Dang roadside van cameras

[Pixie]

I dunno about the "especially" bit - it's just bloody stupid pinging people for momemtarily exceeding the speed limit in a passing lane while getting past quickly and efficiently.
My one ticket in the last 30 years was in just such a situation. Fair enough, I was speeding, but I'd followed a smokey 4WD on my bike for maybe 15km before that, waited till the passing lane, slipped past quickly (of course, he sped up from his previous 85-90 km/h when he got to the passing lane), and there was a cop hiding nearby.
So where was the danger? Where was the preparedness to kill? The biggest danger would've been the cop passing cars for the next 10 km or so to pull me up to ticket me.
But the law's the law.

Let me spell the explanation out: R-E-V-E-N-U-E

[Pixie]

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Can't recall the specifics behind pole mounted cameras (someone mentioned it in another thread) but basically they work off detecting metal or weight I think, and a bike doesn't have enough to set them off. So they don't get you full-stop. And I know this has to be true cos I haven't had a ticket speeding past the two I pass every single work day. And at the speeds I sometimes clock up, it ain't cos I'm within the margins!

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That's a good point.Has anyone here had a ticket from a pole camera while on a bike?
If not,that would mean all the times I appoached a pole camera at speed,furiously giving the fingers were wasted.
I'll have to get a new pastime.

[Biff]

I have only just noticed the camera's in CHCH and now you tell me they put them in vans too????

The ones I've seen around ChCh have been sitting in the back of Nissan van/people carriers.

[clint640]

I dunno about the "especially" bit - it's just bloody stupid pinging people for momemtarily exceeding the speed limit in a passing lane while getting past quickly and efficiently.

Don't worry, I'm with ya, I just meant that if it's an unmarked newish van, & it's parked on a passing lane, there is a 100% chance it is a camera, & the ones around here are hardly subtle colours, so anyone oblivious enough to miss them deserves a ticket.

Cheers
Clint