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[Firefight]

seen many a cop, as has FF and MR, on the new Waikato expresssways. These must be the safest roads currently in our fair land yet the police still hide on the overpasses trying to stop the nasty murders doing a little over 110.

Thank you for reminding me about that day Alex I have not been the same since, :confused2 I have tried to forget about it !!and thought that I had , however this thoughtless post of yours has opened old wounds :disapint: .

It is the only time in my life that I have been given the fingers by a member of the ..

F/F

[JohnBoy]

have learnt to be on the look out for suspect looking BA XR6's, i have come across two crusing SH3 between Htown and Te Awamutu, one black and one red. these cars are quite low key and its not until you are close up that you can see the lights in the back. nearly have passed them without noticing (at full steam!)
these jokers only seem to be hanging around for a couple of weeks and then they must move on, so be on the look out if you venture as far as the mighty waikato.

[NC]

Swason RD, Westy land. 75 in a 50 $360
National Park 148 in a 100 $630
Kahikatea Dr, Hamilton 82 in a 60 $300 & somethin
And another one in Hamilton for 'going through a intersection too fast..
Heh damnit..

[Mongoose]

For all you paranoid wanna be speedsters down here would be a dangerous place to be at times.
At any given weekend you could have the Rural Breath Testing aka Booze Bus Boys, and/or the TAG Boys plus the local HP and local T Calls and just to keep you on your toes, the local cops could be out.
Dare say its the same around NZ on most weekends.

[marty]

these jokers only seem to be hanging around for a couple of weeks and then they must move on, so be on the look out if you venture as far as the mighty waikato.

that's exactly what they do. they move the plain cars en masse to another area - north waikato, south waikato, the bay, taupo, vegas etc. you never know when they will show up again.

[Coldkiwi]

that's exactly what they do. they move the plain cars en masse to another area - north waikato, south waikato, the bay, taupo, vegas etc. you never know when they will show up again.

Not sure if its related, but I was in Blenhiem for a wedding this weekend and the people driving up from Chch saw no less than 11 patrol cars on the trip. My cousin in law was pulled over (but not actually ticketed) on the way down for doing.....101 kph!!!!

Gee, isn't it nice to be driving/riding on such SAFE roads because there is so much speed enforcement.

Be thankfull you're not in Marlborough folks (and my condolences to the local looking guys on the TL1000S and GSXR 600 who I saw done there - I'm sure you're on this site??) that appeared to be locals- the plod must be a real pain in the butt to live with.

[vifferman]

there are plenty of threads - good and bad, about how/where/when/why bikers have been stopped by the boys. I thought i's start one here, no bitching allowed, just for information's sake, so it can be browsed to see where the hot spots are.

Can't tell you where I was pinged, as I didn't recognise the policeman's description (although he too pains to tell me where it was.) Some passing lane, north of Warkworth, with a layby with chickens running around in it.
No bitching from me - it was a fair cop, and the man was very polite, very pleasant, and didn't lecture me or anything.
Wasn't sure what to say when he asked my why I was exceeding the speed limit; in hindsight, I should've told him the truth, and said my knees hurt, and I was in a hurry to get home, and I'd been buffeted around following friggin 4WDs for several kms and got pissed off with it. And that it was fun going fast.

[Hitcher]

Kaikoura was crawling with HPs on Friday. I suspect the truck vs car fatality at Clarence the day before (Great skidmarks. Suspect "suicide by truck") and the "Seafest" at the weekend were motivations for a heightened presence.

[vifferman]

Kaikoura was crawling with HPs on Friday. I suspect the truck vs car fatality at Clarence the day before (Great skidmarks. Suspect "suicide by truck") and the "Seafest" at the weekend were motivations for a heightened presence.

Hi, Hitcher. How was your trip? (Or is there info about it somewhere else on KB?)
I guess it rains clowns in Africa?

[Hitcher]

Hi, Hitcher. How was your trip? (Or is there info about it somewhere else on KB?)
I guess it rains clowns in Africa?

Trip report in progress. 4,080km in the fortnight. Good weather throughout. I'll endeavour to post some photos this time...

[MikeL]

it was a fair cop, and the man was very polite, very pleasant, and didn't lecture me or anything.
Wasn't sure what to say when he asked my why I was exceeding the speed limit

Interesting... my experience was similar, except that he didn't even bother asking me for an explanation. No lecture, no attempt to induce guilt, just a polite but impersonal procedure. Almost, dare I say, a business transaction.
And if it hadn't been for the demerit points, I would have willingly viewed it in the same way. A simple tax imposition. The Road Fun Tax.

[jrandom]

No lecture, no attempt to induce guilt, just a polite but impersonal procedure. Almost, dare I say, a business transaction.

Mine too. He knew, and I knew, that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell he was going to let me off.

He also knew that in spite of the prima facie facts, there was no real danger inherent in my behaviour.

Browbeating me would have been a pointless waste of time.

My red-light-running a few days later was much more dangerous, but only half as expensive. Funnily enough, our friend on the ST1100 was positively beaming as he wrote out that ticket. His questions about how economical the FXR was to run, followed up by the point that it 'wasn't so cheap this week, was it?' were nothing less than sadistic.

[Lou Girardin]

You're all a bunch of killers in waiting and I'm disgusted.
Disgusted that I've got no ticket war stories to tell.
And stories of ones I've avoided thanks to Mike Valentine, aren't that interesting.
PS Does anyone know what the road toll is to date. The LTSA and Pleece are very quiet on the subject. (Embarrassed?)

[Wenier]

Doesnt matter where you go around marlborough look out cause theres HPs on the way to CHCH and to Nelson and all over blenheim.

[MD]

There was a black commodore plain car working the Hutt motorway today.

He was patrolling Featherston-Martinborough on Sunday 3rd but what freaked me today was some poor sod caught by a bright red Falcon with mag wheels and spoilers !! Now that's damn near entrapment. You know, red rag to a bull sort of.., well whatever. I think its as low as the underarm bowling incident.