🚀 go-pugleaf

> Overlord wrote:
> > > ........to pursue personal injury suit against city/state and
> manufacturer
> > > of
> > > large dome type raised pavement markers.
> > >
> > > Victim is professional pilot by trade. Grievously injured (lost three
> > > fingers from right hand) after having impacted dome type raised
pavement
> > > markers while on motorcycle.
>
> He must have been clever.
>
> We've tried all sorts of maneouvres and angles of attack to get a
motorcycle
> to react badly on one of these Botts Dots and all we can get is a slight
> shift in position of the bike at worst.
>
> However, if a rider reacted badly during/after that shift, or hit one when
> he was really on the limit the situation could be different.
>
> But we consider that if he reacts badly, that's a riding skills fault and
> not that of the road marking, and if he hits it while he's on the limit,
> he's not paying enough attention to the rioad surface he's riding over.
> (Bott's Dots can be seen from some distance.)
>
> So, we've come to the conclusion that Botts Dots are OK as long as you
have
> the skill to handle them - and only basic skill/commonsense is required.

Head over to alt.binaries.pictures.motorcycles.sportbike (or something like
that) and check out the pictures.  This is not an ordinary "Botts Dot".  It
is a 4"-6" tall Bump (Appropriatly dubbed a "City Titty").  They might as
well just glue bowling balls to the street.

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-Jon in SF, CA
 98 VTR