Old Pacific Highway Warning.

[God]

Hello Everybody!

Copied from the mcnews website

G'day
just thought u might want to know and your readers, that in yesterday advocate express central coast edition and on the frount page was a story about 3 bike riders that were clocked by police doin 250kph on the old pacific hwy. The article mention that the police had to call off the pursuit as it became too dangerous (they couldnt keep up with em) The long and short of it is now the police have recieved $750000 in funding to set up 24hr 7days a week patrols of the old hwy. Just thought your readers should know beware the cops are out there

Wots that chalky? - burn'em...

[clairebear]

$750k to chase bikers. no that would not be harassment (spelling?)
god is an anagram of Dog, god, did you know that? me being a dog lover n all.

yeah burn'em all, guaranteed to fuck'em!![:p]

Oh and thank you're young fella for building my Streetfighter mate [^]

[thatp1g]

I'd really like to know how the speed equip clocked them at 250. Would have to have been a lidar (hand held) which would explain why a pursuit was useless. By the time you get in the car and get back on the road they are way gone. Speed camera would simply have returned an 'error'. Mobile radar maybe but nyeh. Sounds like a little sensationalised 'sell some "we really are doing something about roadsafety" propaganda' to the general public. Maybe some smart copper somewhere is preparing an application for a few turbo busa's for motorcycle pursuit (God bless you that man - all ST11's must die).
I subscribe to a darwinian version of speed enforcement. Pick your time and place or by all means remove yourself from the gene pool as you please, just dont take anyone with you.


Did I tell you the one about the cop who saw a speed camera up ahead and knowing they return errors over 250 he ploughed into the jolly handle. Shame his speedo wasnt calibrated properly and he lost his licence and got a fair internal rogering for doing 248k's.

[NakedTurboBusa]

yep. i was just about to question that....

[fimpBIKES]

fuck doing those speeds on the old road,
u would hit one of those dips and it'd all be over!


stupid country...

plenty of straights on the old road,and the cops have been doing constant patrols up there for years.about three years ago 8 riders lost their lives between Cowan and Brooklyn in 9 months.That was what inspired the presence of the bronze in the 1st place,since then it has just been a revenue raising road,hence the massive reduction in speed limit.If ya wanna go fast up there these days,do it on a tuesday arvo after 4pm.Or just avoid the road all together.

[Tone]

Wouldn't be many 250k straights on that road,maybe over the bridge or the last Piles creek bit...methinks that is bullshit.Then again,how quick does Hunta get to 250 Pete?I'd need all day and a fucking high cliff!

[Tony Nitrous]

At the Drags several performance bikes get close to 220kph in 440
yards from a standing start. Coming out of a sweeper at 100
it wouldnt take long to be seeing 250.

Trust me ;)

[chong]

I see 220 at the slab end comin up over the bridge most times im up there ,
the pics in the papper of the bronze and three sports bikes as the type of bikes being targeted all good for us there was no fighters
just lots of plastic fantastics
they wont even be lookin for upstanding citizenzzz like us[^][^][^]

[chong]

from the express web site

POLICE plan a $750,000 blitz on speeding on the Pacific Highway after a weekend in which motorcyclists turned it into a ``race track''.


In one instance police had to give up pursuit of three bike riders after they hit speeds of 250km/h.

Brisbane Water highway patrol sergeant Gary Carr said police recently obtained $750,000 to fund round-the-clock patrolling of the highway between Mooney Mooney and Kariong during busy periods.

This may involve speed traps set up permanently over weekends.

Brisbane Water crime manager Chief-Insp Darren Bennett warned the practice of riders using the Pacific Highway as their private ``race track'' had to stop.

``It's becoming an alarming trend and with warmer weather coming it is only expected to get worse.''

``These speeds are more than reckless. They place the riders, but more importantly, other motorists and the police in enormous danger.''

He said driving in a dangerous manner and at extreme speed meant an immediate loss of licence and heavy fines.

Asked if police believed the offenders were professional or semi-professional riders, Sgt Carr said: ``They were or else they were incredibly stupid.''

The sunny weekend saw hundreds of motorcyclists take to what is known in biker circles as the ``old road'' between Mooney Mooney and Kariong through Mount White.


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[God]

Hey Clairebear,
"god is an anagram of Dog, god, did you know that? me being a dog lover n all" - woof!

Hey Chalky,
"Oh and thank you're young fella for building my Streetfighter mate" - you are welcome.

he he har har

[clairebear]

God - too late mate! :-) did you not see the pic of my huge baby belly?
still as the signature says, at least there's proof i do it now...sometimes

[ozkat]

quote:Originally posted by Tony Nitrous

At the Drags several performance bikes get close to 220kph in 440
yards from a standing start. Coming out of a sweeper at 100
it wouldnt take long to be seeing 250.

Trust me ;)




even my bike did 212 kph from a standing start over 440 yards

[pommie]

the chase was called off on the peats ridge road, lots of long straights.

[Peka]

When I was riding a mate's blackbird on the old road, I was hitting just under 200 on some of the shorter straights between corners. 250 would be no probs on the right bike on the longer straights.

[Tone]

Ok guys...I stand corrected.