To be honest i don't really care.Originally Posted by Hitcher
If it makes you feel better that you need to pick on peoples poor grammer and english, then i feel sorry for you.
Remember this is a motorcycle forum.
To be honest i don't really care.Originally Posted by Hitcher
If it makes you feel better that you need to pick on peoples poor grammer and english, then i feel sorry for you.
Remember this is a motorcycle forum.
so tell me, why do i ride past a car, but the car passed me?Originally Posted by Hitcher
or even, I passed the car that passed me in the past minute??
Oh dear. Now you've started something that you may end up regretting [goes off to find copy of Fowler]Originally Posted by marty
Originally Posted by skidmark
Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
as i passed through the past in my time machine, i passed past the past, until i wind the wind maker up, and he makes it too windy for me to ride my bike on the windy road.......
Probably over 50points. I just got a facetious, attempted heart wringing, double A4 with picture, "Tanya was killed by a speeding driver, if you're prepared to speed be prepared to kill", bullshit, propagandist, warning notice, for 55pts !Originally Posted by WINJA
I dont mind the warning, but puleeze, leave out the fucking propagandist bullshit!!!
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Too bloody right, that's pathetic! And, while legally you were breaking the law blah blah, that fine is freaking ludicrous......... And you wonder why SOME people do a runner??? Fuck, having a go at getting off $1200 fines is a pretty good incentive.Originally Posted by SPman
Disclaimer: I've never done a runner, partly because I don't trust my riding skill... and partly because it's kinda wrong![]()
Yes.... I considered that - noone on the roads to maim and kill as it was early sunday morning... I know all the roads and turnoffs and hideyholes but in the end I realised I'm a noob on a 250 just waiting to kill myself/someone else and pulled over promptly.
I'm going to send in a letter explaining and asking if I can get off the 70kmh charge with the dual ticketing thingy, (Citizens advice buearau (sp) free lawers and advice etc) I can use all my savings to pay a 1.3k fine, but I would not be able to go without a bike (in terms of demerits if they ad up to 100). The officer did not impound my bike on the spot (100 is automatic loss of liscence right.....) so I dont 'think' I have got 100 worth. Or mabey I have 28 days of freedom...![]()
You made the right choice, it's sickening that you have to pay so dearly for it though (Even though you were speeding...). I sincerely hope you get a little reprieve on that fine, but I also hope you watch you speed in future. None of the people I ride with ride at 90 in a 50. Having said that even, there are the ODD occasions where "shit happens". On a quick bike, a yank on the throttle can have you over 100 in literally a second. I guess it's up to the rider not to yank then. One could go on debating this for ages, so I won't. Good luck with the battle ahead mate. (let us know what transpires)Originally Posted by tristank
doubt it will be 100, 50 though ain't bad so long as you behave for the next two years. *is behaving*![]()
Thy request is acknowledged thus...?Originally Posted by Ixion
Sorry to hear about the ticket. You seemed pretty cheery in the afternoon even after such an event. You should post up a picture of the ticket.
I hope you can do something to get off paying.......
Good luck..!
I trust my riding skill, just not prepared to wear the heat if it comes unstuck.Originally Posted by StoneChucker
Bloke i know casually, we're riding near tokoroa, the blue and reds come on, as they do, and he's off! - the other half a dozen of us in the column just look at each other WTF?!?
They caught him trying to hide behind a parked bus.
If he had stayed cool, one of us would have got a $120 dollar'er, he would have copped a smack for riding while suspended (comparatively minor in the way things worked out) and a shout at the pub later.
But now he has a whole world of pain, solicitors and handcuffs - sold his bike and has moved up country.
I also know other blokes who tell of narrow escapes in an urban environment in Ghost Riderish terms.
For mine: pull over, licence out, be polite, cop the licks, and fight it due process if you need to. I'm still on a pretty good 'booking to cautioning' ratio - despite a recent 20 pointer.
From what I've seen, the odds of a more painful conclusion the other way don't add up.
ahhh - i'm getting soft in my old age, next i'll be on about why we need bikes that do 300kph anyway.
ouch! that's gotta hurt mate.
..it's another red light nightmare..
RelaxOriginally Posted by Teflon
I find Hitchers grammer corrections amusing as does everyone else, its one of those harmless funs that we have every now and again
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Whoops Im a little slow to jump on this thread.
Sorry to hear you got so much more than I did when you were only doing 2kph more than me.
Ive found its just so easy to whip up the left lane and then hop back into traffic before the parked cars, (If anyone knows New North Road between the Pack-n-slave and the BP I got busted right before the intersection. not 500m from my house) BUT not anymore. Im scared shitless of getting another 50 demerits.
I think I might go fit my L plate on now. Ive got a spare if anyone wants one.
*edit Tristank. sounds like you did the same as me (vodka). we should go drown our sorrows at the local sometime.
I only posted this because of the global economic crisis
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