Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

RobertR wrote:I find it very easy to hit and maintain 120 km/h for the whole trip, depsite the fact im restricted to 80 km/h...

That's no challenge, but you're probably going to get caught. If you do 150 for ten seconds and don't speed the rest of the ride, your chances of getting caught are much smaller than if you're constantly +10 or 20 (except in Poland where the police and other drivers wouldn't blink for +20).
So yes, you can be somebody that hits 220 km/h and still say "I rarely speed".

RisingSun.au wrote:I tear it up as fast as the 12 can go, if they can catch me they have earned the rigt to book me.

Then I wake and slowly tottle down the motorway to work.

We all do it, but hey I don't even admit it to my wife.

Thats it.

But hey you wont get an honest answer in an open forum mate. I am guilty of speeding and if I was that concerned about it I would have sold the bike for that reason alone. I didnt buy a big bore sportsbike(tourer) to stay at the speed limit, most will do 130 in 1st gear I got it to suit my ego and to slide around corners
I dont speed around schools or through towns, I try not to attract the law. It attracts me It also depends where you are, some roads never see the law, then others are littered with them. Know your roads and uesr discretion must be applied.

joking I do not condone speeding at all, it is evil and it kills, apparently, I have never been killed so I cant tell you if speed kills.

If it did I would have been dead a few thousand times by now. Every K over is a killer, well I must be a mass murder

Strika wrote:I stick to the sign posted limit religiously!!!! Did I tell you that I'm a lapsed Catholic!!!

as a R1 bottoms out at 190kmh alongside showering me with sparks and plastic.

no religion in this black duck. I speed, thats what I got a large sports
bike for.
steve

Buck wrote:

Strika wrote:I stick to the sign posted limit religiously!!!! Did I tell you that I'm a lapsed Catholic!!!

as a R1 bottoms out at 190kmh alongside showering me with sparks and plastic.

no religion in this black duck. I speed, thats what I got a large sports
bike for.
steve

Errrr.......speedo error???







Mine said load more than 190 Buck

ty wrote:If you're worried about being restricted to 80 on a freeway with everyone else doing 110 - don't use the freeway, use alternate routes.
I was lucky in that my alternate route was the old pacific highway. You may not be so lucky, but regardless the alternate route would be safer - for you and your license.
ty

I agree that you should use an alternate to the freeway, but what about the 100 zones on ordinary roads? I can't even get to the freeway without going through one. If I want to travel north of here the main road is a lot of 110 with the occasional passing lane. There isn't really an alternate route.

Wattie wrote:10 k over generally, but that probable explains why i only have 3 points left, each fine except one i was caught doing 90 in a 60...

but on normal cruising, im normally within 10k over.

probably slower now.

I am pretty sure the cops get you once you hit the 10k over mark, I TRY and sit just under that.

Mario wouldn't know for 2 reason...

1. He never bloody rides..
2. His speedo cable is never connected


I tend to do 5-10k's over depending on the speed limit...




























Because I have dropped a tooth on the front sprocket my speedo reading is 10% down. so at 100 I now do approx 5,500RPM instead of 5,000rpm and have to do about 110 to be on 100, prob just a tad under 110 is 100 I believe.

I only ever do the speed limit











That is when i ride of course

don't worry about how fast...enjoy the ride, control the throttle. Find some nice corners and stick to posted limit, cruise them. When you get on the straights relax a bit and get ready for the next set of corners..........

that's right......the pace

ummm i sit on the speed limit on the highway cos the liklihood of getting pulled over is..well..u kno..increasing...





unless i change my mind and try to hit warp 7..

Neka79 wrote:ummm i sit on the speed limit on the highway cos the liklihood of getting pulled over is..well..u kno..increasing...





unless i change my mind and try to hit warp 7..

Thats cause you now how bad it's been walking/public transport ect.

How fast is too fast????

About 124Km/h in a 50 Km/h zone would be my guess......gets you walking for 12 months min.

burkys_ninja wrote:

Neka79 wrote:ummm i sit on the speed limit on the highway cos the liklihood of getting pulled over is..well..u kno..increasing...





unless i change my mind and try to hit warp 7..

Thats cause you now how bad it's been walking/public transport ect.

yea..not a fan!!

Neka79 wrote:ummm i sit on the speed limit on the highway cos the liklihood of getting pulled over is..well..u kno..increasing...





unless i change my mind and try to hit warp 7..

Warp 7 is that all the Honda does...
I get that in 1st gear on the Gixer...

Only on the track...walkin sux