Is it illegal to ZING on your bike?

**NordieBoy** · 18th October 2005, 20:24

Originally Posted by WINJA

WHY DONT YOU FUCK OFF AND GET A BIKE , THEN PERHAPS YOULL HAVE SOMETHING INTERESTING TO TALK ABOUT

Jeeze you spout a lot of...................

Sorry, just got distracted by your avatar therrre for a few minutes.
Where was I......
Oh yes, carry on...

**Drunken Monkey** · 18th October 2005, 21:56

Originally Posted by ducatilover

...people like drunken monkey seem to automatically assume that, being a boy racer in a relatively fast car the boy racer is suddenly a good driver, or.....did drunken monkey recently get humbled by an evo?? ...

No, people like you always assume if someone is driving faster than a sedate pace in an even remotely sporty car anywhere in your vicinity that they're racing you. You can't 'smoke' someone who doesn't give a rats arse whether you're in front of him or not. Hey, my station wagon beat a Porsche off the line at the lights - yeah, I 'totally smoked a Porsche' - NOT. Wkid1 can give you a lecture about mechanical grip and why, all things being equal, your GN will never out handle an evo, corners or straight.

I have been 'humbled' by slower cars than evos. I've been 'humbled' by smaller capacity bikes than a GN250 as well (probably not as farking slow despite the smaller motor though) (that's right 2Smoker, your ears are getting hot) - edit - actually I haven't been 'humbled' because I didn't have an ego to bruise in the first place. I've never thought of myself as a genuine fast rider.

You've certainly brought down your original boastful post to a more beleivable level. My job here is done. No hard feelings I hope.

**ducatilover** · 19th October 2005, 16:29

i give up, i was the more sportily inclined person at the time of these events.

no hard feelings. my brother can outrace me in his mazda 323 1300, except that i can pull more speed into and in the middle of a corner, then he pulls away again.

dont worry i will one day challenge a person on a bike similar or smaller to mine and i will definately get my arse whipped. its just that i seem to be able to out corner anyone that has tried to keep up with me, if they're in a cage......sometimes......on really slow [eg 25k/35k] corners.....

it still felt good

**madboy** · 19th October 2005, 21:06

Are we still bashing naughty pigs or are we just settling for each other now?

It's taken me bloody days to wade through the crap spouted in this thread... but at least I understand what ZING means now. I gather it means whatever the cop wants it to, end of story.

And as for those who believe complaining to the PCA will help, things must have really changed since I last complained to them. Cos back then it was investigated by a senior sergeant from the same station as the officers I complained about. And he thought the officers versions of events (even though there were five very different versions from six officers) were perfectly acceptable. And flat out accused my parents, nice fine upstanding middle class white folk with clean records, who had witnessed the whole event, of lying.

Then Dad brought out the photos.

It was nice of the PCA to buy me a new windscreen. In case you guys feel like having a wee play with the cops, it is not necessary to break the offenders windscreen with your baton while the offender is handcuffed on the ground with a cop on top of him, but it is necessary to apply handcuffs so firmly that marks are evident a week later, particularly when someone is NOT resisting. Straight from the PCA.

C***smokers wonder why I don't like them... Might be actions of a few and all that, but since they don't wear signs, I assume they're all smokers until proven otherwise.

**Kittyhawk** · 20th October 2005, 01:19

What if you aren't zinging what if youre being zippy around the city or what if you're unzinging do you get a reward?
I would have told that tosser where to go and go nag the real idiots on the road. I mean its not like you had a stolen bike no licence and belonged to a dodegy gang! (hope you dont )
He obviously has nothing better to do that be an arsehole and provoke the public.
Complain bitch or piss him off and do a runner (if your bike is fast enoough hehe)

**Lias** · 20th October 2005, 10:20

Originally Posted by spudchucka

Contrary to popular opinion and the assumption of so many in this thread, cops don't generaly pull people over simply to screw with them and muck them around. There may be some that do but I'm confident in saying that the majority don't. Therefore if you think they have finished doing whatever it was they were doing and you want to get on your way, just politely ask if there is any other reason that they may require you to remain stopped, if not, you are free to go.

I'll have to agree to disagree with you on that one. Alot of my antipathy towards coppers comes from regularly being pulled over in my youth for no good reason at all. Simply for being a car full of guys with shaved heads in a hq/cortina/commodore etc. Hell even if me and my mates went to town, coppers would often stop and give us grief just walking around.

As far as i'm aware its never been illegal to wear black jeans, steelcapped boots, and drive around in fords and holdens, but mate I'd swear a few hundred cops have thought it was over the years.

**Patrick** · 20th October 2005, 16:12

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Sorry, you're wrong. Read the legislation. Cap, hat or helmet WITH a distinctive badge AFFIXED to it.
Shoulder flashes do not comply.

WRONG! Comes under the "uniform" part...the badge on the shoulder is the badge of your "authority..." (I.e: the oath of office, uphold the laws of the land, etc, etc, etc) and as for shoulder flashes??? Say what?

Don't need to be wearing a hat if in uniform...

**Ixion** · 20th October 2005, 16:34

Originally Posted by Patrick

WRONG! Comes under the "uniform" part...the badge on the shoulder is the badge of your "authority..." (I.e: the oath of office, uphold the laws of the land, etc, etc, etc) and as for shoulder flashes??? Say what?

Don't need to be wearing a hat if in uniform...

Bit difficult to wear at hat if you're a bikey cop ? Unles sthe skid lid counts

MD · 20th October 2005, 18:34

Apart from a bit of sidetracking this thread has gone along great. I think my original intention was to warn you scumbag pricks to be wary of Mr Plod on that bit of road.
Still some ask what is zinging. It's obvious. Riding with zest or in a zippy manner or with zoom or zap in your stride or zealous cornering or zzzzz

**gamgee** · 20th October 2005, 18:56

i can hear someone zinging around down in the valley right now, shit they sound like they're canning it, sounds like a bloody F1 car, going to the redline in three gears then easing off obviously don't want to get up to licence losing speeds

**N4CR** · 20th October 2005, 19:31

Originally Posted by gamgee

i can hear someone zinging around down in the valley right now, shit they sound like they're canning it, sounds like a bloody F1 car, going to the redline in three gears then easing off obviously don't want to get up to licence losing speeds

1st three gears to redline in most sportsbikes is over liscence loosing speed mate

(even some 250's)

It excites me when I hear that, someone is having fun heheheh. Best one is when you hear a bike taking it to a civic or something way up on eastridge (a while away)... BIKE = WINNNN

**spudchucka** · 20th October 2005, 19:31

Originally Posted by LiasTZ

I'll have to agree to disagree with you on that one. Alot of my antipathy towards coppers comes from regularly being pulled over in my youth for no good reason at all. Simply for being a car full of guys with shaved heads in a hq/cortina/commodore etc. Hell even if me and my mates went to town, coppers would often stop and give us grief just walking around.

As far as i'm aware its never been illegal to wear black jeans, steelcapped boots, and drive around in fords and holdens, but mate I'd swear a few hundred cops have thought it was over the years.

Car loads of young guys, (with skin heads) cruising around town??????????????

Sort of fits a certain demographic of regular trouble makers.

Think about it real hard and see if you can figure out why the cops regularly pull over people fitting the description you have given of yourself.

**spudchucka** · 20th October 2005, 19:32

Originally Posted by Patrick

WRONG! Comes under the "uniform" part...the badge on the shoulder is the badge of your "authority..." (I.e: the oath of office, uphold the laws of the land, etc, etc, etc) and as for shoulder flashes??? Say what?

Don't need to be wearing a hat if in uniform...

He must be talking about epaulettes.

**gamgee** · 20th October 2005, 19:55

Originally Posted by tristank

1st three gears to redline in most sportsbikes is over liscence loosing speed mate

(even some 250's)

It excites me when I hear that, someone is having fun heheheh. Best one is when you hear a bike taking it to a civic or something way up on eastridge (a while away)... BIKE = WINNNN

yeah i know, that's why i'm hoping it's a 250, shit i can probably do about 120 in 3rd on the vt, i've done 65 in first, and that wasn't quite at the redline

**Lou Girardin** · 21st October 2005, 08:34

Originally Posted by Patrick

WRONG! Comes under the "uniform" part...the badge on the shoulder is the badge of your "authority..." (I.e: the oath of office, uphold the laws of the land, etc, etc, etc) and as for shoulder flashes??? Say what?

Don't need to be wearing a hat if in uniform...

You are mixing two parts of the section. He must have a hat etc with a badge affixed OR be in uniform with or without cap. You can't just stick a badge on a blue shirt.