Speed...

[onearmedbandit]

Thought as much. They have no eqiupment to test for accuracy.

[riffer]

Thought as much. They have no eqiupment to test for accuracy.

I'm sure a number of places will. I tried to get off a ticket one time I'd got in my Mitsi VR4 which I new had a dodgy speedo (read slow).

I took it to the Shell on Railway Ave, just around the corner from Jackson St.

Got a full printout from their rolling road. Unfortunately, while the police agreed that I was in fact doing 100 km/h according to my speedo, it was absolutely no defence against a 120 km/h ticket...

Anyway, moral of the story. If you have to have your speedo checked, there are placed you can do it...

[PeteThePom]

Oh hells tits!!

I've moved to a country where it's almost impossible to ride fast without getting nicked??!!!

It's a very different attittude to speeding here than in the UK(and I'm not F@#%in whinging ok? just commenting)

I used to cruise at around 95mph(so about 150kph) and that was average for the group that I used to ride with and you just had to be plain unlucky or not paying attention to get nicked for speeding. Is it really that bad over here?

Getting back on topic about speed. I do have a need for speed and I do adhere to the principal that speed does not kill, it's harsh deceleration that kills! That doesn't mean that I hoon around like a lunatic but does mean this, around town I stick pretty much to the speed limits, there are kids in town who dont always look before hurling themselves in front of you to retrieve their football(I have a daughter of my own) and hanging around the speed limit gives me the extra space I MAY need to stop before braining them with my headlight. But on the open road when the conditions permit, then I will have a thrash on the basis that I don't think speed is bad, excessive speed is dangerous but lets face it, on a bike if it all goes Pete Tong then you the rider will bear the brunt of the ill fortune, possibly terminally so and it's a risk that the individual assesses to their own built in 'risk meter'. Unlike a car of course where if it all goes tits up you'll probably walk away with a few minor cuts and bruises meanwhile leaving a bag of skin on the road for the paramedics to scrape up who happend to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and poor lil driver will probably get a measly £600 fine and lose lisence for a few months on the basis that they've been terribly traumatised by their ordeal, yeah fukken right they have.......................................erm, I appear to be , oh well, thats the way it is in the UK, esp if 'poor widdle car driver' happens to take out a dirty chicken raping virgin head biting offing oily scumbag passed me in the traffic the @%$&*?!, biker!

[Zed]

I've moved to a country where it's almost impossible to ride fast without getting nicked??!!!

It's a very different attittude to speeding here than in the UK(and I'm not F@#%in whinging ok? just commenting)

I used to cruise at around 95mph(so about 150kph) and that was average for the group that I used to ride with and you just had to be plain unlucky or not paying attention to get nicked for speeding. Is it really that bad over here?

There definately has been an increase in the amount of coppers out on the open roads of late...but 2 of us went for a 4 hour blat from Auckland to Pauanui & back today, travelling at the speeds+ you mentioned, without any legal difficulties. It does help when you don't use all of the main highways though!

So stop your whinging Pete!!


Zed

[MikeL]

Oh hells tits!!

I've moved to a country where it's almost impossible to ride fast without getting nicked??!!!

It's a very different attittude to speeding here than in the UK(and I'm not F@#%in whinging ok? just commenting)

I used to cruise at around 95mph(so about 150kph) and that was average for the group that I used to ride with and you just had to be plain unlucky or not paying attention to get nicked for speeding. Is it really that bad over here?

Come on one of the KBer rides, Pete, and then you'll be in a better position to judge. I don't think the situation is very different here from the U.K. Of course if you do 150 between the Bombays and Hamilton, you'll probably get nicked, but there are plenty of roads where the HP guys are very few and far between, and you'd have to be damned unlucky to get caught.

[PeteThePom]

Come on one of the KBer rides, Pete, and then you'll be in a better position to judge. I don't think the situation is very different here from the U.K. Of course if you do 150 between the Bombays and Hamilton, you'll probably get nicked, but there are plenty of roads where the HP guys are very few and far between, and you'd have to be damned unlucky to get caught.

Well I'll jus have to do that.
And invest in a radar detector!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zed]

Well I'll jus have to do that.
And invest in a radar detector!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah...we had a detector with us today, it went off twice! There were several unmarked patrol cars out there.


Zed

[fpsware]

I took a small ride from Tauranga to Napier, and back to Tauranga (650Km round trip, 9 hours) and I saw 2 cops the whole time. One was in Taupo city and the other was in Rotorua (give a biker a ticket) - none on the open roads.

[MikeL]

And I 've done the Napier Taupo road a few times and never seen a single cop (although admittedly not at the height of the holiday season.) And when you start thinking about those South Island roads...

[MikeL]

Come to think of it, there must be statistics showing how many cops are deployed on HP in any given region. A little bit of mathematics combined with some elementary insight into the psychology of PC Plod and his marginally more intelligent superiors (scarcely rocket science) should quantify the risk fairly precisely. This looks like a job for Physics Boy, or at least someone other than yours truly who managed an unspectacular 55% in School Certificate Mathematics.
(I still don't understand logs...)

[onearmedbandit]

Police, those people on TV arresting bad people? Don't see to much of them down here...

[Firefight]

Come to think of it, there must be statistics showing how many cops are deployed on HP in any given region. A little bit of mathematics combined with some elementary insight into the psychology of PC Plod and his marginally more intelligent superiors (scarcely rocket science) should quantify the risk fairly precisely. This looks like a job for Physics Boy, or at least someone other than yours truly who managed an unspectacular 55% in School Certificate Mathematics.
(I still don't understand logs...)

Logs are easy Mike, thats what you get when you cut trees down

Firefight

[Lou Girardin]

Many of the rolling road brake testers will give a speed reading at WOF stations. Or check your speed against one of the cops radar trailers.
The cops aren't entirely stupid either, they know that nearly all speedos on standard vehicles read fast.

[DEATH_INC.]

I've had 330kph (you know you're moving at this speed,those who've done it know)on the speedo of of the ZX12 a few times and 250kph on the rear wheel a couple......the gixx I've only ever seen 270.....
We ride at about 160-180k often,but of course always on the backroads.
What really ticks me off is I've only got 20 pts left on my licence,all of these tickets were in 50k zones,doing about 65k's(on the 12)& all when the roads were quiet (the last was 6am in wellsford).Even the last cop to pull me up said 'yeh I know,a couple of years ago I wouldn't have even stopped you,but now.....)

[SPman]

was that a GENUINE FZR750R i.e. an OWO1?

I never realised there were any of those in the country.

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New Plymouth Motorcycles had one for sale in 97 - done about 12000 k's and wanted $13000 for it.I used to go in and go Brm Brm on it and talk to Shawn Harris ....but couldnt afford it at the time so I also, had to make do with an FZR750....not too bad an option !