Speed Camera?

[terbang]

Riding along enjoying the scenery I noticed a few cars flashing their headlights at me. I suspected a Rozzer or similar in the not too distant future and sure enough I came along a tinted window van on a quiet straight piece of road (partially concealed) Anyway as it was obvious that only the front of me was going to be photographed I made it worth their while and gave them a 3 digit number to mull over that started with a 2..! I was duly photographed! Later talking to a mate of mine he assured me that they still took the numbers of motorbikes that do such things...Gulp! Does anyone know if this is true?

[bugjuice]

i have no idea on this, but curious myself.
if the cam is facing you, then the operator has to read your plate as you pass.. possible, but don't know if they do, or quick enough. It's hard to read when the plate is facing the floor cos of a wheelie

[T.W.R]

Riding along enjoying the scenery I noticed a few cars flashing their headlights at me. I suspected a Rozzer or similar in the not too distant future and sure enough I came along a tinted window van on a quiet straight piece of road (partially concealed) Anyway as it was obvious that only the front of me was going to be photographed I made it worth their while and gave them a 3 digit number to mull over that started with a 2..! I was duly photographed! Later talking to a mate of mine he assured me that they still took the numbers of motorbikes that do such things...Gulp! Does anyone know if this is true?

you might be getting a nice letter in a few weeks, if the van attendant was onsite & not away cruising with plod. if he was there he would if fast enough record your number as you went past, and attach it to the photo the camera would have recorded, i've seen them with nice big SLRs so he may even have snapped a shot also!

remember its not far until Xmas so they've got to fill-up the float for the xmas party piss account!!

[N4CR]

Nah they don't unless the operator hears your debaffled pipe, realises it is a bike, sees that a photo is taken and then writes down your plate.

And the operator is usually never inside it.

I went past one of the motorway vans pulling the bird a while ago and haven't seen anything in the mail so it's bollix, yes it was over the 'trigger threshold' for it as well.

[WRT]

Well, if you do get busted, I think I speak for all of us when I say . . .

Post the damn pic!

[N4CR]

Well, if you do get busted, I think I speak for all of us when I say . . .

Post the damn pic!

Yeah I have always thaught about how cool it would be to get a wheelie (but not so high that you can't see the plate), pay the $180 or so and stick it on the wall.... would be awesome. As long as they didn't try get ya for dangerous driving or something. Say you slipped on the throttle while adjusting your gear :P

[WRT]

Yeah I have always thaught about how cool it would be to get a wheelie (but not so high that you can't see the plate), pay the $180 or so and stick it on the wall.... would be awesome. As long as they didn't try get ya for dangerous driving or something. Say you slipped on the throttle while adjusting your gear :P

Go for it, I'll give ya rep if you do, plus some bonus rep if the cops ask if you write the billboards for Tui when you try that line on them . . .

[Lou Girardin]

Keep it up guys. Baiting camera operators will look real good at the next select committee hearing investigating the issue of bikers flouting the law.
Will front plates look good on your bikes?

[T.W.R]

Nah they don't unless the operator hears your debaffled pipe, realises it is a bike, sees that a photo is taken and then writes down your plate.

And the operator is usually never inside it.

I went past one of the motorway vans pulling the bird a while ago and haven't seen anything in the mail so it's bollix, yes it was over the 'trigger threshold' for it as well.

oh please! you obviously haven't seen many camera vans out in the open then! and obviously haven't heard many bikes out on the open highway either ! shit man i live less than 400m from S/H 1 & a stock bike with stock pipes can be heard over a kilometre away! & bikes with aftermarket pipes further away than that! The chertsey S-bend over the railway on S/H1 is 1.2km from the township & its easy to hear motorcycles throttling off for that

as for the camera van operators, the regular van driver that works the main sth between CHCH & ashvagas takes his fuckin smoko with him ! sitting in the sun in the side door of the van or sitting in the front passengers seat reading the paper & hes got a SLR camera with a fuckin lense that would fit in with the sports photographers at a rugby match !

[madboy]

I used to be up for deliberating baiting the cameras, but the novelty wore off. Luckily they've never got my plate, but it makes sense what is being said here about some operators sitting there notepad and/or camera ready.

[scumdog]

They do still take the plates numbers if the operator sees its a bike going past that got shot by the camera. He will try and take it down, thats if he's not sleeping or if your going so fast he can't read it.

Your only saving grace if he has got it is that you get no demerit points whatever speed you are doing, just have to pay the fine...if its over 50k it will be about $600...

$630 actually!!

And then there's the fun thing of having licence suspended for 28 days for exceeding the speed limit by more than 50kph....

[Psalm42]

630 dollars, DAM thats a lot of donuts...........

[terbang]

Oh well to be safe I'll just go back to honking my horn at them (car and motorbike). Even Mrs T does that as we dislike that kind of policing. Whilst they may photograph people over the speed limit (fair cop) they certainly miss all the Knobbers that drive by pissed or stoned or without a licence that are just as responsible for the carnage on the road as the so called speedsters. Sounds like a revenue collecting exercise or "cop out" type policing to us so we display our disagreeance with horn honking. Yep I know it doesn't make any difference in the big scheme of things, but somehow I reckon, it just puts a bit stress into the life of the "Wannabe Rozzers" that operate the cameras. If every vehical that passed by honked their horn at them it would eventually fray their nerves or perhaps that of the adjacent land owners, who would then move them on. Yeah I know about misuse of a horn an all that but have you ever ridden in an Istanbul taxi?

[T.W.R]

Oh well to be safe I'll just go back to honking my horn at them. Even Mrs T does that as we dislike that kind of policing. Whilst they may photograph people over the speed limit they certainly miss all the Knobbers that drive by pissed or stoned or without a licence that are just as responsible for the carnage on the road as speedsters. Sounds like revenue a collecting exercise or "cop out" type policing to us and we display our disagreeance with horn honking.

yep you've got that right, a nice wee earner for the pricks!
theres nothing to stop you hangin a 1 finger salute to the pricks after you've got their attention by blasting the horn

[Hitcher]

Buy a different coloured helmet.