Well, the Korean cams only photo from the front, so bikes are unaffected. On
the downside, motorcycles all but disappear outside major cities and towns,
plus they're banned from the expressways altogether. (More understandable
when you realize the average MC on the road is a clapped-out 125 or 250cc
POS Daelim or Hyosung loaded down with 100 pounds of stuff on its cargo
rack.) They sometimes use speed cams in tandem, spaced apart by a 500m or
so. They measure your average speed.
I didn't ride at all on this trip, but if I go back, I probably will, now
that I know the setup and what to expect. At first, how they ride in traffic
seems reckless, but there's a certain logic to it, and the the locals in
cages are accustomed to the "rules" (even if those "rules" don't necessarily
mesh with the official traffic code.) I *will* wear more and better gear
than the average Korean motorcyclist, that's for sure. I even saw a guy with
no fingers on his right hand....riding along.
Here's a link with some stories about riding the "Land of the Morning Calm."
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http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?motorcycling.htm~mainframe>
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Carl Custer <
carl.custer@...> wrote:
> Paul said
> I was in Korea last week, and took a ~400 km road trip (in a cage) from
> Daegu
> <snip>
>
> [Carl]: I was in Chicken, Alaska Sunday.
> Looking at the mud covered bikes that had just come over the Top of
> the World Highway, I remarked, “Guess photo radar would never work in
> Alaska.”
> You might have thought I just said I like to rape babies before
> cooking and eating them.
> Sheese it won’t work in Alaska. Even the cages’ plates are covered with
> mud.
> The photo radar set on Wilson Lane in Bethesda certainly cause a slow down.
> Carl in Whitehorse
>
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