Thanks to the cop on the bike.

[White trash]

As is so often the case on KB, I got pulled up on Saturday morning, pootling north on the Southern, minding my own business.

I was speeding, but wasn't sure by how much due to the reduced gearing on the Gixxer. Anyway, there was a fair amount of trafic and I was just cruising slightly faster than it. Check the mirrors before a lane change and "Fark!", there's a cop on a bike, filling my mirror, no lights or siren going. Thought "I'm dead" as the bike isn't in the most road legal condition at the mo.

So I shoot over three lanes onto the verge, climb off the bike and take off my helmet, remove ear plugs, and get the anal lube ready.

The cop asks the usual "Do you know what the speed limt is? What's your reason for travelling that fast? How fast do you reckon you were going?"
"Yup, I know 100kays, just running late, no excuse really, and I'm not sure, maybe 120-115?"
Shows me his readout saying 118kph (which means my speedo reads 14 fast now) and does the usual licence bullshit.

Tells me, in case I didn't know, that three tickets in 2 years and you're mostly walking nowdays, we're about to have another big anti speed campaign, keep your speed down if you want to keep your licence, have a good day!

Closes his flipfront visor and hoons off! Mint!

What a good bastard. Nice to see a cop excercising descretion and not patronising a fellow biker with the whole, "118, you're gonna kill a busload of kids, going straight to hell" bullshit you normally hear of.

Anyway, if ya see a Maori bloke with a moustache on a Honda cop bike cruising around, give him a friendly wave. He's a good cunt.

[750Y]

yeah he's pulled me, quick reminder of the rules & on his way...

[MSTRS:Me]

Lucky lad. You Irish?

[placidfemme]

Nice to hear there are a few cops left out there who arn't just filling a quota...

another speed campaign... again.... ahhh well

[Lias]

Our resident byker cop should know who it is.

I'm sure he'll either go give him a pat on the back for ya, or go bollock him for letting the "great white trash" get away from him

[crashe]

WT - Did you tell him about the KB site, when you were chatting to him... we could yet have another nice police officer who rides m/bikes join KB.

[Ixion]

OT, but I've been playing around checking my speedos against a GPS unit (quite fun those things). Quite a good thing to do I reckon.

Li'L Ratty reads 1km fast at 30 (bike not going as fast as speedo says), 1 km slow at 50 and 3 km slow at 100. BMW is spot on at all speeds.So I better not reckon on speedo error giving me a margin against tickets on the bikes .(Li'l Ratty has an oversize front tyre, which explains that, 90/90x16s are hard to find)

My Honda cage is a 5km fast at 50 km (I'm really only going 45kph), and a whopping 11km fast at and indicated 100kph. So if I tootled along at an indicated legal 100 I'd actually only be doing 89kph. Interestingly, too, I usually drive "with the flow", and indicate 105 -110. Which suggests that most cages have about the same error, think they are doing 110, and in reality are doing 95 or so.

[Mitch]

He use to work the North Western area and pulled me over a couple of times and your not wrong WT he is a bloody good guy.


There is another bike cop, middle aged white guy with glass's that use to work the central area. If he gets you, your fuk'd. The guy is not only a prick but a blow ass to suit........ gave me a 10 minute speal on how he'd been riding all his life whilst he wrote me out a ticket that rang to the tune of almost a thousand dollars..........

[750Y]

...There is another bike cop, middle aged white guy with glass's that use to work the central area. If he gets you, your fuk'd.

yep he's got me for splitting ($150) but the lecture was free lol.

[ManDownUnder]

He use to work the North Western area and pulled me over a couple of times and your not wrong WT he is a bloody good guy.


There is another bike cop, middle aged white guy with glass's that use to work the central area. If he gets you, your fuk'd. The guy is not only a prick but a blow ass to suit........ gave me a 10 minute speal on how he'd been riding all his life whilst he wrote me out a ticket that rang to the tune of almost a thousand dollars..........

I had a middle aged Whiate fulla pull me off the NW Motorway a while back - asked why I split right in front of his - I told him the truth - he'd seen me doing it up that motorway and I'm not going to BS him.

Expoected the ticket, he told me not to be zstupid and bugger off - only after comparing bikes etc.

Had glasses and a mo from memory.

Good guy I thought... may be a different one of course
MD

[matthewt]

OT, but I've been playing around checking my speedos against a GPS unit (quite fun those things). Quite a good thing to do I reckon.

Li'L Ratty reads 1km fast at 30 (bike not going as fast as speedo says), 1 km slow at 50 and 3 km slow at 100. BMW is spot on at all speeds.So I better not reckon on speedo error giving me a margin against tickets on the bikes .(Li'l Ratty has an oversize front tyre, which explains that, 90/90x16s are hard to find)

My Honda cage is a 5km fast at 50 km (I'm really only going 45kph), and a whopping 11km fast at and indicated 100kph. So if I tootled along at an indicated legal 100 I'd actually only be doing 89kph. Interestingly, too, I usually drive "with the flow", and indicate 105 -110. Which suggests that most cages have about the same error, think they are doing 110, and in reality are doing 95 or so.

From memory most bikes/cars are around 5% faster than you are actually doing, however the odometers tend to be spot on. This is done on purpose by the manufacturers. Things like Black Robotics Yellow Box can be installed if you want to tweak your speedo settings. These are good if you change the sprockets on you bike and the speedo goes way out.

[vifferman]

Things like Black Robotics Yellow Box can be installed if you want to tweak your speedo settings. These are good if you change the sprockets on you bike and the speedo goes way out.

Yeah.
Like me/mine.
Speedo must be more than 10% optomistic, so it's almost useless and seldom used.

[Ixion]

From memory most bikes/cars are around 5% faster than you are actually doing, however the odometers tend to be spot on. This is done on purpose by the manufacturers. Things like Black Robotics Yellow Box can be installed if you want to tweak your speedo settings. These are good if you change the sprockets on you bike and the speedo goes way out.

I think it's a combination of a fixed error (+- x kph) and a percentage error (+- y%).
Thing is like everything, there are tolerances in manufacturing. So there's always going to be some error. And manufacturers would rather it was overreading. Noone complains to them that their vehicle is too fast. But if it undereads someone will complain that their vehicle is slower than claimed.

So they go for a norm of 5% over. The slow speedos come out correct, the fast ones are 10% fast.

But then you get tyre wear etc to complicate it.

[mattt]

$30 at a cycle shop and you get a digital 0-299kph speedo showing max speed, dist , odo , average spd. Easy to hook up to a mbike.
A pretty cool, inexpensive toy.

[scumdog]

Anyway, if ya see a Maori bloke with a moustache on a Honda cop bike cruising around, give him a friendly wave. He's a good cunt.

Bastard should have pinged you for everything he could, - "Book him Danno, murder one".

Bloody soft-cock cop, - and piss-poor judge of character too, (you'd have been walking if I had got you) probaby let you off due to sympathy for you getting around in gay coloured leathers ya poof.....