Tailgating: What do you do?

[MSTRS:Me]

So a ride out to the open road area, a u-turn, a ride across to the opposite open road area, a u-turn, and a ride home is 2km worth of 50km/h road to learn/practice on.

Pfft! And just how much learning is anyone to get in that scenario? Dealing with intersections is a valuable skill, but an urban environment is not usually the best thing for a newbie rider...so much happening around them, hard to learn gear/clutch/brake/balance/etc.

You can also put your L plate on and ride 20 mins (it's only 20 mins) at 70km/h to this off-road tarmac area to spend more time practicing. While you're riding at 70km/h, you can courteously allow people who legally are allowed to go faster than 70km/h to pass you when it's safe. If you CHOOSE to break the law because you believe/feel it is safer to ride at 100km/h, it's your choice. Just don't come on here and bitch about getting a ticket

Defending the legality or not of exceeding 70kph is pointless, since it's going.

[cbfb]

So a ride out to the open road area, a u-turn, a ride across to the opposite open road area, a u-turn, and a ride home is 2km worth of 50km/h road to learn/practice on. You can also put your L plate on and ride 20 mins (it's only 20 mins) at 70km/h to this off-road tarmac area to spend more time practicing. While you're riding at 70km/h, you can courteously allow people who legally are allowed to go faster than 70km/h to pass you when it's safe. If you CHOOSE to break the law because you believe/feel it is safer to ride at 100km/h, it's your choice. Just don't come on here and bitch about getting a ticket

Personally I stick to quiet roads (loads of them to choose from) where you'd be suprised to meet another vehicle. And I keep an 'L' on at all times (pay enough tax as it is) and do a max of 80. And I pull over if someone is behind me, same as when I'm towing. I don't want to be run off the road by some idiot who's desparate to shave 5 seconds off his journey, or someone who just doesn't understand stopping distances.

Yep you're right even in a tiny town like this there is a lot to be picked up just from riding round (and round) the block.

My original post was it doesn't make sense to say "stay off 100kmph roads" for us who live in the sticks. If I did that I'd never get my 6R (test centre is in Palmy)!

[steve_t]

Personally I stick to quiet roads (loads of them to choose from) where you'd be suprised to meet another vehicle. And I keep an 'L' on at all times (pay enough tax as it is) and do a max of 80. And I pull over if someone is behind me, same as when I'm towing. I don't want to be run off the road by some idiot who's desparate to shave 5 seconds off his journey, or someone who just doesn't understand stopping distances.

Yep you're right even in a tiny town like this there is a lot to be picked up just from riding round (and round) the block.

My original post was it doesn't make sense to say "stay off 100kmph roads" for us who live in the sticks. If I did that I'd never get my 6R (test centre is in Palmy)!

Sounds like you're doing everything right and have a good head on those shoulders. Hope the time flies by and you can get your 6R soon. In the mean time, it's good to hear that you're doing everything in your control to be safe

[cbfb]

Sounds like you're doing everything right and have a good head on those shoulders. Hope the time flies by and you can get your 6R soon. In the mean time, it's good to hear that you're doing everything in your control to be safe

Cheers

[Pascal]

I've got 500m of 50mph zone surrounding my house then you're out into 100mph zone. And the nearest flat area of off-road tarmac to practice on is a 20min ride away.

What's the fine for 80km/h in a 50km/h zone? Especially when combined with the fine for exceeding the (As of yet current, not yet removed) learning license conditions?

[cbfb]

What's the fine for 80km/h in a 50km/h zone? Especially when combined with the fine for exceeding the (As of yet current, not yet removed) learning license conditions?

These links might be useful:

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/ro...-the-line.html

https://www.police.govt.nz/faq/items/15329

But I'd be more worried about hurting myself going at that pace in an urban area.

[Pascal]

But I'd be more worried about hurting myself going at that pace in an urban area.

I was trying to poke fun at Superman and his mph

[cbfb]

I was trying to poke fun at Superman and his mph

It's being a pom, I get confused about mph

[DangerMice]

Me, I personally let them go past, then quietly catch up to them, passing them just before a certain high revenue speed camera, causing them to plant boot in a show of manly man-ness thus getting snapped by said camera. (as happened this morning).

[fuknKIWI]

I remember reading a similar thread a few years back (elswhere) someone suggested using a squirt bottle with a certain (I can't remember what) clear fluid in it, when the tailgater gets close you squirt this liquid over your shoulder, hopefully on their windscreen. All's well until they hit the windscreen wipers that's when the fluid turns a milky opaque mess & they have to stop & wipe it off, it's a fairly well known industrial fluid it may or may not be carbon tetrachloride...

[mattian]

Why would I have to stay off the road if I'm going 80? I drive at 80 in my car when I'm fuel saving. And we're talking about in the country here, very few straights. Lots of blind corners and thin roads. I have to either pull over or make them wait for a straight.

This is the kind of driver where if I was doing 100 she would have been up my ass anyway wanting to go 120-140.

Are we talking about a 100 km/hour area? if you're only doing 80.... then for goodness sakes just move out of the way and let them pass. I would get fucked off too if you did that to me. 100 kms/hour area is the maximum speed you should be doing in good conditions. Tailgating is an offence but so is impedeing the flow of traffic by going too slow.