Te Kuiti cop: taking him 2 court

**slamdog** · 12th October 2008, 21:59

Originally Posted by Mom

Stop and take a few breaths mate! Seriously you need to slow down. If you ride like you post you were way over the limit. A few commas and full stops would have helped slow you down, and make it easier for us to read what your post was about

Constructive as always

Ok, so three weeks ago you got a ticket for speeding, you now have a radar detector so you can "slow down" if you are about to get pinged. Crazy thought here, have you actually thought about obeying the speed limit?

sorry for not being perfect with my spelling but I do my best as I am alliterate if that's ok with YOU

and my POINT is I WAS NOT SPEEDING so I was doing the speed limit

**slamdog** · 12th October 2008, 22:22

Originally Posted by henry

Sure the ticket wasn't for punctuation, grammar and spelling?

Unless your plate was totally illegible then I wouldn't be such a hurry to pay that either. I've looked and can't find anything that states the specs for a legal number plate.

When you say 'blipped it past' what exactly does that mean?

when I blipped it past, we came out of the corner I went from under 70ks up to 100ks and pulled back in.
Before going into the corner the cop was still a long way back and once you are around the corner there is a big ass hill you go behind and it was after this that I past so even if I was speeding at that point I would have not been picked up.
The cop said I was doing 115ks ALL the way down the strait

**Boob Johnson** · 12th October 2008, 22:30

Originally Posted by slamdog

when I blipped it past, we came out of the corner I went from under 70ks up to 100ks and pulled back in.
Before going into the corner the cop was still a long way back and once you are around the corner there is a big ass hill you go behind and it was after this that I past so even if I was speeding at that point I would have not been picked up.
The cop said I was doing 115ks ALL the way down the strait

He's got to have a reading, right?

Did he mention anything about double yellows etc? Or was it just speeding?

If that's exactly how it went down SD then fair play to you. Certainly helped in more ways than one to have a radar aye

**slamdog** · 12th October 2008, 22:36

When people say its your own fault for speeding, I FULL AGREE.
You do the crime then don't mown when you have to do the time.

But as I am 100 percent certain that I was not speeding I WILL BE FU#KED if im going to do the time.

**Slyer** · 12th October 2008, 22:41

I don't know why you're bothering to censor your swear words.
And yeah, being wrongfully fined sucks ass. Letting it slide encourages them.

**slamdog** · 12th October 2008, 22:43

Originally Posted by Boob Johnson

He's got to have a reading, right?

Did he mention anything about double yellows etc? Or was it just speeding?

If that's exactly how it went down SD then fair play to you. Certainly helped in more ways than one to have a radar aye

No first thing was the number plate the next was the speed that's it.

And I only mentioned the radar because that is one more thing I was using as proof

**Patar** · 12th October 2008, 22:45

Originally Posted by Grub

If he didn't offer you the opportunity to look at it ... it didn't exist..

p.s. How sure are you that your speedo isn't reading 10kmh low? Have you (or a previous owner) ever changed either sprockets or tyres from standard?

To drag this off topic, but how on earth would changing the sprockets make the speedo read wrong? Correct my if I am misinformed by the speed is measured by the rpm of the front wheel, so only changes in the diameter of the front wheel will affect the speedo reading? right?

**Boob Johnson** · 12th October 2008, 22:52

Originally Posted by slamdog

No first thing was the number plate the next was the speed that's it.

And I only mentioned the radar because that is one more thing I was using as proof

Yeah all good, was ignoring the plate thing as you said, twas pushing it. The speeding is a separate thing. He hasn't a reading, he hasn't cited you for dangerous riding, crossing double yellows hex cet era hex cet era. He should get a rather big slap on the botty for having that put before the courts. What a waste of our tax payers dollars, the current gubber mint don't need any help in doing that

**slamdog** · 12th October 2008, 22:57

Originally Posted by Patar

To drag this off topic, but how on earth would changing the sprockets make the speedo read wrong? Correct my if I am misinformed by the speed is measured by the rpm of the front wheel, so only changes in the diameter of the front wheel will affect the speedo reading? right?

On different bikes it can be from the front wheel, back wheel, or of the end of the drive shaft that has the front sprocket on it.

My one is of the back wheel and I will be getting it cheeked and using this in my evidence.
If I am wrong about my Speedo I will stop and apologize to the cop and get a pic of me doing so and post it on here.

**Conquiztador** · 12th October 2008, 23:14

I hate to say this, but doing 101 in a 100 zone is speeding...

**TimeOut** · 13th October 2008, 06:04

Originally Posted by Patar

To drag this off topic, but how on earth would changing the sprockets make the speedo read wrong? Correct my if I am misinformed by the speed is measured by the rpm of the front wheel, so only changes in the diameter of the front wheel will affect the speedo reading? right?

On a lot of modern bikes the speedo reading is taken from the out put shaft of the gearbox, so changing sprockets makes a big difference.

As for the cop if he wants to lie your screwed, even if he shows you a speed how do you know it's yours (this sounds more likely as he didn't have it on down the straight) In some countries the radar unit takes a photo when the speed is locked we need this here