This morning's commute and other commuting stories

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Ruserius

Wet but no rain means the roads are really dirty and nasty and slippy. Front wheel slipped out the past two evenings in row (last minor fall being in April). Last night I landed on exactly the same bruises/grazes from the evening before, including keys in pocket. Feel like I might have caught cancer from the black muck.

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middleofnowhere in reply to @Ruserius

I get the feeling that some of that goo is left over residue from the salting/gritting of the roads in the cold snap. I wonder if they put in some sort of oil based anti-caking agent that gets left behind as the temperatures rise.

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dancing james in reply to @middleofnowhere

@Ruserius i came a cropper on the same kind of shit this afternoon

see the minor incidents thread

Just found this "Of course, the downside to this is that many councils put a water dispersal agent down with the salt, and after a few days this too can be slippy."
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Constable_Savage in reply to @middleofnowhere

I think what is happening is that the salt is drawing up all the shit that is embedded/soaked into the road surface like diesel, soot, oil etc and bringing it up to the surface where it get mixed together with the ice that didn't get a chance to form. A bit like greasy roads on a rainy day after a long dry spell. That's my two penn'orth.