Thank you Mr Police Sergeant

For not throwing the book at me this morning for a huge number of offences committed during a 'spirited' ride into work this morning. I'm glad you believed my totally true excuse that I was about 20 minutes late for work and my rather weak defence of "I only gave it the berries where the road was clear of other traffic and pedestrians". To be perfectly honest he could easily have had me banned for what I was doing.

Most coppers are decent, you just have to treat them with lots of respect to start and see where it goes from there on.

yeah there is some decent cops about, i had one that could of had me banned a couple of years back but he did'nt take it further.

this is only too true, i think its called the 'attitude test', pass that and your sorted

i once got pulled over on the bike, he asked me if i knew why to which i replied 'no, im sorry but i know i wasnt speeding',
it was because my bike was too loud, so i thought oh here we go, then he said 'your bike does sound cool tho' and then went on to give me some good advice
which was to put my baffle under the seat and if i get pulled again then i was to say 'sorry officer but it fell out 2 miles down the road and im going home to put it back on'
to be fair iv never been pulled since so not sure if this will work!

I've just got back from my England and Wales tour (right up and photos to follow), and raised my pint glass to a "fellow biker" while sat in the sunshine outside a pub.

He smiled and nodded back, only then did I notice his Police helmet on an otherwise unmarked bike. Cheers!

[dizzyblonde]

You are lucky you got off. He must have been feeling nice.
Some coppers ain't so nice, like the one who'll pull you over after sitting behind you through miles of 30s, watching you being a model road user, and waits til you are 400 yds from a shift to 50 and decides hes going to give you a fine and three points, as you anticipate the change....for the motorway.

i got stoppedo n the Fazer one time... pulled over, took my lid off and he said "do you know why i've stopped you" to which i rpelied "no, sorry, but im sure i wasn't speeding", and after looking at my age on my license (20 at the time) proceeded to ask "is this your bike", so of course i said "yes sir, ive had it for just short of 2 years"

he then went on to accuse me of dangerous driving and was going to give me a warning... but if i had already received a warning on the bike then i would be getting points... right enough i'd never been stopped before so now ive got a "warning" so apparently will get points next time....

here's the thing... i was going the entire way around a roundabout to go back up the road, and they appeared at the roudabout just as i was leaving it, and they whipped on the blues n twos immediately and stopped me about 150m up the road from first seeing me...

i think he must just have been in a bad mood...

[Stu]

Unlike the A rsehole that stopped me last night for the sole reason of riding a monkey bike. Where's the right to go about our peaceful existence without molestation.

Or the one that gave me 3 points for crossing double white lines to overtake some old codger in a merc who was sat at 20 in a 40. And his sole reason for giving me the points was that 2 people had died on the 339 in the last month.

Originally Posted by tactcom7

Or the one that gave me 3 points for crossing double white lines to overtake some old codger in a merc who was sat at 20 in a 40. And his sole reason for giving me the points was that 2 people had died on the 339 in the last month.

Disagree... crossing solid white lines is illegal, with very few exceptions (and doddering mercs aren't one of them), so you'll have to take your punishment for being impatient

Originally Posted by orose

Disagree... crossing solid white lines is illegal, with very few exceptions (and doddering mercs aren't one of them), so you'll have to take your punishment for being impatient

As was half the stuff i'm sure Lozzo did on his spirited ride?? Oh well.