Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[jellywrestler]

Quite a few years ago, teh Federales in the UK were putting cardboard cutouts of officers holding radar guns strategically on road sides, popping out of hedges and the like.
Worked a treat but the attrition rate was very high.... No doubt a few rear end accidents, too.
Back then they were allowed to be very sneaky.

when i worked for telecom in wanganui the local picture theatre was demolished, the pidgeons re homed themsleves on the new telephone exchange. The boss didn't like it so put plastic snakes around the outside, to which i added plastic bords in their mouths. He hated the pidgeons. He had an anglia with one of those channels above his doors like old cars have on both sides of course. I had a bucket of wheat in my work van and most days would drop a handful in these gutters and they'd come down chomp on it, and often shit on take off, especially if disturbed.
He had two cocks, no0one could get that silly tugging just one

[SaferRides]

i search for those signs as my dickhead speedos aren't accurate, at least those are supposed to be right and you can get an idea of your speedos accuracy.

There is one on Hillsborough Road in Auckland AFTER the fixed speed camera. Not sure why?

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[Berries]

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[Navy Boy]

A wee while back I purchased a small GPS speedo from Jaycar Electronics. Whenever I am on a new-to-me bike I use it as a means of testing the accuracy of the speedo - Comes in very handy in my experience.

For instance the speedo on my Caponord 1200 shows 107/108 (It's right on the cusp) when at a genuine 100Km/hr. I'll be doing the same on my GSX1400 when I next ride it as I've just changed the rear tyre and the speedo should be a touch more accurate now.

It just gives me a figure in my mind so that I'm not guessing too much about these things and gives me the warm and fuzzy as to what speed I'm actually doing. A bit like pre gear indicator machines one of the first things I'd do would be to get to top gear and see what revs equalled what speed so that I knew when I was in top gear.

It cost less than $100 from memory and has proven itself handy on a number of occasions.

[F5 Dave]

Just download an app on your phone for free.

I use Simple Speedo. Easy to read in a tankbag at a glance.

My last two Triumphs were easy to talk to with TuneEcu so I could calibrate them to actual. New one is more locked down.

[rastuscat]

Just download an app on your phone for free.

I use Simple Speedo. Easy to read in a tankbag at a glance.

Just a heads up on that. I used an app for digital speed on my Samsung for 18 months while working.

But then discovered it had produced screen burn. I could still use the phone, but it had screen burn marks where the speedo had been displayed too brightly for too long.

Worth thinking about if you care about your expensive device.

[jellywrestler]

Just download an app on your phone for free.

I use Simple Speedo. Easy to read in a tankbag at a glance.

My last two Triumphs were easy to talk to with TuneEcu so I could calibrate them to actual. New one is more locked down.

if you have a tankbag

[jellywrestler]

A wee while back I purchased a small GPS speedo from Jaycar Electronics. Whenever I am on a new-to-me bike I use it as a means of testing the accuracy of the speedo - Comes in very handy in my experience.

For instance the speedo on my Caponord 1200 shows 107/108 (It's right on the cusp) when at a genuine 100Km/hr. I'll be doing the same on my GSX1400 when I next ride it as I've just changed the rear tyre and the speedo should be a touch more accurate now.

It just gives me a figure in my mind so that I'm not guessing too much about these things and gives me the warm and fuzzy as to what speed I'm actually doing. A bit like pre gear indicator machines one of the first things I'd do would be to get to top gear and see what revs equalled what speed so that I knew when I was in top gear.

It cost less than $100 from memory and has proven itself handy on a number of occasions.

i'm looking for something like that that shows the speed limit as well as the speed, not easy to find it seems. With the ever changing limits it's hard to keep an eye on what the actual speed limit it these days as they generally only sign them once

[F5 Dave]

My Dads subaru did thatwith camera recognition.

[rastuscat]

My Dads subaru did thatwith camera recognition.

Yes, tech is going ahead, sometimes more than I would like.

[SaferRides]

My Dads subaru did thatwith camera recognition.

Most modern Toyotas as well, although they don't seem to understand the derestricted sign!

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[MarkH]

Just a heads up on that. I used an app for digital speed on my Samsung for 18 months while working.

But then discovered it had produced screen burn. I could still use the phone, but it had screen burn marks where the speedo had been displayed too brightly for too long.

Worth thinking about if you care about your expensive device.

You don't need to use the app all the time, just use it once for each vehicle so that you know what percentage the speedo over-reads and from then on you know what speed you are really doing. Before I sold my Nissan Leaf I used to put it on cruise control for the open road part of my daily commute, getting it to 110kph on the speedo which I knew was 100kph actual speed. That car had a speedo that read 10% over all the way through its range. The motorbike was reading ~7% over (Mitas E07) but now reads ~10% over (original tyre, decided to get the wear out of it), next tyre change (I'm thinking Dunlop Trailmax Mission) I'll check it again. My mother's car reads only 4 or 5% over the actual speed, I think it is the closest indicated speed to actual speed I've come across.

You also don't need to use a speed app, many navigation apps will show the speed while you are navigating. But I do like the Ulysses Speed Meter, it's pretty cool.

[R650R]

It seems the local Karen brigade have been flooding the police with enough complaints about Samoan rugby celebrations that they felt the need to reply in public on fakebook.

Understandably police were concerned with unrestrained people hanging out of or riding on vehicles. But also “the risk slow speeds posed to other drivers” can’t have been any worse than the morning or evening commuter traffic....

Let them enjoy their moment

[Ocean1]

A wee while back I purchased a small GPS speedo from Jaycar Electronics. Whenever I am on a new-to-me bike I use it as a means of testing the accuracy of the speedo - Comes in very handy in my experience.

For instance the speedo on my Caponord 1200 shows 107/108 (It's right on the cusp) when at a genuine 100Km/hr. I'll be doing the same on my GSX1400 when I next ride it as I've just changed the rear tyre and the speedo should be a touch more accurate now.

It just gives me a figure in my mind so that I'm not guessing too much about these things and gives me the warm and fuzzy as to what speed I'm actually doing. A bit like pre gear indicator machines one of the first things I'd do would be to get to top gear and see what revs equalled what speed so that I knew when I was in top gear.

It cost less than $100 from memory and has proven itself handy on a number of occasions.

They changed the standards for car speedos a long while ago, shortly after safety nazzis first darkened our doorsteps.
The thinking (tm) was that if they allowed the traditional metrological industry practice for measurement accuracy involving well tried and true standard deviation and specific confidence related metrics there would be a chance that a spedo might display a velocity lower than the legal speed, meaning instant death for the unfortunate driver involved.

So they regulated that possibility out of the industry, who responded by simply making their instruments less accurate by the simple expediency of moving the span downwards by some 8%.

Problem solved.

Until the next safety nazzi convocation, triggered typically by the complete failure of their articulation of the ideals their dogma expresses to produce any change in outcomes. Or, in the case of related govt departments the dark mutterings from the minister on the adverse publicity.

[roogazza]

Anyone hear the ZB talkback this morning... All the bleating about speeds over the Rimutaka road.

I had a cackle to myself remembering how we rode over that piece of road thru the 70's and 80's !

Jeesus H Christ ! the callers would have kittens if they saw us today doin that shit.