So hypothetically, you find yourself being chased by a helicopter

**superman** · 29th May 2011, 14:46

Originally Posted by Usarka

Guess what the chopper pilot is going to do if you get on the motorway and go 300kph?

Radio a cop car to cut you off. Road Spikes!

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Not a chance in the world of them doing that. Far too dangerous to road spike a motorcycle.

**superman** · 29th May 2011, 14:47

Originally Posted by scumdog

I guess you could programme your GPS to notify you when approaching a convenient 'long thick line of trees' at 90 degrees to your travel direction?

(So you can start frying your brakes slowing from 300kph in anticipation of the 90 degree turn)

I wasn't being detailed about it was I?

It could be a casual left hand bend, as long as the road lies perpindicular to the direction of helicopter travel and the sooner you can get behind the trees the better.

Eagle ain't got no thermal

**jaffaonajappa** · 29th May 2011, 14:49

Originally Posted by superman

Eagle ain't got no thermal

Portable thermal imaging gear works well nowadays....and is cheap.
Are you sure?

**Usarka** · 29th May 2011, 14:49

Originally Posted by superman

Not a chance in the world of them doing that. Far too dangerous to road spike a motorcycle.

Less dangerous than a squid on a rocket at 300kph on the busiest road in the country being chased by Roy Scheider in blue thunder and rossco P coltraine and enus bringing up the rear on the ground going hell for leather aftter the general Lee?

**unstuck** · 29th May 2011, 14:50

Ghostrider does. Dare you to,go on.Heres what you really should do. Up the northen motorway as fast as possible, turn off at lonely track rd, left onto east coast rd,fang it down here until you get to haigh acsess rd over the walkway bridge into the okura reserve,run through the bush to the point, swim across the okura river into okura steal a car and then drive back into town. TOO EASY.

**jaffaonajappa** · 29th May 2011, 14:53

Originally Posted by unstuck

Ghostrider does. Dare you to,go on.Heres what you really should do. Up the northen motorway as fast as possible, turn off at lonely track rd, left onto east coast rd,fang it down here until you get to haigh acsess rd over the walkway bridge into the okura reserve,run through the bush to the point, swim across the okura river into okura steal a car and then drive back into town. TOO EASY.

Damn. Thats detailed. Youve thought this through!!!!

**scumdog** · 29th May 2011, 14:53

IS there anywhere in NZ that 15 kilometres can be covered as a consistant 300kh?

And that 6.6km lead on the chopper would be eaten up p.d.q. as you brake to get at right-angles to original direction of travel.

(being bored and childish here)

**superman** · 29th May 2011, 14:55

Originally Posted by scumdog

IS there anywhere in NZ that 15 kilometres can be covered as a consistant 300kh?

And that 6.6km lead on the chopper would be eaten up p.d.q. as you brake to get at right-angles to original direction of travel.

(being bored and childish here)

Well what are your superior ideas in this hypothetical situation then?

**superman** · 29th May 2011, 14:57

Originally Posted by jaffaonajappa

Portable thermal imaging gear works well nowadays....and is cheap.
Are you sure?

Maybe they do and are just being sneaky, they have night vision. I'm just getting this from the police website so maybe they have rockets on it as well as a machine gun that we know not of.

**unstuck** · 29th May 2011, 14:57

Originally Posted by jaffaonajappa

Damn. Thats detailed. Youve thought this through!!!!

Tried it,damn choppers are good. Shhhh.

**scumdog** · 29th May 2011, 14:58

Originally Posted by superman

Well what are your superior ideas then in this hypothetical situation then?

Hypothetically I'd weigh the odds for a second or two.

And stop anyway.

My Superglide won't do 300kph.

**Usarka** · 29th May 2011, 14:59

Head for the Waikato (never thought I'd ever say that).

Plenty of fog.

**Latte** · 29th May 2011, 16:46

Originally Posted by Usarka

Head for the Waikato (never thought I'd ever say that).

Plenty of fog.

So just call time when you need to stop for gas?

**MarkH** · 29th May 2011, 18:35

Into the CBD, into an underground parking building, ditch the bike, ditch the leathers & helmet, casually exit the building before the cops arrive and walk into the midst of the biggest crowd you can find - if the heli does have thermal imaging it won't help them in that situation.

This works best if it's a stolen bike, otherwise you'd better report your bike stolen ASAP.