Fuckin squids in Wanganui letting the side down

[jrandom]

a one piece leather race suit with a hump will help get a late model GSXR750 to read 299 km/hr on the speedo.

I think this should be tested.

*nudgeZ* all owners of late model GSX-R750s and one-piece leather race suits

A one piece leather race suit with a hump certainly helps in getting a few extra kph on the speedo of a GSX1400, although the violent tankslapper that ensues at an indicated 235kph when one puts one's head on the triple clamp is... interesting.

Wanganui is nice.

Salubrious indeed!

[Kittyhawk]

Right, I'm afraid I can't really let this go any longer.

Whoever it was riding around town in Wanganui on Boxing Day in shorts and jandals, tinted visor down and lanesplitting like an idiot, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Particularly when you squeezed past that 4WD at the traffic lights and whacked a great dent in her front bumper with your exhaust!



It's that sort of foolish carry-on that brings motorcycling into disrepute and cements the opinion of the majority against people on bikes.

I personally think that such behaviour is absolutely uncalled for and detracts from an otherwise great atmosphere. I'll never wave to or otherwise acknowledge such idiots on the road.

And as for the fellow riding in a T-shirt on the blue R1 and pulling wheelies down the street past my motel, all I can say is, it's time you realised, sir, that they're neither big nor clever.

You're just jealous that he's a real biker!

[scumdog]

Fuck sake, By that logic, Bikes should be banned.

The man has a point - where on the graph does riding a bike morph from outragously dangerous to totally safe??

What is safe as houses to YOU may well appear to others as a screaming 5-alarm life threat eh?

[jrandom]

You're just jealous that he's a real biker!

Yeah, he had a pretty nice motorcycle, too.

[Kittyhawk]

Yeah, he had a pretty nice motorcycle, too.

So did ya put out to get a ride on it?

[madbikeboy]

Everyone wants to be occasionally

I've never wanted to be a policeman - I'm not interested in group sex with young drunk women, I think a truncheon is for defense, not as a "toy", I can't stand the idea of a porn-stache on my upper lip, and I wasn't teased at school... Plus, who could live on a cops salary??

[Kendog]

Try explaining how a one piece leather race suit with a hump will help get a late model GSXR750 to read 299 km/hr on the speedo.

I have both of those items and I have seen 299 on the speedo, but at the time I was in jeans and a tee shirt
disclaimer: the bike may have been on a dyno at the time

[scumdog]

I've never wanted to be a policeman - I'm not interested in group sex with young drunk women, I think a truncheon is for defense, not as a "toy", I can't stand the idea of a porn-stache on my upper lip, and I wasn't teased at school... Plus, who could live on a cops salary??

Meh, I never knew all the above was a prerequisite for wanting to join the Police.

So far all I have is the 'stache.

And the salary? I hear ya brother, not flash eh?

After all, I can barely can afford to pay for my two Harleys, my Suzuki, my '66 Thunderbird, my hot-rod F100, my 1400sqm section with 4 bedroom house, go to all the rallies etc I can AND still buy beer, times are tough alright...

[madbikeboy]

Meh, I never knew all the above was a prerequisite for wanting to join the Police.

So far all I have is the 'stache.

And the salary? I hear ya brother, not flash eh?

After all, I can barely can afford to pay for my two Harleys, my Suzuki, my '66 Thunderbird, my hot-rod F100, my 1400sqm section with 4 bedroom house, go to all the rallies etc I can AND still buy beer, times are tough alright...

I'm assuming I'm gonna get a ticket through the post...

You can afford all that shit on $50k?? Hey, you didn't just get a big payout, and is your name Clint???

[James Deuce]

$50k?

I don't think so. That's new grad pay. Starting salary package is $53k.

After that it rapidly outstrips the other profession that used to maintain parity with the Police, Nursing.

[scumdog]

I'm assuming I'm gonna get a ticket through the post...

You can afford all that shit on $50k?? Hey, you didn't just get a big payout, and is your name Clint???

Nah, 20+ years at the freezing works gave me a good start.

Present salary just maintains it.

And Jim2, I don't know where your coming from but 10+ years later I'm not that far away from the 'starting slalary package' (which of course has nothing to do with what actually goes into your pocket from week-to-week).

And I'm one of those eligible for 'shift allowance' and 'on call allowance' etc, a desk-jockey in the dept won't be getting those.

[James Deuce]

And Jim2, I don't know where your coming from but 10+ years later I'm not that far away from the 'starting slalary package' (which of course has nothing to do with what actually goes into your pocket from week-to-week).

Police web site. Cadet wage is $35K or so.

Nurses get $53k after about 15 years in the job.

[scumdog]

Police web site. Cadet wage is $35K or so.

Nurses get $53k after about 15 years in the job.

We don't have cadets any more.

But when I went in Recruits got $26,000 salary for the 5 months training, came out on about $46,000 or so, the $35,000 sounds a good increase.

And a NCO was meant to be paid the equal to a Parliamentry back-benchers salary once (back in the 70's - what happened eh?)

[James Deuce]

We don't have cadets any more.

But when I went in Recruits got $26,000 salary for the 5 months training, came out on about $46,000 or so, the $35,000 sounds a good increase.

And a NCO was meant to be paid the equal to a Parliamentry back-benchers salary once (back in the 70's - what happened eh?)

Cadet, recruit, they're all n00bs who wouldn't know a decent wheelie in Wangavegas if it bit them on the left.... eyebrow.

[Headbanger]

10+ years later I'm not that far away from the 'starting slalary package'

So, You have total shit job that pays nothing close to what your duties are worth.

Was that your point?