"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
Stick to the right lane if you go slow, I love people like you, it leaves the left hand lane completely empty and so much faster than the right lane.
Also do you even road rules?
Just because you don't speed, doesn't mean you can ignore other road rules and stay safe. That's the same mentality the elderly people have when they crash and die at 70km/h in a back country road. I don't break a single traffic rule when I ride/drive, except speed limits. I've indicated wrong probably 3 times this year.
Nope.
Having hypothetically just had this experience, the rules are 40km/h over a permanent speed limit or 50km/h over a temporary speed limit results in an instant suspension for 28 days and a walk home.
Then, you will have an appearance in traffic court (probably in front of a JP rather than a judge) charged with exceeding the permanent speed limit by more than 40km/h, resulting in a fine and 50 demerit points. Depending on how the charge has been laid, you could be up for a grand, or 10 grand.
Depending on where you are in the country you will probably find that you will also be charged with dangerous driving - this is up to the police prosecutor and policies of the local police force. It is the dangerous driving charge, not the excess speed charge, that that carries the disqualification which is a minimum of 6 months.
You may find that you have been charged with careless instead of dangerous, which carries a minimum of 3 months.
If you haven't been charged with careless or dangerous, the JP can if he wishes add a charge of careless to the charge sheet (but not dangerous), although most JP's don't know that they can do this. The police prosecutor can also ask for the case to be withdrawn so that he can lay further charges of careless or dangerous if he doesn't agree with the cop who laid the charges.
two points of interest...
1) the demerit's don't get added onto your licence until you pay the fine, so if you have some points expiring soon, you can delay your payment so that you don't get banned on the 100 point accumulator. allegedly
2) the auto number plate recognition system that is being rolled out on the cars at the moment is not a live feed. I allegedly got pulled over because the system in the car flagged that the bike was owned by a suspended driver even though i had allegedly had my licence back for 2 weeks at that point.
EDIT: Passing the Attitude Test at the roadside may have the effect of a serious reduction in charges. However your mileage may vary
This.... and the fact that i may or may not have many points left on my licence now
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - not riding a TUONO then!
There are some research from Canada that raising the speed limit where appropriate actually reduces the road toll. But there is no way in hell that the ptb here would be that intelligent.
to my mind, if it's safe enough to do 100km/h on a one carriageway road with traffic travelling in both directions, then it must be safer to do more than 100 on a multi lane highway with dividing barriers... needless to say i didn't mention my theory to the copper that pulled me up recently.
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - not riding a TUONO then!
Your reg/rectifier burning out halfway to the middle of fucking nowhere.
Nope, it's a made up number nothing more & the road rules/layout creates the lowest common denominator
If people are told not to think, they're not going to think
uncourteous knob... have some fucking manners on the road. It's not only written in legislation what you're doing is illegal (doubly so in-fact) but it's uncourteous & just a wank move, like people who cut lines.
Science Is But An Organized System Of Ignorance"Pornography: The thing with billions of views that nobody watches" - WhiteManBehindADesk
I am with Grem 100%. Too many rozza collecting road tax these days.
Any fool can open the throttle and go fast on a straight road. I enjoy riding a relatively underpowered bike with poor road manners relatively quickly. Its a bit more of a challange than riding a powerfull bike with great handling relatively slowly.
If I want to get some where quickly I will take the car.
Just another leather clad Tinkerbell.
The Wanker on the Fucking Harley is going for a ride!
Discourteous and dumb most definitely, but written in legislation... I don't think so. From what I understand from the training sergeant in south Auckland, each lane is treated as a separate road and there is no such thing as an "overtaking lane" or similar connotations. That means that you can "undertake" to pass a slower vehicle in your lane provided that normal safe practice is adhered to. Can any of the police on this forum confirm that?
Really? Really?????
I have nothing against you if you want to ride to the speed limit. whatever floats your boat. but sitting in the outside lane at 100 is just plain stupid.
Keep left. Ever heard of that?
What about this one - Don't hold up traffic wanting to pass you.
You SHOULD be watching in all directions. it's called PAYING ATTENTION.
so you'll comply with an arbitrarily chosen speed limit not based upon any ratio of safety to vehicles travelling on that road, but you won't comply with other rules designed to reduce frustration of other drivers, which then cause them to make rash decisions and potentially drive dangerously to get past you???
take a look at your riding and how it affects those around you before you get caught up in an incident that you have helped create
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - not riding a TUONO then!
you should probably read that rode code again.
you must use the left most lane available to you - here's a direct link to the road code. http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/ro...ping-left.html
i can't believe this is not being taught properly
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - not riding a TUONO then!
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