Akl commuters haven't been provided for quite a while, the population/development has outstripped the planning of the 50-70's
Even now with the motorway system being expanded, its obvious these increases are only short term
Not just the motorway, there are great big areas that have only 50kph feeders
There was a larger number of bikes on the motorway going past me while I was stopped on the mway carpark. most where doing 30 ish but a few 50+
It was good to see more bikes on the mway.
READ AND UDESTAND
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Motorcycling is not inherently dangerous. It is, however, EXTREMELY unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence and stupidity!" - Anonymous
"Live to Ride, Ride to Live"
All of it.
There are so many tradeoffs that a fuel efficient vehicle is really only fuel efficient for the design use case (chilled as fuck driving). Tyres are a good example, pizza cutters are good for constant speed, but add braking/accel/corners into the mix and the hybrid taking twice as long to get somewhere while revving its tits off is always going to lose to the sports car carrying twice the corner speed.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
It is more efficient to use an internal combustion engine to power a generator, and drive the wheels from an electric motor.
This is the future for the moment.
The other year in northern France had a Yaris hybrid rental: great in urban traffic and okay on the departmental routes but a bit of a nightmare on any of the old Routes Nationale - poor wee thing had to rev itself almost to death to keep up with traffic in the slow lane... Totally avoided the autoroutes...
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
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