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    4 km/h speed tolerance this Easter break

    This is more just to make sure everyone knows about it than a rant or repeat of previous discussions.

    Ride safely everyone

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    How unusual...thanks for the headsup - I didn't actually know about it...

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    Excellent!
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    Thanks for the reminder.

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    Good thing I went out this morning...anyhow I will have the handbrake on the back this weekend

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    they always do this on long weekends,it's to be expected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Everlasting View Post
    they always do this on long weekends,it's to be expected.
    Actually they've only done it twice on long weekends, and I certainly hadn't heard of it being in place this weekend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Devil View Post
    Actually they've only done it twice on long weekends, and I certainly hadn't heard of it being in place this weekend.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4914...Easter-drivers

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    Meh. Makes no difference to me. If I'm in the cage, I'm driving like a nana usually. If I'm on the bike and I'm riding spiritedly, I'm just as likely to be done for speeding if it's a 10km/hr weekend or a 4km/hr weekend.

    All this does is creates a de facto 95km/hr speed limit for the weekend as the sheeple don't dare get busted.

    Either way I don't care. Good luck to the coppers keeping the speed limit to zero. I genuinely hope that it will be so. Changing the tolerance on speeding won't make diddly-squat of a difference to it though.

    It's like the ad where the guy gets pulled over and says "I was only a few k's over" and the copper says "That's where most of the accidents are happening Sir." Well of course. That's the speed most people drive at so that's where most accidents will occur.

    Eventually though, they'll reduce the limit so far that the majority of accidents are caused by driver fatigue.

    Ho hum. You can't regulate driver stupidity. And that'll still be the biggest factor on the roads.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    and i hope its another record breaking deaths on the roads weekend shut the wankers up about 4ks over killing ppl

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    Sorry Officer
    I will spend more time focusing on the speedo and less time looking where I'm going.

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    It says in the article that crossing the centre line usually results in a head on collision. how the fuck do I turn right at an intersection then? Poor context....
    Mind you, I never break the speed limit So I need not be worried.
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    Quote Originally Posted by maxlev View Post
    Sorry Officer
    I will spend more time focusing on the speedo and less time looking where I'm going.
    Yeah, never mind the road hazards....

    One would expect excessive speedo watching to be a serious road safety issue.

    Seriously tho, i don't even think my bike speedo's are accurate to + or - 10 km/hr, let alone 4 km/hr
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrchips View Post
    Seriously tho, i don't even think my bike speedo's are accurate to + or - 10 km/hr, let alone 4 km/hr
    Yeah - mine reads at least 5% high, possibly more.

    What's the % error on the radar equipment?

    Maybe they are all re calibrated just before long weekends.

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