Pulled over by the fuzz

[on yer bike]

I decided to go for a run due to getting today off and the nice weather, saw hundreds of bikes about and was a great day. Was filtering past some slow moving traffic about 200 yards away from Cupar motorcycles, when some police officers jumped out and pulled me over into the police car park. They basically explained that because there are so many bikes on the road passing there today and the day before and the fact that there have been so many bike thefts, they are pulling over every bike they can to check its road legal, taxed, and that it is not stolen.

So I gave them my license, they didn't care about my tinted visor, the speed I was going, or my baffle-less loud can. They checked my license out, was all good and was on my way in less than 2 minutes. Then got to the bike shop and had a little look before getting back on my bike.. Outside there was a large number of bikers and I overheard one of them asking if another guy had been pulled over, and he said "yeah the f-ing bleepers are pulling over everyone, why don’t they just leave us alone."

I'm sure they wouldn't be "f-ing bleepers" If it had been his bike that had been nicked that they were trying to recover. I suppose there is no pleasing some people. I mean I'm happy to give up 2 minutes of my time if it helps recovering some poor sole's stolen bike and also removing illegal untaxed bikes from the road, these 2 are major contributories to hiking up insurance costs, so helps out me as well as people looking for their bikes, by cuts in insurance costs due to bikes being recovered.

So would you be happy to be pulled over and give a couple of minutes of your time? This guy obviously wasn't, and I just couldn't see the problem.

[ASM-Forever]

I got pulled last Tuesday just entering Windsor (the cops there love me) and to be frank the guy was a bit of an ass. Insisted my plate wasn't legal size when it was standard etc and basically just trying to give out fixed penalty notices!

Your pull sounds a bit more decent, but they could have checked half the stuff without pulling you. I guess they were checking your license and frame number etc. Its good to see th police working proactively to clamp down on bike theft..if that was indeed waht they were doing :)

[on yer bike]

well thats what they said they were doing, and they were litterally pulling every bike over. All they wanted was to see my license and check my address matched up with the registration plate, check my tax disc then was on my way.

[Stig]

I wouldn't mind.

[Steve W]

Yep - sounds fine but I think most of feel a bit apprehensive/guilty if stopped by the police (even if we have no reason to do so) so there's a bit of an unplesant adrenalin rush.

My experience of front line police is that the reasonable ones and the ****s balance each other, out as in most walks of life...

[Cloggsy]

I'm sure they wouldn't be "f-ing bleepers" if it had been his bike that had been nicked that they were trying to recover.

Its the very nature of the job mate, you are everybody's friend at one minute and the most despised person in the world the next... You could be the nicest person in the world and as soon as someone sees the uniform... Sad, but true :rolleyes:

[thebluelion]

The peelers were stopping in my home town to-day but they were leaving the bikers alone, they stopped the little boy racers in there souped up corsa's instead should have seen their wee faces while they talked to the peelers and we went past are exhausts humming nice and loud.

[thebluelion]

if your not acting like a complete muppet the peelers here leave the biking fraternity alone

[neio79]

I saw a couple of bike cops today as i was riding home past Evesham on the A raod to Cheltenham.

I assume they were doing one of those bike safe things though as they seemed to be following precisley the bike infront of them.

Although me and this ZX9-R did go past one coming the otherway blatently speeding and he did not turn around and pull us!!

Also when i had enough of driving miss daisy at 60mph, i overtook this bike cop and went off at about 70( untill he was safley gone from my mirrors) . he did not bat an eye, left me alone.

This wekend has been great i managed to do my first proper wheelie:D :D and managed to set off a car alarm as i went past a parked car in Cheltenham!:D

[thebluelion]

neio79 have not got the balls to try one yet only riding about a year. would love to try but afraid of the embarassment of arseing off. now with out looking like a complete ***** :smt120 how do u pull one i have been told its easy to do on a sv , by guys who don't have one.

[Spider]

would be quite happy for aforementioned reasons, checking for stolen bikes etc

[fizzwheel]

That wouldnt bother me. I've been stopped before and my details checked, simialr sort of exercise. The policeman the pulled me over checked my details, wished me a safe journey and apologised for delaying my journey. Thorougly nice bloke, and IMHO a nice bit of PR as well. TBH IMHO thats the sort of thing that they should be doing. I wander how many stolen bikes or people who are wanted for other crimes are picked up by this kind of exercise ? I'd rather they were out there doing that, than sat behind a desk pushing paperwork around.

[neio79]

well i concider it a proper wheelie, i done it from a standing start by accident, clutch in quite a few revs, and when you feel the bite let the clutch out and add more revs, the front comes up straight away!! probably made eaiser to do as i had a back back on so my weight was more at the rear.

But i got the wheel a good couple of foot up in the air before leting the revs relax a bit to bring the front down. it was at big cross roads in Birmingham;) .

some might not concider it a proper wheelie, but it will do me and it has conqured my fear that the bike will flip or the wheel go alll sqew wiff on landing.

So i will now be trying a rolling wheelie soon!!:o then look for more height.

I think it is the ammount of low down torque that enables the SV to get the front wheel up so easy!!

[on yer bike]

That wouldnt bother me. I've been stopped before and my details checked, simialr sort of exercise. The policeman the pulled me over checked my details, wished me a safe journey and apologised for delaying my journey. Thorougly nice bloke, and IMHO a nice bit of PR as well. TBH IMHO thats the sort of thing that they should be doing. I wander how many stolen bikes or people who are wanted for other crimes are picked up by this kind of exercise ? I'd rather they were out there doing that, than sat behind a desk pushing paperwork around.

Yeah these were top people, the exact same, just asked for my licence, asked how I was doing, where I was heading, said they hoped the weather keeps up for me, and sent me on my way.. although I've heard that other people in the area were pulled for thier visors/cans at a different location, so I'm guessing it was a crack down on bikes in general, and the cans/visors were up to the officer's discression. Still I didn't mind at all, felt guilty when pulled over, but you always do.

[thebluelion]

thanks for that, if i can summon up the nerve i will give it a go. I will let you know when but dont hold your breath could be quite a while lol

[neio79]

thanks for that, if i can summon up the nerve i will give it a go. I will let you know when but dont hold your breath could be quite a while lol


hope it goes well, as i said i have learnt (all be it by accident )that it aint nothig to worry about.

Maybe doing it by accident was a good thing as i had no nerves or apriensions etc?? no pressure!!

[fraser01]

I often pull bikes over, it seems to be an increasing form of transport for some of the criminals..and you probably wouldnt believe how many bikes are not taxed or insured, or the rider is restricted or even on a provisional. (on a plus side i also get to nosy at some nice bikes lol)

would I mind being stopped...sure i have nothing to hide.

Fraser :cool:

[Warren]

i wouldnt mind at all, id be quite happy :)

( providing i didnt get a ticket for the zorst ;) )

[timwilky]

I have not been "Pulled" on a bike for over 20 years. The only attention I have had from them is the two occassions when my bike was not upright on the road.

The only time in the car in this period was to get a slapped wrist for agreeing "About 80" in a stupid 30 limit and told to slow down.

However, I did once have a friend who walked into Leyland police station and ask for a "Permit to be out after dark". When he was told there was no such thing, he presented 4 producers for the one week that he had picked up on his way to work each day.

He was a baker and started at 2am each day. The local police were targetting late night drivers/riders. Failing to realise he was actually an early morning rider. Obviously with that number there was an accusassion of harrassment. He was not stopped again for about 8 months and had changed bikes.

Generally most coppers are fair and simply doing their job. One day I would like to be able to make that all, we live in hope.

[Jelster]

However, I did once have a friend who walked into Leyland police station and ask for a "Permit to be out after dark". When he was told there was no such thing, he presented 4 producers for the one week that he had picked up on his way to work each day.

He was a baker and started at 2am each day. The local police were targetting late night drivers/riders. Failing to realise he was actually an early morning rider. Obviously with that number there was an accusassion of harrassment. He was not stopped again for about 8 months and had changed bikes.

Eons ago, when I was just 21, I had an MGB GT, and the police in Medway decidd to have a series of "spot checks" on main roads. My girlfriend of that time lived at the other end of town (Rainham, for those that know the area, and I lived in Rochester) so I had to pass this road block every evening. On the 6th time I got stopped, I complained to a Sargent who told me "young bloke in a nice car, you're going to get stopped, even if we know who you are...."

However, now I'm a middle aged bloke I only get stopped if I do anything silly (like I did in the car the other day, but that's another story). I wouldn't moan about being stopped to check my details, as long as it was done quickly.

Thing is, thieves rarely ride your bike away (unless it's the local Chav community) they are more likely to pick it up and put it in the back of a van. Maybe they should stop vans more often and check what's in the back ???

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[Quiff Wichard]

I have not been "Pulled" on a bike for over 20 years. The only attention I have had from them is the two occassions when my bike was not upright on the road.

The only time in the car in this period was to get a slapped wrist for agreeing "About 80" in a stupid 30 limit and told to slow down.

However, I did once have a friend who walked into Leyland police station and ask for a "Permit to be out after dark". When he was told there was no such thing, he presented 4 producers for the one week that he had picked up on his way to work each day.

He was a baker and started at 2am each day. The local police were targetting late night drivers/riders. Failing to realise he was actually an early morning rider. Obviously with that number there was an accusassion of harrassment. He was not stopped again for about 8 months and had changed bikes.

Generally most coppers are fair and simply doing their job. One day I would like to be able to make that all, we live in hope.


aww Tim- not beenpulled for ages..


remind me- we are sharing a bunkhouse on the norf south yea?


hee hee

[neio79]

I often pull bikes over, it seems to be an increasing form of transport for some of the criminals..and you probably wouldnt believe how many bikes are not taxed or insured, or the rider is restricted or even on a provisional. (on a plus side i also get to nosy at some nice bikes lol)

would I mind being stopped...sure i have nothing to hide.

Fraser :cool:

How do the police tell when a rider is on a restricted licence but not on a restricted bike then?? other than not havng insurance or riding at speeds a restricted bike cant do?

[on yer bike]

How do the police tell when a rider is on a restricted licence but not on a restricted bike then?? other than not havng insurance or riding at speeds a restricted bike cant do?
If you have a race can, even a road legal one, I have heard that they can claim you have increased the power over the restricted amount.

[sami_g]

Im off to Cupar motorcycles tomorrow to have a nose at what they have, i have not been pulled from the fuzz yet, and hope i don't either!! :smt045

[Tiger 55]

just asked for my licence
Did they just want the photo part or were they wanting the paper bit too? I'm not 100% sure where that is...

[Bluepete]

You only really need the paper bit if you get an endorsable penalty. The PNC nowadays tells us all about the licence and what categories there are, both full and provisional. TBH, I pull loads of cars, bikes, vans etc and if the PNC tells me it's insured and the driver has the correct licence, I never give out a producer. Why bother? It's wasting my time at the roadside and the drivers time too. As someone in this thread already said, positive PR and a quick chat are good things. Forcing people to go out of their way for no reason is not a good thing and only serves to perpetuate the "anti police" brigades mantra that "all cops are illegitimate!"

[on yer bike]

Did they just want the photo part or were they wanting the paper bit too? I'm not 100% sure where that is...

they only wanted to confirm the bike was registered at the address, and to see that I was licensed to ride it, so I think they woulda been happy with just the photo one, but I gave them both bits as I happen to be learning to drive a cage, so carry them about anyway.

[Baph]

I get pulled over quite a lot (to the point where if I'm late for work, my boss just assumes I got tugged again). But then, I live in North Wales, so accept it as part of Brunstrom's rule. Better that they're out in a car where I have a chance of seeing them, rather than a helicopter where I'll only know when it's too late :oops:

I don't mind it, but I know that others do or would do in the same position. My bike is almost completely stock, and for the things I've done, nothing has been noticed.

I've always just given my name, to prove who I am, my debit card comes out. I don't carry my licence around with me, and fail to see why I should.

[Jelster]

I get pulled over quite a lot (to the point where if I'm late for work, my boss just assumes I got tugged again). But then, I live in North Wales, so accept it as part of Brunstrom's rule.

But you shouldn't have to except it. They don't stop the same cars on their way to work every day, it's victimisation and that ****** Brunstrom needs a good kick in crutch.

[sorry, rant over]
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[Balky001]

I wouldn't mind bein pulled in those circumstances unless I'd just nicked a bike or was riding unisured/un-taxed!

As for North Wales' traffic police policies, I don't believe that's a crime crackdown but more of a draconian power trip for Brunstrom.

[Baph]

But you shouldn't have to except it. They don't stop the same cars on their way to work every day, it's victimisation and that ****** Brunstrom needs a good kick in crutch.

[sorry, rant over]
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I quite agree, but it's more a case of "Well, I know I'm in the clear, what's a couple of mins between friends?"

I also have a little bit of a lip on me when I want to, I mean, being cheeky aint an offence, is it officer? :D (For example: That bike's a little big for you isn't is sir?... Aye, your hat looks a little on the small side for your head though, officer.)