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Ben I argee which is why I said the signs should remain where appropriate.
Speedy thrills, I'm not concerned with the techniqualities (sp?). If you're speeding you generally know it... Fair play if you're caught unfairly, but the rules are the rules... I was unlucky I was caught, but it was money well spent if, as I felt in this case he should have been somewhere else...
On another note, I hope a good chunk of Kiwi PHer's are going to be turning up at the various track days planned for the LoT trip trip this year. I'm always interested to put faces to names, generally speaking I'm always a little surprised that the face doesn't match the online image... Kylie being the exception - nice website btw but can I afford any of your paintings?
Here's a shot of me btw
As George aka Esprit will attest to I bear only a passing resemeblance to this shot these days
Speedy thrills, I'm not concerned with the techniqualities (sp?). If you're speeding you generally know it... Fair play if you're caught unfairly, but the rules are the rules... I was unlucky I was caught, but it was money well spent if, as I felt in this case he should have been somewhere else...
On another note, I hope a good chunk of Kiwi PHer's are going to be turning up at the various track days planned for the LoT trip trip this year. I'm always interested to put faces to names, generally speaking I'm always a little surprised that the face doesn't match the online image... Kylie being the exception - nice website btw but can I afford any of your paintings?
Here's a shot of me btw
As George aka Esprit will attest to I bear only a passing resemeblance to this shot these days
Edited by iwilson on Wednesday 28th June 11:21
iwilson said:
Ben I argee which is why I said the signs should remain where appropriate.
Speedy thrills, I'm not concerned with the techniqualities (sp?). If you're speeding you generally know it... Fair play if you're caught unfairly, but the rules are the rules... I was unlucky I was caught, but it was money well spent if, as I felt in this case he should have been somewhere else...
On another note, I hope a good chunk of Kiwi PHer's are going to be turning up at the various track days planned for the LoT trip trip this year. I'm always interested to put faces to names, generally speaking I'm always a little surprised that the face doesn't match the online image... Kylie being the exception - nice website btw but can I afford any of your paintings?
Here's a shot of me btw
As George aka Esprit will attest to I bear only a passing resemeblance to this shot these days
Speedy thrills, I'm not concerned with the techniqualities (sp?). If you're speeding you generally know it... Fair play if you're caught unfairly, but the rules are the rules... I was unlucky I was caught, but it was money well spent if, as I felt in this case he should have been somewhere else...
On another note, I hope a good chunk of Kiwi PHer's are going to be turning up at the various track days planned for the LoT trip trip this year. I'm always interested to put faces to names, generally speaking I'm always a little surprised that the face doesn't match the online image... Kylie being the exception - nice website btw but can I afford any of your paintings?
Here's a shot of me btw
As George aka Esprit will attest to I bear only a passing resemeblance to this shot these days
Edited by iwilson on Wednesday 28th June 11:21
Oh for sure, I wasn't disagreeing about whether your speed was appropriate or anything, just just pointing out that its not only for the safety of road workers, in case anyone didn't know anything about road construction etc. (I know because I have to study it).
I'd be keen to show up at any event they happen to have south of about Christchurch (ie trackdays at Levels or Teretonga, or just blats around S.I. roads) but it doesn't sound like they'll be coming down this way.
iwilson said:
On another note, I hope a good chunk of Kiwi PHer's are going to be turning up at the various track days planned for the LoT trip trip this year. I'm always interested to put faces to names, generally speaking I'm always a little surprised that the face doesn't match the online image....
I'll be the old, balding, fat guy squeezing into the small blue car (that is a kind of illegitimate 2nd cousin of a Lotus) 
Martin Clunes on Top Gear said:
"My car has Recaro seats . . . the problem is I don't have a Recaro arse."
Edited by Kiwi XTR2 on Wednesday 28th June 12:22
Hehe yeah Ian, I'm not sure that pic is as recent as it might be 
Mind you, mine aren't exactly uber recent any more.
But yeah always good to meet up... as for this LOT trip, I'll be joining you for at least one of the trackdays and for some of the trip... as soon as dates/entries are confirmed I'll be booking my leave from work.
Mind you, mine aren't exactly uber recent any more.
But yeah always good to meet up... as for this LOT trip, I'll be joining you for at least one of the trackdays and for some of the trip... as soon as dates/entries are confirmed I'll be booking my leave from work.
iwilson said:
Ben, the country ain't that big nor is the bit of water that separates the simple folk down south to their more sophisticated cousins up north 
Haha, yeah I know its not that far away really, I've been halfway up the north island anyway
, have never got round to inflicting Auckland on myself yet - pretty much everything I hear about it makes me think I really wouldn't enjoy living there, with the exception of having a lot more nice cars to drool over. 
No doubt at some stage I'll drag myself up there and see if its really as bad as it sounds...
Actually I think part of my reason for preferring the S.I. so much is that other than cars, one of my main 'things' is climbing mountains, and when it comes to that the N.I really doesn't compare. A few big volcanoes and the rest are just hills. The Southern Alps on the other hand....
GravelBen said:
. . . have never got round to inflicting Auckland on myself yet - pretty much everything I hear about it makes me think I really wouldn't enjoy living there, with the exception of having a lot more nice cars to drool over.
No doubt at some stage I'll drag myself up there and see if its really as bad as it sounds...
I would have thought you would have had a professional interest is seeing how we managed to move the top of Mt Eden ~200m to the West a few years ago. No doubt at some stage I'll drag myself up there and see if its really as bad as it sounds...
Bugger - I've just joined the police-victim club again.
Letter arrived today informing me that I was snapped at 62 kph last monday on state highway one in Waikouaiti (hlaf hour north of Dunedin). So that'll be $80 thanks, who cares if it was safe or not, or whether you do it again, in fact please do it again so we can have more money. Well not in those exact words, but you get the idea.
Its annoying because I always make a point of slowing down through those small towns, my speed must have just crept up going down the hill there to an insane 12 kph over the limit...
Its not very specific about the location of the camera either, names 2 streets it was between but they're 6 fairly big blocks apart.
Letter arrived today informing me that I was snapped at 62 kph last monday on state highway one in Waikouaiti (hlaf hour north of Dunedin). So that'll be $80 thanks, who cares if it was safe or not, or whether you do it again, in fact please do it again so we can have more money. Well not in those exact words, but you get the idea.
Its annoying because I always make a point of slowing down through those small towns, my speed must have just crept up going down the hill there to an insane 12 kph over the limit...
Its not very specific about the location of the camera either, names 2 streets it was between but they're 6 fairly big blocks apart.
Kiwi XTR2 said:
I would have thought you would have had a professional interest is seeing how we managed to move the top of Mt Eden ~200m to the West a few years ago.
Haven't heard about that one, care to enlighten me?
I did read an amusing article about one of the Auckland mosques having to be turned around because when they first built it they couldn't (or didn't want to) afford a surveyor to makes it face mecca for them. so they've spent 30 years praying in the wrong direction.
I wonder if they believe those prayers are now worthless?GravelBen said:
Kiwi XTR2 said:
I would have thought you would have had a professional interest is seeing how we managed to move the top of Mt Eden ~200m to the West a few years ago.
Haven't heard about that one, care to enlighten me?
Which wasn't a problem until aircraft from USA et al tried landing based on international GPS coordinates without the local off-set.
GravelBen said:
Haha thats a bit of a whoops then - bloody surveyors, can't do anything right can they?
No but they fill in the engineering offices nicely and make up the numbers. You can always tell the surveyors though because they look a bit scruffy/weather beaten. Their desks are usually surrounded by plans (most of them hand drawn sometime in the 50’s or 60’s) and surveying equipment of one sort or another (often carefully positioned where people will trip over it). speedy_thrills said:
GravelBen said:
Haha thats a bit of a whoops then - bloody surveyors, can't do anything right can they?
No but they fill in the engineering offices nicely and make up the numbers. You can always tell the surveyors though because they look a bit scruffy/weather beaten. Their desks are usually surrounded by plans (most of them hand drawn sometime in the 50’s or 60’s) and surveying equipment of one sort or another (often carefully positioned where people will trip over it). yep that'd be me then Gassing Station | New Zealand | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff