Damned near fell off!

**FROSTY:Me** · 22nd March 2009, 19:59

Originally Posted by mattian

Or stop on them.
Another thing to watch is those dasterdly steel dividers that segment the different sections of the road on the Harbour bridge. Traffic had stopped on the bridge one day and my back wheel came to rest on one of those after a little rain. Slippery as hell ! I took off gently and the back wheel lost traction, started skating sideways.

Now, a little bit of common sense should have had me aware of that before it happened. lesson learned.

one suspects a TUI moment tis aproaching

**mattian** · 23rd March 2009, 06:19

Originally Posted by FROSTY

one suspects a TUI moment tis aproaching

well, I don't have any pics of the event so.............
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...49#post1966349

**FROSTY:Me** · 23rd March 2009, 07:27

actually --I put a warning up about those metal plates--UNLIKE arrows in the road there is no way to avoid hitting em.

**vifferman** · 23rd March 2009, 08:15

Those steel plates are slippery even if you don't stop on them; I've had the odd 'moment' crossing them in the wet, especially in very windy conditions.
As for the paint thing - I find it odd, given that roads are tested periodically for slipperiness (that's what those parallel lines of little dots are that you see painted on the road - it's for a special vehicle that measures skid resistance). Obviously, there's bureaucrats that worry about that, oblivious to other more obvious shit like roads that have nice melty tar patches, tar snakes, and contractors painting road markings with paints that are sub-standard.

Don't just say, "Duh... they're slippery - don't ride on them" - write to the council, your local MP, and whoever else you can pester.

**Slyer** · 23rd March 2009, 08:26

To be fair they are using that textured white paint more and more.
Definitely much better than the shiny paint.

**Morcs** · 23rd March 2009, 11:33

Noob.

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**DIN PELENDA** · 25th March 2009, 03:53

Originally Posted by dpex

The other day I just happened to stop right on top of one of those large white directional arrows. Down went the left foot and poom! I skidded out sideways.

'Whaaat!?!'

Dragged said foot back, just in time to stop Yammi falling gracelessly to the ground, and tested the surface.

It was as slippery as hell, and at the time bright sunshine filled my senses and the road was a dry as.

Hell! I thought this shit was slippery only when wet.

WRONG!

I moved forward a bit and did the same foot-skid test on the unpainted part of the road. Good grip (comparatively).

That white paint is evil shit. Why don't they dust the bigger white markings with fine sand?

I bet I know why. The sand absorbs dirt and thus makes their pretty markings all dirty.

Oh dear! How sad!

The fact is they could dust anti-skid sand on all road markings. But we can't have that, can we!? Might make the markings look a bit grotty.

And so it follows that 'pretty' road markings are more important than biker safety. And anyway, they just keep jambing up the cost of ACC levies to cover the costs of yet another biker going down on road paint.

You see, people!? We ain't people to the bureaucrats. We're just parts of a never-ending statistical record.

Now I remember why I always feel a bit nervous coming into the straight at Taupo, through the grid markings on the corner.

I knew that shit was slippery, and that Yammi 'twitching' wasn't all just in my imagination.

You are just SLOPPY rider that got away with that , next time you my not be that lucky