Operation Mataki - SH75 to Akaroa

[FJRider]

no matter what size bike it is ya not gonna ride it to 100% all the time on the road

True ... BUT.

Having a bike with big horsepower ... gives you the ability to use that horsepower when you need/want it. Be it on the track ... or on the road.

Having that horsepower on tap, seldom fails to raise a smile ... just thinking about using it ...

[Oakie]

So you have a 600? or a 1000? and you're riding it at roughly 1/3 it's potential? sounds like a massive waste of time to me....

One should ride to the potential of the road and conditions ... not to the potential of the bike. Never seen the limit of my bike's potential but I'm well aware where mine finishes.

EDIT: Hmm, In other words, the potential of most people's bikes exceeds the ability of their owners to ride to that potential.

[Magnum Noel]

Have started this as a new one so I can post some notes regarding how our weekend SH75 operations are going.

I'll update when there is something worth saying.

Today was my first real day at it, with interesting results.

I set up the laser at quite a few different sites, and got bugger all. Awesome, happy with that. Lots of folk went past my parked Popo troll bike, and saw me pointing the death ray down the road. Lots of propaganda value in that, without costing anyone anything.

Catches were a chap doing 122 on a bike. A distant past acquaintance of mine, as it happens. I said "122, what do I do with that?" He said "Write the ticket", which is what I was hoping for coz I was gonna write it anyway.

Another bloke I found overtaking. He was coming down the outside of a line of cars travelling in the opposite direction. He saw me heading toward him and had nowhere to go, so he just hung tight where he was. We passed with him on my side of the centreline. He happily accepted the ticket. Even he could see that what he had done was shiters.

Lasered my last bloke at 178. Yup, 178. Hope the weather is nice in the next few weeks, he's got a 28 day walk. Then he has a court case to sort out.

The vast majority of bikers rode at good speeds and very sensibly. Nice bikes, many of them too.

Week ones report. Just FYI.

40 pages later now nothing to do with original post but still going. Thats why I love it when Rastuscat posts. Just about time for another one.

[rastuscat]

One of the lads took a wee patrol out on 75 yesterday.

Saw a big group of Harley riders out there. Knew they were Harley riders coz they all looked the other way when they went past. Fear of being fined for being friendly to a Popo at the next monthly meeting, I'm sure. One rocket scientist had on the obligatory Nazi chromed brainless helmet, t-shirt and jeans. Nice.

He wrote one ticket, for a woman who consistently cut corners on the way up to the hilltop. Like, not just once, not just twice, the whole bloody kahuna. Like, she just doesn't get the keep left thing.

As for me, had an abscess removed from my tail bone on Thursday, general anaesthetic, all the drama. Can't see myself riding for a while. Frustrating, with a new bike in the yard. Ah well, an associate recently got the big C call. Puts it all in perspective really.

Stay upright.

[caspernz]

I'm not usually one to welch, but I did say "with the right size tyres". Holden admitted to having the wrong tyres for the speedo calibration and drive.

Can be more than one reason for a speedo reading slow. I've got a truck that's limited to 88kmh, but will achieve 94kmh on the flat against the limiter, with speedo reading 88kmh. Nothing that can't be fixed with a GPS speedo...

Oh, and this speedo error is an electronic fault that has got the service agent puzzled

But yeah, as a rule almost all vehicles I've operated have optimistic speedos

[mossy1200]

But yeah, as a rule almost all vehicles I've operated have optimistic speedos

Most people that complain about a ticket for 112 kph think 110 is the limit and they are only 2 kph over.
Truth is they were sitting on 120 on the clock and any excuse looks good after the fact. Or maybe they were sitting on 140+ and only managed to slow down to 112 which is just as likely as the old speedo was reading under and it got me a ticket.

Most new vehicles 100 indicated is close to 94 true speed. Changing tyre profiles is the biggest factor in that changing untill you do 200kph and the tyres expand and thin from the rotation force and your clock gets slightly more accurate again.

[FJRider]

Can be more than one reason for a speedo reading slow. I've got a truck that's limited to 88kmh, but will achieve 94kmh on the flat against the limiter, with speedo reading 88kmh. Nothing that can't be fixed with a GPS speedo...

Oh, and this speedo error is an electronic fault that has got the service agent puzzled

But yeah, as a rule almost all vehicles I've operated have optimistic speedos

Change the limiter to 84 km's then ...

[caspernz]

Change the limiter to 84 km's then ...

Nah, I don't mind having that little bit in reserve...

[FJRider]

Most people that complain about a ticket for 112 kph think 110 is the limit and they are only 2 kph over.
Truth is they were sitting on 120 on the clock and any excuse looks good after the fact. Or maybe they were sitting on 140+ and only managed to slow down to 112 which is just as likely as the old speedo was reading under and it got me a ticket.

Most new vehicles 100 indicated is close to 94 true speed. Changing tyre profiles is the biggest factor in that changing untill you do 200kph and the tyres expand and thin from the rotation force and your clock gets slightly more accurate again.

I do a regular GPS check on all vehicles I drive. Some read lower .... some higher than the actual speed. It is nice to know. Seat height above the ground makes a radical change in your perspective ... of the actual speed that you are going.

[scumdog]

I do a regular GPS check on all vehicles I drive. Some read lower .... some higher than the actual speed. It is nice to know. Seat height above the ground makes a radical change in your perspective ... of the actual speed that you are going.

Haven't done the bikes but I checked three of my other vehicles.
GPS: 100kph, F100 speedo: 55mph
GPS: 100kph, Thunderbird speedo: 65mph
GPS: 100kph, Oldsmobile speedo :60mph

No wonder when in the F100 I use to pass everything on the road and wondered why they were all going so slowly..

Ignorance was bliss, only ever got pulled over for my speed once...

[FJRider]

No wonder when in the F100 I use to pass everything on the road and wondered why they were all going so slowly..

Ignorance was bliss, only ever got pulled over for my speed once...

Both my car and bike are spot on the money ... but I don't wonder why people are going slower than me ... when I pass them

[sleemanj]

94kmh on the flat against the limiter, with speedo reading 88kmh

That's just the metric flux capacitor at work.

[FJRider]

That's just the metric flux capacitor at work.

So ... after 88 ... he's in time travel ....

No wonder he gets everywhere so fast ...

[caspernz]

That's just the metric flux capacitor at work.

Nah, it's the gold powerband. Special order from Sweden

[caspernz]

So ... after 88 ... he's in time travel ....

No wonder he gets everywhere so fast ...

No, beyond 88 I'm getting the boss all excited as he can't work out how I can get his truck to go faster than the limiter setting