About OZ - This surprised me.

[1olbull]

Was on a similar bit of straight road out past Longreach - had remarked to a guy in a servo that it would be a good spot for a quick run cos cops couldn't hide anywhere - he said don't kid yourself - there are small undulations in the area and the cops plant "hull-down" in the middle of nowhere and get a wonderful shot of you coming from miles away, without even having to interrupt their snacking.....
Then they just yawn, have a stretch, hop out of the car, and hold their hand up........

That would really suck! Odds against a copper sitting parked in the desert, pitting out his uni would likely be way in your favor though.
No dips like that through Death Valley - all WFO!!!

 

[TOMCAT]

Track your speed with light planes on the Nullarbor. Cops are waiting for you when you hit what they claim is civilisation... which in truth is only some fly-blown collection of humpies.

That 146 klms or whatever that straight is has another 100 plus straight kilometres each f#ckin side of it .. after the 'slight bend' on either end .. sh!t road on a bike any way you look at it.

 

[Boog]

Yeah looks almost identical . what do they call them over there ?

Technically, I believe they are called Horn toad lizzards. We just called them Horny Toads

 

[idk]

I was driving across the Nullarbor one night, on cruise control at 70mph, when a truck came into view - so we doth dropped our headlights to low beam. We passed each other 20 minutes later! Assuming he was also doing 70mph, it means that we were about 45 miles apart when we dropped to low beam because our lights were too bright.

 

[TriumPhil]

What??? No curvature of the Earth there?

 

[idk]

Thus proving the flat Earth theory.

 

[1olbull]

I was driving across the Nullarbor one night, on cruise control at 70mph, when a truck came into view - so we doth dropped our headlights to low beam. We passed each other 20 minutes later! Assuming he was also doing 70mph, it means that we were about 45 miles apart when we dropped to low beam because our lights were too bright.

An interesting concept.
I get 58.3 miles. heh heh heh
Can't understand the high beams being a factor at that huge distance.
Sure it was 25 minutes?

 

[TriumPhil]

Sounds to me like he was hittin' the ol' bullabong too hard that night.

 

[mr hunt]

....when you're travelling that road minutes pass like hours and hours, like days....

 

[ruzzle]

I was driving across the Nullarbor one night, on cruise control at 70mph, when a truck came into view - so we doth dropped our headlights to low beam. We passed each other 20 minutes later! Assuming he was also doing 70mph, it means that we were about 45 miles apart when we dropped to low beam because our lights were too bright.

You can do that out round Cobar/Wilcannia too.

Bad bit is that you gotta drive a long way on low beam.... not much use with woolly jumpers......