How does a ticket affect your riding?

[Coldrider]

Exiting north of Murch a few years ago heading home from the Brass I saw a
L300 Van that had been on it's roof. Driver looked like Mr Plod with his jersey pulled inside out (to hide the emblems).
Get home & in the news Mr plod had rolled a speed camera wagon in Murch.
Read a few months later guilty as charged.
Shit can happen to anyone, as it does.
132 Ks is getting up there by todays standards, in the above fine/points matrix you are now walking at 40kph over the posted limit, including roadworks & passing school buses.

[Goblin]

The point I was getting at is did both of you stop?

When one car gets pulled over for speeding, they don't expect all the other cars in line to stop too, why do it for bikes?

Especially as you had only just tied in with him on the road. John.

Well I was done for 90 in a 70 while bumbling along at 5k in 4th gear...ok my speedo was broken so I didnt know how fast or slow i was actually going. I asked the cop how fast I was going and he said 90. I asked if he could show me so he did and his gadget siad 90. I asked how can I be sure that was me and not the last person he pulled over? He said " Oh you can trust me." Few days later me and a mate did a speedo test with both bikes and it was 80km/h at 5k in 4th gear!
So I pay another $120 and 20 more demerits thankyouverymuchly!

[Puddlejumper]

I can relate to that slow you down for 15 mins after seeing a marked car. It makes you think about the ticket... but then the enjoyment of riding takes over.

On an off topic note, you say

i think I was clocked when I powered up to overtake, s.

why do cops give you tickets for speeding when you are overtaking? If I am behind a car doing crap all in the corners and about 95 on the straights then I will pass. How dangerous would it be to pass at 100?
Surely the least time you spend on the other side of the road, the safer? And most litre plus sports bikes can reach your clocked speed easily when overtaking.

[Brian d marge]

The last speeding ticket I got , in 2003 was for 60 in a 40 km Hasn't really changed my riding at all

Just come back from four days on the beach , spent most of the time driving in a most relaxed way ,110 ... 135 km on the free way , all others doing the same , lovely road craft from others ...even the police sat at 110..120.....

No stress at all

Stephen

[peasea]

The last ticket I got on a long ride was heading to Wellington and I got plucked in the forest just south of Tokoroa. I'd been a good boy all the way and rolled over the crest of a hill, on light throttle and just ran the speed up a bit going down the other side. I wouldn't have been exceeding 110kph for more than about ten seconds and bam! The cop was an arrogant tosser, talking about bikers always speeding on 'his patch'. (Whose patch?) So I got pissed off and rode at 140-150 all the way to Taupo and felt much better afterward.

For the most part it makes no difference to my riding or my pace, I don't care about the money or the demerits, never have, never will. In fact the one negative aspect is that people spend too much time watching the dial instead of the road.

Raise the speed limit I say. 110kph isn't dangerous on the open road, being paranoid is.

[erik]

Only ticket I've ever got was for 139 in a 100 zone. Me and a mate were doing the same speed and the cop said one person can own up or he'll give us both a ticket, so I took the demerits and we split the fine.
Since then I'm a lot more paranoid about cops and tend to keep my speed within 10k's of the limit.
I don't really find high speeds that fun anyway, I enjoy roads that are twisty enough to have fun close to the speed limit.

[kiwifruit]

Once got caught doing 125km/h in a 100km/h zone. What a wake up call that was!
Now i NEVER exceed 100km/h.

[Beemer]

I haven't had a ticket for seven years (sheer luck!) but lately I have become a bit paranoid about being pulled up as I really can't afford the fine so I tend to stick to about 110 when on the open road. If the road is clear I may go a bit faster but if there are any other vehicles around, I slow in case there is a mufti cop amongst them.

My bike doesn't go that fast anyway, so at least if I did get a ticket it would not see me walking, but I just hate giving any money to the government so I try and avoid the possibility of being ticketed!

[Monsterbishi]

After 15 years of riding, ticket free too, now that I work in traffic management, so have to setup the signage and maintain accident sites, the only time I push the limits are at the track.

Sounds unbelieveable to most, but after a week on the job, it becomes quite easy to sit 1kph over the limit with cruise control on and happily let everyone else drive past you in the next lane.

[NZsarge]

Well I was done for 90 in a 70 while bumbling along at 5k in 4th gear...ok my speedo was broken so I didnt know how fast or slow i was actually going. I asked the cop how fast I was going and he said 90. I asked if he could show me so he did and his gadget siad 90. I asked how can I be sure that was me and not the last person he pulled over? He said " Oh you can trust me." Few days later me and a mate did a speedo test with both bikes and it was 80km/h at 5k in 4th gear!
So I pay another $120 and 20 more demerits thankyouverymuchly!

Yes there is quite the discussion going on in New Zealand Autocar letters to the editor (MPH) about Traffic Police using "historical readings" on their radars to book people with.

[Goblin]

Yes there is quite the discussion going on in New Zealand Autocar letters to the editor (MPH) about Traffic Police using "historical readings" on their radars to book people with.

Yeah there was a thread on here a while back too and someone said it would be easy and cheap enough to have a time displayed on their gadgets. You'd think the cops would be all for it but then they wouldn't get away with gathering revenue and filling their quotas from innocent people. It would go a long way toward restoring the public's trust in cops if they did. But as we all know...cops never lie.

[The Lone Rider]

Ticket Ive gotten sorta got my ass in gear to rework my exhaust system to be quieter, but I already had that in mind to do soon.

[tri boy]

never seen a rozza on the gravel roads while riding the Scrambler, closed circuit pipes, doin what I like, FA traffic.
But I'm a bit more cautious on the Daytona, (ride like a nanna, but exceed the pathetic 100kph limit too easily). Peasea's correct. Lift the limit to 110, but Nail the dangerous (140-+), speeders.
Bwaahp..bwaaph, ping ,ting clonk. (Scrambler on gravel, stones bouncing off bash plate).

[DMNTD:Me]

Now, without lectures please, does a ticket affect your riding, and if so, for how long?

I ended up selling my "tweaked" sports bike after being pinged at ridiculously high speed but ticketed for 139kmph by an awesome Policeman. He was completely blown away as he'd never seen such a high reading on his radar thingy.
He truly was excellent...pointed out how stupid it was riding at those speeds but was "real" enough to take into account that I'm not a n00b trying to enlarge my bits.

This was enough of a wake up call for me to realise that I didn't have the self control required to ride a sports bike at legal speeds on the road so I've bought a nekkid bike instead which has helped somewhat.

Corners...that's where it's at!

[Brian d marge]

[quote=peasea;1l. In fact the one negative aspect is that people spend too much time watching the dial instead of the road.

Raise the speed limit I say. 110kph isn't dangerous on the open road, being paranoid is.[/quote]

That s a very valid point .. How the ell you can sit at 100 on a big sports bike is beyong me ,,, with out having engine management , or keep looking at the dial

Stephen

By the way ,,,NZ has been arguing over revenue collecting , for how many years ,,and still they do it

the French , ( you remember the French crap at rugby , good at making white flags that stand up to the rigors of a surrender ) well put their gasoline up by a few sheckels and they are in the streets spitting the dummy ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,