darned slippery

**FROSTY:Me** · 5th July 2005, 16:26

Heading northbound onto the auckland harbour bridge this morning I hit a 1.0m wide metal joiner plate. -the plate goes right across the road
Its pretty darned slippery -I got a fair ol sideways shift on it.
Worth watchin out for

**bugjuice** · 5th July 2005, 16:32

I always catch that in the wet..
don't be acceleratin hard, or you'll get the taste of concrete. Just cruise gentley over them and no harsh/rash movements.
I used to power it over them, see if I could get the wheel to spin up. Not recommended, but cheap thrills..
just mind how you go, and good point frosty..

**Beemer** · 5th July 2005, 23:12

It's not just on the road either - those manhole type covers are bad enough on the footpath - my niece has just slipped on one and broken her elbow.

**HDTboy** · 5th July 2005, 23:17

One of the guys at work had a whinge about that the other day, I don't go over the brigde daily so it's not a problem for me

**FROSTY:Me** · 5th July 2005, 23:17

Originally Posted by Beemer

It's not just on the road either - those manhole type covers are bad enough on the footpath - my niece has just slipped on one and broken her elbow.

Um I sorta hope noone here is riding on the footpath.Could get very messy very fast

**zadok** · 6th July 2005, 00:28

On my last ride I went over four rail tracks in row. The bike got a bit twitchy. Woke me up I can tell you.!

**placidfemme** · 6th July 2005, 08:21

That metal bit on the bridge is a bit dodgy in the wet... I've also noticed when your in the 3rd lane heading towards the city... the metal thingy is pretty un-even and when you hit it, it feels like you've hit a small ramp on the road... *doesn't go in the 3rd lane anymore*

**Beemer** · 6th July 2005, 10:03

Originally Posted by FROSTY

Um I sorta hope noone here is riding on the footpath.Could get very messy very fast

Knowing my niece, the only wheels she'd have on the footpath would be the ones on her two year-old's baby buggy!

**Two Smoker** · 6th July 2005, 19:08

Originally Posted by FROSTY

Heading northbound onto the auckland harbour bridge this morning I hit a 1.0m wide metal joiner plate. -the plate goes right across the road
Its pretty darned slippery -I got a fair ol sideways shift on it.
Worth watchin out for

sounds like riding the TL in the wet everywhere..... I love riding to work hehehe

**Jantar** · 6th July 2005, 19:16

There are a number of metal gratings on the Haast Pass road that have a very similar effect. I tend to approach them as straight on as possible, and lift the front wheel ever so slightly as I cross them.

**Flyingpony** · 7th July 2005, 12:50

Had the misfortune recently one dark winter morning of hitting two man hole covers slightly spaced out mid-corner!

Hitting the first caused the front to suddenly slide away. Moments later while still regaining control, hit the second which did a repeat of the first.

Fortunately there were no parked cars because hitting them both forced my line to drift wide by 2m. That corner of now taken very slowly with extreme caution.

Railway lines can be nasty and I've got to cross some 2 & 4 tracks daily. Got those nailed for the smoothest and safest line.

**FROSTY:Me** · 7th July 2005, 12:58

I did the whole -slide on the lines hit the deck bit in the bay of islands once--by blind chance--and my not thinking I was angled so both friggin wheels hit the rails same time - Bloddy funny sitting on my ass in the middle of Kawakawa laughing my head off --I was doing 5km/h at the time

**sparrow_34** · 7th July 2005, 13:35

Another thing to watch out for is wet cardboard. I had a moment turning into a side street in the wet the other night, halfway around the corner the front gets a slide on, I just about shit myself and can't work out what it was. So I continue on my way. On the way home I slow down and have a look at the corner and low and behold there is a soggy wet and slippery piece of cardboard box sitting there. Impossible to see as it had obviously been there a while and been run over by numerous cars. I managed to scrape it of the road and get rid of it. Just another hazzard out there trying it's best to remove the friction between the road and tyre.

**Beemer** · 7th July 2005, 14:34

Yes, wet cardboard is nasty! So are discarded ball point pens - you wouldn't believe the number of times I have put my foot down and slipped on one someone has thrown away.

Around our way it's usually cow shit and mud from tractors - loverly! Thank god we got rid of the steep gravel driveway though, that's one less hazard to worry about.

**Badcat** · 7th July 2005, 14:43

Originally Posted by FROSTY

Heading northbound onto the auckland harbour bridge this morning I hit a 1.0m wide metal joiner plate. -the plate goes right across the road
Its pretty darned slippery -I got a fair ol sideways shift on it.
Worth watchin out for

even the dirty little vanvan can get out of shape on that.
def. a throtlle OFF maneouver.