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In the Cambridge, Paris, St. George area of South Ontario, Canada, there's a road, Blue Lake Road that ends at East River Road. When you turn right onto Est River Road from Blue Lake Road you're often positive that you've flatted or have a slow leak in a tire. I rode that route one year during the recreational ride "Tour de Grand (definitely NOT a race) and stopped on East River Road just after turning onto it. I was positive I have a flat. It turns out that it's the type of road surface asphalt pus the uphill grade. Now when I ride that route with a group on that Tour I tell people who slow down after getting onto East River Road to keep going that they don't have a flat.
Some paved road surfaces really do make you feel like you have a flat of very low air pressure when you first get onto them.
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