Cops are coming down on any bikes

[CookMySock]

doesn't matter if they're acting out the 4th scene in Romeo and Juliet - they're still laughing cause you got a ticket.

Laughing? Why? Do they take some personal pleasure from it? Why might that be? Perhaps it is some fucking conquest or something? Is that why they enjoy their job?

Steve

[scumdog]

Laughing? Why? Do they take some personal pleasure from it? Why might that be? Perhaps it is some fucking conquest or something? Is that why they enjoy their job?

Steve

I normally bawl my eyes out when handing over a ticket...






Chill out dude, I suspect 'laughing' is poetic licence, not literal.

[scumdog]

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[carver]

> Carver: Yeah I think he met you on a coro loop

haha, i see, one of those!

Except the time you went over the bridge I guess...

ironically, at a very slow pace......

i made the mistake of bringing a slow bike, should have done it on the GSXR at 200kph

[Tank]

Laughing? Why? Do they take some personal pleasure from it? Why might that be? Perhaps it is some fucking conquest or something? Is that why they enjoy their job?

Steve

I guess its a fuck load of fun giving tickets to people who fail the attitude test.

[Coldrider]

i made the mistake of bringing a slow bike, should have done it on the GSXR at 200kph

No, you made the mistake of uploading it in High Def. LOL

[TimeOut]

Many US built tractors have SWS transponders fitted:
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/SWS.html

The ones in NZ have speed radar (K band) to compare actual speed to wheel speed, this gives you the % of wheel slip

Obviously not much use on road

[marty]

Failing the attitude test, and bush lawyers. The 2 most fun by far. Boy racers are too easy (think fish/barrel/gun)

Politicians are fun to ticket, as are MILFs and short skirts - for different reasons though

[Chrislost]

Radars slow you down. I have never had a ticket since ive started using radar detectors, and i ride a LOT slower than i used to because of it.

turning into a poof has nothign to do with your radar detector

[scumdog]

Failing the attitude test, and bush lawyers. The 2 most fun by far. Boy racers are too easy (think fish/barrel/gun)

Politicians are fun to ticket, as are MILFs and short skirts - for different reasons though

Oh yes... the bush lawyers....man are those guys the funnest ever!!

With most of them you can sail a whole squadron of planes over their head and they don't notice..

[saltydog]

Police want people to slow down yeah? Why do they turn there radar off and on? Shouldnt they just leave there radar on and encourage radar detectors cause when our radar detectors go off we slow down.....

one of the most stunning bits of logic ever Choppa. The coppers know my bike has the whistler fitted alright. The dirty looks are quite amusing.

[Chrislost]

Laughing? Why? Do they take some personal pleasure from it? Why might that be? Perhaps it is some fucking conquest or something? Is that why they enjoy their job?

Steve

better work stories...

yours, today for example, would be somthing like "went on kb, hadnt recieved any red bling so i told them whos boss, yeahhh i told em!"

[Tink]

I say bullshit, urban myth and headless chicken stuff..

But hey, what do I know??

I have heard that headless chickens broke up... but they are not a myth...

[Flip]

Well I love my radar detector and I don't speed, love corners but don't speed.

My detector lets me know that there is a cop working in my area and to keep my speed strictly legal. I haven't had a speeding ticket in 10 years.

There has only been a couple of times in recent memory that the detector went off with a strong close signal where I did not know there was a cop in the area. I would say that in greater than 99.5% of the time the detector has been giving me warning signals for miles and miles before we even see the cop. Cops tend to turn the thing on and off when they are driving checking the speed of on coming cars, but what they do is they get lazy and check every car they see. So everybody with a 2/3rd decent detector has been getting warnings for miles and miles. The furthest I have measured myself was on the Cheviot straights and he was 12 km away parked in town having lunch.

I use my detector in all my vehicles, I even use it in my Land rover (Series 3 V8) not that this vehicle does 110 easily. Seems funny but now days I just feel unprotected without it. It reminds me constantly to check my speed in towns and to double check that my speed doesn't creep up in the straights (not really a problem in the Landy).

If they the govt (not the cops) did ban them it would be a pain because I am so used to having one, it would be a bit like not wearing pants. It would however logically not really matter to me and I would get used to not having one there and also eventually not wearing pants for that matter.

It sits just under the screen bag, I can hear fine without any extra speakers at open road speeds.

[Kiwi007]

You and me are in the same catagory Flip. Thanks everyone for your input (even if it did get off track a bit). It's bloody easy for that speed to creep up a bit and the detector just helps keep me in check a bit. Thanks again everyone.