TEXAS BACKROADS - CONDITION UPDATES....post your latest ride findings

EVERYONE...PLEASE POST YOUR ROAD CONDITION UPDATES TO LET OTHER RIDERS KNOW WHICH COUNTY,FM,RM & RR ROADS HAVE POTENTIAL PROBLEM SPOTS OR CONSTRUCTION

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>>>>>>>This thread is intended to provide much needed info on current conditions of our Texas backroads. Whether State Hwy (TX), Farm to Market (FM), Ranch to Market (RM), Ranch Road (RR) or County Roads (CR).<<<<<<<<

I'll begin with this.....

While riding today on a favorite stretch of Bosque County backroad (CR4145...Rock Church Rd) between Cranfils Gap & The Crossroads (FM219 & FM182) I came across several pavement patches with very heavy loose pea gravel. One patch in particular was sneaky bad....cresting a hill between CR4180 & the Rock Church,the patch started at the crest & extended down the hill about 50-60 feet or so.

Had I not encountered previous patches of loose pea gravel,I might have plowed into that loose stuff with predictable results on a street bike! (Dual Sports wouldn't have quite as hard a time with the loose stuff depending on the rider)

BOSQUE CR4145 (ROCK CHURCH RD)
...SO....AS OF SUNDAY 5-8-2011 BE CAREFUL OF THE LOOSE STUFF...It'll blend in with time since this road gets a good bit of traffic regularly......

I rode several of the CRs last week in Bosque and they are already dusty again

I've been noticing a lot of the CR's in the Lufkin area, specifically between Lufkin and Huntington, are paved on each end but towards the middle you round a curve and WAM BAM SAND for about a mile. Some are just gravel in the middle but until you know the road expect sand. CR234 (aka Cotton Thompson Road) was pretty bad in places but CR233 (aka Pahal Rd) seemed to be the sneakiest about it. It had a nice transition to gravel at the very end of a straight and then a 50ish degree corner to some fairly deep sand. Any way lots of them do it out here watch out for it if you choose to explore this area.

Thanks Rod.....you're always the pro when it comes to this "Road Warrior" thing.

You will discover alot of the same stuff around Comanche, Deleon, and Dublin...SOG and I found some really knarly sugar sand near Lake Proctor that almost ate my GSA:eek1

Sand near Lake Proctor. lol. That was a visual dee-light. ghost was fighting the big pig in that deep shit....and he ultimately won. But I had the sand ahead on my card after the first 10 rounds.

Posted the following in Central Texas ADVers and then saw this thread...

Well, seems like it's been a year in the making with really jacked up riding conditions: half-dirt, half-pavement, occasional construction zone escorts and totally unpredictable road surface but 182 from Gatesville to Turnersville to "The Crossroads" is back in service and better than EVER!

I took the back way home last night and the tarmac was perfect. The center stripes are down, the road is all swept up and it's gorgeous. The new section is only from Turnersville to 36 but this ain't the usual chip-seal crap. Nuh-uh! This is that primo, glass-like, pitch black tarmac. And the 2nd part is as good as it always was.

uh....I AGREE.......FM182 is as nice & curvy as Elly Mae (* *)
....as opposed to say...Hwy22 which ,for the most part compares to Miss Jane [- -] <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
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I'll keep that in mind!

In the southern part of Johnson County (near Brazos Point) that borders Somerville and Bosque County the CR's are in pretty good condition. Watch for "braking bumps" on the edges though. There's also lots of blind corners but it's not half as dangerous now that the natural gas industry has slowed down.

I saw this thread and thought I might pipe in. About a mile south of Bandera on 173 there is a sign for Medina Lake. I think the roads name is Castroville Road. It was paved so I'm thinking its the back way to Castroville, cool. If you take the main paved route its about thirty to forty miles. I think I went maybe ten miles and it turned into gravel. I was on my road pig so I had to turn around. It was nice and curvy while it lasted. Someone should check this out, it might be a nice ride. I had the same thing happen to me over by Utopia on some roads that went from paved to gravel after ten miles. I need to bring my DR down to Texas somehow and do some exploring.

Yeah....We've got a bunch o roads here in Texas that might start out paved but will change to gravel/rock/sand...etc
Sometimes has to do with county lines & maint costs/county prosperity....or just the number of homes on that particular road ....
or traffic flow.
Looks like you could have been on either of 2 county roads...1 to the west of Lake Medina/Henderson Hollow & loops back to 173...or 1 to the east which goes to Bandera Falls community & connects to FM1283/FM471 & eventually runs to Castroville on TX90

I've never explored that area myself but ...now that you've got the ol ball rollin......well..looks like some more hill country trips on the Strom are in order

Had a great ride last saturday. Met with the gang at the usual spot and took the long way to marble falls while most of the others went to blanco to drool over the waitress at the <s>chest</s> chess club.

Bee creek road was its usual twisty self, lots of asphalt patches and luckily only one cager to pass. Back to 71 long enough to cross the mostly dry perdenales to paleface ranch road. Saw a fawn right at the edge of the road that stayed put, mama deer led us for a while until she turned and cleared a 3 foot fence by about 8 feet. Damn thing must've been 10 feet in the air. Almost nailed a buzzard before krause springs and continued on cr404 to 2147.

Lots of patches and a few spots of gravel on 404. Ate at atwoods in MF, I like it better than the bluebonnet because they actually know how to make an omelette. Mormon hills road was ok up into burnet where we looped back down 281 to PR4. Liked it so much ran it back down from 29 but one of the crew got a flat. All fixed up, we took backroads into and out of burnet (340 and 330) got another flat, picked up 334 then to oatmeal and then a quick jaunt down 243 to 1174 to one of my favs, cr328 aka cow creek road, which had fresh gravel end to end. Same guy chucked one of his goopy cord patches, fixed again only to lose both on 1431. Used 3 goopy cords and it finally held all the way into austin. Couldn't tell what caused the flats
but appeared to be staples from the looks of the holes.

All of our really great roads seem to be gettin bombarded by construction debris...AKA NAILS,STAPLES,SCREWS....you name it & it's probably gonna get picked up by a tire.!!!!

I think I'll mount a utility magnet under my engine & see what gets picked up.....

I wish the "enforcers" would take a closer look at all those trailers loaded down with construction/trash/junk bouncin round & fallin off.....

You got that right, couple years back was coming back from lunch on I35 got behind a flatbed looked like water coming off the back. Turned it was nails from an open box of 'em. Could hear them tink when thy hit the road, some bouncing as high as my head. I wanted to catch up and at least see the company logo but my exit came up and i was still dodging nails.

Please don't take this as a slam but.....I just got back from a month in Texas and couldn't believe the trash alongside some of the roads. I think only Georgia is worse, maybe. I did see alot of metal garbage at intersections too. I just got back from my trip and am going to send a Email out to someone in the Don't Mess With Texas department. I can here them now, Its not in the budget. Oklahoma, Ark. and Missouri were pretty well kept up. I love Texas and litter is a pet peave of mine.

Gets me too!!! There is one guy in particular that rides with us on a regular basis......always leavin his cans for the "can getters" We've started tryin to shame him into pickin up after himself by grabbin his trash ourselves. ...So far..it hasn't made a dent.......JUST FLIPPIN STUPID

After riding several of my favorite Coryell CRs today (appx 200 miles!!), I thought a post would be in order....
The storms Friday & Saturday must've dumped a ton o water out of the sky in the Jonesboro area. A few streams of rock & tree debris scattered across the road in the most inopportune places on Coryell CR194 which runs south from Hwy36 near Jonesboro over to the Leon River & Ater near FM2412.
WATCH THE CORNERS & CRESTS FOR DEBRIS HIDDEN UNTIL JUST BEFORE YOU CROSS IT.

I'm guessing there are several other places with the same scenario after those storms......just not over some of our forum members properties!!!
right Tom??

Moccasin Bend Road just south of the Leon River Bridge has a section about 1-2 miles which is being repaved. It is down to the gravel base right now & can get sloppy when wet.

Several other Coryell CRs have sections which are being repaved but they are generally just short little gravel bits without much drama for cruisers & sportbikes.

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Which paved road at Rumley was that video from?? The one north of 580 or the one to the south....