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Buellboiler
Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 11:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

This was originally posted on the old school forum but is important to the more popular XB forum too.

Was riding the X-1 to work this morning and they are widening the local highway. The on-ramp has just been re-routed and there is plenty of fresh BLACK asphalt everywhere. In the dark of the morning I was following the route outlined by the construction barrels.
Suddenly the fork jerks to the right and as quickly jerks back to the left and send the steering into a wild oscillation. I was not close to the apex barrel so I didn't hit that and I didn't see anything on the pavement. Yet I am working to regain control of the bike and I am closing in on a concrete barrier (as seen in the photo). I stopped and didn't see any damage but I later notice that my front wheel was bent! I went back at lunch and photographed the scene. The barrels were clearly too far back from the transition in the pavement. More than 6 feet BEHIND the drop off! This would be an eye opener in a car in the dark, and it was a shorts stainer on a bike.
I visited the local DOT and requested that they move the barrels to their proper position and asked to talk to someone about the damage to my bike.
Everyone be extra careful in construction zones because the knuckleheads here don't seem to care about cyclist's safety.

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2008xb12scg
Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 05:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hope they pay to mfix the bike. We have some road construction around here with those drop offs. They suck!
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