AA not happy we're getting off speed camera fines.

**pritch** · 13th January 2017, 15:53

Originally Posted by Voltaire

I was very glad to have an AA Plus Membership when I broke down in Timaru on the way back from the Burt Munro.
AA Contractor promptly turned up, collected the bike and took to their workshop, the AA arranged for it to be shipped to Auckland and put me up in a motel for the night,

I also have AA Plus membership as do others on KB. This twat Stockdale should stick to what he knows - whatever that is.

A while back the AA were sending me questionaires and I was silly enough to respond to some of them. In one I wrote a comment about how motorcyclist were not the enemy of the AA, many motorcyclist were AA members. I guess the message didn't get through.

**FJRider** · 13th January 2017, 15:55

Originally Posted by old slider

What age does this thing called Mid life crisis arrive? my biggest crisis arrived when still young with a pregnant wife, two other little fellas and a mortgage. Most of the grey haired old buggers riding around probably have more riding miles under their extended belt buckles than many younger riders.

How is it possible to die during a mid life crisis ... ???

You die in an end of life crisis ... surely ...

**old slider** · 13th January 2017, 15:56

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**caspernz** · 13th January 2017, 16:04

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

I hit the end of the motorway onramp merge lane at 180kph this morning. IT WAS FUCKING GLORIOUS.

Stuck in second gear huh? Hate it when that happens...

**Berries** · 13th January 2017, 16:04

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

How 'bout Pete Fucking McDonald?

He said hyphen not hymen you twat.

**Crasherfromwayback** · 13th January 2017, 16:06

Originally Posted by Berries

He said hyphen not hymen you twat.

LOl. Fair call!

**Berries** · 13th January 2017, 16:19

I don't see anywhere in the story where it says riders are actually getting away with it, no numbers, no nothing. We all know the guy in a mobile camera van has a camera and will take a photo as you go past. Also pretty certain that if the same bike and rider are photographed front on from the same fixed camera several times taking the piss then they aren't just going to throw the photos away and move on. They will be looking for said bike and rider quite hard.

It's all BS from the AA. Wonder why they brought that up?

**Akzle** · 13th January 2017, 17:04

Originally Posted by cassina

. I am in the MLC age group myself but am not one as I have never given up riding.

yet you've crashed how many times and why?

**george formby** · 13th January 2017, 17:19

Originally Posted by Berries

I don't see anywhere in the story where it says riders are actually getting away with it, no numbers, no nothing. We all know the guy in a mobile camera van has a camera and will take a photo as you go past. Also pretty certain that if the same bike and rider are photographed front on from the same fixed camera several times taking the piss then they aren't just going to throw the photos away and move on. They will be looking for said bike and rider quite hard.

It's all BS from the AA. Wonder why they brought that up?

The AA bloke spouting that waffle probably drives a classic English car with a tartan rug on the rear shelf and no air con. The unfairness to his member he speaks of is no doubt his bloated carcass dripping sweat in creeping traffic with bikes whipping past freely.

The article and suggestion are utter bollocks.

Utter, utter bollocks, no less.

**WristTwister** · 13th January 2017, 17:38

Originally Posted by Jeff Sichoe

i'd rather this than GPS monitoring on all MC's...

In the UK they've been successful fining road users with speed averages using the SPECS system, so say you pass point A, if you're going the speed limit you should not pass Point B for another 2 minutes. If you do, KA-CHING! Fine.

**Scuba_Steve** · 13th January 2017, 18:07

Just remember people, removal of a numberplate is only a screwdriver away

MD · 13th January 2017, 19:17

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

Dodged that bullet. Carl the cheeky bastard from Motorad sent them my way. I sent them back.

Brendon put me in front of the ..rather attractive TV3 Lady but my dribble didn't make the final cut.

I agreed riders should not get away with it, the law is equal to everybody. Just that with only 3% of our road fleet being bikes, and with only a small portion of that 3% probably speeding passed cameras, the effort and use of Police resources to chase these few doesn't justify the public benefit. Far better good would be done if Police targeted phone use while driving, which is a lot more dangerous and prevalent. Thousands of drivers use phones every hour in NZ, while only a handful of riders in any given day would get off a speed camera. I also said technology will catch up soon with more rear facing cameras.

I might send a complaint to the AA though for abusing my subscription with this prejudice behaviour.

EDIT- I sent a scathing message to AA objecting to Mark Stockdale abusing my subscription for his personal crusade and prejudice against a small minority of road users.

**russd7** · 13th January 2017, 19:47

this reminds me of a club ride i was on back when i was a member of the whitestone touring club, we were on a ride to methven (infamously called the methven race), we were cruising through timaru in a group and there was a speed camera sitting on the oppisite side of the road at the north end before the little hill over to washdyke. noone really took much notice until the next club night and one of the members came in bitching and moaning about getting a ticket and wanting to know who else got tickets so we could dispute it as a group, seems he was the only one, funny as hell as he was only on a skirtster with a peanut tank, only place he could have got a ticket.

must have been feeling the pressure to keep up in the middle of the group