Mess in the South

[the_Journeyman]

We have salt trucks here in the mountains.  The also spread sand and chat.  The sand and chat are good traction aids.  I also keep a bucket of cheap clay kitty litter in my truck.  You'd be amazed what throwing some of that on a particularly slick hill or similar will do.

The fact that most crossovers and SUVs come with more performance oriented tires causes huge problems in the snow.  Couple that with the fact that a lot of those drivers don't change the way they hit the gas or brakes and you've got an accident waiting to happen.  I have all-terrains on my truck, and still have to carefully manage traction on the packed stuff & ice.  I've not invested in chains, because at this point, I've never NOT been able to coax my truck where I needed to go with simply some careful driving.

Y'all is simply southern for addressing a group of people.

JM

[Ducatamount]

Chat? 

[kopfjäger]

Chat? 

[Skybarney]

that looks like great fun to ride on 

[kopfjäger]

that looks like great fun to ride on 

Need several heavy rains to clear it off, worst part is it's at all intersections.

[NAKID]

Chat? 

Ummmm, gravel?

[the_Journeyman]

Need several heavy rains to clear it off, worst part is it's at all intersections.

that looks like great fun to ride on 

Yea, it makes for some sketchy late winter/early spring riding.  It's basically fine gravel that stays in the center of turns and intersections well into spring.

JM

[duccarlos]

I remember a few pucker moments riding in the mountains in the spring.

[kopfjäger]

Ummmm, gravel?

Actually #789

[ducpainter]

Actually #789

looks like what they call 1" minus around here with the dust washed out.

[kopfjäger]

looks like what they call 1" minus around here with the dust washed out.

They call that #57 down yonder. Not sure who made up all the #'s around the states. 

[ducpainter]

They leave the fines in and call it ledge pack and use it as a driveway topper.

Packs real good with the dust in it.

[the_Journeyman]

The layman's term around is also "gravel dust" as it's the little bits and pieces from the process of the quarry breaking the rock down into the various sizes.  Chat is smaller than pea gravel (name self explanatory).

JM

[Grampa]

all the more reason to ride a supermoto and stick a leg out














or get a Ural