting.
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16 Re: roadworks Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:19 pm
Holister
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17 Re: roadworks Sat Nov 05, 2016 6:43 am
Born Again Eccentric
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You win!
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18 Re: roadworks Sat Nov 05, 2016 8:56 am
Dai
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I can feel straightline boredom coming on already....
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19 Re: roadworks Sat Nov 05, 2016 8:08 pm
Holister
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Roughly.... the one before that was 80km and the one before that was 30km. There are a couple of others around the same length plus lots of smaller 10/15/20km straights dotted across the bottom of Oz. They may as well be all joined up into one because the bends from one to the other range from just a few degrees to maybe 20 or 30.
Didn't come across any roadworks till I hit NSW
Didn't come across any roadworks till I hit NSW
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