Banned

[awa355]

Poor akzle, just when he thought he was going to be able to get his first motorbike, :cry::cry:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11552282

[5150]

Even that would be way too powerful for him :cool:

[jasonu]

You Nu Zulunders are lucky the police are looking out for your best interests...

[STEPHASAUR]

naaaaahhhhhh you'll be sweet!
Worst case, just time the rides to be around the time when boy racers are out ;)

make use of those ricecars!

[Swoop]

Fuckin' jews!
Cracking down on law-abiding (hang on..., "law ignoring") citizens of the Banana Republic.

[Oakie]

Worst part about these bikes is they turn them into something they are not. I got a fright one day pulling away from a stop sign. I'd looked and saw this push bike coming along about 40 metres away to my right, guy upright, not pedalling so i mistakenly assumed was doing about 8 to 10kph leaving me plenty of time to get across in front of him safely. Wrong! Was a lot closer than it needed to be as he was moving a lot faster than a treddly had any right to be.

[Ender EnZed]

I'd looked and saw this push bike coming along about 40 metres away to my right, guy upright, not pedalling so i mistakenly assumed was doing about 8 to 10kph

That is a ridiculous underestimation of even an (engineless) fat, middle aged, smoker on a treadlie.

[Oakie]

That is a ridiculous underestimation of even an (engineless) fat, middle aged, smoker on a treadlie.

Dunno. I thought about walking speed and a half was about right for someone apparantly putting in no effort.

[rastuscat]

Speed tested one we impounded from a disqualified driver.

Flat stick it did 62 kmh. So it can't even be called a moped, let alone a power assisted pedal cycle. It's a motorcycle, and requires all the gear motorcycles do.

I reckon our rules aren't flexible enough to allow these things.

[Oakie]

Speed tested one we impounded from a disqualified driver.

Flat stick it did 62 kmh. So it can't even be called a moped, let alone a power assisted pedal cycle. It's a motorcycle, and requires all the gear motorcycles do.

I reckon our rules aren't flexible enough to allow these things.

62kph on something with (probably) no suspension, tyres the width of my thumb and tiny brakes. Not for me thanks.

[Gremlin]

62kph on something with (probably) no suspension, tyres the width of my thumb and tiny brakes. Not for me thanks.
Yet I remember as a lycra clad road cyclist (I was on the school team) doing 85kph down one hill... (looking back that was insane)

On schoolboy gearing (limited run out) we sat just over 40kph along Tamaki Drive and back (team time trial), barely made the top 10...

[jasonu]

On schoolboy gearing (limited run out) we sat just over 40kph along Tamaki Drive and back (team time trial), barely made the top 10...

Were you the ones, read cunts, (many moons ago) that were photographed in the Harold clogging up Tamaki drive with your coach in a car driving in the middle of the road screaming at the cyclists?

[Gremlin]

Were you the ones, read cunts, (many moons ago) that were photographed in the Harold clogging up Tamaki drive with your coach in a car driving in the middle of the road screaming at the cyclists?
No coaches/vehicles allowed to follow. This was the schoolboy event every couple of weeks on a Sunday morning (no idea if they still do it).

[willytheekid]

Speed tested one we impounded from a disqualified driver.

Flat stick it did 62 kmh.

...could ya Wheel stand it?? :eek:

[Tazz]

...could ya Wheel stand it?? :eek:

That's a bit below the belt Willy. He was a professional.


Of course they did wheel stands, front and rear :laugh:

[OddDuck]

Yet I remember as a lycra clad road cyclist (I was on the school team) doing 85kph down one hill... (looking back that was insane)

One of the guys at work is seriously into his cycling. He had an off at roughly 35km's, running onto gravel at a roundabout and lowsiding, going straight down onto his right side... massive abrasions, gravel rash, the works. He was still pulling bits of gravel out of his skin six months later. Very nasty.

[OddDuck]

Speed tested one we impounded from a disqualified driver.

Flat stick it did 62 kmh. So it can't even be called a moped, let alone a power assisted pedal cycle. It's a motorcycle, and requires all the gear motorcycles do.

I reckon our rules aren't flexible enough to allow these things.

Any tests done on stopping distance from that speed?

[James Deuce]

Any tests done on stopping distance from that speed?
I'm sure it has better brakes than any stock '60s Triumph.

[rambaldi]

I'm sure it has better brakes than any stock '60s Triumph.

Or any current Harley, farkled or not.

[J.A.W.]

I'm sure it has better brakes than any stock '60s Triumph.

You'd be wrong..

Get a ride on a well-fettled stock`69 Daytona, a ~350lb 500 that shared the same 8in TLS front brake as the bigger units..

If its got fat sticky TT 100 rubber, you can haul those things down pretty quick, howling the front on the verge of locking - all the way to the stop..

In fact, you might be surprised how readily they will chirp the tyre, & they're quite sensitive to a ham-fisted grab, not being linear in feel, like a disc..

[rastuscat]

Any tests done on stopping distance from that speed?

Standard Vaughn brakes on the one we tested. Shite quality.

Out of interested max speed in lycra on the treddly today was 74 heading south from the peak of Lewis Pass.

Yet I won't ride the Bimmerror without ATGATT.

Sheesh

[yevjenko]

A friend of mine cracked the Hundy down the gorge in wellie a few years ago. I gave him serious shit for that