How many points have you got?

[G]

So how many points have people got, obviously bikes speed easily so your more vulnerable to edging over the limit.

How many have you got and whats your history like :cool::D lol

So far I have had 7 years or so on the road and to date I appear to have been very lucky. I have 0 points

*I'm touching wood as I type this* LOL

EDIT: DAMN this was meant to be a poll aswell :( never mind

[fizzwheel]

What options do you want in the poll, let me know and I'll sort it for you

[hovis]

EDIT: DAMN this was meant to be a poll aswell :( never mind

you want a poll?
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=95753&highlight=points
there you go:geek:

[G]

Burger. I did do a search.....:(

I was going to have

0
3
6
9
12
Banned
KeithD not bothered option.......

[Welsh_Wizard]

5 years of car driving and 1 month of bike riding and 0 points, 0 fender benders.

My time is coming... ;)

[Kate Moss]

0

[Law]

0

[fizzwheel]

I was going to have

0
3
6
9
12
Banned
KeithD not bothered option.......

Done

[tomjones2]

I think we need a waiting for possible ban option

But currently got 0

[Pedrosa]

Well a few years back I got myself up to 9 and was sweating for a while. All bike related...hey I was young. But from then I really re assessed what I was doing and behaved until they were all removed.

Due to a technicality here in Spain they are presently unable to add points to my U.K. license,(here they have different points for different offences) If they were able to do this I would have around 6 points on it.


Oddly here you star with 12 points and have them deducted unlike the tot up system in the UK:

[G]

Cheers fizzwheel,

Seems so far bikers are good speeder.....know that theres a time and place etc

Tomjones how come your waiting on a possible ban? One thing i worry about is that if I do ever get caught it will more than likely be whilst acheiving very good progress and in ban territory.

Perhaps not a good thing to admit, but I didnt buy a bike to stay within the speed limit.

[Razor]

0

[kwak zzr]

18 years on the road and 0 points but i have had 4 accidents:(

[mister c]

27 years of riding/driving only ever had 3 points for speeding & that was in a car. If they would have had the radar gun out the day before I would have been banned for riding my bike at 125 down the A500 towards Stoke.
That was a long time ago & I am older & wiser now :smt077 ( I haven't been caught yet) :)

[MR UKI (1)]

6 and proud :rolleyes:

[Moo]

0 I consider myself lucky.

[Caddy2000]

0

And living in Essex, the land of the bike hating coppers! (although not quite as much as Kent)

[Viney]

had 11 all for speeding

3 - 70 in a 30
5 - 124 on the M4 (no ban!!)
3 - 34 in a 30

Then all clear for 2 years, then 3 - 50 in a 30 (Braked from around 85 in the distace of the van)

Licence is all clear now...there, thats tempted fate

[fizzwheel]

To many, and I dont want anymore either.

I went to collect a mnibus a while back, the chap looked at my license, and said

"it not a competition to see how many you can collect you know"

[Wideboy]

0 - bike (tough wood)
0 - car (touch wood)

driving about a year and riding for 2 years

[chazzyb]

No points, but I did get an endorsement, once upon a time, in a galaxy, far, far away, for doing 70 in a 30.

[tomjones2]

Cheers fizzwheel,

Seems so far bikers are good speeder.....know that theres a time and place etc

Tomjones how come your waiting on a possible ban? One thing i worry about is that if I do ever get caught it will more than likely be whilst acheiving very good progress and in ban territory.

Perhaps not a good thing to admit, but I didnt buy a bike to stay within the speed limit.

Making a little to much progress on the way home from work, forgot to check the mirrors (there c*ap) until i noticed everyone was getting out my way, then I saw the flashing light reflecting of the back of a van. I must have passed the unmarked traffic car somewhere before. Being rush hour there was quite a bit of traffic around as well.

Basically he told me i had lost my licence and he was going to see my mum? but I have heard nothing, they have got 6 months to prosecute me 2 of which have now expired.

Although many of us think nothing of speeds that begin with 1 the police do and have lots of big nasty terms such a reckless, dangerous, impound and crush which they can use. Check your mirrors!

At the time my attitute to speeding was v.poor, I can honestly say that I have a lot more respect for the speed limits than i did 2 months ago. Certainly passing cars doing the speed limit is something I dont do without giving a check first, you may want to think about it. Not trying to lecture you but standing at the side of the road being shouted at knowing you haven't got a leg to stand on is not a nice feeling.

[Ed]

0 points. I've been driving for 8 years, riding for 4 years.

I ride and drive in a manner which even Richard Brumstrom would be proud of.

Hmm. Maybe that doesn't apply to France;):D

Here, in 30 years of driving - 3 points and an SP30 for doing 60 in a 50. I thought I was in a 60, but alas no. The points have another 15 months to run. Accidents - 2. Once was when I rear ended someone in the car - I was looking at the flooded River Severn instead of the road and didn't notice that the car in front was braking - and second when I came off the bike. That was painful.

[Luckypants]

Currently on 3 - one 3 pointer expired last month.

So 7 points for a CD-10. Put my hand up to that one, riding while tired and completely didn't look ahead. Broken ankle and written off bike.

3 points speeding 34 in a 30. My bad for not braking, but coasting down to 30, was a scamera van round the corner. In car.
3 points for running a red light. This is absoulutely 100% not true. No way, not guilty etc etc. But my word against one of Brunstrum's finest but I do not risk running lights. in car.

[Ian1971]

7 points all from a car 0 so far on me bike

[northwind]

None whatsoever. Due entirely to good forward ops and braking skills though :rolleyes: It's pretty much only a matter of time, but then I've been saying that since I got the SV, so maybe not. I was secretly disappointed when I didn't get done by the speed camera on the A1 that I passed, crash braking, on one wheel... That would have been a nice photo to have.

The moral of the story is, speed cameras are good- if there were more traffic coppers out there I'd no doubt have been caught by now, but cameras are easy.

[neio79]

I have none at the moment, when i was 18 i got 3 being caught racing an other car and then at 19 got another 3, for doing 60 in a 40.

since then not been caught, god knows how, been riding for 2 1/5 years and not been done, which really does amaze me as i tend to speed pretty much everywhere on the bike.

[glsuk1970]

I've got 3 at the moment with just under 2 years before they stop counting - 82mph on a motorway.

Been driving for almost 20 years and riding for about 5. I only ride about 3-4,000 miles each year but regularly drive about 40-50,000 miles and have done for the past 7 years. Can't complain, really.

[Smudge]

zero now but when i was a stupid kid i had 10 on my provisional due to accessive pasingers and riding with a weirwulf mask instead of a lid

EDIT:1 id did try to get away with it due to the fact i was only working the gear lever and back brake

[Pedro68]

Currently 0 pts.

Driving just over 20 years. Riding 1 year.

However history ...

3pts for 93mph on M53 (it was 8am Sunday - fook all about - except for the coppers on the motorway bridge - poor obs by me :( LOL)
3pts for bald rear tyre (following the 2nd of 2 crashes in my MR2).
4pts for 47mph in a 30mph (stupidly asked, "so where are the bloody road signs", to which copper replied, "don't you know you're highway code, sonny? where the street lamps are 200 yds or less apart the speed limit is 30mph" - arrogant, but technically correct, TW*T" :rolleyes:)

Eventually lost this lot, and then ...
3pts for 46mph in a 40mph ... speed trap at bottom of a hill, the top of which goes from being a 50 to a 40 zone ... only being lost and looking for directional signs, I completely missed the tiny speed limit signs - d'oh! (poor obs again!).
Finally gone last year :)

All of the above in the car - nothing in a year on the bike :) *touch wood*

[JediGoat]

Nil points for me O:)

17 years driving.
3 years riding.
1 no fault accident (bike).
1 parking ticket (car).
2 bus lane penalties (car and bike).
2 x fallen off (bike, obviously).
3 x passed driving tests ;-)

Jo

[diamond]

0 for me but i'm currently 4 months into my 6 month wait to see if they prosecute for a minor breach of road rules.

I'm still not sure i'll get away with it, a friend of mine was in court last friday for doing 110 in his car on the M1 and that took them 5 and a half months to get in contact about. (He managed to get away with only 6 points and a 700 fine)

[mac99]

Currenty on six. :-(

My last three I only got a couple of months ago. 60 in a 50. Empty dual carriageway, downhill. No reason at all why it's that slow, no junctions , double armco separating the lanes. Very very annoying. Almost as annoying as this:



Eventually lost this lot, and then ...
3pts for 46mph in a 40mph ... speed trap at bottom of a hill, the top of which goes from being a 50 to a 40 zone ... only being lost and looking for directional signs, I completely missed the tiny speed limit signs - d'oh! (poor obs again!).
Finally gone last year :)



So obviously has nothing to do with safety, that's what gets me.

[Ian1971]

0 for me but i'm currently 4 months into my 6 month wait to see if they prosecute for a minor breach of road rules.

I'm still not sure i'll get away with it, a friend of mine was in court last friday for doing 110 in his car on the M1 and that took them 5 and a half months to get in contact about. (He managed to get away with only 6 points and a 700 fine)

mmmmmmm i remember when i was done for due care and attention thought i had gotten away with it when after six months no letter then a week latter it dropped on the mat :(whent to get leagle advice about it being more than six month (2days more!) to be told i would be wasting my time as the police would just make my life hell! go to court and accept what they give me!

[tomjones2]

mmmmmmm i remember when i was done for due care and attention thought i had gotten away with it when after six months no letter then a week latter it dropped on the mat :(whent to get leagle advice about it being more than six month (2days more!) to be told i would be wasting my time as the police would just make my life hell! go to court and accept what they give me!

This sort of stuff p*sses me off, what the point of having a rule if the police can break them and then punish you for complaining. Can you imagine telling the copper that you didn't feel like following the rules today. I do belive there is a overrun for minor problems such as address issues etc though.

The police probaly back date the letters anyway so I would have kept the envelope and postmark to prove the date.