Doing the runner

**jimbo600** · 1st January 2005, 19:36

Originally Posted by sedge

Um... you'll probably find that the farmer in his shitty old Hilux who lives up the top of Paekak hill would kick all our arses up it... sure you'd be quicker on the straights... but he's mean and weaves a bit on them... he knows the road and his truck has lots of dents and bloodstains on it, that's what really counts.

Sedge.

Most of the residents on that rd are knob jockeys. They believe that the rd is an extension of their personal driveway and putter along at a heady 40kmh holding up the show. Except for one dude who drives a XR6 turbo, when he sees a bike behind him he feeds it the jandal, and I tell you what he knows what he's doing, good on him.

**ajturbo** · 1st January 2005, 20:36

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

BTW, I've got the barrel back for your nifty 50, this time please don't try to do a rebore with a drill and sanding disc.

ahhh shit ...i was just thinking to do that to my scooter so that luke can go faster on it!.....so will it work?

**Posh Tourer :P** · 1st January 2005, 21:00

Originally Posted by R1AaronKDX

man 60+ replys but no answers to my Q's and i just reread my first post hhhmmmm sily thing to say "dont care about public safty" coz i do. but at the time when ya see the blue and reds ya only have micro seconds to think, 9 time out of 10 im prety sure i hit the gas b4 i even think about it. and i get the funny feeling some of you dont like what i have to say...... bugger for you

Wow really?? I would never have guessed.....

Oh and if you read properly, there are answers to your question, just maybe not the ones you wnated to hear, cos its a little bit complicated not a simple cut at a certain speed.

**Posh Tourer :P** · 1st January 2005, 21:04

Originally Posted by R1AaronKDX

as for all that crap about ganada and gt750's. 1, i dont know what the fuk a granada is and 2, a gt750 was a hunk of shit that stoned pot smokn hippies used like a decade ago, come on man its the new millinium. i dont mind the updated Z1000 tho does mean wheelies

Errr if you read properly, he was saying that about a decade ago (1994, the height of pot-smoking hippie-ness) the cop cars could beat the bikes.

Now what do you think has happened in the past few years that has suddenly made bikes so much faster than the cars? I suppose the car makers have just been sitting around not bothering with improvements in speed and handling

**Posh Tourer :P** · 1st January 2005, 21:07

Originally Posted by R1AaronKDX

as for cars being more forgiving hhhmmmm i dont think so you only have to go over the white line and bang ya dead. with a bike u just tip her in a bit more and ya sweet.

Err and when you get a slide when you are cranked over, what happens? When you lose control for a moment while thrashing it, what happens?
At least with cars you get another chance sometimes if you fuck up. Thats what I would call forgiving

**Mongoose** · 1st January 2005, 21:13

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

Errr if you read properly, he was saying that about a decade ago (1994, the height of pot-smoking hippie-ness) the cop cars could beat the bikes.

Now what do you think has happened in the past few years that has suddenly made bikes so much faster than the cars? I suppose the car makers have just been sitting around not bothering with improvements in speed and handling

In fear of sounding "Old", 1994 the height of pot-smoking hippie-ness?
hell, there i was under the impression that that was more '64/'74.

Piece brothers

**avgas** · 1st January 2005, 21:41

yeh cars can be fast - but u have to be a real wanker to drive fast in them. Or did you not pass 5th form physics.
Evos are turboed bricks, you hit anything (or anyone) at 200k - they are dead. If anyone here thinks there car is sweet at that speed round corners they can suck my shit - its attidues like that, that kill other inocent people.
I ride a bike cos i know that if i fuck up at some rediculous speed im only gonna kill myself.
As for out running the cops - i know of a guy that used to live down paraparam, and he out ran the cops on a mountain bike down on the beach. So its not what you have got - its if you are dumb enough to try it.
ps : old is just as good as the new, you have to respect all bikes, otherwise you end up being a bike ricer

**Jackrat** · 1st January 2005, 22:34

Originally Posted by avgas

yeh cars can be fast - but u have to be a real wanker to drive fast in them. Or did you not pass 5th form physics.
Evos are turboed bricks, you hit anything (or anyone) at 200k - they are dead. If anyone here thinks there car is sweet at that speed round corners they can suck my shit - its attidues like that, that kill other inocent people.
I ride a bike cos i know that if i fuck up at some rediculous speed im only gonna kill myself.
As for out running the cops - i know of a guy that used to live down paraparam, and he out ran the cops on a mountain bike down on the beach. So its not what you have got - its if you are dumb enough to try it.
ps : old is just as good as the new, you have to respect all bikes, otherwise you end up being a bike ricer

Maybe you could ring the parents of the girl killed up by Whangarei an tell them that.I'm sure they'd be most impressed.
Nobody KNOWS what will happen if they mess up in/on any vehicule.

**onearmedbandit** · 2nd January 2005, 00:16

Yup, 180+kgs (what late model sportsbikes weigh when wet) at 200km/h is still gonna hurt, and make a decent size hole/impact in a car.

**2_SL0** · 2nd January 2005, 07:47

Originally Posted by avgas

yeh cars can be fast - but u have to be a real wanker to drive fast in them. Or did you not pass 5th form physics.
Evos are turboed bricks, you hit anything (or anyone) at 200k - they are dead. If anyone here thinks there car is sweet at that speed round corners they can suck my shit - its attidues like that, that kill other inocent people.
I ride a bike cos i know that if i fuck up at some rediculous speed im only gonna kill myself.
As for out running the cops - i know of a guy that used to live down paraparam, and he out ran the cops on a mountain bike down on the beach. So its not what you have got - its if you are dumb enough to try it.
ps : old is just as good as the new, you have to respect all bikes, otherwise you end up being a bike ricer

OMG, as people already said, a 180 kg sportbike @ 200kmh, or even 100Kmh will seriously damage a car and its occupants. Its not even worth talking to people like yourself, your attitudes are so strangely backward.

**MSTRS:Me** · 2nd January 2005, 08:10

Originally Posted by avgas

I ride a bike cos i know that if i fuck up at some rediculous speed im only gonna kill myself.

You are so full of bullshit, it's a wonder you can fit on a bike

**Bonez** · 2nd January 2005, 09:40

Originally Posted by Racer X

Go as fast as you can as early as possible - and if there's heaps of traffic, then thats to your advantage as well.. I've only run once or twice - if I hadn't it woulda been jail

Seems we have another seasoned rider amongst us.

**inlinefour** · 2nd January 2005, 10:19

Originally Posted by Bonez

Seems we have another seasoned rider amongst us.

What is he seasoned with? Whatever it is it smells like what the cats/dog roll around in when there is a female on heat

**loosebruce** · 2nd January 2005, 14:21

Shit i'm no angel, i have run from the cops before, even got caught runnning from the cops before, i must say i learnt my lesson there and then, i have done it since then, but i'm talking 3am deserted motorway kinda shit not 4pm in the arvo with school kids running around the show and traffic everywhere etc. There is no excuse for running and if i get caught i deserve everything coming to me and then some, judge me as you will, besides half the time when you pull over and stop for them you get off a shitload lighter, not always!

One thing i always keep in mind before people go slagging off how cops can't drive and shit like that, the HP boys oh n gals go through pretty extensive driver training and spend a fair bit of time at the track practicing driving skills and techniques, you'd have to be pretty daft to say a HP officer couldn't drive for shit, coz they sure can, i heard someone mention how safe is a car at 200km earlier, well how safe is a bike? HP cars aren't run of the mill standard commies with pretty blue n red lights and bright stickers slapped on them, last i heard they had an engine managment, suspension, exhaust and slightly tweaked brakes. They aren't all that slow and it's mostly the HP that i come into contact with

and commom knowledge being a raido travels faster than what i ever will. They will eventully get ya one or another.

A bike is faster than a car in twistys?? There are more than a few cars out there more than capable of giving the learn to pretty much anyone on this site in the twistys, they will brake later and harder than a bike and will carry a lot more corner speed than a bike ever will, the only advantage a bike has is straightline speed, not always enough. Sure most cars dont have a shit show, but you'd have to be pretty on it to give it to a good driver behind a evo or wrx, they're freakin weapons on the road. And both a bike and car are just as dangerous in a corner, but if i could have the grip a car offered on a bike i wouldn't say no.