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Shit! That was lucky I didn't get trapped in it. How did I miss it I wonder, I was all around Albany today.
Just wondering, providing you were looking ahead, was there sufficient space to turn around or did they trap people around a sharp corner or something?
...Full throttle till you see god, then brake.
Where's the ride?
Clowns.Originally Posted by Mully
They gonna put hi-vis vests on trains? Plenty cagers hit them, and they're running on fixed rails with plenty of warning signs on the road approaches.
Cheers,
Colin
Bogeyman
Remember the stat's used to justify raising the registration costs for bikes? It's carefully designed surveys like this that produce 'em.
The very best thing the bike safety quango thingo dudes could spend our money on is developing a set of surveys aimed at collecting data demonstrating that the whole grubby business is a jack-up.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
could catch a monkey
AFAIK, the Police man didn't check my bike at all (well, he checked it out after the fact) unless he did it while I was parking up.
Mr ACC "rated" my bike (WOF, Reg, headlight etc) and then rated my gear. The total (bike & gear) was out of 21.
I don't know what the law would be about riding off - I am but a poor bush lawyer.
Whip it, whip it good!
You do have to stop for plod, why you have to stop to be "rated" on what you are wearing is beyond me and frankly I would not be sticking around for that. If I had wanted to enter NZ's next "top safety gear wearing model" then fair enough. To stop me to "assess" what I am wearing earns a great bigfrom me.
Plod can stop me and ticket me for not wearing a helemt (unlikely), no one else can detain me to check my clothing out.
Live to Ride folks...
"Ride to Live" is more appropriate!
Attitude is what it is all about.
Bogeyman
>rant... In fact I reckon some cleaver dickie dude in here should publish a 21 point questionnaire designed to evaluate the safety merits of fuckwit ACC lackeys found lurking on the roadside.
Any takers?
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
could catch a monkey
Plod are doing the stopping, presumably because some clipboard jockey trying to wave people over would be less effective than an adequate similie....
They are doing licence checks too - and the 30 seconds to talk to an ACC monkey didn't really hurt in the scheme of things.
Perhaps 50,000 motorcyclists telling said ACC monkeys that high-vis wont do shit, and that if they want to do something, they should teach cagers to drive might perhaps sink in.
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
The police are allowed to pull a motorist over for a chat, but ACC can get fucked. Absolutely no mandate there.
Worth riding around the block and coming back stark bollock naked, apart from a helmet, to get a new "point score" record with the morons.
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could catch a monkey
No, it isn't.
It really, really isn't.
Double shot!!
You can decline and ride off at the first bit too, but yeah I would have passed all the gear questions and then rapidly lost all my carefully-earned points at the attitude test.
Why don't people feel angry at ACC ?
"I am a licenced motorcycle instructor, I agree with dangerousbastard, no point in repeating what he said."
"read what Steve says. He's right."
"What Steve said pretty much summed it up."
"I did axactly as you said and it worked...!!"
"Wow, Great advise there DB."
WTB: Hyosung bikes or going or not.
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I dont know.....imagine that one posted on UTube
Whip it, whip it good!
Agree! Though I draw the line at nudey rudey riding myself
Speak for yourself, he might be rather tasty to perve at
Aio ki te Aorangi
I wonder if the information gathered is to be used as a baseline for the new risk assessment for the ACC's levy calculations coming in on April 1st.
3 points off for hi-viz v's 1 point for jeans... i'd be worried if that's what the info is being used for
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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I've had a read of three reports on the high vis, one being done in NZ (auckland region) and one done by MAIDS.
The NZ one attributed a 37% lower risk to riders wearing high vis, however their study did not (as far as I can tell) take into account multiple factors, like those who wear high vis might also be more likely to have headlights on, brightly colored bikes, and ride more defensively.
The MAIDS one, is 179 goddamn pages longdoesn't get into the risk decrease of various clothing types as far as I can tell (I'll have a better look at some point though, as it's an interesting read anyway). The breakdown they give is of whether the clothing worn by rider in an accident made them more or less visible, but that doesn't give any indication as to how likely high vis wearers are to be in an accident. They did go into bike color in the same way as the NZ report though (found color of bike is up to fuck all for risk), so I would expect them to cover clothing in the same way somewhere....
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
could catch a monkey
Go on then. Decline to pull over when directed to by a Police officer.
Angry at ACC is one thing.Why don't people feel angry at ACC ?
Angry at the bloke trying to earn a living by doing his master's bidding of a morning is completely another. It's like yelling at the service station people because of the pricing.....
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