Speed Camera - Oh Shit!

[madbikeboy]

Boys and girls,

I got my first ever speed camera ticket through the post today. 109 in an 80, $230 towards Uncle Helen's Nazi party. Apparently got snapped from the other side of the road (think about it), first time I've ever gotten a speeding ticket without a Government representative wearing blue in attendance.

Location was on the approach to the harbour bridge, 8.00 am on a Sunday morning. I actually remember that day with some clarity, there was very little traffic...

Started riding on the road in 198? something? 1 ticket in 20 odd years is pretty good.

I'm going to write in and get the photo - it'll look lovely in a frame on the wall, just hope I wasn't scratching my arse or something...

[PrincessBandit]

yeah, only one Ive had in 28 years of driving sneaked in the mail to me (about a year ago) and I had no idea i'd been snapped. I kinda figured that in all those years, and with the other occasions i know i've been snapped (evidenced by the lovely big nighttime flash - no, not by me...) that i just consider myself lucky it's all i've had. So, good on you for taking so long.
ps is it possible to scratch your arse on a bike at 109kph?

[Ixion]

Interesting thought on speed cameras.

The gubbermint have announced that fines for speeding offences are to be reduced and demerits increased.

But speed cameras don't have demerits. And the gubbermint CLAIM they are not going to change this.

So that would imply that speed cameras will become less useful as a police tool, and we may see less of them ? Actually I don't very often see them at all nowdays. And all the fixed ones seem to be broken.

Or will the police use that as an excuse to claim that speed cameras have to have demerits ?

[Boob Johnson]

is it possible to scratch your arse on a bike at 109kph?

Yes



So ive heard

[BASS-TREBLE]

Sorry to hear that.
Next time you could try this.

[judecatmad]

Apparently got snapped from the other side of the road

If you got snapped from the other side of the road by a fixed camera, you must have been travelling towards it, right? So if you were on your bike, how come they managed to find you given the absence of licence plate on the front of said bike?

*so confused*

[sAsLEX]

If you got snapped from the other side of the road by a fixed camera, you must have been travelling towards it, right? So if you were on your bike, how come they managed to find you given the absence of licence plate on the front of said bike?

*so confused*

No if it on the other side of the road it photographs you from the rear

[erix]

Sorry to hear that.
Next time you could try this.

Love the idea!

Shit, I always do 100-110 on the harbour bridge...never get caught...

[Jorja]

you would have a bloody sore leg riding like that all the time.

[homer]

No if it on the other side of the road it photographs you from the rear

Yes i wondered this my self

Maybe a REALLY GOOD idea to get the pic

No pic no ticket ......or if theres a car in the pic as well ....no ticket

[DEATH_INC.]

Boys and girls,

I got my first ever speed camera ticket through the post today. 109 in an 80,

You bloody lunatic! Don't you know you could have Killed somebody riding like that???!!!

[sAsLEX]

You bloody lunatic! Don't you know you could have Killed somebody riding like that???!!!

most other countries in the world would be abhorred at the horrendously high speed limits we have on our motorways.........

[davereid]

Easy Fix.

Buy TWO of the LCD welding helmets that allow you to see what you are doing, but instantly go dark when you strike an arc.

Use the LCD panels to cover about 1/2 of your number plate each.

Use a simple oscillator to turn one LCD dark at a time. ie one half of your plate is always blacked out.

If you switch at (say) 30 hz, the human eye will see your plate normally, due to persistance of vision.

However, your number plate cannot be photographed unless the camera has an open shutter time of twice your on/off cycle time.

And at 30hz, thats 1/15 of a second, by which time your bike has moved around 1m at the 50kph speed limit. ie blurred unreadable photo.

Its an easy way of turning speed cameras off, no need to burn 'em with an old tyre.

Easy, cheap, effective, might even be legal !

[Swoop]

And all the fixed ones seem to be broken.

Those that are working must be out west then.

[rwh]

Easy Fix.

Buy TWO of the LCD welding helmets that allow you to see what you are doing, but instantly go dark when you strike an arc.

Use the LCD panels to cover about 1/2 of your number plate each.

Use a simple oscillator to turn one LCD dark at a time. ie one half of your plate is always blacked out.

If you switch at (say) 30 hz, the human eye will see your plate normally, due to persistance of vision.

However, your number plate cannot be photographed unless the camera has an open shutter time of twice your on/off cycle time.

And at 30hz, thats 1/15 of a second, by which time your bike has moved around 1m at the 50kph speed limit. ie blurred unreadable photo.

Its an easy way of turning speed cameras off, no need to burn 'em with an old tyre.

Easy, cheap, effective, might even be legal !

Ingenious. Until you get the other half of your plate snapped by the next camera, and they match it up with the photo they pinned up on the wall from last time ...

And I doubt it's legal.

Simpler to ride fast enough that the picture is blurred at whatever shutter speed they do use ...

Richard