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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:20 PM
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Angry tar snakes
here in n.m. they use liquid tar to fill in all those cracks in the road,, dont they relize when that **** gets hot on a hot day that that can be dangerious for bike riders,, hit one today in a turn at around 65mph and thought i was going to lose the bike,, that stuff is slick when hot
 
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:21 PM
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sucks in the cold icy weather as well.
 
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by jmn1960
here in n.m. they use liquid tar to fill in all those cracks in the road,, dont they relize when that **** gets hot on a hot day that that can be dangerious for bike riders,, hit one today in a turn at around 65mph and thought i was going to lose the bike,, that stuff is slick when hot
Yep i was in a curve at 55mph and thought i was gonna go down. Scared the crap out of me. I have a 21" front metzler and it is narrow. If i had the oem tire may be okay??????????
 
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:27 PM
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I haven't run into that yet, but thanks for the post I will watch for them from now on.
 
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:30 PM
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Everytime I hit them it gets real squirrely. That being said, I have never heard of anyone ever going down because of them.
 
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by T_Dogg80
Everytime I hit them it gets real squirrely. That being said, I have never heard of anyone ever going down because of them.
Yea but almost as bad is crapping your pants and having to ride home in them:-) some roads in CT have so many snakes it would be cheaper to repave.
 
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 08:39 PM
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Yea but almost as bad is crapping your pants and having to ride home in them:-) some roads in CT have so many snakes it would be cheaper to repave.
I hear ya. We had 6 sharks out for a ride last weekend and the damn backroad had so many of them it was a real challenge.
 
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was at a red light and didn't reallize there was one under my rear wheel, light changed and
and when started out the bike slid like it was on ice , it took a few seconds to get the bike under control, it gave me a scare.
 
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Originally Posted by mjbones
was at a red light and didn't reallize there was one under my rear wheel, light changed and
and when started out the bike slid like it was on ice , it took a few seconds to get the bike under control, it gave me a scare.

Damn, how hot did it get up there today? Down here in Texas where it gets really hot, I barely notice the tar snakes. I do watch out for the road alligators though!
 
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