Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Let's turn this into bold controversial statement--sand on roads is bad.
That kind of crash can happen to anyone going a decent speed. I'm in New England, much of my attention around April or so is trained on avoiding patches of dry sand on the road. I've never ridden in Nevada, but that's gotta be full time there.
It's actually a lot worse after rains. You guys back east probably see rain as washing the roads off. Out here, a good rain ends up flowing across roads/bike paths and dragging sand with it. That's what happened in this particular case. We had a good rain a couple weeks before and the city hardly ever sweeps bike paths so that crap stays there for weeks or months. 23c tires slide right through it.