Another fatality

[What?]

Originally posted by Marmoot
Lou: in the Nth Island, there are 2 areas with overzealous cops who (compared to other areas) are very active in pursuing speeding-ticket quotas: Northlands, and Central (around Taupo and Waiouru).

The most relaxed areas are Waikato/BoP.

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Ya coulda fooled me!!!!

[bikerboy]

Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda,

[Coldkiwi]

yeah.. I understood the Waikato piggies were amoung the most revenue hungry of the lot of them? They were the ones pressing for a ticket quota a few months back

 

[Marmoot]

U talking 'bout backroads or SH1 lah????
I'm talking 'bout backroads.

The olde saying goes: Thou shalt not have fun on Queen's Highway!

[What?]

yeah, I will give you that, Marmoot. SH's 1, 2, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 all policed like Nazi Germany was. Fortunately, most of these are dead boring at any speed, so going legal(ish) is not such an ordeal. The exceptions are bits of 25 and 29 where just getting near the legal limit could be considered seriously fast.

But the back roads... well, there's just too many of them with too little traffic for them to worry about.

[Marmoot]

SH22 Waingaro route
Cambridge-Teawamutu-Tekuiti-and back
Cambridge-Teawamutu-Rotorua
Hamilton-Pirongia-Kawhia-andback
Hamilton-Pirongia-Kawhia-Teanga-loop
Teawamutu-Mangakino-Rotorua-Taupo forrest loop
Morrinsville-Orina-Meremere through eastern side of SH1
Glen Murray 25km piece of road
Orina-Whangamata

BoP bike heavens

[Lou Girardin]

I travel the North Island for work and I've found the worst place for feral cops has to be Taranaki. The best seems to be around Gisborne, Waioeka Gorge, Wairoa, etc. But 'best' is relative, the fleas of the highway, as Michael Laws calls them, can be anywhere.
Lou

[Marmoot]

anybody have tried Hamilton-Cambridge-Arapuni-Arohena-Mangakino-Benneydale-Kuratau Junction-Turangi?

It's a beauty

[Coldkiwi]

hmm, a distinct lack of bacon plauging the roads down (bombay, matamata, tokoroa, whakamaru(east of lake taupo), turangi, waiouru) to ColdKiwi this year when i travelled! (good thing too given the way I was riding). Only saw one cop on the way home too just pulling out of waiouru. I'm just glad I had the detector on board or I would've blitzed past that unmarked falcon near licence loosing territory!

well worth the price I paid for it already.

 

[SPman]

Nothing from Ohakune to Whata Whata, then 4 patrol cars between Te Kowhai and Huntly on the back route yesterday!! And an unmarked Black Commodore!

In Taranaki now they are using an old 626 and some other dunger, with radars in them, allied to marked cars hidden up the road!

Pricks!