Riding on grooved or milled pavement?

[Novice_imp]

They've chewed up the roads here lately so I've unfortunately had to deal with this also. It seemed to me the stopping distance also increased, but that could be because of the residual debris left on the road and not necessarily the grooves.

[The Spaceman_imp]

I think that's the main thing, relax and don't fight it. It may be unnerving, but in the end, I think the bike and you will be OK. It'll wiggle, but you should be fine.

My HD used to squirm around a lot from grooves etc. in the road. You're right: once you relax and ignore it, it's not an issue. The bike isn't going to veer out of the lane or anything, it just squirms around. I haven't even noticed it on the CB.

[emptysea]

The Road Pilot 3s seem to ride better than the original tires. I blamed it on the center grove, but I'm probably wrong about that.

[redbirds_imp]

I think radial tires handle the grooves better. The "squirming" that is felt on grooved roads is more unsettling than dangerous.

[mininsx_imp]

I don't worry about bridges with grating, but I slow down when they're milling up old pavement, not because of the grooves but because of the debris that's left behind. I've seen piles of asphalt that looks like sand and rocks from milling that they don't bother to remove right away.

[Pauley]

Pavement grooves are okay with me. You can feel the steering squirm a bit but it's manageable. I really get on the lookout when I come across milled pavement when they're getting ready for repaving - it's the edge traps that can bring you down! I had a close call (at low speed) with an edge trap just down the hill from my house a few weeks ago.

[Offroad]

I came across some grooved payment (I-70) in my SUV today and I was amazed how much I could feel my SUV moving side to side.

This made me wonder about how my CB would handle it, so I searched the Forum and found this thread.

Then Pauley mentioned "edge trap" and I had to Google it.

Here is what I found (kind of knew this already...getting caught up against a curb just seems dumb but I guess it can happen).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2dW7XEXv9Q

[jimgl3_imp]

the old original pilot roads were the best. they had tread that crossed the tire pretty much exclusively

[the Ferret]

There is a great road about 2 1/2 miles from my house. Very curvy with some elevation change. Most direct way for us to get down to the State Highway down by the river. About a year and a half ago they milled it for what looked like a repave job. My son and I were all excited because fresh asphalt would be awesome on that road. Well 6 months went by, and no new surface. My son called ODOT and asked them when they were going to fix it. Their answer was they weren't. That the milled surface of this curvy road was "safer". My son asked if that was true, what aren't all curvy roads milled? They had no answer. At any rate it's been a year and a half now. We still ride it daily or nearly daily and it feels like you are riding on marbles with the bike squirming all over the place. Horrible!