Police target motorcyclists in another safety campaign

[nzspokes]

Maybe cop cars should be fitted with a camera the cross references every number plate in view with the LTNZ database then throws a red flag up for said vehicle. The tech would be there already. Surely it would mean less work for everyone. Im sure cops just love standing in the rain at check points.

We already have that in SA. Vans that pick you up as you go past.

And they drive behind you and check you out before you get stopped if its a rolling stop. So rolling stops if you are showing legal reg and wof is on the nose.

[gatch]

It's a bit lame that they are targeting bikes only.

If it was really in the interest of public safety they would stop and check everyone. Plenty of dodgy cars and trucks out there..

[Katman]

They would be better stopping all the cages and lecturing them on not running us bikers off the road (or into the road as the case might be)

Multi vehicle accidents where the car driver is at fault make up the minority of motorcycle accidents.

Most of the time we manage it all by ourselves.

[Nzpure]

And the issue of licenced rider and ownership could be solved by putting chips in our bodies so we can be digitally recognised also in order to protect our civil rights.Are you so against pulling over for 5mins every so often?If its that bad buy a trail bike.Seems to me alot here are fast to single out boy racers or bad habits of cage drivers or old people or people that drive to slow or make a mistake but its ok to ride anyway you please by your own set of rules.
Riding a bike doesnt make you any better than everyone else on the planet.Looking out for people around you by being safe could make you better than most.

Chips in our bodies god almighty going a little far arn't you?.....The information about said vehicles status is freely available via your rego plate. All i said is to use a camera the reads the rego plate and cross references a data base (Use car jam) and brings up a reg flag if said vehicle isn't reg'd or wofed...... which (not 100% certain) the cops can already do by manually inputting the reg plate into there computer system (which they have in there car?? dunno never actually been pulled over or given a ticket)

[Bassmatt]

And the issue of licenced rider and ownership could be solved by putting chips in our bodies so we can be digitally recognised also in order to protect our civil rights.Are you so against pulling over for 5mins every so often?If its that bad buy a trail bike.Seems to me alot here are fast to single out boy racers or bad habits of cage drivers or old people or people that drive to slow or make a mistake but its ok to ride anyway you please by your own set of rules.
Riding a bike doesnt make you any better than everyone else on the planet.Looking out for people around you by being safe could make you better than most.

I dont think anyone is suggesting being able to "ride anyway you please" with impunity. Any criticism of boy racers or cagers is when they drive poorly or illegally or inconsiderately. I would expect to be pulled over if I was to ride in that manner I dont expect to be pulled over when Im not riding like that.

[caseye]

I disagree

If I am riding legally why should I be pulled over at all ?

Being targeted as part of a "campaign targeting motorcyclist safety compliance" is just bullshit plain and simple...

Now then Maha, this is something that I entirely agree with. If I am riding along minding my own business then Mr Plod HAS NO RIGHT TO STOP ME, other than of course, the right given him/her by the gubbermint when they decided it was time to give our beloved Police Force the right to stop and interrogate at will.
never used to be this way and they managed just fine.
Sorry Mate, but the old "if you have nothing to hide then you've nothing to fear" attitude is just plain bloody wrong.
Where do we draw the line at intervention Policing??
Before anyone else jumps in and says, A ha, no rego or WOF, Nope wrong, just tired of being harassed by Policemen and woman who actually do, do such damned dangerous things as U Turns in front of groups of riders .
See the LOR thread.
I was there, the dickhead( sorry guys, you know who , I mean) cop did a U Turn in front of a group of bikes in order to tell them that they had not stopped at a compulsory stop sign. Um he could see that they hadn't stopped and or put their right foot down while approaching them from their left???? Nevertheless with 12 bikes in convoy he said he was posting out tickets for failing to stop to the lead three bikes.
Yes, whats more, they had to brake to avoid hitting his car as he completed his U TURN! in front of them.
The pity is that we were all going to the Hamilton Toy Run, starts in Cambridge , using back roads and avoiding high density traffic roads so we would not get caught up in any incidents.
But No, a Police constable OUT for his quota and doing his assigned job, ( stopping motorcyclists and berating them for riding motorbikes ) nearly kills three bikers in the 'EXECUTION " of his job.
I for one have had enough and will reply in kind to any Police person who stops me, for No Good reason ( If it's because I'm doing something wrong, then fair cop)and attempts to lecture me.Because they've been told to.
Been back on the big bike for a little over two months now and already been stopped harassed and berated by more Police than in my entire 30 plus years of motor biking.No tickets, was not doing anything wrong, just stopped because they can!
Not acceptable for this kid anymore.
rant over.

[SMOKEU]

If you have a registered bike with current warrent of fitness and are wearing a approved helmet no revenue has been gathered.

If thats not acceptable FORKIN walk from A to B.

I refer you to post #14 and mossy's post below?



Fickle lot at times...where is that wall....

My bike is registered. The vehicle license is expired so they could still gather revenue from me.

[James Deuce]

The business that if you are riding yer moped in shorts, teeshirt and jandals, pie in one hand while texting with the other and have an accident, we don't have to pay through ACC to fix yer mother fucking arse

What a load of shit.

[Bassmatt]

My bike is registered. The vehicle license is expired so they could still gather revenue from me.

registration is the colloquial term used in this country for a vehicle license.
You know this.
And I have never been asked by a police officer if my vehicle has a current license.

[Nzpure]

My bike is registered. The vehicle license is expired so they could still gather revenue from me.

My bikes registered and wofed ( Its always got a wof)
Only so i can do my 6F test

[SMOKEU]

registration is the colloquial term used in this country for a vehicle license.
You know this.

Registration and licensing are 2 very different things. Refer to NZTA for further information.

[SMOKEU]

My bikes registered and wofed gob:
Only so i can do my 6F test

It pays to keep the WOF current.

[Bassmatt]

Registration and licensing are 2 very different things. Refer to NZTA for further information.

Say that to the cop when he asks to see your registration and see if you pass the attitude test.
Refer to a dictionary for the meaning of colloquial.

[Nzpure]

It pays to keep the WOF current.

Yes it certainly does

[dogsnbikes]

Wof's are there for the purpose of ensuring that vehicles are fit for the road. :

To a point,all a Wof say's is that the vehicle was fit for the road at the time of inspection,But there is a small minority that will alter their Vehicles as soon as they have a Wof issued.

Others rely on a Wof as their time to get a service reminder,yet some insist on flogging other peoples wofs or printing there own

I don't mind if I get stopped,but who ever it is better know what they are talking about in terms of motorcycle saftey,

I don't even mind if some don't pay their vechicle licencing fee as a form of protest,as no Rego doesn't make a Vechicle unsafe

But I do get annoyed by others that have an unsafe vechicle's on the road...