New Bike - License Suspended!

[SwanTiger]

JSG, yes I have ridden a few and understand what they are capable of.

My point is that if you know your bike is going to easily do over 140 kmp/h without you noticing, then you are knowingly exceeding the speed limit when you do go over.

In which instance, why should the Police offer sympathy?

I'd much rather pass at 140 and be done with 300m of clear road in front of me than do it at 110, and be by the car's front wheel as some wanker in a Subaru (or on a sportsbike) comes around the corner at 200 and gives me a second to react and a second to get the fuck outta the way...kinda logical really, the wrong side of the road is a bit mroe dangerous.

Then do it! I'm not saying that you shouldn't, I'm just pointing out that you don't need to and - should you choose to - then when you do get a speeding ticket, what is the point in having a gripe over it?

EDIT: Just for the morons that will jump onto this thread and think when I say "you" I am making a personal "I fucked your mum" reference, I am not, I'm just talking generally. I'm frustrated how people get shitty over speeding tickets. And this has no reference to you Leon (any of my previous posts).

[Lou Girardin]

To all those going on about deserving a ticket everytime you exceed the limit, would you also be happy to be pinged for not indicating for 3 secs on EVERY occasion.
Or being ticketed for failing to stop on an amber light on EVERY occasion.
Or failing to dip your headlight.
Or any of the dozens of offences that are normally ignored, on the road or otherwise.
BY saying that people deserve a ticket every time they exceed the limit is falling into the trap of believing speed kills.

[SwanTiger]

If you're frustrated by this then perhaps you shouldn't read posts/threads from people who buy bikes designed with a "own the racetrack" philosophy.

I said that I am frustrated by people who have a gripe, by definition meaning; "To complain naggingly or petulantly".

I've never said that I don't speed or that I think speeding is wrong, dangerous or otherwise.

My point is responsibility, if you choose to speed then accept the fact on occasion you will be caught and given a fine or loss of license and that is a consequence of your actions.

Yet, still, there are people who moan on about the Police being unfair and ill-focused on issuing tickets.

I'll leave it at that anyway, as usual people don't read and reflect objectively, instead it becomes a personal attack on them in their mind.

[Leong]

Having a gripe over a speeding ticket is perfectly normal and a good debriefing experience.

Have to agree with that!!

[terbang]

Ow Sheyite that must have hurt .
I can imagine what my missus would have to say if that happened to me! I feel for ya man. I got $300 in the first week of me Busa. It was also brekky and coffee in bed for her for a month..!

[Leong]

I can imagine what my missus would have to say if that happened to me! I feel for ya man. I got $300 in the first week of me Busa. It was also brekky and coffee in bed for her for a month..!

Actually, the guys that brought me and my bike home that night made themselves scarce when my wife came out to meet us, but she's been really great dropping me off at work and picking me up, though one of the girls at work lives close by and can help out about for half the time. Might help that we've just come back from 2 weeks holiday visiting her folks!!

[Speedracer]

I don't mean to sound like a CUNT if anyone says they need to hit over 140 kmp/h to pass safely is full of shit, look at all the 250 rides or 150 riders who can pass easily without going over 120 - 130. I'm just pointing out that you don't need to. I am frustrated by people who have a gripe.

I used to ride a CB250RS on the motorway. Top speed at full throttle was 120kmh if you got it just right, but a gust of wind would bring you down to 110. Going chch to picton for example it would do 110 and thats it.

So consequently I couldn't be a manic speeder and I overtook at 110. I guess therefore I would fall into your catergory 'look at all those who go slower'.

Too many motorists speed up when you try and overtake (we're talking even just 95 to 105 here don't ask about 90 to 110 ). At high speed you can spend less time in the wrong lane and give the person you're overtaking more room. Everyone wins. Even if they speed up on you, you're going fast enough that it doesn't matter.

So yes you can overtake even at 110 but lets just say I went and bought a fast bike after doing over 10,000km of 110kmh motorway riding with lots of speed uppers and related close calls. Consequently overtaking is a lot safer and stress free for me as I leave plenty of room for error

[igor]

To all those going on about deserving a ticket everytime you exceed the limit, would you also be happy to be pinged for not indicating for 3 secs on EVERY occasion.
Or being ticketed for failing to stop on an amber light on EVERY occasion.
Or failing to dip your headlight.
Or any of the dozens of offences that are normally ignored, on the road or otherwise.
BY saying that people deserve a ticket every time they exceed the limit is falling into the trap of believing speed kills.

lou nows all these cause when he was a terrific officer he used to dish him out,

did ya used to work with TJ at all lou

since ya postin here i see ya far to busy to be writing letters to the papers

[Lou Girardin]

lou nows all these cause when he was a terrific officer he used to dish him out,

did ya used to work with TJ at all lou

since ya postin here i see ya far to busy to be writing letters to the papers

TJ?
I still write to the papers, but there's less interesting stuff to write about now that cop baiting has become the national sport.
I'm thinking of taking up knitting now that I've sold the MX.

[igor]

i do cross sitch, much more relaxing

and the chicks that do it

1950s goddess's

[igor]

TJ?
I still write to the papers, but there's less interesting stuff to write about now that cop baiting has become the national sport.
I'm thinking of taking up knitting now that I've sold the MX.

common you know TJ. Tony Johnson who was on motorways.

he was a bike 6 foot 4 guy who was ex foreign legion. was a bike cop in his 40s and used to wear jodphurs with wire in between knees and hips to keep material out. just like the SS did
in ww2

used to write a new offence out every day.

in court he was asked one day 'Officer do you hate maoris" His reply was "No sir, I hate every one equally'

he once made a truckie take his shirt off and tie it to the back of a OD load as he never had a flag on it.

He was the guy that registered his EH holden car in his baby girls name and got heaps of parking and ACC could do SFA as she was not legally responsible. appeared on Holmes programme. Holmes asks him what his superiors think of all this and he answers " I have no superiors' he did like taking the piss

Come on Lou he was ya mentor and hero, and know ya don't rememebre him.

are u sure demetia is not setting in.

thos ewere the days when men wheer men and took there punishment, not like these whinng little toerags these days whom think that only the scum should be picked on.

thats right. scummy wakes up and says to himself. "i think i wil go and have fatal accident today" yeah right

[igor]

wait for it

[Lou Girardin]

Yeah, I remember him. I was in the job well before he came along. One car was in his dogs name though, he heard Bungay had done it so he copied him.
I was with him one night when he took a recalcitrant SAS guy down with the dreaded double nostril hold.
He and his partner had a ferret which got all playful one morning and bit his knob. He reckoned the thing was the Orvil Wright of ferrets after that.
If half of what he said he'd done was true, he was a double hard bastard.
What's he up to now?
Eating babies?