Originally Posted by ev0lution
Thank you - most informative.
I've been too conservative - who'd a thunk it.
Don't know next week's lotto numbers perchance?
One hell of a ride.
Thank you - most informative.
I've been too conservative - who'd a thunk it.
Don't know next week's lotto numbers perchance?
on the up
At last a voice of reason from the HP!
Now about those silly little infringements for accidental overexhuberant right wrist twisting ...
can those of us with over 100HP at the back wheel be cut a little slack if we accidentally exceed the speed limit while overtaking?
after all its really easy to do...
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Scooter boy
At last some really informed opinion.
Thanks cuz, appreciate the attitude as well as the statements of fact.
I hope post this stays somewhere accessible for future reference, say in court!
A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle
LOOK.. ZOMBIES!
i have a few rules for splitting ..
1)never in bad weather or poor visiblity
2) HI-BEAMS ALWAYS ON !
3) never within 500 metres of an exit/ onramp.. too many lane changes
4) cover the clutch
may not work for everyone but it does nice for me
I like bikes
Because if he doesnt, someone will give him an earful about how he should have searched for an existing thread (as per Spankme's instructional "Posting and you" thread)
"Not one day that we are here on this earth has been promised to us, so make the most of every day as if it was your last, and every breath ,as if it were the same"
Immature and proud of it.
I wonder what consultation Transit carried out over this issue.
Because; crossing on/off ramps is for the tired of life only. Most riders would merge back into the left lane until they're past the ramp then move into the bus lane again.
Likewise with the assumption that we'd do 100 k's in the bus lane. You've still got to maintain a sensible speed differential with other traffic.
Above all, it is a lot safer in there than in traffic.
BTW Why are buses allowed to use bus lanes outside of the regulated times?
Have any been pinged for it?
Speed doesn't kill people.
Stupidity kills people.
Retired
You'd better be careful, with common sense comments like you've posted, people might realise you're normal human beings... which kinda screws up my theories about those involved in traffic enforcement...
"You, Madboy, are the Uncooked Pork Sausage of Sausage Beasts. With extra herbs."
- Jim2 c2006
L-Plate Rider
Good to see positive responses for the info and opinions... hopefully can shed some light on any other issues that have or will pop up.
Believe it or not... cops are human too... we'll, most anyway!! Thats the image i joined up to portray.. so sick of being labelled for others mistakes.. like the boy racer crowd.
Lou - i am unsure what consultation Transit carried out.. but past experiences with things like that they probably sat round a board table with 20 people who don't ride bikes and answered thier own questions. We all know most of us will have the common sense to merge before the on/off ramps and to regulate the speed.. but there are those few who chose to leave any inkling they have of common sense they may possess behind when they wake up in the morning. Those are the people who have ruined it for the rest of us!
Who knows... with the increase of bike sales and petrol prices hopefully they may reconsider... one can only hope.
Forum whore
When the rule about us being able to use bus lanes, but not MW bus lanes, first came out, I rang up Transit and ahd a bit of a go at their senior spokesturkey.
Seems it was a typical bureaucratic stuff up.
LTSA decided it would be a Good Thing for motorbikes to be able to use bus lanes. But forgot that there were buslanes on the motorway (maybe not in Wellington ? could explain it).
So they didn't tell Transit about it (" none of their business").
Seems that the morning the new rule was announced to the public , the phone lines between the Transit and LTSA head offices burned red hot.
Transit knew nothing about it until it was publicly announced. Then someone asked them "so, this includes the motorway ones then?" . And they responded with the typical kneejerk reaction " No - no way" . Then sat down and thought up some reasons.
Don't hold your breath waiting for them to change their minds.
Immature and proud of it.
OK Evo. You, bikey cop, nodman and all other KB'er cops could do us all a favour by lobbying Transit to see sense.
They may not listen to us, but you guys are experts.
Speed doesn't kill people.
Stupidity kills people.
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