SCU Last night - food for thought

[Quaker]

Guess what, SCU on thursday night is showing another motor cycle crash.

Does anybody know how this programme is funded?

Tax payers dollars? or one percent of all motorcycles registration cost?

 still fuming about being ripped by ACC.

[Dave]

seriously slim,That road has been 50km/h since it was diverted about 10 years ago for an industrial area to be put in.They stated his speed at 70km/h but he was speeding

[Duke of Rogan]

Originally posted by Quaker
Guess what, SCU on thursday night is showing another motor cycle crash.

Does anybody know how this programme is funded?

Tax payers dollars? or one percent of all motorcycles registration cost?

 still fuming about being ripped by ACC.

agree.

I believe the governments (local and national) are conspiring against motorcyclists, espically in Auckland

a person who commutes to work on a motorcycle:

a) uses less fuel == less taxes
b) cannot smoke in heavy traffic == less taxes
c) does not always need to pay for parking == less taxes

but still must pay more for their vehicle registration!

[Dave]

Its a conspiracy-Fuck'em,lets blow them all up!!

[Duke of Rogan]

If this was the states, the FBI would be on to you by now.

if it was summer maybe a weekend rally / protest ride to the capital would be a bit of fun.
I can't carry many bags of fertiliser on my bike though...

[MikeL]

Just when I was beginning to think that my paranoia was fading...
But hey, let's not churlishly disregard the fact that we have been graciously granted the privilege of using the green bus lanes

[Duke of Rogan]

only south of the Harbour bridge can you use the bus lanes, but not on the North Shore or on any motorways.

see RedStar's poll "Bus lane transit NZ"

[Slim]

Originally posted by Dave
seriously slim,That road has been 50km/h since it was diverted about 10 years ago for an industrial area to be put in.They stated his speed at 70km/h but he was speeding

The programme showed 70km/h speed limit signs for that road, and the cop on the programme also mentioned the speed limit being 70km/h a couple of times too.

Are you thinking of the right road?

PS: Don't talk about bike registration to me! A $275 LTSA bill showed up at my house, which means that the WOF is due to expire too & I'm staring a $600 bill for new tyres down the throat!

[Duke of Rogan]

Originally posted by Slim
Don't talk about bike registration to me! A $275 LTSA bill showed up at my house, which means that the WOF is due to expire too & I'm staring a $600 bill for new tyres down the throat!

you should tell that Bill guy from LTSA to stuff off and go see anyone of your neighbours with their dirty jap-import diesel 4x4, fuel guzzling SUV (as the yanks call them), and a car for each of their teenage kids.

[750Y]

some prick was letting air (not all of it but some) out of my tyres during work a few weeks ago

WTF??? 8-(
as for a shop on barrys point rd...
I know of one which was selling a bike(never been down) that was twisted.
I hope this weeks scu will show a motorcycle involved in the most common type of accident. ie one where the car was at fault. I don't want the public believing that motorcyclists are out of control speedsteers much in the same vein as boy racers are described. seriously there is no credit given to either where there is actually a lot of skill shown by the majority and porobably more than the average tv waitching cage driver could comprehend. the fact is that boy racers and motorcyclists are probably more skilled and 'switched on' to travelling on the road from a skills and awareness perspective than any other demographic on the road not forgetting truck drivers and cops too.

[Coldkiwi]

yeah, i don't understand why someone would let SOME air out either... it was about 10 pounds on 3 occasions... really bizarre but it happened on my 250 last year once as well. I doubt very much it is someone from our office (14 people, all fairly sane and no one I have trouble with) .. but its pretty damn dangerous!!! It would make more sense to me if they flattened them completely although I'm glad they didn't cause that would've been a real P.I.T.A!

I agree... it would be nice (ok, not really.. but more appropriate) to see a dumb-ass-cage-driver vs some poor guy on a bike and for the program to highlight the deficiences of the average driver!!

i think the idea that boy racers and motorcyclists are more 'switched on and skilled' than the average road user has to be balanced by the fact that we generally travel faster as well, thereby heightening the risk if something unusual happens in a hurry. I'm sure that if most of auckland's cage drivers tried to drive the open road like many of us ride bikes it would end in about 100 gorey episodes of SCU.. but whether we are any safer is another matter

[750Y]

good point about who is the safest CK, I would imagine that motorcyclists are the least safe demographic on the road, and 'Boy racers' are probably not as 'safe' statistically as the average cage driver either.

[Dave]

Thats what used to piss me off about the 'women are better drivers' add campaign that was on t.v. last year.
-Statistically they might be in less accidents,but superior car control-I think not.
-don't recall any women ever making the grid in an F1 grand prix!

[750Y]

here's a test, next time Your lady is driving You in town or a busy stop start area etc. turn the stereo right up with some pumping rock music etc. and then start doing distracting things like fiddling around in the glovebox etc. and looking over Your shoulder and out the window etc. & say stuff like 'careful' or shout 'there's one'(a parking spot) or 'over there' just watch what it does to the general concentration and quality of driving. It's called multiprocessing and it's an interesting experiment that always gets me laughing.

[Coldkiwi]

hehe... I've managed to fluster my g/f something chronic by doing that just as the lights go green!

i.e.

"GO GO GO!! THE LIGHTS ARE GREEN!"

*clutch gets let out very quickly and nearly stalls*

"GO GO GO GO" *also anxious looks in rear view mirror for 'impatient drivers'*

*clutch in and out so quick that it stalls*

"OHHHH NO! COME ON COME ON!"

*we finally start to pull away with me in a great mood and her to embarrassed to say anything!*

ahh.. ain't love grand