Exceeding 104 km/h - Who got a ticket this weekend?

[merv]

If my memory serves me correctly, and to be fair the mid 80s to mid 90s are a hazy period for me, the open-road speed limit was dropped to 80 km somewhere around '90-'92 for a year or two in an attempt to reduce the speed limit. My recollection is that this was returned to 100km when the govt saw that the reduction in speed did not lead to a reduction in crashes.
Correct me if I'm wrong....

Yeah your memory is hazy. Around late 60's early 70's some nice straight roads got 60mph limits while the general open road limit was 55mph. The 60mph roads that I travelled on were a few places on SH2 Hawkes Bay and in the Wairarapa plus SH73 Canterbury Plains. The first oil crisis came at the beginning of '74 in NZ and along with that came the 50mph limit and all those nice "fast" roads lost their 60mph signs. Soon after metrication occurred and the 50mph got converted to 80kph. In 1985 the restriction put on to save fuel was lifted and we got the 100kph limit. It hasn't changed since, so no not in the 90's, but what has happened is more and more roads are being downgraded to 80 or 70 or 60 with us being told they aren't fit for open road limit e.g Paekak Hill Road, SH58 Paremata etc. Along with those reductions has come the immense amount of yellow paint. Yes my friends, the control freaks are winning.

[ac3_snow]

IMHO If the police were really concerned about safety they could begin by educating the dumb bastard's who speed up and close up these passing lanes and then revert back to slow speeds and re congesting the normal width road again.

amen them fuckas are everywhere!!!
Wahoo a passing lane now i can do 120k instead of the the 90 iv done for the last half hour!

[BoristheBiter]

I keep forgetting this is Kiwibiker and I assume intelligence amongst the membership................my bad.

If only people read what is written instead of what aint.

Don't sweat too much about it. Everyone gets it wrong every now and then.

[Pixie]

Fair enough in theory, although speedos are far more often biased on the generous side. Chances are you were doing below 90.

The best speedo is an undersized one.
You ask the lady members.