BUSTED!!!

[saiko]

jeez was that you, crazy mo fo, it was in the paper aye, i remember reading about it, i live just up from KV road, gotta agree, it is a nice flat, wide road, but 180 along there hell no!!! how long ago was that? shit losing track??

(saiko cringes...). That was back in the Uni days.

[gamgee]

yeah i remember it vaguely had something in that little digest part on the front page about a high speed pursuit or something, how long ago did it happen, the one i'm talking about was maybe 5 years or so ago

[gamgee]

and now look what your riding, probably one of the quicker bikes in nz

[saiko]

No mate probably some other idiot.

[Toast]

Sadly yes, 180kph in a 50kph zone, roadblock, court, reaming.
Now before I get flamed for going like a nut in a built-up area... it was 3am down Kaikora Valley in Dundein, well lit, wide clear roads, and I got busted between industrial & about 2 streets of residential. Didn't know had been clocked, saw the raodblock, & thought "wow, this is cool, what's going on here?". Until 2 big bastards came & pulled me off my bike.

Another time coming in Wgtn late to catch the ferry sitting on just over 200kph. Tucked down behind the fairing, both radar detectors on & forward looking, just moving my head left & right enough to scan for police. Stopped for a red light just into Wellington, and heard sirens, then 2 police bikes pulled up, one either side, and got me off the bike. It appears that they had been waiting up a long on-ramp to the m/way miles back, & I had blitzed past, turning my head to look a little ways up the on-ramp, but not enough to see them.

Well anyway they said they had been following me for a while, and asked why I hadn't stopped. I answered truthfully that I hadn't seen them, in fact I hadn't looked in my mirrors for over 100k's as I thought it unlikely that someone would try & overtake me. and I was on the lookout far ahead.

They asked me how fast I thought of going, and I said look I'll be frank, it was over 100kph, maybe close to 120kph. No fooling these guys - one laughed & the other was mighty pissed off, they had been following me for about 60k's, going about 160 or 180 whatever it was, and I had left them for dead. At lights / heavy traffic & such they'd catch up to just see me, then lose sight again. Long story short, they held me up just long enough to miss the ferry, sniggered about the fact, and I couldn't really blame them for that, then over a couple of smokes negotiated a ticket speed enough to give me a good smack, but not enough to end up in court. From memory the largest ticket before you go to court, as they had no radar etc. Best comment from 1 cop was that I should have 1 radar forward facing, the other rear facing.

1 more... getting busted for something silly like 120k on the open road, when EVERYONE did it. The arsehole cop thought it was a big laugh, and said you bikers probably only get busted about 1 time in 10, so this is for the times you were speeding & didn't get caught. I laughed, and said I didn't give a shit about the fine for 120, as just before he busted me I had been doing just over 200kph . It was true too. Heh, heh. Be warned - don't try this at home. This dumb shit was in the '80's when I had lots of money & no brains. Now I have sod all money & even less brains.
Happy & safe riding.

Holy shit... ...that's...nuts...bravo...but yeah, let's all learn from that one.

[saiko]

Yup it does bite.

[gamgee]

No mate probably some other idiot. I was living either at Green Island or Fairfield at the time, so that would put it around 1987. Just wish I'd had the Gixxer back then...

oh nah no way then, must have been someone else, lol i was only 2 years old then so doubt i was reading let alone remembering the shit the odt prints on a daily basis, i mean todays front page (took up like half the page) was a story about some mongrel dog that is mothering two kittens, i mean FFS is there nothing more important happening in the world right now?

[saiko]

Well, maybe, if say the new pope fathered two kittens...

GP on soon.

[Stevo]

Full credit all you people persevering to get a bike licence. Sounds like the whole world of bureaucracy is scheming to put you off riding a bike. Shame about the ticket - but it was residential so take it easy and wait until you can enjoy giving it full noise on open country roads.

Ya meant giving it full noise on the racetrack eh?
Even if it was your mistake I would feel bad if you ploughed into the back of my tractor trundling up the road and you doing warp speed into it. (It is very surprising how slow tractors and other ag machinery is travelling esp when you are travelling FAST) Plus I'd have to scrape up the pieces.
Time and place for everything right?