clean license?

[Dicky Ticker]

How many people on here are fortunate enough not to have been caught for any motoring offence[s] and still have a clean license after 5 years
This applies to the people who do either average mileage or in excess of 12.000miles p.a.
Please state your annual mileage in replies

[the_lone_wolf]

7 years, never even been pulled whilst driving/riding

habitual speeder

jedi like precognition for police vehicles

now likely to get a tug on the way home tonight

[Dicky Ticker]

Just noticed your location -----I of W-----might have something to do with it
Checks map looking for blue lines on I of W:)

[ooger]

I havn't been caught for speeding since 1997, but I was pulled up for excessive speed in a bus lane in 2002, but I didn't get any points for that - being polite seemed to help a lot.

Since then I too have developed amazing awareness of approaching emergency vehicles, through 360 degrees.

Since then I've done about 12k a year in the car.

Is this question bike specific?

[Gazza77]

Full car license for 14 years.
Full bike license for 3 years.

Never had any points. My mileage varies has varied from about 20k pa (car only) to my present mileages of around 5k pa on each.

Why do you ask?

[Jester666]

I might have one or two small marks on my licence!













11! :shock: Used to do 1000+/week as a courier, now 400/week ish.

[the_lone_wolf]

Just noticed your location -----I of W-----might have something to do with it
Checks map looking for blue lines on I of W:)
i do a few motorway miles every year, generally cruise at an indicated 80-90 in the car, 90+ on the bike, don't break the limit in roadworks or where there's adaptive limits

if anything i'd say you're more likely to get done speeding in residential villages than on the motorway

[Caddy2000]

Held my drivers licence for 12 years and my bike for 5 (I think).

I do between 20 and 30K a year in the car, and about 5k on the bike.

Never had a point, been pulled once by a beat car, and breathalysed 3 times - once in a road block at christmas, once after my bike accident, and once coming out of a pub in Suffolk - all three negative.


I'm a good boy!

[G]

I'm coming upto 8 years of driving now.

This year i will have done just short 30k which isnt unusual.

So far I have had 0 points but been very fortunate really.

I speed as a matter of habit, but I'm a firm believer of there being a time and a place for it, which i think to date has kept me safe, that together with having a very keen sense and high level of observation.

I will one day pass an unmarked car and sooner or later get caught, that i do know.

[Dicky Ticker]

Why I'm asking is to trying to establish the differences in insurance quotes with points and unlimited mileage as against the percentage of people who have points/offences on their license
For instance,I was doing 70-80,000miles p.a. and every time 3 came off I seem to get 3 back within 6months.
Considering the mileage I was covering was 5 times the national average and I've been caught for something every 3 years I am wondering how Mr Average compares

[Caddy2000]

averagely

[Dicky Ticker]

Ask a silly question and some idiot gives a silly answer :)

[timwilky]

1977-2007, clean and averaged about 45,000/year

then bloody scamera van. Road was NSL then 40. 2 days before I got my 3 points for doing 38mph they dropped it to 30 and put up a sign to say speed limit changed. But not what to. So 3 points

[Lozzo]

3 points for speeding in my old company car in July 2006. Those were the first points I'd had in 6 years - the previous ones were in an old Escort, both by cameras. When I was repping I was doing about 45K a year, so 6 points in 8 or 9 years is good. I haven't been done on a bike for about 10 years, which considering I do about 22K hooligan miles a year isn't bad.

Most of the time I'm speeding on open roads, but always stick to limits in 30s and 40s.

[sv-robo]

bike test passed when i was 17(almost 20 years ago)gulp how time flies
car test passed 11 years ago

points in total 15(all speed related)
still have 9 on my licence but only 3 are now valid(thank f**k)

[G]

I cant imagine being at the 9 or even 11 point stage.....:( that would certainly put me on the straight and narrow....unless i didnt need a vehicle for my job :cool:

Did having that many points really effect insurance?

[Stu]

I was thinking about this this morning.
I have been stopped by the Police 5 times on my way home from work, never doing any other journey. Is this similar to everyone else?

Oh scrap that, just remembered the 2 times going to work :roll:

[sinbad]

Probably only 8 or 9 thousand per year for 9 years in cars. Never stopped, clean license. I don't speed in any marked limits and I'm very cautious on motorways/carriageways. A-roads are a different matter.
18 months on a bike. About 8k miles, never speeding in marked limits, very cautious everywhere about getting stopped. Never stopped.

[sv-robo]

I cant imagine being at the 9 or even 11 point stage.....:( that would certainly put me on the straight and narrow....unless i didnt need a vehicle for my job :cool:

Did having that many points really effect insurance?
Alittle bit but not as much as you might think,it's mostly the modifications/extra's thet bump it up.

But in saying that i can still insure it fully comp for 12 months for around the£150 mark give or take a little.

[metalmonkey]

I have only ever had 3 points since 17, but been stopped a few times manily casue I was going too fast, breath test once negative cause i just come out the gym. I used to drive a lot, but now a hell of lot less. I do more miles on my bike for fun now.

I keep under a ton the majoroty of the time, but I have yet to max my bike. To be honest speed doesn't set me on fire its more the skill of a good a fun ride, so twisty roads and country lanes where no one is. But very early morining is a good time to open the bike up.

I'll keep my thrills to the track, and whatever else I get up too. I'm aderlin junkie so I'll get fix one way or another:D

[shifter]

I have never been busted, I drive a van for work, mainly in central London, drive a car and have the bike for fun, and I don't dither about if ya know what I meen!
Touch wood, kiss rabbit foot, throw salt over shoulder thank lucky stars etc

[leemole]

got 3 pionts for no L plates on my cagiva planet but now all clear done 3000 on my sv650 since june last year :)

[dizzyblonde]

How many people on here are fortunate enough not to have been caught for any motoring offence[s] and still have a clean license after 5 years
This applies to the people who do either average mileage or in excess of 12.000miles p.a.
Please state your annual mileage in replies


why average mileage or over 12000?? are those who do less inferior??

I may not do too many miles, but I ride all year round, to and from work, and for pleasure. Also ridden across the pond to Bordeaux and back.
I have ridden since 2002, and have a full clean licence

[Dicky Ticker]

Just used that figure as it seems this is the figure that insurance companys use,no derisory intent. My wife has a 10 year old car that has only done 32k but she has a clean license.I was trying to work out the increase risk factor for higher milage drivers

[Daimo]

Ummmmm, do lots of miles.

Not been caught "yet" on the bike, but did get 6 points for an average of 116mph and 131mph peak in the diddy Corsa :lol: In 2004 I think.

[MrMessy]

Only caught once in the early 70's by a young copper in a Minivan. Clean since then. Luckily no fixed cameras in North Yorks:D

[simesb]

Got done at 18, but never since. Been racking up between 12-20k each year since I passed.

Somebody once said that anybody caught speeding should be done for driving without due care as it's all about observation...

[northwind]

I've had my full licence for just over 3 years but I rode for 2 on CBT before that- still totally clean, my current annual mileage is about 12000 miles but I had a couple of years when I only did about 3-4000- early on because my bike spent 8 months of the year up on bricks, and the year after I did my leg in because I was off the bike for 4 months and couldn't deal with more than half an hour in the seat for a long time after.

In all honesty I will get caught some day, but not yet.

[on yer bike]

1 year cbt + 3 years full on bike (4 years total)
average mile: 6,000
a couple of slaps on the wrist.. but still clean - although license is currently "not in use" due to injuries.

6 months car,
average mile: 12,000
still clean, 1 close call

[ethariel]

Been on bikes for the past 18 years or so (never got the hang of a car) points at first were an issue.

0 to 3 to 6 (speed traps) to 0 then to 11 in 3 days (ooooops!!!) followed by 3 years of riding like an angel to 0, been at 0 for a ling time now (thankfully)

Milage a lot less than it used to be at about 6k a year now (used to be 40k+ doing the rally circuit most weekends or 65k+ dispatching) though 90% of my ride is the daily commute into /shudder - Westminster

[-Ralph-]

I'm the same Mac, there's always 3 points on my license, sometimes 6, it has been 9, but never for more than 6-12 months then in falls back down to 3. I do about 40K a year between car and bike. I see it as part of doing a fairly high mileage, every 3-4 years you get an NIP land on your doorstep.

Haven't been tugged by a car in a long long time, it's all about dodging cameras nowadays. No wonder drink driving, illegal drivers/vehicles, mobile phone use all pandemic. Nobody expects to get caught.