Speed - what slows you down?

[AllanB]

Rider AB has dragged himself out of bed, the day is a stunner, no wind and heading towards 28 degrees. I'm going for a spin - to break in the new helmet I purchased myself for Christmas you understand A watchful will be kept on the dial with the numbers on it.

[BlackSheepLogic]

Rider AB has dragged himself out of bed, the day is a stunner, no wind and heading towards 28 degrees. I'm going for a spin - to break in the new helmet I purchased myself for Christmas you understand A watchful will be kept on the dial with the numbers on it.

I was out on the bike Christmas day, roads were very quite and several police cruising on a road I usually see at most one.

What Helmet did you get?

[GrayWolf]

Rider D just cant be fucked with fools, and cruises on past riders A,B,C arguing with the rozza at the side of the road and has a really enjoyable ride knowing he can read all about the fools bad day on KB when he gets home.

Rider E also just cruises on past, plus has a bike that doesnt look like a 'rossi wannabe' owns it, carries on 'thumping' up the road, till out in the backroads where a pleasant afternoons ride will ensue.

[Hugo Nougo]

What slows me down?, good front brakes, haven't touched the rear since last century. Also someones rear seat unit, on the road past twin lakes lookout on the way to the rimutakas, stopped and propped it up under a sign off the road about 9.30am, the other thing that slowed me down this morning was as I took off south from the lookout I couldn't help but keep accelerating, until I saw a nice man in a police car coming up the hill, I say nice because I appreciate the warning rather than the ticket.

[awayatc]

Nice........?
he was doing something else,
or on his way to somewhere else more likely....

last reliable report of traffic cop being nice was last millennium. ...

[swbarnett]

Rider C rides above the speed limit on straights and in corners..... How can police distinguish between rider A and C? If there is a speed limit, there will always be the safe riders and drivers being ticketed.

True. Which of course brings us to the point that straight line speed as in my example is no determinant of how safe a rider is. Being above the limit on the straights may actually make one a safer rider. A speed limit is simply an ineffectual tool for the purpose.

[swbarnett]

last reliable report of traffic cop being nice was last millennium. ...

How's this - Doing 90kph in a 70 the cop coming towards me turned their lights on and then turned them off when I got below 70 and carried on their merry way.

[Madness]

Being above the limit on the straights may actually make one a safer rider.

Right. So following this logic, can one assume that the ultimate in safe riding in your opinion might be lane splitting above the posted speed limit where possible?

[swbarnett]

Right. So following this logic, can one assume that the ultimate in safe riding in your opinion might be lane splitting above the posted speed limit where possible?

Now you're just reading too much in to my statement. If you look hard you'll notice that I said "may". It all depends on context. My only point is that any kind of speed enforcement will catch both those that are and those that aren't.

[scumdog]

How's this - Doing 90kph in a 70 the cop coming towards me turned their lights on and then turned them off when I got below 70 and carried on their merry way.

I have heard similar such activity happens a lot more than most realise..apparently...

[Madness]

Now you're just reading too much in to my statement. If you look hard you'll notice that I said "may". It all depends on context. My only point is that any kind of speed enforcement will catch both those that are and those that aren't.

One doesn't simply read too much into one of your statements. The self-justification in many of your posts is clear for all and sundry to see.

Might I suggest that any kind of speed enforcement will probably just catch those operating a vehicle at a speed higher than that of the posted limit and whether the operator of this vehicle is in your opinion safe, safer or perhaps unsafe is completely irrelevant. To argue otherwise is the realm of sandal-wearing hippies and dickheads that haven't learned how to play the game yet.

[scumdog]

Might I suggest that any kind of speed enforcement will probably just catch those operating a vehicle at a speed higher than that of the posted limit and whether the operator of this vehicle is in your opinion safe, safer or perhaps unsafe is completely irrelevant. To argue otherwise is the realm of sandal-wearing hippies and dickheads that haven't learned how to play the game yet.

A close parallel to the drink-driving enforcement..

[Flip]

Think I will go for a spin in the low reflected radar car with the rozza detector and a radio to listen to the rozzas vile FM eminations. Just to see who is out on patrol on the east cape.

[AllanB]

Might I suggest that any kind of speed enforcement will probably just catch those operating a vehicle at a speed higher than that of the posted limit and whether the operator of this vehicle is in your opinion safe, safer or perhaps unsafe is completely irrelevant. To argue otherwise is the realm of sandal-wearing hippies and dickheads that haven't learned how to play the game yet.

Well sais - that's a given right?????? Surely? The old officer I was in the engines 'sweet spot' does not cut it when pulled over (did it ever?).


I was behaving today (roads were busy) the worst case of dickisum I witnessed was 140 kms later after I'd topped up with fuel and 1.5 kms from home - bunch of T-shirt wearing hero's on American iron doing 70 plus in a 60 passing multiple vehicles into incoming traffic on centerlines and a blind corner. Would have served them right it someone in front turned right .... or one was a mufti cop.

[scumdog]

Think I will go for a spin in the low reflected radar car with the rozza detector and a radio to listen to the rozzas vile FM eminations. Just to see who is out on patrol on the east cape.

There was an article in the ODT where a reporter went out with the cop.
They stopped a few for bad driving and a few for speeding.
Cop said home-grown bad drivers way outnumbered imported ones.

The fastest speed the cop got somebody for was 123kph.
The idiot had a radar detector.
And his cruise-control set at 110kph.
Way to go!!!