Its not as easy as that. At 40kmh over you are putting your riding future in the hands of a cop's opinion.
There are riders in NZ who have been charged with speeding at over 100kmh over the limit eg 180 in an 80, went to court and got the 28 day walk, 50 points and $1000+ fine. They could consider themselves 'lucky'.
But there are also a heap of riders who got busted for dangerous/reckless at 40kmh over or so for doing something fuckwittly stupid. Then you are looking at major bans, fines and possibly jail time.
The cops have guidelines for issuing offence notices but there is enough leeway to throw you a break. Or not.
So where you choose to speed, who phones up to complain, what drivers you blast past, whether you try and run can all effect what punishment you will end up with.
Touché![]()
Oh neat I'm a tool. I think I've just realised as to what your post was referring too as made clearer by your later posts.
Speeding is inherently dangerous regardless due to the potential side effects of coming off. The environment plays a huge factor in these effects and you are right, the autobahns are safer by a large margin compared to, well any road in NZ because they are designed for high speeds.
Bit of a redundant post I know but these threads are generally circular anyway![]()
Ahh i see, well that kind of puts me between two places knowing that its up to discretion of mr.fuzz
lets say iam doing the magical 136Km/h:
option 1) get a nice cop (1-5%) ...so its a 28 days on the spot, 50 Points, $1000
option 2) get dickhead cop (95-99%) ... its still 28 days on the spot, 50 Points, $1000 AND on top of that reckless driving so bike impounded and court appearance, disqualification, jail time and all that jazz
so now if i know i did more than 136 and got spotted i can either choose to pull over and pray for Option 1) or go nuts a do a Mr.red ducati on SH1 as iam likely in for option 2) anyway......
only good thing about option 2) is i get a ride in back of a police car![]()
Well, i know i always get book thrown at me and i dont even open my mouth anymore and it still doesnt help...must be some arrogant look on my face or something
I guess i will decide that on the day...i just wont rely on this possibility of "ticket for 130" based on mercy of some Waikato cop,
so my point is if cops werent such a dicks to me each time i did something little bit wrong i wouldnt be even contemplating these options
i heard that Kearnes now says he was mis quoted.
If thats the case then the Herald should publish a retraction
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