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Totally agree fellas

Absolute legend

Sitting next to him doing no more than 110kph would have meant spending longer on the wrong side of the road, isn't *that* dangerous, or doesn't that fit in with your misconceptions about good and bad road use For starters, i am not ignorant, in fact far from it :) Believe you me I am under no misc...

**edit: During a five hour drive today, at one point I found myself almost 40 kph over the posted limit in order to overtake a road train in a safe and reasonable fashion. If it was a safe and reasonable fashion why did you need to do 40 kph over the limit...? Surely a decent stretch of highway you...

vk6hgr wrote:

danny wrote: Beefing up the fines is good, but the suspension periods need to be doubled.

And people will just take the chance and drive while suspended.

No doubt, but then seize the cars for 28 days.

That way they cant drive it whilst its locked up at the local holding yard

Will the higher penalties / longer seizure periods, mean more people will run from Police? Iv seen people get done for 180/80 zone, 100 kph over the limit and they get a $600 fine and 6 months suspension. WEAK. Beefing up the fines is good, but the suspension periods need to be doubled. Also driving...

CHEV4EVR wrote:

danny wrote:

CHEV4EVR wrote: Plus the last two weeks have been some of the best pursuits in the last ten years. Where has everyone been?

Except you, I knew exactly where you were for one of em....

Hahahahaha

CHEV4EVR wrote: Plus the last two weeks have been some of the best pursuits in the last ten years. Where has everyone been?

Police bikes are Honda's St1100P or St1300P. The P stands for Police pack, the bikes get a calibrated speedo, bigger battery etc etc.

The speedo has increments every 2 kilometers, instead of the 5 km increment on normal bikes.

AV201

Get any picts of the Highway Patrol bikes that were in Dunborough at the same time?

bomber wrote:Radar set up tonight on dixon rd Rockingham. 2 police with radars per direction of traffic. In excess of 50 tickets within 3 hrs. Lots of $$$$$ to the x-mas party

Yeah because thats how it works

Schism_ wrote:I'm thinking he was wondering why they don't mark the normal bikes... They still have callsigns don't they?

Yeah normal Police Bikes still have call signs, just that the call signs are not visable on the bikes

silent_wingz wrote: Is there any reason for that Danny?

Maybe to match the Highway Patrol cars...

Tyranus wrote:When you get your new bike, how we gonna know it's you now?? None of the other bikes seem to have callsigns.

Highway Patrol bikes have their own callsigns marked up on them, normal Police bikes dont.

CHEV4EVR wrote: Whilst going sideways and quoting any line from Top Gun:evil:

Kick the tyres and light the fires......

With the VT Gen III with 15 inch steelies you knew it was coming so you dealt with it. Normally dealt with it with a great big smile on ya dial :) As readers would know a WRX has already been involed in a number of pursuits the last couple of months. That WRX has claimed some good scalps already 8)