Berryessa Knoxville Rd horrible conditions May 2015

IAmA M0t0r Ridεr

IAmA M0t0r Ridεr

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So I was told Mines Rd. was dirty and also told that a Berryessa loop was outstanding. Well. Not quite. Lots of fun roads all around..EXCEPT for the ones by the lake itself.

construction zone at Berryessa Knoxville Rd.
I thought I had found 12 or 16 gravel patches...but WTF. It's a lot more than that, see it for yourself.

By the looks of it, they run out of money and they're doing just that: patches here and there. Impossible to know how many are going to be there and how many more will be added as times goes on. I've never seen a construction zone/repavement job in patches like that, not even in the 3rd world: you'd start a job consistent with what you can fix say in a weekend, fix it, move on to the next mile. This? Unbelievable.

Lots of good fun roads close by, and I plan to come back going around the rough patches. But I don't think I'd come back to the lake Berryessa itself anytime soon.


Video link:


youtu.be/iRJOAyUq77k

Avoid. Even if you have a dirt bike: cars and incoming traffic may want to avoid it themselves and go into your own lane. So why bother?
 
HeatXfer

HeatXfer

Not Erudite, just er
Hard to tell. You need more road and less tank in your vid.
The standing up parts are good though. :teeth
 
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IAmA M0t0r Ridεr

IAmA M0t0r Ridεr

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Probably not, but this patchwork is not good for anybody on any bike - I'd rather have just dirt, like the East road. This is a plain mess. I just would like to understand what kind of construction job is this.
 
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WILDMAN442

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I ride that almost every week. Plan is to pave from the monticello store to the first bridge by the end of november.
 
boney

boney

Miles > Posts
IAmA M0t0r Ridεr;9032001 said:
Probably not, but this patchwork is not good for anybody on any bike - I'd rather have just dirt, like the East road. This is a plain mess. I just would like to understand what kind of construction job is this.
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It's the kind where nobody has the money to do it right.
 
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jwb

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I passed over Berryessa-Knoxville a few weeks ago. I don't think they are sparing the money; it looked to me like they had dug out the roadbed to a depth of at least 2 feet. I had to wait half an hour and follow a guide vehicle through the construction area.

If a little bit of gravel ruins your day, you're in the wrong territory. North of Clearlake most of the roads aren't even paved.
 
SFSV650

SFSV650

The Slowest Sprotbike™
Rode that stretch last July - I don't think any of it was paved at the time. :laughing
 
thedub

thedub

Octane Socks
HeatXfer said:
Hard to tell. You need more road and less tank in your vid.
The standing up parts are good though. :teeth
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Seriously, the purpose of the video was to show the road condition except you can't can't actually see the road. The video just shows gas tank, handlebars and gauge cluster.
 
RRR70

RRR70

Attack Helicopter
Twenty minutes wait for the pilot truck.


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canyonrat

canyonrat

Veteran Knee Dragger
There are other more secret race tracks up north here!

And sadly, Skaggs just got it's ass cracked, or is that ass-fault cracked tar snaked, last week or so. Anyway, the second half of Skaggs is super slippery, I do not exaggerate, if road crews don't chip seal soon, then we will see cars sliding and crashing.

So Skaggs first half has big chip chip seal, which is "ok" traction, but if you get close to the yellow there is tons of gravel there. And now the second half is snaked, as heavily as I have ever seen. I'll try to get pics in a few days, but the snaking is in several spots 3 feet by 3 feet.
 
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