I try not to ride over them or using the brakes if I have to ride over them.
Most of them here in Calif. are painted on and they get worn pretty fast so they don't stay slippery for long.

 

The only time I had a problem with wet road paint is when I was running Metzeler tires. Then again, everything was a problem in the wet with those tires.

Put some Avon or Pirelli tires on and you will not have to worry about it so much.

 

It was that way in 1976 too,,

 

Road paint is slick??!!!!!!!

Next thing you're gonna tell me is Elton John is a gay fella.

 

Now you're really messing with us right...not Elton.

 

HUH....LOL...Maybe before that...When did they invent paint?????
Ha...I'm sure your going to tell me that Sir Elton also played at a Harley Reunion....
http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/elton.html

 

Not exactly the Stones or the Allman Brothers is he?

 

Why not?

 

Man hole covers act the same way. The man hole covers in the road, not the one's girls I meet wear. They act like they are wearing chastity belts and they are anything but slick or slippery.

 

I rode over a manhole cover one time while it was wet out and at the same time accelerating pretty hard. That was probably the fastest I've seen the rpms shoot up and the last time I went over a manhole cover.