Dunno about you guys but here in Essex & Suffolk there seems to be a major programme of road surfacing with that god awful tar and pouring stone chips over it creating a surface that's like riding on ice!!.....I've just spent ages picking the chips from my tyres and scraping the tar off the bodywork.....you'd think there would be some law about this cheap and dangerous surfacing that seems to have become the norm....saw a Ducati Diavel upside down in a ditch recently where this ridiculous surfacing had just been done!