🚀 go-pugleaf

: My 2 cents worth on this - if speed cameras are for safety, why have I
: been booked twice for driving 10 over in the middle of no-where, with
: not even a sheep in sight ? Where are they when people speed through
: school zones ?  And who honestly thinks that a person who does over
: 90,000 klm pa won't accidentally go over the limit from time to time.

: What I object to most is that I have 9 points ( I got done for going
: through a red light - I didn't ( long story ) ) which means my next
: ticket will mean my job.  Where is the justice in that ? 

Just to start I am on my second licence for speeding, blowing the first by
acrueing 24 demerit points all due to speeding, so lets assume I know a bit
about it (Sports Bikes do these things, you know!)..

The law has said that the speed limit is set at a certain speed.  You can go
slower.   If you sit on the speed limit, you will occasionally drift over, and
with speed cameras, eventually get caught.  Its like making a loan repayment
30 seconds before it is due - eventually you will stuff up, be 30 seconds late
and default.  YOU KNOW THE SPEED LIMIT.  I know we occasionally miss signs, but
it is funny how you miss the 80 signs when you're doing 120 in a 100 zone but 
you see it if you cruise at 95 (maybe that's why we have speed limits?).

The solution is simple, if you ain't in a hurry, sit just below the speed limit.Save up those points for when you are in a hurry.  It makes fuck-all difference
anyway, and you'll enjoy it.  Sit back, put on the music and relax as you
don't care if the white car three cars back is a copper.  In town, you'll be
suprised how many times you catch up at the next lights.  Hell, I see people fly
pass on the Bruce Highway (Brisi to North Coast) and then I catch 'em up at
Beams Rd lights (or at the speed trap under the Bribie Island turnoff!).

Then, when life gets too much, take the FZR out of the garage and go fucking 
bezerk up you closest mountain.  You've probably saved enough in fuel (see note)
to pay for the ticket if you get it, and the points come back in 3 years anyway.In other words, don't speed alot, nut when you do speed, speed alot!

Oh, usual disclaimer applies (see aus.motorcycles).
LHG

Oh, the note.  Did you know that fuel efficiency for the average vehicle halves
(ie gets worse by a factor of 2) between 90 kph and 110 kph?

P.S.  Don't sit too far below the limit on single lane roads, as it really 
pisses people off.  Especially when they're in a hurry.

P.P.S  Unless they're the idiots who sit too close, in which case do about half the speed limit and see just how angry they can get.....