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    Quote Originally Posted by Deano View Post
    Nah mate - you are a pro at crashing and walking away !

    I tell ya there is a market for that sort of skill set - you could even get funding from ACC to train people !!
    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Fuck yeah! Acc couldn't give a toss about the number of crashes...
    Although there are simple things to do when you come off a bike to save injury, and I am very good at them, I struggle to think of a good way to teach them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoristheBiter View Post
    Did you see that guy on motorway cops last night do a runner after crashing and flying threw the air?
    Just lands on his feet and runs away, now thats a skill.
    Nope. I'm too busy to watch that shit. Too busy starring in future episodes...
    Did see the shorts. I winced. A bit.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by willytheekid View Post
    That was AWESOME! the cop cracked me up, hes up!....HES RUNNING!!!

    what a hit tho...that HAD to hurt...stupid shit
    drugs do that. He was feeling very sorry for himself at the end.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Although there are simple things to do when you come off a bike to save injury, and I am very good at them, I struggle to think of a good way to teach them.
    I don't think you can. It's more like instinct and the only way you learn it is to do it, so no one want's to practice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoristheBiter View Post
    I don't think you can. It's more like instinct and the only way you learn it is to do it, so no one want's to practice.
    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Although there are simple things to do when you come off a bike to save injury, and I am very good at them, I struggle to think of a good way to teach them.
    If I may share some rather good advice from advanced rider training (they covered crash posture etc)

    The best bit of advice I have EVER had in regards to.."Oh shit..this is gonna hurt!" situations was:

    ...try to stand up!...get your pelvis above the headset and handlebars! (If its a head on type of impact of course)

    No shit, sounds hard, but under rapid breaking it is actually a natural movement due to the forward g-forces etc...and doing so will save your pelvis and lower spine from getting...."ahem"...(insert messy graphic image here)

    And of course all the usual stuff, star fish arms n legs-don't tuck n roll(Or you will overtake the bike and snap bits off...yourself!), kick bike away (DON'T HUG IT GOODBYE DURING SLIDE! ) etc etc

    As for learning how to crash? as Drew said...bloody hard to teach, and not wise to "demonstrate"

    ...best way to learn...buy a dirt bike...insert into muddy paddock...go friggin nuts!! (crashing & learning shall follow)

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    Quote Originally Posted by willytheekid View Post

    ...best way to learn...buy a dirt bike...insert into muddy paddock...go friggin nuts!! (crashing & learning shall follow)
    Doesn't really apply. Crashing on a soft surface is easier to get hurt than on a hard surface. Whatever hits the ground first digs in, then you're fucked. Try and find a pro motoX rider who has both collar bones intact his whole life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by willytheekid View Post
    If I may share some rather good advice from advanced rider training (they covered crash posture etc)

    The best bit of advice I have EVER had in regards to.."Oh shit..this is gonna hurt!" situations was:

    ...try to stand up!...get your pelvis above the headset and handlebars! (If its a head on type of impact of course)

    No shit, sounds hard, but under rapid breaking it is actually a natural movement due to the forward g-forces etc...and doing so will save your pelvis and lower spine from getting...."ahem"...(insert messy graphic image here)

    And of course all the usual stuff, star fish arms n legs-don't tuck n roll(Or you will overtake the bike and snap bits off...yourself!), kick bike away (DON'T HUG IT GOODBYE DURING SLIDE! ) etc etc

    As for learning how to crash? as Drew said...bloody hard to teach, and not wise to "demonstrate"

    ...best way to learn...buy a dirt bike...insert into muddy paddock...go friggin nuts!! (crashing & learning shall follow)
    Have, do and will continue to ride dirt, just got a new bike.

    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Doesn't really apply. Crashing on a soft surface is easier to get hurt than on a hard surface. Whatever hits the ground first digs in, then you're fucked. Try and find a pro motoX rider who has both collar bones intact his whole life.
    Not so many trees as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RDJ View Post
    Check your inbox - that was from Paula Rose on Sep 11, 2011

    The number of speeding tickets handed out last year was nearly double the amount issued the previous year, police figures reveal.

    Police gave out 627,948 tickets for speeding infringements in 2010, compared to 329,838 in 2009.

    The 2010 figure was more than 200,000 above the four year average for tickets issued.

    In the first four months of this year, the country's 55 cameras had captured 200,671 incidents of speeding.
    The revenue and the number of tickets aren't necessarily glued together. Double the tickets doesn't necessarily mean double the revenue.

    Like, I write one ticket for 72 in a 50 area, kaching, $170.

    Next day I write two tickets for 55 in a 50, kaching, 2 x $30, or $60.

    So, by writing twice the tickets, have I doubled the income?

    By your reasoning, apparently so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    The revenue and the number of tickets aren't necessarily glued together. Double the tickets doesn't necessarily mean double the revenue.

    Like, I write one ticket for 72 in a 50 area, kaching, $170.

    Next day I write two tickets for 55 in a 50, kaching, 2 x $30, or $60.

    So, by writing twice the tickets, have I doubled the income?

    By your reasoning, apparently so.
    ahh but your $60 up on letting the 2 55ers past and im sure you wouldnt let a 72 go past cause you got the 2 55s.
    Only thing effecting revenue is the lack of speeding traffic above tolerence level.
    I have evolved as a KB member.Now nothing I say should be taken seriously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mossy1200 View Post
    ahh but your $60 up on letting the 2 55ers past and im sure you wouldnt let a 72 go past cause you got the 2 55s.
    So ... with processing costs then .... you ran at a loss ...

    Is then the quota actually on total revenue gained ... not mere ticket numbers issued ... as most think ... ???
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    So ... with processing costs then .... you ran at a loss ...

    Is then the quota actually on total revinue gained ... not mere ticket numbers issued ... as most think ... ???
    Processing cost of a ticket is $26. Fact. (Source - Internal audit.)

    So the gubbermnit makes $4 from a ticket for 55, but $146 from a ticket for 71.

    Yeah, no wonder they are so keen on us writing tickets for 55.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    Processing cost of a ticket is $26. Fact. (Source - Internal audit.)
    ah so that is one of those "ambo cost $20,000" (if you include everything that is being paid for regardless ) otherwise 50$ real cost
    So real cost your probably talking what? 50c? 1$?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    Processing cost of a ticket is $26. Fact. (Source - Internal audit.)

    So the gubbermnit makes $4 from a ticket for 55, but $146 from a ticket for 71.

    Yeah, no wonder they are so keen on us writing tickets for 55.
    Does that include speed camera vans? Say all tickets from the vans were only $30 so a $4 profit was made...
    (obviously the average will be much higher)

    Quote Originally Posted by RDJ View Post
    In the first four months of this year, the country's 55 cameras had captured 200,671 incidents of speeding.

    - National road policing manager Superintendent Paula Rose
    Extrapolated over the year gives approx 600,000 speed camera tickets. Profit of $4 per ticket is...

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve_t View Post
    Does that include speed camera vans? Say all tickets from the vans were only $30 so a $4 profit was made...
    (obviously the average will be much higher)
    He did say ... Processing costs ... not issueing costs ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    He did say ... Processing costs ... not issueing costs ...
    I expected that "... the gubbermnit makes $4 from a ticket for 55..." to be all inclusive

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