Questions for our KB coppers

[spudchucka]

So I assume that the 'never bikes' policy is your own?
And if the bike in front simply says that he has just passed the other one or (if he doesn't want the ticket) that the one behind has just caught up then it's no dice on getting them both?
Gotta get my story straight ya see

Regardless of what you say the cop will go on what he saw. The judge will decide who is bullshitting.

[spudchucka]

I would like this to be confirmed by spud and the other police on here etc....that we can NOW use the Motorway bus lanes to ride our bikes on without getting a ticket. Cos in the past it was $150 fine. I would like some sort of verification that its true. Thanks in advance.

I couldn't care less if you ride in a bus lane.

So long as the bus doesn't squash you and then I have to clean up your guts off the road, then I'd be pretty pissed about it and post a ticket out to your estate.

But seriously, we don't have motorways or bus lanes where I live so I really have no idea about the legalities of it.

[Stevo]

i have written many tickets to 2 cars - one following the other closely. it's a simple matter of asking the front car how long the guy behind has been following (or up his ARSE) .

Ok this one has me in two minds. Why pull up the front car if the tailgater is obviously intimidating them?? Cos I HATE tailgaters unless they are bikes.

Other hand Pull the front one up cos they are (and/or have been) holding up the tailgater and frustrated them. Cos there are far too many inconsiderate drivers in this this country. Not such a big deal if speeding cos then they may not be holding up the back car unless they are braking at EVERY slight bend in the road and hoofing it on the straights.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Is this the discretion thing?

I guess the real question is, Do you in a circumstance like this observe both drivers before pulling them up, or book em both........... everytime?

[marty]

40.5 & 64.8 on the units we have. Don't know how they come up with those numbers??

that's right! it's been a while.....

[marty]

i can tell you what the best climb out speed of a cessna 152 is though

[Biff]

i can tell you what the best climb out speed of a cessna 152 is though

OOOOO - I learnt to fly in one of them!!! What a heap of shit it was too!!

Was it 55 Knots?

[Wolf]

I think we could do with a little Texas mentality in this country but I'd draw the line at slugging somebody for singing to you.

Depends what they were singing - if it were a Garth Brooks song or anything about wives leaving, dogs dying, driving trucks or mining disasters then a broken nose would be UNDER-reacting. (PT Alert)

What you do, if you see someone stealing your bike, is loudly say "hmmm, the last person who tampered with my bike was also a father-raping faggot"

And then the broken nose you dish out will honestly be self-defence, plain and simple...

[curious george]

Good news in latest changes with LTSA
Special vehicle lanes (bus lanes)
Only cyclists, motorcyclists and buses are
allowed to use bus lanes.Finally we can ride in bus lanes. (Got a ticket a few months ago but after writing in to complain they let me off. I guess they knew the new rules were coming in. Whereas I actually thought the new rules WERE in place. Anyway now they are.
Cheers

Can we be sure of this?
The problem is thus:
Bus lanes in the city are ARC controlled, the motorway are Transit NZ.
The council are OK about using them, ( a bylaw), but the motorway requires a change in legislation. Or something.
So if they have changed the motorway rules, is it posted somewhere, then I can laminate it, and stick on the the fuel tank...

[ManDownUnder]

HEY - THere's that pole from up that guy's butt (see "Ouch that's gotta hurt").

So it wasn't an accident after all - but a bloody great monster!

[curious george]

Or, if you're Yokai, 1101010 1110010 1100001 1101110 1100100 1101111 1101101.

'Scuse me, but 01001001 00100111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100001 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100 00101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00111111 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01110011 00101110
Thankyouverymucha...

[ManDownUnder]

Can we be sure of this?
The problem is thus:
Bus lanes in the city are ARC controlled, the motorway are Transit NZ.
The council are OK about using them, ( a bylaw), but the motorway requires a change in legislation. Or something.
So if they have changed the motorway rules, is it posted somewhere, then I can laminate it, and stick on the the fuel tank...

I just rang the LTSA and the nice chappie on the end confirmed there are new road user rules coming into effect on the 27th (in 3 more days) whereby a M/C (and a cycle and a bus) can use bus lanes... nation wide!

I specifically asked if that meant only those covered by Transit, or those in cities also (i.e. Wellington... which previously had a no M/C in bus lanes rule). I was told it is ALL bus lanes.

YEE HA!!!!!!!

Awesome Awesome Awesome!
MDU

[ManDownUnder]

'Scuse me, but 01001001 00100111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100001 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100 00101110 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00111111 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01110011 00101110
Thankyouverymucha...

c'mon - something in hex.. or octal would be nice too please...

MDU

[crashe]

I just rang the LTSA and the nice chappie on the end confirmed there are new road user rules coming into effect on the 27th (in 3 more days) whereby a M/C (and a cycle and a bus) can use bus lanes... nation wide!

I specifically asked if that meant only those covered by Transit, or those in cities also (i.e. Wellington... which previously had a no M/C in bus lanes rule). I was told it is ALL bus lanes.

YEE HA!!!!!!!

Awesome Awesome Awesome!
MDU

Thats great, but I want to get it in writing first before I ride on the bus lanes on the motorway.... just in case some police officer decides to stop me and give me a ticket.... I want to have something on paper that I can carry on me at all times....
So who to ring to get this? Or will bike shops get copies of the new law as they did for when we were allowed to ride on city bus lanes?

[marty]

OOOOO - I learnt to fly in one of them!!! What a heap of shit it was too!!

Was it 55 Knots?

54 with 10 degrees. then 67 with no flap. then 80 for best ROC.

i'm flying a 172 now that does 2500 fpm at 70kts. it's awesome..

just got back from an IFR training flight to TGA and back. very bumpy and rainy it was.

[Wolf]

c'mon - something in hex.. or octal would be nice too please...

MDU

How about "I cast the Evil Eye on Thee"?

Sorry, even tho' I'm a pagan I don't get a lot of practice at hexes...

And in case you're worried, I retract any hexes inadvertently levelled in the spirit of a PT