Now that there is pre-winter paving work going on, how do you riders deal with milled or grooved stretches of pavement? Any safety tricks other than not panicking?

 

Ride straight, don't try to follow the groovs.

 

If one of those groves is filled to the top with tiny little cinders.......Your Screwed..............Don't ask me how i know

 

Go easy and give yourself a lot of padding between you and people in front of you. There might be some residual loose gravel and debris on the road so that can add to slipperiness. Although it feels squirrelly its not too bad.

 

I hate them.They have them here in and around Cleveland.They make my bike shift and slide all over.Espacially when they are in a turn.I try to avoid them at all cost

 

I've found the fresh grooves for resuraceing to be pretty easy compared to a freshly chip-sealed road. It's like riding on marbles, I was headed down the mountain out of Hatcher Pass as well. Really pay attention to your speed and don't grab a lot of brake.

 

Relax. Its no big deal if you don't do anything sudden. Just give yourself a little more space.

The problem I have is that around here they have been resurfacing the highways lane by lane. The other day I went down onto a highway around a very tight cloverleaf only to find the end of the on-ramp was grooved and the right lane of the highway was freshly paved and was an inch or two higher than the on-ramp. I decided to avoid the step and continue on the emergency lane until the road was more even.

 

i heard giving it a little gas will lighten the front tire and prevent the front from catching the grooves.

 

Just hold the handlebar tight and follow the road.

 

Lots of good advice all ready posted. Another strategy, if you have mid mounted pegs, it to stand on the pegs, with a bend in your legs. Keep speed stable, let the bars more in your hands and ride through it.

David Hough wrote a lot of good articles for Motorcycle Consumer News, all published in his books - highly recommended, and it includes specific advice for riding on grooved roads, crossing bridges with metal grates, crossing wet railroad tracks, and many other potential problem areas. For forward mounted pegs, a different approach, but I don't know the correct technique.