Possible speed/photo camera work around?

[ogmudbone]

i saw a video on onw of those tv shows where the guy anounced he was a cop and the hp officer drew his weapon and demanded the offenders fire arm for "safety"..lol usually the highway patrol and state police do not like the regular police too much in my experience.



OG

[waricle]

For those of you who don't know the Pacific Highway AKA "The Goat Track" is our national disgrace.

It has killed more people than The Plague.

The majority is still is a single lane "highway" with overtaking lanes  every few miles.

The traffic, and there is lots, is everything from B-Doubles to Grey Nomads and dickheads on them fast  motorbikes.

The slowest vehicle therefore regulates the traffic flow.

I have experienced being in a line of traffic some 200 cars long behind some Fuckwit  (I apologise for the
profanity but it is the only way to describe these species)

Every time these Fuckwits approach the overtaking lane they speed up from their normal cruising speed of 70-80 kph to over 100- the speed limit-

This requires either speeding to overtake or passing illegally or getting pissed off. Really really pissed off.

So they put up speed cameras in the "interest of safety"- and if they are really lucky they can find the bottom of a hill to locate it.

I could go on but you get the idea.

[FJSpringy]

as highway patrol officer said to us over coffee at a local coffee stop just north of Sydney a few weeks back,"its their job to take our licenses and its our job to loose them"

Its a game and all is fair on both sides, when you think about how often we get away with our speeding etc, we are winning   and its a game I must admit I willingly play.

a few guys I know have flip up number plates and that can work if you can out run a patrol car ( quite possible north of Sydney if your an idiot ).

[the fan]

Eating lunch with a friend and his wife out on one of our local backroad runs, sitting across from us a group of riders was loudly bitching about cops and how they were being harassed by "the Man".

Hutch looks over and ask them where they had been riding and how many of them had received a ticket. They began to spin the usual tales of woe along with tales of just how skilled and experienced they were. (most were not born yet when I graduated high school) a few went on to rant about the "asshole" locals and how they all needed to mind their own business not to mention the whole FTP thing. Hutch agreed that most cops were dicks, and proceeded to inform them about every police jurisdiction they had passed through, and the average number of complaints that come in every weekend along those same routes. He went on to tell them the number of accidents reported every year by bikes along the usual riding routes.

It took a surprisingly long time for the group to figure out that Hutch was indeed one of those dicks they wanted to F....

As we paid our bill, his wife walked over to the group and mentioned "do you really thing the cops don't know what is going on out here, and when you will be passing through?". All she got in answer was a bunch of blank stares.

[rktmanfj]

They began to spin the usual tales of woe along with tales of just how skilled and experienced they were. (most were not born yet when I graduated high school)

you old fart...             

[FJSpringy]

As we paid our bill, his wife walked over to the group and mentioned "do you really thing the cops don't know what is going on out here, and when you will be passing through?".

quite right, we have coffee with the cops on a regular basis, with a coffee in their hand they are reasonable blokes, it's when they get back in their car they get their work faces on.

As I said its a game we all play, you take your chances and you win or you loose, actually if you took the cops out of the equation I really don't think riding our usual roads would be half as much fun.

People have to realise there is no harassment on the part of the cops, they are just doing their job and they believe in what they are doing, you cannot take it personally, if you get caught its just your day and you deal with it.

[Kopfjaeger]

i read with interest. it  amazes me sometimes. people forget the basics. i like to go fast yes, i get angry at cagers ( had a bloke who i was riding next to today, like right next to the drivers door, and he just pulled over on me till i had just enough room to brake and just miss his ute tray and beep my horn, scared me senseless but he just waved, " sorry"..... coulda killed him but i pointed to his mirrors , he gave ME the finger and drove off at speed with unsecured load in the back rattling round.)
the rules
your licence enables you to travel on paved surfaces so designed, but when you got your licence did you get your race licence at the same time?
people are idots ( me included) in/on anything.
dickheads abound
the cops do the job they do if we didnt have them well?.......
and if cops are so bad what system do you propse to replace them?
sorry for the rant but it gets on my tits when people complain and offer no alternative.
i think it just gets down to operating your motorcycle properly and you can have fun riding at the speed limit, not as much fun but still, is it about speed or the journey undertaken? also i find that ringing the neck of my effy is fun but detrimental to its health, its happy to cruise at 4 grand 110....
if you want to go fast go to a track, if you dont want to go to a track get a dirt bike.... trails enable you to go quickish and cost s less when you bin it
lead by example
yes im being hypocritical but im trying to get better.........
sorry for the rant once again

[candieandy]

Funny you mention the idea of saying your a police officer. I live in Michigan and that practice is a full fledged normal thing. My old girlfriend's dad was the head of the detective's unit in our county and I never got a single speeding ticket while dating her. And she didn't either, so i would say thats true. In michigan its a little different on a bike. If you are on the highway the state patrol leave you alone.  i drive 100 miles a day going 20+ miles over the speed limit and pass them. they just watch you go by knowing they have no intention of pursuing you. then you get to the county police, who until last summer would pursue at any speed. and the local cops would too. but last summer a kid lead a hi-speed chase and the cops got into huge trouble, because he ended up crashing. The problem is that Michigan passed a law protecting bikers. If you are traveling over 110MPH , the police are to let you go because if  they pursue, chances are you will go faster  and then  you become more of a danger. so they just let you alone. its funky, but true. and then you have to remember there are always the new young cops that are green. lol i like the police but they need leave the machines faster then theirs alone.

[Ratchet_72]

i have found myself trying to be more considerate of the cagers in the last few years.....mostly by riding on roads where they arent.

Could not agree more.  Cagers don't really drive the fun roads in the boonies anyway.

[racerman_27410]

i have found myself trying to be more considerate of the cagers in the last few years.....mostly by riding on roads where they arent.

Could not agree more.  Cagers don't really drive the fun roads in the boonies anyway.

the only way to win the game is not to play

[Marsh White]

the only way to win the game is not to play

Wargames.

[Klavdy]

I am constantly & pleasantly surprised at just how deserted American back roads are.
Foreigners always seem to get the impression that America, with it's enormous population, is wall to wall cars.
Sure, the Freakways and Interstates can be really congested but once off them, wow.
Needs more lanesplitting but.