Concrete with no blacktop has terrible traction unless it's grooved, if it is grooved it is not conducive to good handling or tire life, and unless you never get soon freezing temps with water in the road they crack faster than can be imagined.
Strange phenomenon with fresh blacktop.
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Iowa comes to mind as a state with some of the best concrete roads in the nation. It's not just the interstates, their US highways, state roads, and county roads are something to behold.
Regarding the OP and the unexpectedly squirrelly feeling on fresh blacktop, I think it's because it's fresh it is harder to see the developing ruts. Give it a few days, weeks, or months and you will start to see glazing in the ruts, cracking and insulation in the ruts, and because you can see it you can either anticipate the pull on your wheel or adjust and move over toward the fog line to get out of the ruts.D.Tibbitt, FlaSwampRat and MACK E-6 Thank this. -
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Edit. It's not 10. 272? You split left at the south end of Oxford...Last edited: Oct 5, 2019
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Sort of a side note, it seems like the state roads in NC have a crown right at the fog line. You drift right? Your gonna put a wheel off. Shoulders are narrow too.
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