Spring time for life-long motorcyclist and General Manager of Bikers Edge Powersports Glen McGowen is the perfect time to bring out the bike.
“This is when everybody’s really starting to bring out the bikes and take a ride, the warm weather brings a lot of them out,” said McGowen.
But the sand on the roads could steal they joy out of a joy ride.
“The amount of rubber touching the ground is minimal it’s very small and it doesn’t take very much underneath it to actually get it to actually slide out from under you,” said McGowen.
The sand becomes a road hazard for motorcyclist and bicycle riders alike.
“I’ve had at least three already this year that have come in for that very thing where they’ve gone into a corner and it slide out from under them,” said McGowen.
It’s the leftovers from the 14,000 tons of sand the city says it placed on the streets this winter to treat the roads.
The city is working to fix that. The city says it has three shifts of street sweepers currently cleaning the roads in the neighborhoods. At the end of April, the city says it will temporarily redirect the first shift sweepers from residential to arterial streets like Central and Rock Road.
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