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On 9/4/2013 4:09 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:11:59 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/4/13 2:08 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 9/4/2013 12:31 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:16:05 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

I have seen it on the beltway. In fact a guy I know wiped out on one
of these "buckles" on a Sportster and I ended up fixing the bike for
him.

Not trying to indict John... just wondering about 5", seems even outside
Boston that would be addressed somehow...

They closed the beltway a lane at a time and addressed it after
several serious accidents and stories on TV about it.

Surprised more people didn't die.. I know if I hit a 5 inch edge with my
Jeep, at anything over say, 30 miles an hour, there is no way I would
maintain control... Knowing what I know about cars, I can say with
almost certainty that that five inch "curb" at speed would collapse the
front end of my jeep... I imagine the bike you fixed must have busted in
half up near the neck...

I suspect the boys here who are talking about 5" curbs across an entire
highway are the same boys who tried to convince their wives that 2" was 5".

This was whole slabs of the beltway, maybe 20'x30' that were just
tilting up.
That heave we went over was every bit of 5-6"

It was only in a few areas but it was real. There may even be some
archived stories about it on the Post web site mid 70s. (75-76?)
I might have a dated picture of that sportster somewhere.
They blamed it on construction problems on the new lanes.

And as much fun as this has been, it still doesn't prove anything about
the libs assertion that everything is bad because we haven't spent
enough money on union pension fun..... er, uh, infrastructure, yeah,
that's it... Infrastructure....

Yeah, right, idiot. I guess we should do nothing, let the roads go back
to nature, the train tracks, the airports, everything, just let it go.