acpo guide to dealing with motorcycles

interesting, the acpo's guide to dealing with motorcyclists, note the sections regarding visors and plates,

sorry if this has been posted before.

http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/polici...e_22x06x06.doc

The rule is... don't be 35...

Thanks for that - most interesting. Thuogh I've never been stopped for having a dark visor or loud cans.

[timwilky]

Nice to see a pragmatic approach to plates as in to be legible at 20.5m rather that a technical size/font. But wtf is the problem with loud cans if it can add to any other road user thinking there is a motorcycle somewhere round here and forcing them to start looking, they an only be a positve tool in improving motorcycle safety.

But as I am definately male and over the age of 35, I am screwed.

very good.

I printed that out & it'll go under my seat.

TIm,
i love loud cans, i removed both baffles in mine for that very reason,

however, i wouldnt like it if i drove past my house on a regular basis with a bunch of like minded mates, i was stopped by two numpties in a area car, who didnt know the rules properly so they didnt do anything.

luckily my village isnt on the way to anywhere in particular so we dont have problems, but you have to admit loud cans are antisocial, this of course i balance in the knowledge that if s cars going to get me, at least hell know im there..........

[timwilky]

Nemo

mis use of a loud can is anti social and I would not advocate ragging through villages trying to wake the dead. My wife however, gets 2 minutes advanced notice to open the gate, get the kettle on and warm the bog seat.

I have sat at level crossings with Mr Plod alongside on his bicycle giving me looks as if to say "My ears are bleeding", but never been pulled.

My MOT inspector views a loud can as an essential safety feature.

All in all, just don't extract the urine and I think most of us are safe. I think plod would usually issue a rectification for a can when they already have had good reason to pull you.

With regard to loud cans there is a difference beween staying in 2nd or 3rd and burbling through a village and the prats who go through in 1st making as much noise as possible.---------------The later should be reserved for Dartford Tunnel
and then it even hurts my ears

"This Strategy document is published by the Motorcycle Casualty Reduction Working Group "

Casualty reduction group? maybe they should be more concerned with reducing casualties than loud exhausts. Ah well....

All sounds perfectly reasonable to me.