Except when you are on your GSX650F and wasn't expecting it to be Gravel....Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve
Every road's a good road when it's gravel
The Majestic Metal Wizard
Except when you are on your GSX650F and wasn't expecting it to be Gravel....Every road's a good road when it's gravel
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Best Frenemy you could have!
Surprise gravel is always fun... except when the rabbit hole you headed into to explore, has turned out to be an extensive labyrinth, and it's now getting dark and raining... and home is still a fair ride away...
Hardcore Biker
This reminds me of a town I visited in the early 90's while in Saudi Arabia. There was a major highway and every so often you would see a sign pointing to a town in the desert. There was no roads just a sign pointing in the general direction you needed to go.
We did find the town but could not find the highway again. Our visa's were also restricted to a 20K area where we worked so been caught or handed over by the localst would have been a lot of grief. We eventually stumbled across some Bedouin who allowed us to follow their camels until we could see the highway. Didn't visit anymore towns in Saudi after that experience.
Hardcore Biker
How're your fording skills on that?
Hardcore Biker
Gee you soon collect a convoy driving at 50 km/h on Auckland streets...
The Majestic Metal Wizard
Not too bad, although my Holdening skills could do with some refining...
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Well I encountered a new flavour of bullshit today.
At one of our regions blackspots in a road I don't normally travel, 100km/h zone.
Come over the rise and WTF there's one of those flashing speed signs like in Ngaurange gorge flashing at 70km/h. I slow to about 80 and it goes out before I go past it.
A little further there is a CCTV type camera on pole but not one of those new speed cameras. A car had just pulled out of side road, I'm figuring its triggered by that.
But no signage warning of this impending technicolour LED light show that ended up distracting me from the real hazard of the car pulling out...
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Hardcore Biker
so when is the Police advocating for proper driver training?
I am not kidding on this. The one thing that gets me every single time is just how aggressive and rude drivers are in NZ. But if one receives just enough driver training from Mum and Pop Submarine 4 wheel tank driver, that is what I expect. Your car is bigger, faster and betterer, so push on through son or daughter.
What is lacking is common courtesy, a willingness to share the road with those that are not in one of those high rise 4 wheel drive, a bit of foresight, and the will to sometimes just stop and let someone pass.
So dear Police Officer, are you or your boss or any Police Spokes person ever gonna be quotable in saying That we need to standardize our training requirements for our new drivers? NZ has changed much since the time only sheep ran on the roads and the requirements today are demanding a step back from family based driver training to driver training done by professionals who themselves are subject to tests?
Do I hear crickets? Then your 0 tolarance is just bullshit designed to catch those that drive slow enough for you to stop them and hand them a ticket. I guess you need to earn your wages.
btw. i learned to drive in Germany where we have speedlimits from 5 km walking speed to no speed limit. I did once receive a speeding ticket when coming of a no limit to 80 km entering berlin. I was smiling on the photo that I got send and paid 80 Mark for the 10 km i was over the limit.
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Hardcore Punk
Wrong, no mohawk.
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Forum whore
Cool, so now you want us to be driving instructors. I hear you, but teaching people to drive is the responsibility of the NZTA. ACC contributes by subsidising motorcycle training. We don't do driver training. We're not funded for it, and frankly, we aren't driving instructors.
We do enforcement. Just sayin.
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so when is the Police advocating for proper driver training
There were contrails coming off of that one as it passed overhead.
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Hardcore Biker
Quite right and you have to approach it from that angle.
But someone up your donut chain can also say we need to improve through better, more professional instruction. Might cost said individual their weekly donuts, of course. Just sayin.
Hardcore Biker
To ice that, this is probably the difference between jam-filled and jam-underfoot.
Forum whore
When it suits
plenty of cops send mixed messages or break the rules when it suits them
no consistency
Followed one to Wanganui last week, he cruised at a consistent 118-120kmh for over 20km...all sweet, he knew I was there
I got a ticket for 90 in an 80 two days later
fuckin double standards
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