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    Quote Originally Posted by skippa1 View Post
    AA sent a vehicle to pick me and my bike up in the middle of Arthurs Pass when I had a big cut in the rear tyre. It was helpful....Just sayin
    i have been picked up in the middle of the waioeka gorge on xmas eve, had to leave the wife with the bike and hitched out to opotiki, and that was the third time picked up in two days, and we finally found the problem, a broken wire in the altenator, thankfully they are easy to get at on the wing

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    Quote Originally Posted by MD View Post
    Brendon put me in front of the ..rather attractive TV3 Lady but my dribble didn't make the final cut.

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    Everything changes when you have a TV camera jammed in your face eh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MD View Post
    Brendon put me in front of the ..rather attractive TV3 Lady but my dribble didn't make the final cut.

    I agreed riders should not get away with it, the law is equal to everybody. Just that with only 3% of our road fleet being bikes, and with only a small portion of that 3% probably speeding passed cameras, the effort and use of Police resources to chase these few doesn't justify the public benefit.
    I posted pretty much the same thing on stuff. The reasoning is nonesense
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    Grrr... what bugs me about that camera is that people will brake just as they near the camera zone then once they're in the clear they speed up to 100~

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    They have front plates in India, but across the front as opposed to the way they used to be in NZ. Bloody ugly 'cos they have lots of digits; could be useful as crash bars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    I was very glad to have .....
    Yep 100% agree, think of it as towing insurance if you breakdown away somewhere....


    Back to thread.... I suspect Mark Stockdale prob just got himself some late Christmas mail from the 4 k tolerance period.... and maybe on same day some bikes snotted past him and hes pissed knowing the camera might not have got them....

    Jesus Christ he must have never heard of lawn mower choke cables and spring mounted plates......
    Really if it was about safety we should have bellypan mounted plates! For wheelies and extreme cornering lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    Well not quite. Those cameras are not much better than what we already had. They are digital rather than film and they have radar rather than loops cut in to the road. They can still only take photos in one direction so make no difference to the AA. The main bonus is that they are so expensive they can't afford to roll them out around the country so at the moment most fixed camera sites are out of action.

    Now point to point cameras as referenced by the unicorn are a different kettle of bananas. They have had them in my home town for years. I heard a rumour once, no idea if it was true, that some were actually set to take in to consideration congestion, so even if you went from point A to point B in a time that equalled the speed limit you would get a ticket because the congestion meant you must have had to exceed the speed limit somewhere. They still only face in one direction though so bikes are still 'exempt' heading one way. Some years ago there was clamour for forward facing identification for bikes in the UK but it never happened. In the digital age however you don't need a full size number plate ruining the lines or being a hazard to pedestrians, a simple barcode on the screen or headlight is all they need. I am sure it will come if the AA keep shouting and we keep killing ourselves.

    Luckily we have miles of road and relatively few speed cameras so it hardly matters. I would say fuck the AA but the first A is for Automobile so it really just does what it says on the tin.

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    Ahhh Mr Mark Stockdale....Mark, marky...mark! mark!...




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    Quote Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve View Post
    Just remember people, removal of a numberplate is only a screwdriver away
    old school scuba heh heh. easy peezy. no number ,no problem .

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    AA Members have and organisation the can moan to and some group clout.....motorcycle riders have KB to bleat on

    When they put the by pass in past Orewa the AA moaned it was unfair that bikes were free ( from memory) and TPTB caved in

    and put a charge on it.

    My personal protest was to never use the tunnel depriving the Govt of several dollars per year.

    I also wrote to the AA complaining about their anti motorcycle stance and cancelled getting their propaganda magazine....that

    showed them.

    On the subject of number plates those sideways mounted ones and ones stuck in front of the back wheel don't look cool, they look stupid, as generally are the riders of such bikes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cassina View Post
    I am in the MLC age group myself but am not one as I have never given up riding.
    We ask that you reconsider ... for your (and our) own safety ..
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    On the subject of number plates those sideways mounted ones and ones stuck in front of the back wheel don't look cool, they look stupid, as generally are the riders of such bikes.[/QUOTE]


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    Quote Originally Posted by cassina View Post
    Its actually safer to not give up if you look at info about returning MLC riders and the number that come to grief.
    I'll compromise ... I'll keep requesting you to give up riding ... because it will be safer for us ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by cassina View Post
    Its actually safer to not give up if you look at info about returning MLC riders and the number that come to grief.
    He suggested you give up! No mention of starting again.... EVER!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cassina View Post
    You must like paying full price for petrol and the cost of any breakdowns then.
    Yeah I have these things called principles.... You know, I don't support scummy lying cheating organizations that tried to rip me off and steal my work... PLUS State insurance offers road side assistance as does my local garage.. I don't need the pricks

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