Quote Originally Posted by softailrider View Post
Sorry, I don't buy that one. Drive through Ohio or Indiana. The weather is the same, the roads are better.
+1 on that

anyone here ever been to iowa? they suffer temperature extremes and swings there that make us look pathetic. yet when you drive a newly paved stretch of road out there, it's like glass. no subtle waves, no irregularities to the pitch. nothing. absolutely smooth as glass, as if no suspension is necessary. i've never driven on a single stretch of fleshly paved road in michigan that could hold a candle to the quality of the roadwork done in iowa. i'm not sure if it's the quality of materials, specs of the build, or the quality of the workers doing the job [[personally i suspect all 3) but roads there are simply better built than anything we have here-by a wide margin.

i do disagree with iowa's use [[or lack thereof) of guardrails-and substitution of those wire and i-beam things in places that truly need guardrails, but that's a completely different conversation...