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[Max Preload]

i use my high beam when riding in high density before/after work traffic. also use around schools when the kids are out. ive found that this has stopped many vehicles, including school buses, from pulling out on top of me a number of times.

Interesting. I use my headlight on low beam to prevent being attacked by bears. Seems to work flawlessly - I've never been attacked.

[vifferman]

I sometimes follow a big twin through the traffic (and he's got loudish pipes). Amazing how much more of a gap opens up for him.

And I've been communtering by car and got a hell of a fright when a loud bike has suddenly materialised right beside me. The noise doesn't necessarily carry well in all directions.

[Dave Lobster]

And I've been communtering by car and got a hell of a fright when a loud bike has suddenly materialised right beside me. The noise doesn't necessarily carry well in all directions.

Some people just ride like cocks.. Would it have given you as much of a fright if it had just 'appeared' next to you?

[Marmoot]

If 110kph is likely to result in death and destruction, then 100 is too.

FFS stop giving THEM ideas! We'd soon be moving at a standstill.

Green Party: "Here's an idea, let's ban petrol and cars"
Labour Party: "Jolly good! It'll solve our spiralling cost, importation, traffic woes, and road tolls too!"
Public: "Hail Caesar! Hail! Hail!"

[MaxB]

You are right. Something as simple as learning to handle a vehicle could be taught from when young dickey first gets his licence. Anyone who saw the latest episode of Top Gear would have seen that the Finns have to spend (something like) six driving lessons on a skid pad.

Why bikers do a basic skills handling test yet drivers don't is just mind boggling to me.

Agreed. I saw that Top Gear. They are on a restricted for 3 years, do skid pan training, night driving, motorway driving etc. Puts us to shame.

So the Finns have a 120kmh speed limit, highly trained drivers, lower accident rates than NZ in truly shitty weather and have heaps more world motorsprort champions than us. Hmm

[Grahameeboy]

Interesting. I use my headlight on low beam to prevent being attacked by bears. Seems to work flawlessly - I've never been attacked.

Thats cause there are no bears in Auckland anymore....last one was in Devonport years ago

[phoenixgtr]

There are 2 problems with NZ drivers:
1. Our attitudes (and I'm saying "our" cause I am a NZ driver). We think it's our right to drive, not privelige. We don't care about others on the road and we drive however we feel like it, oh and we're all brilliant drivers. Personally, I try to separate myself from this attitude.
2. Driver training. It's apalling that someone can get right the way through their licence, from learner to full, without ever having to do any driver training. It's no wonder the average NZer has the driving skill of a drumming gorilla!! We need to take a leaf out of the Finnish book and have proper advanced driver training. If you can't control a car in a slide, etc., then you can't have a licence. See ya later.

[MSTRS:Me]

There are 2 problems with NZ drivers:

You speak for yourself. Now - get outa my way, sheepshagger....

[HenryDorsetCase]

Tthe average NZer has the driving skill of a drumming gorilla!!

Hey: no more insults to the bloody gorillas, OK? That gorilla on the drums has a great sense of rhythm, and timing and is co ordinating using all his hands and feet at the same time: your average NZ driver is utterly incapable of doing either.

Don't make me get all Sigourney Weaver* on your ass!








*Sigourney W in Alien and Aliens = badass, and also starred in "Gorillas in the mist" the Diane Fossey Bio-pic.

[Headbanger]

Great stuff.

I'll take the bike out this arvo, I'll pull up beside cars and my loud as hell pipes to get their attention, They will look to see wtf all the noise is about, and I'll blind the fuckers with my high beam.


Muhahahahahaha.

[Spyke]

Actually, unfortunately, there is some truth to this.
Kinetic energy (a fair measure of how much you smash yourself up when you hit) = half M times V squared.
i.e. it's proportional to the square of your speed.
Brakes tyres etc are closer to linear when it comes to disposing of Kinetic energy. What this means is that you have to ditch quite a bit more energy to lose 10 kph at 100 kph than you do to lose 10 kph at 50 kph, but your brakes can't allow for the difference.
To put this another way, slowing from 100 to 90 requires the loss of more energy than slowing from 50 to 40 (a lot more actually).
It also explains why your brakes appear to be more effective at lower speeds.
So it's sad but true that an extra 10 kph can make a disproportionate difference to how hard you hit.

true but when your bike/car is exceptional at stopping quickly from over 200kmph it shouldn't really matter. And if your alert you can get on the brakes that much quicker anyway rendering the less alert and slower person in more danger than you anyway?

[dipshit]

Not stupid....there is however a no responsibility attitude here....ACC being one example...

Land Transport have a lot to answer by inadequate education in the past and ineffective adverts...classic eg.."Indicate for 3 secs before moving" is not much time and there is no where saying that you must not cause someone to serve, stop etc...they just expect the other person to get out of the way...

Number of times a driver has forced themselves into my lane knowing I am there....attitude...

And I think you would find that the road code states that you must dip your headlight when close to other traffic.

[Jantar]

...Number of times a driver has forced themselves into my lane knowing I am there....attitude...

But if you have your lights on high beam there's a very good chance that the driver doesn't know you are there.

Dipshit makes a good point about the road code forbidding the use of high beam when near other vehicles, and the reason for that is because high beam masks everything in the eyes of the driver who tries to look at it.

[wbks]

OMG. No way

Cause like the difference between 100 and 110 is like gliding to a stop or smashing into a brick wall!

-Indy

Actually, the difference between each km/h does increase steadily as you start getting closer to 100km/h. It's not quite like a crash at 200 will do double the damage done at 100 (it'll do worse), and so the difference between 100 and 110 for example is actually quite a lot. Everyone sits on 110 though, and thats why they target this speed. If they only advertised 260 as dangerous what difference would it make?

[Headbanger]

If they only advertised 260 as dangerous what difference would it make?

I swear to never take my HD up to 260km'h.