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[marty]

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.

[marty]

first up - i was stopped twice in 24 hours - at a checkpoint on shakespeare st cambridge (the road to te awamutu off SH1) for licence and wof check, and then on the motorway at 0500am this morning - not doing anything wrong, just a breath and licence test. both places are common to see road patrol units.

[Coyote]

For a while the Camera outside the Petone Bowland was a problem cause if you were heading from Wellington, you couldn't see the 70kph sign cause it was hidden in the bushes, so you were still going 100. Caught my dad a couple of times.

[Deano]

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

[jrandom]

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

Ah, well, he'll be likely to do it again tomorrow, then!

Good thing our online motorcycling community ninja skills are up to his tricks eh?

[MikeL]

Last Sunday, south of Cambridge heading towards Tirau, HP coming opposite direction, did a U-turn and subsequently showed me his radar reading 111 kph. $80 + 20 demerits. Could have been a lot worse...

Narrowly avoided another one this afternoon out by the airport. He got the car in front of me. We were doing the same speed.

Red van on northern motorway earlier. Considerate on-coming driver flashed a warning (this seems to be a dying custom - I wonder why??)

I'm beginning to get a little paranoid...

[scumdog]

I must be doing something wrong, in all my years of riding I have been stopped 4 times, two at booze-bus compulsory stops and once 'cause my no. had been 'bent' to fit the USA plate holder (and that encounter was 'less than positive' with M.O.T.) and once with my bro for a random wof & licence check when we were on our scoots just cruising.

In my hot-rod? once for a random check and once for (wait for it) speeding.

In my youth I got pulled over but I now know it is a driving style/vehicle appearance/driver youthfulness thing, got my share of tickets then but hey, I deserved them.

Never had too much negative to say about 'the man'

[dhunt]

Hey I was following a the other day who was doing the usual 99.9km/h and I wanted to pass him but wasn't game enough. Fortuneatly after about 15-20minutes he pulled over.

Just wondering what everyone does when they come up to a cop. I've have passed them in the past by creeping past them in a passing lane at ~108km/h and slowly losing them.

David

[Jackrat]

Red SS como' on glenbrook rd anytime of day.
This guy seems to work Waiuku,to Matamata,and has LOT'S of customers.
I see him a lot.
Errrr,never had a speeding ticket in NZ,only one in OZ.
Most of my mates have been pinged while riding in front of me,
two or three hundred meters seems to do it

[jrandom]

Considerate on-coming driver flashed a warning (this seems to be a dying custom - I wonder why??)

I've spoken to more than one person labouring under the delusion that doing so is somehow illegal. The propaganda is having effects over and above its direct message, I believe. People are becoming afraid of transgressing their preprogrammed doublethink. Soon, the entire population will be self-regulating, and the LTSA bosses will be able to can the Police traffic funding and pay the resultant savings directly to themselves as performance bonuses.

I'm beginning to get a little paranoid...

I'd be careful about mentioning it. I hear the government has a secret program to spy on paranoid people.

[SPORK]

Here we go again, jrandom getting all Orwillien on us. You will scare off people if you keep it up. Here, everyone go here, it will make you ashamed to be a New Zealander
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=287

PS - Jrandom, how did you find the Nightwish?

[James Deuce]

For a while the Camera outside the Petone Bowland was a problem cause if you were heading from Wellington, you couldn't see the 70kph sign cause it was hidden in the bushes, so you were still going 100. Caught my dad a couple of times.

That camera has been there for a decade, as has the 70km/h speed limit. There is also a small 70km/h sign mounted on the concrete median barrier, about 100 metres before you go under the Petone overbridge.

[cycosis]

Hey I was following a the other day who was doing the usual 99.9km/h and I wanted to pass him but wasn't game enough. Fortuneatly after about 15-20minutes he pulled over.

Just wondering what everyone does when they come up to a cop. I've have passed them in the past by creeping past them in a passing lane at ~108km/h and slowly losing them.

David

i normaly wait 4 a car to pass it and follow the car.seems to work

[jrandom]

PS - Jrandom, how did you find the Nightwish?

I didn't! As in I spent a whole day trying to prod Kazaa into retrieving a copy of the title(s) you mentioned, and it wouldn't.

Howsabout a GMail drop if you have the MP3s, eh?

[sAsLEX]

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.