Road markings

This was on ASB & looked interesting 

http://motorbikewriter.com/road-markings-improve-motorcycle-safety/

It would be interesting to ride a road with these markings to see what imact it has on your perception of the road width/corner etc.

I'm all for the KISS theory in most things. Start adding all these so called scientific solutions into a simple road and it will only cause more confusion. I would like to know how many of these scientists are actually bike riders. Surely their time, and OUR money could be spent on better things.

Geat idea (not) , Lets paint the road in in paint so when it rains (New Zealand remember )  they will crash before the corner lowering accidents in that
particular spot .
or 
"idea" Lets make the road look narrower !===== Lets make this corner more difficult than it really is .
How do I get one of these high paid idea jobs .
Ive got one .
Lets pour oil on the road and put up a sign saying "oil on road " that will slow them down .
Bugger ,been done .with white paint !

Sound like a linemarker don't I . That's because I am one . 

New job Gus ??


ps.  Must go for a ride up your way sometime and call in for a yarn. Maybe get some travel tips.  

Same job but we realised we did more work with the linemarkers than actual traffic control . Carol always asked "how come you come home covered in white paint."?
I think the people who pay us have forgotten we exist

As long as they keep paying you, and your happy.  Catch up soon.

If you're thinking of going to NZ to check it out , you might want to learn some of the lingo ..............  


Milburn - capital of Victoria
Peck - to fill a suitcase
pissed aside - chemical which kills insects
pigs - for hanging out washing with
pug - large pink animal with a curly tail
nin tin dough - computer game
munnwe stroney - soup
min- male of the species
mess kara - eye makeup
mcKennock - person who fixes cars
Mere - Mayor
leather - foam produced from soap
lift - departed
Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman
kittle crusps - potato chips
Ken's - Cairns
jungle bills - Christmas carol
inner me - enemy
guess - vapour
fush - marine creature
fitter cheney - type of pasta
ever cardeau - avocado
fear hear - blonde
ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
ear roebucks - exercise at gym
duffy cult - not easy
amejen - visualise
chuck - very young poultry
bug hut - popular recording
bun button - been bitten by insect
beard - a place to sleep
sucks peck - half a dozen beers
Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline
beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests
veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden
one doze - well known computer program
brudge - structure spanning a stream
sex - one less then sivven
tin - one more then nine
iggs ecktly - precisely
cuds - children
cuttin - baby cat
sivven sucks sivven - large Boeing aircraft
sivven four sivven - larger Boeing aircraft
earplane - large flying marchine
beggage chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport


I must agree , all that white paint must change how the surface feels to ride on even if it is non slip paint . Not sure I'm keen on the idea .

I wonder if this idea works better ?



And couldn't resist this one, I think it must have been when Gus was on holidays, without his direction the team sort of lost their way:

Or maybe Gus got bored one day  

paul wrote:Or maybe Gus got bored one day  

...or was smoking something.

paul wrote:If you're thinking of going to NZ to check it out , you might want to learn some of the lingo ..............  


Milburn - capital of Victoria
Peck - to fill a suitcase
pissed aside - chemical which kills insects
pigs - for hanging out washing with
pug - large pink animal with a curly tail
nin tin dough - computer game
munnwe stroney - soup
min- male of the species
mess kara - eye makeup
mcKennock - person who fixes cars
Mere - Mayor
leather - foam produced from soap
lift - departed
Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman
kittle crusps - potato chips
Ken's - Cairns
jungle bills - Christmas carol
inner me - enemy
guess - vapour
fush - marine creature
fitter cheney - type of pasta
ever cardeau - avocado
fear hear - blonde
ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
ear roebucks - exercise at gym
duffy cult - not easy
amejen - visualise
chuck - very young poultry
bug hut - popular recording
bun button - been bitten by insect
beard - a place to sleep
sucks peck - half a dozen beers
Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline
beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests
veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden
one doze - well known computer program
brudge - structure spanning a stream
sex - one less then sivven
tin - one more then nine
iggs ecktly - precisely
cuds - children
cuttin - baby cat
sivven sucks sivven - large Boeing aircraft
sivven four sivven - larger Boeing aircraft
earplane - large flying marchine
beggage chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport


I must agree , all that white paint must change how the surface feels to ride on even if it is non slip paint . Not sure I'm keen on the idea .

Chur.   Even I got a laugh at that lot!

Only thing is, Paul got the one for six wrong, us kiwi's say "sucks" bro!   
Oh, & us kiwi's have sex, we don't just say sex like you Aussies!   

Kiwisteve wrote:
Oh, & us kiwi's have sex, we don't just say sex like you Aussies!   

This is how they say it in Kiwi land

Baaaa!!

New Zealand, where men are men and sheep are nervous.

Kiwisteve wrote:Only thing is, Paul got the one for six wrong, us kiwi's say "sucks" bro!   
Oh, & us kiwi's have sex, we don't just say sex like you Aussies!   

Reminds me of an actual conversation I had with a friend who is a big Holden fan.

Me: You know that in New Zealand you can't buy a commodore with a Vee Six?

Paul: Oh no, don't tell me they're making them with the poxy 4 cylinder again...

Me: No, over there you have to have a vee sucks!

Paul: [groan]

Re-Cycled wrote:

Kiwisteve wrote:Only thing is, Paul got the one for six wrong, us kiwi's say "sucks" bro!   
Oh, & us kiwi's have sex, we don't just say sex like you Aussies!   

Reminds me of an actual conversation I had with a friend who is a big Holden fan.

Me: You know that in New Zealand you can't buy a commodore with a Vee Six?

Paul: Oh no, don't tell me they're making them with the poxy 4 cylinder again...

Me: No, over there you have to have a vee sucks!

Paul: [groan]

Your friend must be a good bloke with a name like that .....   

Kiwisteve wrote:Only thing is, Paul got the one for six wrong, us kiwi's say "sucks" bro!   
Oh, & us kiwi's have sex, we don't just say sex like you Aussies!   

Do you mean talking about sex isn't having "oral sex"  ( that explains a lot then )   

Cal wrote:New Zealand, where men are men and sheep are nervous.

And where they invented the Velcro glove.

Cal wrote:New Zealand, where men are men and sheep are nervous.

My girlfriend Baarbaara resents that

On the subject of road markings:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2617126/A-real-wash-Hopes-smart-highway-dampened-glow-dark-road-markings-fade-rain.html

I like that idea ...............hope they sort it out

What a bad idea.

Speed Dealer wrote:What a bad idea.

Which one , the original post / or the glow in the dark lines ?