Support for Steve

[Michael S]

He has had a bit of bad news and somebody's trying to make it worse. Visit the Total SV site to add your support please.

Michael.

[northwind]

The what site? Who?

I don't understand :cry:

[scooby2102]

just been to the site, dont see anything :?

Am I missing the obvious ?

[quikstu]

Not the easiest to find but it seems that this Steve guy got done for speeding & is now paying the price.
Seems a fine & a ban were his punishment.

It would be interesting to know what speed he was doing in what speed limit & what the fine & ban was.

As far as I know speeding offences are only punished by a ban if you double the limit, exceed 100mph or have clocked up in excess of 12 pts.

Anyone???

:?:

[Godikus]

I think he ment the TOTAL SV forum just a few spaces above the ecosse one :wink:

[independentphoto]

This should shine some light on things....... have a nosey in the Irish section for full details.

BelfastBiker2003 Wrote (In the TOTAL SV forum [IRISH Dept])

Hi all,

Last night I was going to the girlfriends house and was sitting at some red lights. They are those sort of ones that have pressure pads below them that detect if a car is waiting to go or not - but dont pick up the weight of a bike. So I am sitting there for ages and there is nothing anywhere even close to going through so decide to just go on. So I get a couple of miles down the road and I see behind me and hear the siren so I pull over.

So they are doing me for jumping a red light - even after i explained why - they said fair enough but you still did it!!!

Also they said I accelerated away from the lights so hard that I "must have been speeding" - no actual evidence and I dont think I was above 70 for more than about 5secs before I relalised my speed and slowed to 70!!!

Also they said that the way I was riding was classed as "Dangerous Driving" - they said I was putting others in danger - how? - well I was sitting just to the left of the white lines so I could see past the car in front of me so I knew if I could overtake or not!!! And this apparently is putting oncoming traffic in danger even though I am not on their side of the road!!!

So I am being recommended for prosecution on dangerous driving, speeding, and whatever it is called when you go through a red light!!!!

Complete prats

They must have had a bad cup of tea or something. I mean I live in an area where (especially on a saturday night) there is more important things they could be doing and they stop me - with NO evidence - and decide I am a criminal.

So with this in mind I am thinking of just dumping the bike and walking everywhere or getting a Mountain bike - I have not long got my licence back so if I am prosecuted I will lose it again for sure - for probably 12 months. Pod said worse case scenario is jail!!!!!!!!!!! I could have hit him!!!!!

So like I said with this in mind i am thinking of giving up the bike and also as such I might hand the reins of moderator ship to someone else - if you are interested pm me!!

Cheers guys so listening


Relates well to our own thread by Quedos HERE (http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=35453)

Garry :shock:

[SVTONYB]

Steve is one of the boys from Ireland who came over here for a rideout with us.... a top bloke who has not had it easy with the police. I dont know the full ins and outs of whats happened on the forum only what it says on the site