Tickets for 4km/h over the speed limit this Queens Birthday weekend

[GOONR]

Did your dumbas bosses realize (before announcing this farce) that difference between new and worn tyres on some vehicles can contribute to up to 2% difference in speedo reading??? Not to mention that there is chance that local tyre shop might have put larger tyre on your car without you neccesarily knowing when you decided to get new set???

*rhetorical question...i know they didnt because they want people to get caught*

Do you think that Katman is a cop?

[dogsnbikes]

So glad Im working this weekend too,enjoy the twisties people and remember the danger zone is just below the creast of the hills

[miloking]

Do you think that Katman is a cop?

Not just cop but I though he is their spokesman?!

[davereid]

Just take them all to court.

Even if you lose, you win. A cop can write a 100 tickets a day if he can find a customer.

But if every one pleads not guilty and it goes to court, he loses a day. Then he can only write 250 a year.

[Scuba_Steve]

Yay! Making the roads a "safer" place yet again I see. "safer communities together" by having everyone look at a needle on a dial instead of the road... Fucking Zunes!!!

[tomobedlam]

Just take them all to court.

Even if you lose, you win. A cop can write a 100 tickets a day if he can find a customer.

But if every one pleads not guilty and it goes to court, he loses a day. Then he can only write 250 a year.

There might actually be something in that espcially at 100km/h when they are using their radar equipment. How accurate are they?

[PrincessBandit]

I think it sucks, but legally (emphasis is on the word legally) the speed limit is the speed limit. And before anyone gets their panties up their crack, I'm only saying what's law. There will be plenty of places for people to speed if they really want to where the police won't be sitting - ya just gotta guess where. Do ya feel lucky punk, well do ya......... (okay you have to imagine the Clint drawl on that one).

It will be interesting to see what impact, if any, this has on the road toll and whether there will be a "reveal all" at the end of it as to how many tickets were actually issued.

[vifferman]

I have no problems in the wife's car - the speedo's pretty accurate (overreads by only 2% at 100km/h). However, on the VFR, the speedo's in mph, with tiny km/h markings, which I discovered on Monday night are completely unreadable in the dark! Plus the 10km/h gradations are only a few mm apart, making it quite difficult to ride at a particular speed with any degree of certainty.

[rastuscat]

they need to make budget before the end of the financial Year.

Oh yeah Baby, all those tickets for $30 will make huge money, especially when it costs $27 to process each one. Way cool, revenue collecting at $3 a shot.

Yeah right.

[ukusa]

Oh yeah Baby, all those tickets for $30 will make huge money, especially when it costs $27 to process each one. Way cool, revenue collecting at $3 a shot.

Yeah right.

well maybe they should trim some of the fat, ie. pen pushing bureaucrats from the system. It costs my firm less than $2 to raise an invoice. Where the fuck does the $27 come from? Some fat lazy pig sitting on the side of the road for 8 hours a day eating donuts & drinking coffee & dishing out his quota in between. Is he writing so many tickets that hes's using 27 pens a day?

[MSTRS:Me]

Oh yeah Baby, all those tickets for $30 will make huge money, especially when it costs $27 to process each one. Way cool, revenue collecting at $3 a shot.

Yeah right.

So, what's the point, then?
All this will do is make many more 'enemies' of the police. When a 'tolerance' has existed since before any of us were born to be altered just like that is counter-productive., and will do nothing for the road toll. Except for possibly increasing the carnage due to needle watching.
This is a/nother fail on the part of the cops.

[Katman]

Did your dumbas bosses realize (before announcing this farce) that difference between new and worn tyres on some vehicles can contribute to up to 2% difference in speedo reading??? Not to mention that there is chance that local tyre shop might have put larger tyre on your car without you neccesarily knowing when you decided to get new set???

I'll let my bosses know.

I've also passed on your registration number details to them.

[AllanB]

Just ride everywhere at 80 this weekend - pretty sure that will cause more traffic issues that riding at 105 ...............

I remember when the speed limit was 80kmph! (it was rarely enforced too).

[FJRider]

for WOF/compliance purposes a speedo is only required to be accurate within +/- 10%!

I have NEVER seen a WOF/COF check to see if a speedodometer has been calibrated/accurate at all. Just to see if it works....

[steve_t]

I'll let my bosses know.

Aren't you your boss Katman? So aren't you dumbass enough to realise that tyre shops often put the wrong size tyres on vehicles without the owner knowing?