Freedom to speed

[swbarnett]

It's switchable, duh.

I would've thought the point of a limiter was to avoid the temptation to speed. If you can switch it off while riding doesn't this defeat it's purpose?

[FROSTY:Me]

Ya know the silly thing.
If ALL road users just rode/drove to the conditions -we wouldn't need speed limits or for that matter a bunch of our road rules.
I gotta say most of the roads in NZ dont realy apeal to me as safe to ride at high speed.

[Boob Johnson]

Ya know the silly thing.
If ALL road users just rode/drove to the conditions -we wouldn't need speed limits or for that matter a bunch of our road rules.
I gotta say most of the roads in NZ dont realy apeal to me as safe to ride at high speed.

Never a truer word spoken. Very few good places to high tail it. Although there is speed & then there is SPEED.


30 odd km's over the limit then the 200+ variety. The latter is much harder to do in NZ safely as Frosty rightly pointed out. Must say I do enjoy the Ramarama straights & the new motorway from Orewa back to town

[jrandom]

Must say I do enjoy the Ramarama straights & the new motorway from Orewa back to town

Indeed! I greatly enjoy disabling my 62mph limiter for those roads and giving the bike a jolly old thrashing. Nothing quite like 250kph in between cars to give the soccer moms a wake-up call.

In fact, those two bits of road happen to be the only places in the North Island where I feel safe and comfortable exceeding the legal speed limit.

[Boob Johnson]

Indeed! I greatly enjoy disabling my 62mph limiter for those roads and giving the bike a jolly old thrashing. Nothing quite like 250kph in between cars to give the soccer moms a wake-up call.

In fact, those two bits of road happen to be the only places in the North Island where I feel safe and comfortable exceeding the legal speed limit.

Dunno bout passing cars @ that speed but most certainly have enjoyed an "indicated" speed of 150 mile an hour on both those roads. Also a stretch on the north side of Waitara called the "Motonui straight" which is pretty good, not to mention "ladies mile" just north of Awakino, funnily enough its exactly 1.6Km's long

[Mikkel]

With all the complaining of guys riding to fast, doing stupid stuff, running from cops Im starting to wonder if the last few years of no speeding tolerance with the cops if we are just becoming jealous of anyone getting away with having more fun than we do, or are we becoming the kind of rule followers that made the germans the most dangerous people on earth, willing to dob in anyone who doesnt follow insanely structured society.
Motorcycling is dangerous to the rider at 20kmph or 200kmph, chances are if your ride for long enough your going to have an accident, and chances are that it will be a cages fault and they will get away with nearly killing you scott free.

But anyhow, my question is, if you could ride at any speed and all the cages on the road learned to be considerate and predictable, if you were to ride between wellington and auckland, what would your average speed be?

I don't know the road well enough to be able to guesstimate an average speed!

Without speed limits I'd go as fast as I'd feel comfortable with. There are roads around Canterbury where, if it's a calm day, I reckon you could go 300 km/h without too much of a worry. Not to worry, I doubt my 250 will be able to go faster than 200 km/h and if so not a whole lot and not for an extended period.

If there was no speed limits I'd certainly get rid of the 180 km/h limiter on the GT-B though!

[jrandom]

Dunno bout passing cars @ that speed but most certainly have enjoyed an "indicated" speed of 150 mile an hour on both those roads. Also a stretch on the north side of Waitara called the "Motonui straight" which is pretty good, not to mention "ladies mile" just north of Awakino, funnily enough its exactly 1.6Km's long

That is so cool.



You know, maybe we should have a thread on the best straight bits of road in the country. I love seeing how fast I can go! Corners just slow me down.

[Boob Johnson]

You know, maybe we should have a thread on the best straight bits of road in the country.

Not a bad idea me old china

I love seeing how fast I can go! Corners just slow me down.

Yeah they are funny like that

[breakaway]

I exhibit a great deal of self control while commuting etc.

But given the opportunity, I'd love to sit on redline and scrape my pegs on every corner. I didn't get into riding to go slow, or to be on the safe side of things.

[Gremlin]

hahahahha, people learn to drive... yeh, so while we're in dreamland, I said 141-160, but obviously if road conditions/weather dictated, could slow down.

Came from ol RSA, where you sat at 180 in the lane 1 away from middle of motorway, the executive cars passed at 200 in the fast lane... 100 kph was craaaaaawwwwwwling.

But then, I wish straights didn't exist...

[Conquiztador]

Then you are even older than me, which is old indeed. There has been a speed limit on the 'open' road since the early thirties (1932 I think, but memory is a fickle thing). 50 mph on sealed roads, and 30 mph on gravel roads. Increased to a universal 50mph in 1948 . The "derestriction" sign, still sometimes seen, a black diagonal line in a circle, was often thought to indicaate no speed limit. That thought was incorrect. Of course, the traffic cop had to CATCH you first (and they were unheard of on the open road then): radar did exist but it was a huge box about the size of a refridgerator on the roof on the Mk I Zephyr. If you were unobservant enough to be caught by that you deserved to be. And it was easy enough to outrun the Zephyr. A bike cop on his Triumph, that was another matter those MoT snakes could ride alright.

I do remember the days when no-one wore helmets though. Even then, they were officially required over 30mph after 1955. Although noone ever paid any heed to that rule, and the smart alec who did turn out in a helmet was certain to attract the attention of the traffic cop, and probably be done for racing on the public highway, even if standing still.

Sorry, should have told you: I was not born here.

[James Deuce]

Dan, Dan
The Fisherman

[speights_bud]

That is so cool.



You know, maybe we should have a thread on the best straight bits of road in the country. I love seeing how fast I can go! Corners just slow me down.

Tikokino's about half an hour south of hastings and has a straight just over 5km's long, its in the middle of nowhere and pretty open either side (paddocks). tis not tooo bad eh?

[BMW]

Sadly, they tend to remove themselves from motorcycling.

true. with no speed limit the dumb will be dead.

[Pwalo]

I still remember the days when there was no speed limit on the open road. When there was no helmet laws. Bring them back I say!!

Come on mate, no one's that old. Actually I can remember the speed limit thing.