WOTL: Those scary sealer strips in parking lots: alternative ?

[Mittzy]

I would suggest the manager retires and makes way for someone that gives a sh1t.

 

[sleeves]

If you only experience these in a parking lot, your lucky! Half the roads where I live are made up of those tar snakes, the only place I've seen where they don't have those are in Hawaii!

Over here to, and they reseal the roads, on blind corners, just over a rise and think roadworks signs are optional.

To deal with the manager, deliberately fall off, remove the damaged part, then go and see him and beat him with said part to get your point across that just cause somethings "always been done some way" doesn't make it right.

Whoops ranting...

 

[Mittzy]

Over here to, and they reseal the roads, on blind corners, just over a rise and think roadworks signs are optional.

To deal with the manager, deliberately fall off, remove the damaged part, then go and see him and beat him with said part to get your point across that just cause somethings "always been done some way" doesn't make it right.

Whoops ranting...

Nah!!! A better way is --- I can post a damaged radiator cowl, then take that to the manager and tell him that u dropped it on the slippery stuff and replaced the part- one should NEVER deliberately drop a rocket.

 

[barbagris]

Nah!!! A better way is --- I can post a damaged radiator cowl, then take that to the manager and tell him that u dropped it on the slippery stuff and replaced the part- one should NEVER deliberately drop a rocket.

I can post a bent Fork Stanchion - It's from a Guzzi but who'd know. It'll hurt more when you hit him with it.

 

[Joesmoe]

So update . . . not really all that interesting . . .

I met with the building manager telling him my tale of woe.

He said "We use the same materials we've been using for *decades* [his emphasis].

I said I don't know but it's mighty slick.

A third fellow suggested we go outside and check.

So we walked out to the parking lot, and the tight entranceway where I can't avoid the snakes, and explained how one normally wants to cross these at right angles, but given the constraints of lane, I had to cross at shallow angle while turning, and that creates the problem. I took a knee, and rubbed the super smooth fresh tar.

He said, "Oh, we haven't put the sealer on yet. That's this coming weekend."

So, news to me, this was a two-step process -- tar first to seal the cracks, then a sanded sealer on top of that.

He handed me his business card, and said, "Please call me next week and let me know if it's any better."

May all enjoy a nice weekend wherever you are.

 

[Tripps]

Why did you have to post this thread, now I notice the tar snakes in the road 10X more than I did before.....

 

[Joesmoe]

Better safe than sorry ? When I was searching on the internet, thinking AMA might have something to offer, the only thing I found from them was a conference agenda from a 2009 gathering themed "Women and motorcycles" and one of the entries was road conditions and included a reference to tar snakes . . .