Thread: Hoon caught doing 170 in 100 zone.

Get of your high horses people.

Yes Speeding is dangerous. So is 4wding, drinking, smoking, shagging, eating meat, spending hours in front of a computer screen etc.......


Half the street racers I have met are aged over 40yrs. They are better drivers because they learnt how to drive before traction aids and high horsepower was introduced into absolutely everything on the road.

I would love to see a modern day P plater handle an old Val, POS Commodore or Ford through it's paces and not come unstuck.

Originally Posted by dobbo

Get of your high horses people.

Yes Speeding is dangerous. So is 4wding, drinking, smoking, shagging, eating meat, spending hours in front of a computer screen etc.......


Half the street racers I have met are aged over 40yrs. They are better drivers because they learnt how to drive before traction aids and high horsepower was introduced into absolutely everything on the road.

I would love to see a modern day P plater handle an old Val, POS Commodore or Ford through it's paces and not come unstuck.

Why would a P plater now be any different to a P plater from 40 years ago? Both are highly inexperienced in pushing a vehicle hard. I would have thought that a 40yo would be a lot more experienced and more rational and collected when things get exciting due to prior experiences

Originally Posted by Slunnie

Why would a P plater now be any different to a P plater from 40 years ago? Both are highly inexperienced in pushing a vehicle hard. I would have thought that a 40yo would be a lot more experienced and more rational and collected when things get exciting due to prior experiences

because recent P platers have learnt to drive with much more modern technology in terms of suspension, braking, driver aids, etc

Originally Posted by Sprint

because recent P platers have learnt to drive with much more modern technology in terms of suspension, braking, driver aids, etc

True, but like in the older vehicles I bet as a learner they've never pushed them enough to make use of them.

i did..... frequently!

Originally Posted by dobbo

Get of your high horses people.

Yes Speeding is dangerous. So is 4wding, drinking, smoking, shagging, eating meat, spending hours in front of a computer screen etc.......


Half the street racers I have met are aged over 40yrs. They are better drivers because they learnt how to drive before traction aids and high horsepower was introduced into absolutely everything on the road.

I would love to see a modern day P plater handle an old Val, POS Commodore or Ford through it's paces and not come unstuck.

Yes, maybe so, but its more about people taking responsability for their actions when speeding and not blaming just the sudden deceleration for the damage. In most cases the sudden deceleration would not have occured if the person was not speeding to start with.
The comparrisons to the old cars are just wrong and I have driven most of them as most of the V8s around now are double or even more hp than the old ones, granted they have driver aids.
I love speed but you need to pick your time and place. When people and other traffic is around it is neither the time or place on public roads.
Yes I have done 300kmph on a bike and 270kmph in a couple of cars, but was carefull about picking locations. And I would take responsability for any consequences.

Originally Posted by Camo

Ive got some great video footage doing 160 down main beach Straddie in my old V8 Injected FJ40.. with mate standing in the back holding on the roll bars

ol fisherman on the beach wern't impressed

but hey I was 24.. was awesome fun.. wouldn't do stuff like that now

I have to say that is just stupid at any age with other beach users around. Maybe acceptable if you were the only ones on the beach so could only take yourself out.
If I had been fishing on the beach with my family you could have rest assured you would not have been walking home and you V8 yota would have been in the surf.
You are lucky your mate did not fall out or you hit a fisherman cause you would be typing this from jail. Sand and speed are just to unprdictable in a poulated area.
Yes I have done some stupid things but never endangered others lives that did not consent to the activity.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I think that many of our roads are built for high speed and would handle high limits easily - probably most of the 110 zones that have wide lanes, broad sides, islands and barriers between each side of the road. The Hume Hwy in NSW could easily be a 130km/h road, likewise much of the Newcastle expressway. But, they're not so really its a moot point. But what you have raised also highlights why people travelling under the speed limits should be booked also as the speed differential does can cause problems.

Yeah, but the limits are in place due to our road conditions (well most of them) would not support higher speeds and a lot of the traffic could not maintain these speeds so create further danger. A 110 maintaining 130kmph all day, you would be deaf.