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Morning all,
I’ve just had a minor accident on the roundabout turning right from the Rowstock road onto Fermi Avenue. There is a very greasy slippy patch on the south side of the roundabout (Chilton side).
My bike came out from underneath me, and luckily there was no traffic immediately behind me. Just as I was questioning my cycling skills and tyre choice, and cursing my bruised backside, the exact same thing happened to the cyclist behind me too.
Please be careful on the roundabout!
I don’t know if campus management would be able to do anything about it to clean up the surface. I will try and find out.
Take extra caution there.
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My back wheel twitched there too this morning but I didn’t go down. It looked to me as if last night the highways authority patched the cracks that had been developing between the two lanes on the roundabout and have managed to leave some greasy deposit on the road just before the patches while doing that.
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Have a look on the HarBUG website on the News & Links tab and then Reporting Problems:
You will find a link to Vale of White Horse D.C. street cleaning page where you can report this slippy patch.
If a repair is needed follow the link to the County Council’s street maintenance page.
If the patch in the Campus there is also an email address to Goodman who deal with Campus roads -
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I am currently finding lots of roundabouts slippy and some inclines (if sprinting hard out of the saddle).
I don’t think the problem is unique to the roundabout in question or related to the repair which happened a few days ago. I have read somewhere but cannot find it again that some councils along with salt put a water dispersant on the road which is slippery for cyclists. The time I have found the roads slippery does coincide with shortly after the salting started.
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