Kiwi drivers slowing down?

[CookMySock]

I've certainly slowed down in the cage. I'm happy to cruise at 90-95k on the open road even when I'm trying to get something important done. I guess theres little or nothing one can do about congestion in the cage so I sit back and wait.

Bikes? Well I wont tap it out everywhere, but I dont wait for anyone. I go, and I go whenever I like. Oddly, the fuzz don't seem interested in bikes overtaking, which is a helluva puzzle to me. I do make sure I am technicallyish legalish ish ish, or at least in a substantially grey area at least.

[slofox]

I go slower in the cage now. Especially after putting in a radar detector. Oh and of course the bike makes up for the lower cage speed...

[oldrider]

On Southern open roads ... NO ... and driving while using cell phones is back up there too! JMHO. (O = observation)

[Stirts]

or stuck behind some moron that believes the propaganda due to NZ's poor roads.

Oh too true, silly me ..... our roads are farking awesome.

[oneofsix]

Oh too true, silly me ..... our roads are farking awesome.

yeah I typed that bad. I could try and claim my fingers couldn't keep up with my brain but I don't think I could fool anyone. How about "or due to our poor roads".

[Grumph]

On Southern open roads ... NO ... and driving while using cell phones is back up there too! JMHO. (O = observation)

Certainly on the straight roads of Canty there's still a lot of people cruising above 100K - but there's a lot more now in the 95 - 100 range.
I'm noticing that the stuff passing me is mainly big expensive late model 4wd's - does this mean that only the wealthy can afford to speed now ?

[Usarka]

Speed isn't just for the wealthy.

Cocaine on the other hand, that's gods way of telling you that you have too much money.

[Dave Lobster]

I wonder what effect this will have on the road toll? It's got to be dropping ...

None. Very, very few of the crashes are above the speed limit. Most crashes are inside it.

[oneofsix]

None. Very, very few of the crashes are above the speed limit. Most crashes are inside it.

Road toll does not necessarily equal crashes therefore just checking that you do mean that very few of the death crashes are above the limit?

[schrodingers cat]

Pretty hard in a car to spend any time at 100kph what with all the trucks, trailers ,camper vans, tractors, Harleys etc on the road. (And FA passing lanes)

Might as well just make the open road limit 90kph for everbody

[Dave Lobster]

If the open road limit were closer to 150km/h, those of us that can see over the wheel would be able to overtake the tortoises legally, rather than sitting in the bunches, concerned about an officious Nazi sitting at the bottom of a hill with his collection box.

[p.dath]

Most vehicles (and probably motorbikes) coming into NZ have a deliberately engineered speedo error to comply with European regulations. Typically it is 6% at 100Km/h. So when your speedo says you are doing 100Km/h (known as the "indicated" speed), you are actually doing 94km/h.

So as the vehicle fleet is slowly upgraded in NZ people still think they are driving at the same speed, but are in fact being tricked, and driving slower.

So I think this has nothing to do with driver attitudes or their thoughts on speed.

[oneofsix]

Most vehicles (and probably motorbikes) coming into NZ have a deliberately engineered speedo error to comply with European regulations. Typically it is 6% at 100Km/h. So when your speedo says you are doing 100Km/h (known as the "indicated" speed), you are actually doing 94km/h.

So as the vehicle fleet is slowly upgraded in NZ people still think they are driving at the same speed, but are in fact being tricked, and driving slower.

So I think this has nothing to do with driver attitudes or their thoughts on speed.

confirmed the speedo error several times with my 2008 bike. The cops not being nice when they let you off those 5 or so ks and you didn't manage to ditch those few extra ks, you thought you were doing 120 by your speedo but only got booked for 116, you were really only doing 116.

[oldrider]

Pretty hard in a car to spend any time at 100kph what with all the trucks, trailers ,camper vans, tractors, Harleys etc on the road. (And FA passing lanes)

Might as well just make the open road limit 90kph for everbody

Have you not been out on the open road for a while?

100kph is like it used to be riding at 70kph on a restricted licence! FFS. (not that I ever had to do that though!)

Everybody and everything passes you! ("especially" in the passing lanes)

[Clockwork]

Most vehicles (and probably motorbikes) coming into NZ have a deliberately engineered speedo error to comply with European regulations. Typically it is 6% at 100Km/h. So when your speedo says you are doing 100Km/h (known as the "indicated" speed), you are actually doing 94km/h.

So as the vehicle fleet is slowly upgraded in NZ people still think they are driving at the same speed, but are in fact being tricked, and driving slower.

So I think this has nothing to do with driver attitudes or their thoughts on speed.

My thoughts, exactly.