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amey
So here in Paris this morning I almost came off my bike.
Throughout the gay village area of the Marais, right in the center through which I commute each morning there's apparently been the bright idea, seemingly signed off with the local gov, to paint big fucking rainbows bordering all the zebra crossings.
They look great until you try to cycle across them because this morning the roads are damp and they are slippy as fuck. Glossy fucking paint, I've no idea if it's a road-specific paint or not but doesnt seem to matter, 1 meter bands fore and aft of the crossing with zero traction.
So I lost my back wheel going in a straight line across with the the power down, on the way back from school luckily with no child on the rear, and thankfully saved the fall.
Contacted the council already, I mean who's stupid idea was that.