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Old 07-11-2012, 02:23 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by euromodder View Post
That's old tech Neil.

Continuously laid concrete - i.e. without joints ! - has been around for over 25 years.
It stays remarkably smooth - well, at least in our moderate climate.

We have a stretch of road here, laid in the late 1980s, that'd still be baby-bottom smooth if it wasn't for the road authority's desire to cut holes in it !

The stretch that was laid a few years ago, is nowhere near this quality however
To bad the concrete roads here in Wisconsin are replaced every year and are broken up wrecks in 6 months.

My best FE has always been on smooth newly laid asphalt, concrete launches my car around and feels like driving on a horse.

I think the best road would be the tire/asphalt hybred material that lasts 25+ years despite the extra give.

Concrete up north here turns to crap after the 1st winter.
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