Fair enough in theory, although speedos are far more often biased on the generous side. Chances are you were doing below 90.Originally Posted by Quasievil
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Fair enough in theory, although speedos are far more often biased on the generous side. Chances are you were doing below 90.
Forum whore
Possibly the same cops I was behind for 97 kms from Hokitika. The only times they ever went less than 105 - 110 was through towns (50) or roadworks (30). Many places they were up to 120+, we (several bikes en-route to Brass) just maintained a reasonable distance behind.
Amazingly neither the cops nor us bikers died in horrfic crashes! Could it be there is some other factor - like the one death of the weekend (allegedly) after the driver was on the piss all night
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
troglodytam extraordinaire
Fair enough.
What i was going on about was the comment about "everyone else can get fucked"
Read what i post and remember what you have and we will all be on the same page.
Forum whore
When I got my licence in 1968 the open road speed limit was 55 MPH - with metrication it was rounded up to 100Km/H - (60 MPH). It did get dropped to 80 as part of a fuel saving measure, along with carless days, by Muldoon govt, but that was always meant to be temporary, and was nothing to do with road safetyIxion might help here, I cannot remember.
But it was about '85 it eventually reached 100kph - along with dire warnings about how it would be strctly enforced - which people at the time thought 'fair enough, we're allowed to go faster so we don't mind the enforcing'.
Only now it IS being enforced they DO mind....
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
troglodytam extraordinaire
Sorry it was "Besides if some fucker cant handle sitting behind me at 95kmph then thats there problem, I dont give a rats arse"
I should listen to what i say sometimes.
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Nah not likely as everyone was being very good on the weekend, and I wasn't holding up traffic, as everyone was doing a similar speed
Ive run out of fucks to give
Forum whore
Fair enough, I actually dont give a rats arse tho, I dont think the speed differential of 5kmph is a holding up the traffic scenario, and it certainly wasnt on the weekend as I simply didnt impede traffic, if someone wanted to do 120kmph then thats their decision, Im not swerving off the road to satisfy the arrogant prick he can wait for a safe place to pass.
Besides its my road, I own it
Ive run out of fucks to give
NEDWN VIII
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Highway Biker
If my memory serves me correctly, and to be fair the mid 80s to mid 90s are a hazy period for me, the open-road speed limit was dropped to 80 km somewhere around '90-'92 for a year or two in an attempt to reduce the speed limit. My recollection is that this was returned to 100km when the govt saw that the reduction in speed did not lead to a reduction in crashes.
Correct me if I'm wrong....
[CENTER]Whatchu talkin bout Willis?
Forum whore
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/fuel-price...ectid=10517835
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
Forum whore
Two deaths today. Road toll was just running a day late. That's what happens when you stick to speed limits .You end up late for your own funeral .
Just faidin away!
True!
The roads themselves here are the only things that have not progressed at the same pace as everything else and as a result traffic becomes congested and drivers become erratic at peak hour pressures!
100 KPH is quite a fast speed and if able to be maintained consistantly without undue restriction, you have to go very fast without breaks or stoppages to make any headway on that, even over a very long distance!
Before I retired, I used to travel between 80 to 90,000Km per year, all over the South Island and found that the faster you tried to travel the higher the toll physically and mentally on arrival.
Anything over five hours driving and I would try to use the air services but they didn't go to many of the places I had to go to, so I would have to drive!
Where ever possible I took my bike instead of my company car, not so much to travel faster but to get there quicker because of the lack of hold ups on the road for a bike.
Every small stop over a long trip for fuel, food and ablutions, costs you dearly so add on bad roads, congested traffic, weather and idiots,time soon fritters away.
The congestion of today is never more noticeable than at the "cheap" road improvement's called "passing lanes"!
IMHO If the police were really concerned about safety they could begin by educating the dumb bastard's who speed up and close up these passing lanes and then revert back to slow speeds and re congesting the normal width road again.
It's getting worse because the ones who do it get away with it and is now just a fuck you Jack free for all and the trucks are just as bad as the cars too!
You have to travel as close to the vehicle in front as you can or some halfwit thinks he has a god given right to claim the gap and push you out of it!
Trying to go slower and let everyone else pass you at every given opportunity because time is not such a factor because you are retired, is as good as trying to commit suicide, the impatience and aggravation multiplies expeditiously the more you try to help them get past!
100 KPH, give or take 10 KPH is a reasonable open speed limit, especially with empowered Cop's with good safety attitudes that keep the traffic moving safely on duty!
Gestapo arseholes with a quota books to fill by pinging otherwise law abiding citizens and pissing them off, does nothing for road safety IMHO.
Then again, maybe I am just out of date too!
Forum whore
I keep forgetting this is Kiwibiker and I assume intelligence amongst the membership................my bad.
If only people read what is written instead of what aint.
Ive run out of fucks to give
Forum whore
I keep forgetting this is Kiwibiker and I assume intelligence amongst the membership................my bad.
If only people read what is written instead of what aint.
Ive run out of fucks to give
In the riders seat
Thats obviously because they shifted back to the 10kph over tolerance
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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