I read about that pommie fella getting a discount on his ticket. Seems the cop who did it will be getting a quite word.
The whole "I didn't know" defence is less than pathetic, there are no shortage of signs on the roads and the speedos are all in kph. If people cannot work that out, should they be on the roads? Like the guy in Wellington who whinged about losing his licence for doing 100 on a 60 road because the last time he rode it the limit was 100. The signposts every km stating 60 might have been the clue there, says a lot about his observational skills.
With respect to the group riding thing any given weekend on our SH network one can usually see the various approaches to group riding
1. The SQUIDs as they race from one corner to the next demonstrating rubber band group riding and that is possible to exist without a brain.
2. The hard men who like to be in touching distance of one another while they ignore every other bugger on the road.
3. The summer weekend warriors whose chrome and open face helmets are so sparkly its like a scene from Excalibur and can't keep the bike straight at anything less than 20kph.
4. The precision spacing of a tightly marshalled group, are they really German tourists?
5. The group that is actually a series of individuals who have agreed a meeting point and ignore each other until there.
6. Some mates out for a ride together who have an understanding of each others skills and ride accordingly.
Have done the charity ride thing, am pretty selective now which ones I go to, some have been a lot of fun, some have been a survival exercise, thems the breaks. My general philosophy in life is, outside of work, I choose who I spend time with, that includes those I ride with. I choose not to ride with those who don't share my approach to riding. Doesn't make me right or better but I don't really care if you like that approach or not.
Life is not measured by how many breaths you take, but how many times you have your breath taken away
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