Reply With QuoteI found when we were there on holidays most of the locals drove too fast, & the signed speed limit on some of the roads suprised me, thought it should have been half of posted speed.
ChatterBox
SubscriberWe're in Tassie for Easter and were driving from Burnie to Strahan this afternoon. There's a long section of roadwork past Cradle Mountain that's unsealed with no lines. Has a 60kmh limit. I was doing 60 kmh as posted and a car with a couple of young women in it who were behind me were getting aggro and went hooning past us, showering stones on us and giving me the finger and yelling abuse as they went past.
And almost immediately a police car materialised from behind us and pulled them over - he must've been sitting a couple of cars behind the women and they'd not noticed him.
They were driving in convoy with 4 other cars - mostly twin cabs, three in front of me and the women's car and another behind them - and their mate behind them was about to do the same thing but pulled back in when the cops put their lights on. The police car was a marked 4WD so it's bit of a surprise that neither car had noticed him.
I'm in the D4 and their utes were holding me up prior to the roadworks but when we got to the roadworks the first three vehicles took off at 100ks, with two driving side by side for a while. All local number plates in case you're wondering and not rentals.
Arapiles
2014 D4 HSE
YarnMaster
SupporterI found when we were there on holidays most of the locals drove too fast, & the signed speed limit on some of the roads suprised me, thought it should have been half of posted speed.
ChatterBox
SubscriberYeah, my experience here has been of me doing the speed limit - on roads that do feel under-engineered for the posted speeds - only to have a local go rocketing past. You get that in SA too but the roads are straight there ....Originally Posted by 1950landy
Arapiles
2014 D4 HSE
Swaggie
Reminds me of an incident in the middle of the day, quite a few months ago,i was on the gateway motorway,for those that know it, siting on the speed limit,100km/hr.
Going south just before the Bridge,a D4 went past me doing some horrendous speed.
Sure enough, at the Old Cleveland rd exit, the police had it pulled over.
The Council have road monitoring cameras, and probably noticed it and called the police.
May have been someone on here?
ChatterBox
SubscriberExcept Corkscrew Rd, it’s not straight!
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ForumSage
SupporterA friend tells a story of how he was behind a guy flying along the freeway, but still wasn't going fast enough for my mate who was in a V8, so he passed him at an even greater speed, just then a cop jumped out of hiding and waived him over but my mate was in the right hand lane so just kept going and the guy he'd passed pulled over, the cop didn't care as he got a ticket to add to his quota.Reminds me of an incident in the middle of the day, quite a few months ago,i was on the gateway motorway,for those that know it, siting on the speed limit,100km/hr.
Going south just before the Bridge,a D4 went past me doing some horrendous speed.
Sure enough, at the Old Cleveland rd exit, the police had it pulled over.
The Council have road monitoring cameras, and probably noticed it and called the police.
May have been someone on here?
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1999 D2 TD5 Gone
AT RESTI love the agro ones that travel behind and tail gate you and hurtle abuse, but in reality it the car in front of you that's holding up the traffic. It's the look directly in front of you not on the road ahead mentality.
Killer Wabbit!
I was cruising along between Croydon & Georgetown, just after the Gilbert River is a long straight.
I'm cruising along at 115kph when a black sports car flies up, overtakes & cuts close in front of me. I beep the horn & just keep cruising.
At the end of he long straight it goes to single lane with a gate on each side, apparently Highway Patrol were sitting inside one of the gates.
I just cruised past at 115kph as the HP wrote a ticket for the bloke in the black sports car.
I was polite & gave them a wave.
Jonesfam
ForumSage
SupporterA friend told me how one of his Dad's friends bought a sportscar a Jensen Interceptor and was taking it on a test run in the country, he noticed a cop in hot pursuit on a motorbike so pulled over and said "So what speed was I doing?" the cop says "I don't know it went off the scale!" so he said "Why did you stop me?" cop says "I just wanted to see what sort of a car can go so fast" the cop was very interested, made him pop the bonnet to look at the engine and let him off with a warning. Jensen Interceptor - Wikipedia
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1999 D2 TD5 Gone
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SubscriberOnce had a P plater on the freeway come past me in his Falcon - V8, loud exhaust - slowed to match my speed and looked at me like he wanted a race - I was on my CBR1000F at the time so this mystified me a bit, but heck, let's play I thought. I slowly accelerated and Mr Stupid next to me kept up and then floored it - I then matched his speed - up until I he either chickened out or reached the Falcons vmax - I still had another gear to go and opened it up and left him - much amusement was had (by me) - I slowed back down again just before turning off at my exit - he went flying past at blat speed maybe thinking he'd got the better of me - and just before I lost sight of him I saw some red and blue lights come on a car he was overtaking...
Guess he was a pedestrian for a while after that. I was still laughing when I took my helmet off at home 10 minutes later. I still can't imagine why he thought his car was a match for a 1000cc bike...
If you need to contact me please email homestarrunnerau@gmail.com - thanks - Gav.
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