Covert tactics to help save lives [NZ Police News]

[bsasuper]

Case in point, about 2 months ago some fella came off his buell on the coro loop, not a lot a damage to bike but the young bloke had to take a ambo ride.while the bike was being loaded onto a truck, cop pointed out how loose the head bearings were, looked like about 6 inches movement !.

[Stormer]

Well this new tactic should make about 80% of people who post here happy!
Y `know...the ones who always reply with "slow down rossi", "take it to the race track", "Obey the speed limit", blah, blah, feckin blah.
Now lets just all put on our fluoro jackets, put on our flip top lids, put on our textiles, and get out there and for heavens sake people NEVER exceed the posted speed limit!
NEVER!!!!!!!!

[Katman]

Y `know...the ones who always reply with "slow down rossi", "take it to the race track", "Obey the speed limit", blah, blah, feckin blah.

Can you point me to one single member on this site who always replies with "obey the speed limit"?

Also, are you happy for every New Zealand road user to be allowed to travel at as fast a speed as they like to? (No, not just motorcyclists - everyone).

[shrub]

A car pulled out from the side of the road, and I soon caught up as it was traveling very slowly. It was also being driven very erratically and was all over the road, so I decided that I wanted to be where that car wasn't and when there was no likely cause for them to turn I accelerated and overtook, and as I rode past I looked in, expecting to see at the least a drunk.

No, a grey haired lady in her 60s eating a big arse ice cream.

She was driving dangerously, and maybe the new campaign would have picked her up and shown her the value of eating icecreams on the side of the road. A speed camera wouldn't have.

[peasea]

Can you point me to one single member on this site who always replies with "obey the speed limit"?

Also, are you happy for every New Zealand road user to be allowed to travel at as fast a speed as they like to? (No, not just motorcyclists - everyone).

Why not? Sounds like fun. Carnage, but fun carnage.

[beyond]

Now lets see..... my close calls over the last few years would be a good start to the sort of people they are likely to pick up on video...
* The farmer on a blind corner coming towards me on my side of the road with his baling forks at chest height juggling a thermo.
* The stupid shit with his family in the car overtaking three cyclists who just had to overtake them on a blind corner who I was so lucky to miss by millimetres who run my mate behind off the road.
* The V8 Holden on the Coro loop full of indigenous people overtaking three cars on a short straight leading into a blind corner which I just happened to come around and nearly have a head on. I did have some fun in the gravel for a few seconds.
* The farmer on a quad bike with his little girl on the front, his wee son on the back and three dogs on my side of the road coming straight at me over a blind rise on the road. Dodging dogs was fun.
* The petrol tanker on the Coro loop who decided a short straight leading to a blind bend was a good spot to overtake farmer brown in his old Toyota. I didn't need a refill so took the off road option.
* The twerp in a Subaru overtaking a line of cars into a corner who decided closing the gap with me at better than 140kmh was better than waiting another second or so for the next straight just around the corner.
* Dozens more close calls I could talk about BUT....

In the end I reckon they'll just settle for getting me as I move a little quicker than a 100 year old geezer on a mobility scooter.

[Katman]

* Dozens more close calls I could talk about BUT....

I wonder why you have so many close calls.

[98tls]

Can you point me to one single member on this site who always replies with "obey the speed limit"?

Also, are you happy for every New Zealand road user to be allowed to travel at as fast a speed as they like to? (No, not just motorcyclists - everyone).

What id love to see is every NZ road user travelling as fast as there allowed to,the bastards that drive well below the speed limits are a right piss off.

[Stormer]

Can you point me to one single member on this site who always replies with "obey the speed limit"?

Also, are you happy for every New Zealand road user to be allowed to travel at as fast a speed as they like to? (No, not just motorcyclists - everyone).

I`m not into naming-and-shaming...the comment was obviously a generalization.
Oh, and judging by the picky response, I gather that you are one of the fine examples who religiously obey and never exceed the posted speed limit??
Good for you.

One question if I may...what cc is your bike?

[Katman]

I`m not into naming-and-shaming...the comment was obviously a generalization.
Oh, and judging by the picky response, I gather that you are one of the fine examples who religiously obey and never exceed the posted speed limit??
Good for you.

One question if I may...what cc is your bike?

You're a laugh. You don't know jack-shit about me.

[Ixion]

Uh, speeding wasn't covered in the "covert" shit. Practically the one thing that couldn't be actually, since there are rules forbidding covert use of speed cameras. If cops spend some time focused on things other than speeding, I'm all for it. The yellow line thing could be a bit dicey for bikes , but other than that the stuff they're talking about , no-one on a bike should be doing anyway.

[Katman]

Uh, speeding wasn't covered in the "covert" shit. Practically the one thing that couldn't be actually, since there are rules forbidding covert use of speed cameras. If cops spend some time focused on things other than speeding, I'm all for it. The yellow line thing could be a bit dicey for bikes , but other than that the stuff they're talking about , no-one on a bike should be doing anyway.

If you honestly believe there's no hidden speed cameras out there you're more deluded than I ever imagined you to be.

[Stormer]

You're a laugh. You don't know jack-shit about me.

No, I don`t.
Should I ??
Are you like a celebrity or something?

And cos I don`t know jack shit about you, tell me... what cc IS your bike???

[98tls]

No, I don`t.
Should I ??
Are you like a celebrity or something?

And cos I don`t know jack shit about you, tell me... what cc IS your bike???

Click his avatar,very tasty it is to.Cant understand wtf CC has to do with anything to be honest though.

[beyond]

Trouble is Ixion, it's not speed cameras and you are quite correct on that score... they are going to be using covert "video" cameras which is apparently a loop hole they are going to use.