Any guesses why the road has a brown stripe down the middle?
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If I don't win anything for guessing right, I'll abstain.
Leaves
Residue from the waste trucks that service the area?
Left by riders entering the curve too fast. Known as Racin' Stripes, Skidmarks, Shittin' yore Britches', etc. ;-)
None yet...leaves is a good guess, but there are very few leaves up here, almost none at the top, and they barely get on the road at all during the fall.
It has to do with the material used to pave the road, or so I was told.
That looks a lot like the corner a few miles from R&N's I saw a *long* black stripe straight into the guardrail. <3 target fixation and not knowing how to brake!
The weird thing was, like in this shot, he couldn't have been going too fast for the corner (a left) because it was just after a right-hander.
Always wondered about that.
That's an easy one, especially for us Northerners, that's the rust from the plow scraping the road at the highest point during the winter.
I think OceanState21 may be right. I was also told the stone used in the asphalt came from around the area, and there is a lot of iron in it, causing it to rust.
Naw , its from when they cut the grass. If you've been up there after they cut this is the pattern of clippings when wet or dew makes it stick to the road,
I that is a V2K with a C/T on it I would said it,s crap comming from his paint leg. That tire is wayyyy to hard [to much air pressure]it should never ride over the side wall that much. The side wall should flex and the tire should stay flat.
We have it here in Idaho too. It’s most prevalent in the spring and wears off during the summer. I thought it was some residue from the de-icer they use, but the scraper thing OceanState21 mentions makes sense too.
I think it is caused by the rust from the guard rails on the side of the road.
Uhh, I live in New Jersey and I've never seen snow plows leave "rust marks." They don't let the blades actually touch the ground anyways. I'm going with Darryl's explanation, there IS a pretty high iron content around there.
This shows how the brown stripe got there and who put it there:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/5573/family-guy-upside-down-face
Sorry I didnt read all the responses..
It is rust. From the Slag that is mixed with the salt n sand that is spread during snow removal.
I'm with nobody...too much rust to come FROM the plow...there would be nothing left of it! Plus it's even there in banked turns and straights where water puddles in the middle of the road, clearly not "crowned". I think it accumulates in the middle because the traffic doesn't wear it away there.
Does it make the road any less sticky?
Nah, doesn't seem to impact traction.
It's Harley shit!!
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