Current road salt salt/mix?

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Anyone up here know about road salt/grit ?
Reason i ask is i helped sort a guy out this week at the entrance to the supermarket car park.
Experienced older rider that was going real careful, and he still ended up on the floor!! Once he was up and calming down (first time ever on the floor for him) i was having a wee walk on the road and it seemed VERY slick but with NO trace of oil/ diesel or any other obvious contaminent :nenau
Just wondered , as it also seems that whatever is spread SEEMS to cause more corrosion than was previously evident in me bikies
 
There was a report on the radio t'other day saying that liquid solutions were being used as well as molasses/salt mixes. The idea being that they are less likely to blow away in the wind. I guess it also means that they stick to your bike better too.

Andres
 
The roads round Glos were slippy as hell today, no ice, are you saying they may be spreading something else on the roads?
 
Well i don,t know really , but this chap IS an experienced rider, and, while i ride most winters , i am not usually walking on the surface scuffing my boots . But (engineer to trade) there was NO trace of oil n the like on it but the surface felt VERY slippery to me ,and i had dry clean rigger boots on at the time .
I was just wondering if there was summat different going on with the spread mix
 
Our local roads department in East Ayrshire are mixing mollases or something with the salt, this results in the roads being slippy and constantly wet. This mix is also difficult to clear from the visor while riding. I used to ride my bike to work all through the winter, but have been using the car since the introduction of this new grit mix. When it was just salt that was spread the roads were dry and you could spot any damp areas that may be icy and take action. Now with the roads being wet all the time it is impossible to tell where danger lurks.
 
hank said:
Our local roads department in East Ayrshire are mixing mollases or something with the salt, this results in the roads being slippy and constantly wet. This mix is also difficult to clear from the visor while riding. QUOTE]

get your self a sheep they love the mix, whilst carrying out trials in yorkshire sheep were licking the mix off the roads, more sheep ran over as well
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mollasses.
yeah - nothing so much fun as coming across a bunch of sheep sitting on the road - on a suger high as you round a bend in the Wicklow mountains. :rolleyes: :blast :mad:
what feckin eejit thought THAT was a good idea?!
 
Ogmios said:
mollasses.
yeah - nothing so much fun as coming across a bunch of sheep sitting on the road - on a suger high as you round a bend in the Wicklow mountains. :rolleyes: :blast :mad:
what feckin eejit thought THAT was a good idea?!
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A cyclist ?
 
Safecoat.

Apparently it's called Safecoat, in my job I get regular updates from various Councils about the road treatment, the Milton Keynes CC is the most comprehensive report I've ever seen and even shows the rate of dispersal that the trucks are set to. This week was 8 g/sm don't yer know.
:thumb
 
So councils are now dealing with the risk of ice by spreading a slippery mixture on the roads.

This is surely a new skit from the reconvened Python team :blast

I couldn't dream it up if I tried.
 
My employer has the contract for gritting about 3/4s of the trunk road network up here in Scotland.

From a recent press release they state:- “We use pre-wetted salting, a more effective way of spreading salt because it helps the crystals stick to the road and starts the melting process much more quickly."

As I understand it the "pre-wetting" is done by mixing the grit mix with brine as it leave the gritting machine.
 
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