Motorcycle speeding "Come off, you die"

[scumdog]

Fuck, in Europe you cruise at these sort of speeds and as long as it's not wet and you're not tailgating then you're not likely to die.

Whereas in Indonesia you WILL probably die if you ride at those speeds.... wet, tailgating or not.

[scracha]

seriously, these bulletproof riders don't expect to come off and live, they just don't expect to come o

You'll find a large percentage of bulletproof riders here have came off at over 150kmph and not just lived, but (with the correct gear) walked away without a scratch.

I've not got a problem with the "the faster the speed, the bigger the risk" and "slow down at corners" type of messages but stupid statements about "going a few kmph over the limit = death" just make our ACC sponsored boys in blue sound like robotic "can't think for themselves" halfwits who seriously believe the bullshit that gets drummed into them at police college.

[Cayman911]

You'll find a large percentage of bulletproof riders here have came off at over 150kmph and not just lived, but (with the correct gear) walked away without a scratch.

here's a good example.

[98tls]

here's a good example.

Ahh the perils of riding a Ducatito busy looking in the mirror,what a knob.

[Berries]

You'll find a large percentage of bulletproof riders here have came off at over 150kmph and not just lived, but (with the correct gear) walked away without a scratch.

You'd be lucky though wouldn't you on NZ roads ? That video didn't look much like the roads around here. Quite a bit of guardrail stopping you from hitting trees, no bloody gravel shoulder leading you straight in to a ditch and being German it probably wasn't a shitty chip seal either. As for the Duke, I heard they could go round corners quite well, but they obviously have problems on the straights.

[steve_t]

Holy shit. That Boris should be glad to be alive!

[Motu]

If 150kph was perfectly safe you would happily ride at those speeds with no helmet or gloves,in T shirt,shorts and jandals.If you aren't prepared to do that,then obviously you accept that there is some danger to ride at those speeds....

[MarkH]

So wait, coming off a motorcycle at 150kph is dangerous? Who would have thought it!

I wonder how many motorcyclists have exceeded 150kph and are still alive - I think the trick is not to fall off.

[swbarnett]

If 150kph was perfectly safe you would happily ride at those speeds with no helmet or gloves,in T shirt,shorts and jandals.If you aren't prepared to do that,then obviously you accept that there is some danger to ride at those speeds....

And the same goes for 100kph. Done with respect for the conditions the risk is not significantly raised (if at all).

[sinfull]

Oh my god, I'm public enemy number one! The paper says so.

Thank god yr dead then !

If 150kph was perfectly safe you would happily ride at those speeds with no helmet or gloves,in T shirt,shorts and jandals.If you aren't prepared to do that,then obviously you accept that there is some danger to ride at those speeds....

My eyes nooooo !!!!

And the same goes for 100kph. Done with respect for the conditions the risk is not significantly raised (if at all).

hmmmmm my eyessss !!!!

[scracha]

You'd be lucky though wouldn't you on NZ roads ? That video didn't look much like the roads around here. Quite a bit of guardrail stopping you from hitting trees, no bloody gravel shoulder leading you straight in to a ditch and being German it probably wasn't a shitty chip seal either.

Don't mistake my comments for saying that every road is safe at 150kmph. Ride to the conditions etc etc. Some of the boring junctionless straight roads with clearly visible drivewways around here on a beautiful sunny day when you pass about 2 cars an hour.....you're not likely to die from sliding along on your arse. Around here there's more chance of some hillbilly in a ute t-boning you in town or a cow walking across the road cos some of the local farmers are too negligent to turn on their pissy little electric fences. Two occasions I've rung up local coppers about cows on road and fence not even being switched on and they really just dont give fuck. What's more likely to kill me*?

If 150kph was perfectly safe you would happily ride at those speeds with no helmet or gloves,in T shirt,shorts and jandals.If you aren't prepared to do that,then obviously you accept that there is some danger to ride at those speeds....

Not sure who this comment is aimed at. I never said it was "perfectly safe". Walking down the street isn't perfectly safe but I'm prepared to walk with no helmet or gloves. It's all about managed risk. Coppers telling us that WE WILL DIE if we ride at 150 sends out completely the wrong message.

*cue comments about being able to stop within visible difference

[Metastable]

Not to mention, falling off a bike at 150kph with proper gear isn't really a big deal. The bigger problem is if there is a sudden stop. On a nice clear day on a straight section of road.... fark, there are some tracks that are more dangerous with walls a few feet away going down a big straight.

[T.W.R]

The Waikari cop....sounds like he's loosing his mystic the ol weekly quota must be deminishing for him. There'd have been thousands caught along the Culverden straight over the years. favourite hunting ground is usually by the Belmoral plantation or the layby by the bridge just before Culverden.
Those speeds are peanuts to what some have done down there and I'd deny anyone to say they haven't given their bikes a tickle up along that straight.

[Indiana_Jones]

From yesterdays paper

Could be worse, we could be in Aus where they have Aliens who knock you off your bike....

-Indy

[Kickaha]

Those speeds are peanuts to what some have done down there and I'd deny anyone to say they haven't given their bikes a tickle up along that straight.

No idea what you're talking about