man i don't know what this stuff was it was oderless colorless and darn near invisible so i am slowing down coming to a stop i put both feet solidly on the ground
i have a habit of kind of dragging my boots lightly on the ground the last 5 or so feet before coming to a complete stop
so my left foot was fine and my right boot hit this crap and it was the slipperiest crap i have ever encountered my foot slides sideways and the bike starts to go over easy
i held it at about a 45 degree angle and a lady at the curb helped me straighten it back up but it went over far enough that my fuel injectors shut off and the bike died
but it started right back up again
it didn't seem like oil antifreeze tranny fluid or anything you'd expect some clunker to be leaking at a stoplight maybe somebody had just hawked a big luggie

 

I never ride in the middle of the lane, or stop in the middle.. to much **** leaks from these cars. I stop more towards the right or the left and aaaaaalways look out for oil and crap... I've done that a couple times and freaks me out! And when it rains, and you put your feet on that wet paint.. slippery too!! lol damn.. as if we don't have enough things to worry about when riding.

 

polyethylene glycol is some slippery ****.... antifreeze.... most likely. Glad everybody is okay.

Actually the reason that 'paint' is so damn slippery when it rains, is most of the crosswalk lines and so forth, are actually plastic strips that gets heated into the asphalt. Saw some road crews putting the stuff down one day. Pretty slick.. no pun intended.... lay the sheets of plastic down, and heat with a propane torch.... no paint at all.

But very good point, because yes, the paint is slick also....

 

yeah i wasn't in the middle i never stop there either its usually closest to the curb
but yeah at stoplights the center asphalt is chewed up by leaking chemicals from cars and bikes
freebyrd

 

Glad you are okay.

Here its oil, leaking out of the many diesel vehicles or loose sand or dirt from the constant digging. Always have to look out. I won't even go out after a rain that is not hard enough to wash every thing away. The roads are just to damn slick.

 

A couple of times i come to a top and it's the manhole cover or even small water valve covers,they have been polished by the years of cars and trucks passing over them,those and the darned white lines more than a few times I put my foot on one and slooooopp !! scary but i'm learning to avoid those. ......someday I'll be concentrating on a particularly alluring skirt and embarrass myself!....Then if she helps me up O! O! match maker!!!

 

Last weekend I went grocery shopping in the pouring rain and had on flip-flops (or shower-shoes as people here seem to call them) and walked over cross walk lines in the parking lot. Feet came right up from under me. Saved myself from going down on my azz, but all I could think was "Oh, THIS is what people mean when they talk about how slippery this stuff gets".

 

I'm a retired TV Newsphotographer and I can tell you some assurance that diesel fuel on blacktop is everybit as slippery as ice. If you are in the immediate neighborhood of an accident done dare try to drive over it till the fire department boys clean it up.

The worst time I think for slippery highways is when you just get a light rain and not a heavy rain that tends to clean off the highway. Lightrain must mixes with motor oil, tranny fluid and antifreeze to make make for some slick riding conditions

 

The places I dead stopping the most because of slippery crap is at toll booths. Those lanes are like skating rinks.

 

A few years ago I was traveling up the NYS Thruway and it began to rain just before the TappanZee Bridge,so traffic was stopped.When I went to put my feet down,I noticed that the road was covered with grey lard like stuff that had leaked from a tanker.If you let out the clutch the rear tires just spun.I eased it off the shoulder and rode that till I got out of it.Man if the traffic hadnt slowed I would have hit that stuff at around 75mph.
Thats the first time I was thankful for a traffic jam.