Great stuff,
I know what you mean about gravel having side swiped a road sign on a 90 deg bend after it was resurfaced. The drongo's who did the work left a pile of gravel in the middle of the lane, I was on a Gl1200 at night so didn't see it, the bike slid sideways into the road sign, luckily at only 10mph so no damage done, at least I spread the gravel so the next unlucky motorcyclist didn't hit the stone pile at speed and come off worse.