Gutted...

[marty]

cambridge has plenty of bikers, and PLENTY of poms! i'm drinkin with a couple right now actually. pity they can't play rugby though. or drink for that matter............

central waikato roads are some of the best in the country - especially if ease of access is considered (ie like sh22 is to tuakau, we have a couple of 70-90km loops that are just as cool) ask simjen. he knows a few back roads......

[Fat Tony]

cambridge has plenty of bikers, and PLENTY of poms! i'm drinkin with a couple right now actually. pity they can't play rugby though. or drink for that matter...

It's true! I'll need to work on the drinking... hangovers last for weeks now that I've reached 40

[jimbo600]

cambridge has plenty of bikers, and PLENTY of poms! i'm drinkin with a couple right now actually. pity they can't play rugby though. or drink for that matter............

central waikato roads are some of the best in the country - especially if ease of access is considered (ie like sh22 is to tuakau, we have a couple of 70-90km loops that are just as cool) ask simjen. he knows a few back roads......

Pomms can't drink? What are you nuts? Thats all they do over there. and Pommy piss is about 8% not like the lolly water we get here.

[Fat Tony]

LOL, we're not all like that - just the majority it seems

I'm not big on booze , never have been. 2 or 3 pints and that's my fill. Drinking always gets in the way of a decent ride and I know for sure that I'd rather be up at 5am and out on the bike on quiet roads than lying in bed until mid afternoon feeling like sh*te

[Ixion]

My regular travelling up to 130mph in a very quiet, 60mph limit single carriage way may well end up with prison time if caught.

Do that in NZ get caught/banned/fined and probably deported.......

I bet the police can't wait for you to arrive and in typical British fashion YOU
will fook it up for thr rest of us Poms.

Nah, 6 months disqualification, fine of 200-300 pound, unless you've got a record. Or try to do a runner or something silly. What was it you got done for Mr Speedie, around 150mph ?

[ogr1]

No detrimental effect for the future then?
If you wanted to work or make permanent residency in NZ?

[RiderInBlack]

Ooh by the way it seams we have imported a few of ya cops ta here, probably why the ticketing has got more retentive At the moment we are being feed the line that anything over 100kph on the open road is too dangerous (yer right, grabs a Tui ). By the way most of the cops I've meet are OK, but are bound by the legislation they are required ta enforce by the Government.

[Fat Tony]

Ooh by the way it seams we have imported a few of ya cops ta here, probably why the ticketing has got more retentive At the moment we are being feed the line that anything over 100kph on the open road is too dangerous (yer right, grabs a Tui ). By the way most of the cops I've meet are OK, but are bound by the legislation they are required ta enforce by the Government.

It's a crazy f***in world. You get a bollocking for exceeding the speed limit, but nobody does anything about typing in Royal Blue Comic Sans!

So the UK cops are all moving eh? I might rethink this move, lol (not a bloody chance!)

[RiderInBlack]

It's a crazy f***in world. You get a bollocking for exceeding the speed limit, but nobody does anything about typing in Royal Blue Comic Sans!

Just as well I'm not typing in Royal Blue then hey

[Fat Tony]

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[marty]

Misinformation is rife here too...

Demerits last for two years, from the date of enforcement (when the fine is paid, or acted on by the fines collections). Demerit from Jan 2004 expires Jan 2006, regardless of whatever more you pick up between the dates... get 100 points within 2 years = 3 months suspension. Supposed to be 100 within 1 year = loss of licence for 6 months, but that never happens. 3 months is all they give, going from experience.

speaking of misinformation - you must go 2 years ticket free before demerits are wiped - a ticket on 1st jan 2006 will expire 31 dec 2007, but if you get a ticket on 30 dec 2007 then the 1st jan 2006 demerits will last another 2 years from 30 dec 2007.

S 91 (1), LT Act 1998

[jimbo600]

speaking of misinformation - you must go 2 years ticket free before demerits are wiped - a ticket on 1st jan 2006 will expire 31 dec 2007, but if you get a ticket on 30 dec 2007 then the 1st jan 2006 demerits will last another 2 years from 30 dec 2007.

S 91 (1), LT Act 1998

No mate thats not how it works. My demerit points granted in Aug 2004 have just been wiped regardless of me incurring heaps of points between now and then.

[marty]

are you sure? that's not how the act reads

Cancellation and reinstatement of demerit points—


(1)When 2 years have elapsed since the commission of an offence in respect of which demerit points were recorded, the entry of the points made in respect of that offence ceases to have effect in relation to the person who committed that offence; but if demerit points were recorded in respect of 2 or more offences committed by that person, the entry ceases to have effect when 2 years have elapsed since the commission of the most recent of those offences.

[BAD DAD]

Tony

I think your main problem will not be speed cameras and demerit points so much as cars driven by people not skilled enough to use the average household appliance. Noticed how many car drivers [compared to motorcyclists] attempt to drive while texting?

[jimbo600]

are you sure? that's not how the act reads

Cancellation and reinstatement of demerit points—


(1)When 2 years have elapsed since the commission of an offence in respect of which demerit points were recorded, the entry of the points made in respect of that offence ceases to have effect in relation to the person who committed that offence; but if demerit points were recorded in respect of 2 or more offences committed by that person, the entry ceases to have effect when 2 years have elapsed since the commission of the most recent of those offences.

Pretty sure, but after reading that twaddle I might have to check again.