Thread: Look out for all the coppers on the road

We just got back from Campbelltown & saw a copper with his radar ... good to hear you didn't get booked or have an accident.

Originally Posted by crump

back on track, i just got home from Brissy on the bike, and I have to say I have never seen so many police on the road to Gympie,they were everywhere.Most noticeable was the bike cops, hardly ever see them normally and today there was one under every overpass with a radar.They also have lowered the speed limit from the end of the 110kmh zone from 100kmh to 90kmh right thru to the Gympie.Anyway, I didnt get a ticket and I made it home alive, so good on em!

Yes I realise that ... what I meant was the matter had already been dealt with, so what was the point in bringing it up again? Unless he further wanted to ensure people could see what he had originally put in his post, to further enflame a highly debatable subject

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Ummmmm......P38 IS a mod......a nice gentle warning I think you'd call that

Sorry Numpty's Missus, I'm not after an argument. I've just got back from Campbelltown with my step daughter & saw what has been written whilst we were away.

Just to clarify ...

Tony has his own laptop & his own user name ... he also has his own brain & we don't "pair up". I don't type under Tony's user name, he sometimes uses my computer & hence will type using my name ... but he always indicates it is him by typing his name when he posts.

We don't always agree with each other, & when we don't we will argue the same as anyone else, and when we do agree, we will support each other the same as any one else. However, we are 2 separate people, with our own minds, ideas & opinions. Tony doesn't need me to post on his behalf, & neither do I.

Getting a bit more on track ... I don't quite see what it has to do with you in the first place.
The post was not directed at you, but rather asking a question of someone else.

Maybe the heat is getting to everyone!

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Like you are now doing....I went thru it with Tony...or was that you logged in as Tony (seeing as you share the same computer and admit you don't always log off.....)

Originally Posted by tony

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Originally Posted by EchiDna
I (and many others on here) can fix almost everything in my car if I have the equipment needed... and no mechanics licence to say I can and I don't have to prove it to anyone that I have (or not) the ability to (for example) install a drive shaft.

Mate it never fails to amaze me how people can take things so personally on an Internet forum...I don't care if you're the worlds greatest spanner swinger in the universe, the LAW says you must be LICENSED to work on a motor vehicle that is not yours... so if you put a spanner on a vehicle that doesn't belong to you for any type of reward you would be breaking the law.....and as for removing nuts and bolts (4 each end on a drive shaft) they have trained dolphins to plant and remove sea mines and monkeys to fly space craft so changing a drive shaft is not up there with rocket science...

ah sorry mate I think you are drawing a long bow on my behalf there... I didn't take it personally, I just thought it was weird to say someone must have a licence to work on a car, when obviously I (or anyone else) can work on my own car without a licence... of course I've helped friends work on their own carsat times but never done it for $$$, beer etc... only to help out a mate, nothing more.

Sounds like a plan!

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

me neither, but if you saw what was written did you really need to ask again.
No more need be said. It's been explained adequately I think.

Shall we move on?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

maybe not deaths JD,,
but accidents?

I reckon they contribute to accidents.

I am sure they do - although there is little evidence to support it - but there are a whole host of other factors that make a bigger contribution.

John

G'day Crump

Did you do a Brissie run on the "new" Guzzi ? how did it go, and was it a comfortable machine

I hear that the M1 northbound on Sat AM was a parking lot from Pine River Bridge to Nth of Caboolture


cheers

I think it was the NSW NRMA a couple of years ago that did a survey, and 80% of respondents felt that they were "Above Average" drivers.

Statistics and surveys are funny things and you can take them in different ways (maybe only the better drivers responded to the survey), but I think it would be fair to say that many people personally believe that they are a safe driver and an accident involving them is most likely to be the fault of some other "Moron" on the road.

If you think about it, I'd rather be sharing the road with the 20% who say they are below average drivers, because they are honest enough to acknowledge their lack of skills and take that into account when driving, or they misrate their abilities and are actually quite competent, but are more cautious.