Are they very strict on speeding in NSW and Sydney?

Hi group,

Went on a 250km round trip today from sydeny to Kiama and back. Saw the
famous blow hole

I am new to Sdney and Oz.

I would like to hear from fello bikers as to how strict the speeding
enforcement really is. I started out ok but on the way back, I just couldn't
stay with 70 or 100. I admit, I went faster. At some stage, I did 140. What
a pleasure.

Also, whe the traffic isn;'tmoving, all the pollution an heat really gets
one down. It feels like one gets a heatstroke and one is dying to feel a
little cooling wind. that is when I just had to move on between the lanes.

Hey, surely other bikers have the same prrlems with heat in traffic and also
the feeling that 100 just doen't cut it? What are the risks and how do we
(as bikers) avoid them? Speed cameras seem to take pics from the front,
which should be ok but what else is a problem and what are the chances?

Greetings,

Ben

 

they will bend you over and make sure you dont do it for quite a while
have a look here

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/

all penalties can be found in there

only some speed camers take pics from the front

so beware

 

BTH isn't as bad as everyone says, is he?

 

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Yes, yes they are.

Fixed speed cameras are easily avoided (they are well signposted, and easy
to slow down for, just like most people do).

It's the mobile ones, and the cops with the hair-dryers or the radar cars
from the highway patrol that you need to look out for. The HP guys would
like nothing more than to take their baton thingy and ram it a very long way
where the sun doesn't shine.

Fines _start_ at 1/6th of the points on your license and a
$100-and-something fine. For <15km/h over the limit.

If you happen to go 45km/h over the limit, you will have no license for AT
LEAST 3 months, lose 1/2 your license for when you get it back, get a
$1500odd fine, oh, and have to go to court. Do that 3 times in a 5 year
period, and you will lose your license for 5 years.

-James Mayfield
(Haven't you seen the adds: "There's no such thing as cheap speeding." or
something like that.)

 

Oh man

Are there no roads where one can go a little faster at least? I mean what is
the use of having cars and bikes that can go 250 if you can only go 110
snail speed????

I mean like back in ol'e germany, you can go as fast as you like on some
places on the autobahn. i doubt very much that they have more accident there
than here at 110.

Bummer :-(

What do you other bikers do then? Go along at 40, 50, 70, 90, 70, 40, 100
kmh then?


Regards,
Ben

 

No, 60, 80 and 110 too!

 

Move to the Northern territory

Alan

 

you need the power so you can power out of trouble

you need to get out more

there is a time and place for everything

 

Yup, plenty, they're in the Northern Territory.

JL
(or you could try a race track)

 

www.superbikeschool.com.au

I think I'll do level 1 or 2 again on my new 600 at the end of March @
Phillip Island.

j

 

We do track days.
We "definately don't speed officer, no, no siree, no".

The main thing is to find the right place and time. The right place and time
for giving it the berries is not in the middle of the CBD in peak hour, but,
out on a nice twisty country road, no major traffic around, good weather
etc......

As for the use of such power...... "Mines bigger than yours!!!"

 

The problem with taxat^H^H^H^H^Henforcement in NSW is that whilst
the nice quiet country road is probably the safest place to 'give
it the berries', it's also the place where you're most likely to
get caught and issued with a ticket to the policemen's ball. The
CBD in peak hour is quite the opposite. Go figure.

G

 

True. Pity that.