Tickets for 4km/h over the speed limit this Queens Birthday weekend

[HenryDorsetCase]

Defiance is all good and proper, but what will it acheive? You'll end up with tickets still, you'll vent, get angry, call the police same names, raise your blood pressure, and then get another ticket. Then repeat the process. I defy the law as well, but if I get caught then fair cop, I knew the rules, I chose to break them, why should the cop get my abuse?

Um because he is a public servant, and its his JOB. Tell him to get you a glass of water to go with your hip flask you're drinking. And to give you some of the donuts in the car. Also, berating them about catching "Real" criminals goes down a treat too. As do bacon and pork references. Hilarious. Honestly, HP cops are known for their senses of humour.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Well its free $150 for them....for me you cannot put price tag on "not being puppet of the system"

what about being a complete twat?

[miloking]

Defiance is all good and proper, but what will it acheive? You'll end up with tickets still, you'll vent, get angry, call the police same names, raise your blood pressure, and then get another ticket. Then repeat the process. I defy the law as well, but if I get caught then fair cop, I knew the rules, I chose to break them, why should the cop get my abuse?

I have not abused single cop while being pulled over ever!.... kind of starting to regret it now.

[onearmedbandit]

yeah yeah, but you are comparing apples and oranges here....

There is a difference in loosing your licence due to 12,000rpm in 4th...5th gear and this: "We will take action against anyone caught driving more than 4 kilometres over the posted permanent speed limit," - National Manager of Road Policing, Superintendent Paula Rose.

How? They are both breaking the law, just by varying amounts. And the fines and demerit points reflect this. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the action they are taking, but can I change it before this weekend? I'd like to think I was that influential but I don't think so. So if I go for a ride this weekend, it's up to me whether I take heed of their warning and ride below 104km/h or ride at above that speed. It really isn't that hard.

[Brian d marge]

Whats the point of owning a fast bike then? To ride around on a sunny day at nannas pace and enjoy scenery and commute to work....(yeah there are track days and racing but thats not for everybody, mainly due to lack of organizers and also what do you do in winter???)

You might as well buy a prius or harley....

Always wondered that , a yamasuki 10000000 when the speed limit is 100 ,,, waste

but seriously 4km is the difference in tyre pressures ( wait till u see and Enfield speedo it HOVERS between 90 and 110 all by itself !)

While I agree with making the populace safer , this is ridiculous REVENUE GATHERING !!!! PURE AND SIMPLE

Stephen

[miloking]

what about being a complete twat?

Does it ever bother you that you mis-spelt Dorsett? Unless of course it actualy your name as well...

[SPman]

I'd say....get used to it. Transport NZ, or whatever they are called, seem to cling enthusiastically to Monash University and Victoria Road Authority guidelines, and, in Victoria, the official tolerance level is 3kph and people are regularly hit at that! Aussie Highway Patrol people are even less tolerant that NZ ones!
Just be thankful, you don't have double demerit points every holiday or long weekend!

[Flip]

Its the cry of the sports bike owner, the boy racer and those stupid late middle aged men in HSV commodes, its "Revenue gathering". No its not, its society (the other 99% of the population) saying 100 kph is fast enough. If you want to free up a whole pile of police resources to investigate other crimes STOP RIDING LIKE A DICK on the road. Hell five or six hundred people die on the roads each year and we still don't get it.

[miloking]

Just be thankful...

... you don't have double demerit points every holiday or long weekend....Yet!

[miloking]

Its the cry of the sports bike owner, the boy racer and those stupid late middle aged men in HSV commodes, its "Revenue gathering". No its not, its society (the other 99% of the population) saying 100 kph is fast enough. If you want to free up a whole pile of police resources to investigate other crimes STOP RIDING LIKE A DICK on the road. Hell five or six hundred people die on the roads each year and we still don't get it.

NONE of those 600 people died because "I" went bit fast down the highway on my bike...so your argument is invalid!

And how i treat my life is nobody elses business but my own!

[Reckless]

Ride at 95 and you'll never have a problem.

Except from the vehicle trying to pass you doing 103.9? LOL!!

[Ragingrob]

I'd say....get used to it. Transport NZ, or whatever they are called, seem to cling enthusiastically to Monash University and Victoria Road Authority guidelines, and, in Victoria, the official tolerance level is 3kph and people are regularly hit at that! Aussie Highway Patrol people are even less tolerant that NZ ones!
Just be thankful, you don't have double demerit points every holiday or long weekend!

Yes but also many of the speed limits in Victoria sit at 60/80/110, as opposed to 50/70/100.

[miloking]

Yes but also many of the speed limits in Victoria sit at 60/80/110, as opposed to 50/70/100.

Fuck it i say remove the tolerance altogether i hate this guessing game, limit is a limit (arbitrary or not) but review the limits...some roads realy do deserve 80 but most major motorways could do with 120 or 130 with no problems...

[HenryDorsetCase]

Does it ever bother you that you mis-spelt Dorsett? Unless of course it actualy your name as well...

So you've read the book. Still one of my favourites, I read it probably once every 18 months. In terms of development as a writer, I like the Blue Ant ones the best. You know the third Blue Ant book is due this year? September I think.

The very first interweb forum I signed up on had a character limit for screen names, which meant that the spaces, and the second t got dropped. I just carried on.

So now you know.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I'd say....get used to it. Transport NZ, or whatever they are called, seem to cling enthusiastically to Monash University and Victoria Road Authority guidelines, and, in Victoria, the official tolerance level is 3kph and people are regularly hit at that! Aussie Highway Patrol people are even less tolerant that NZ ones!
Just be thankful, you don't have double demerit points every holiday or long weekend!

They're also armed and wear those badass mirror pilot shades. And moustaches.