Hampshire Police on Nigh****ch

Originally Posted by Supervox

Before you type ******** you might want to check around !! See HERE for advice on the subject by MAG. Now, whatever you think of them as an organisation they tend to pretty good with facts !

Do you seriously think, that if your e-mark had been half polished out (but still identifiable as an e-mark) that a conviction would be possible?

Laughable considering you dont need one anyway.

I like the way the swearword filter filtered out t_w_a_t from Nigh-t_w_a_t-ch.

[jonny.boyd]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Correct - you don't need a BS or E mark as long as the manufacturer has his name or trademark on the exhaust. So theoretically, both lads on last night's programme were within the law because both silencers showed the manufacturer's name clearly. The copper mentioned the words Yoshimura and Wolf after quickly looking at the pipes, so it's obvious that both were marked.

It never ceases to amaze me just how ill-informed some traffic coppers are when it comes to things like this. This is their job, they are meant to know the law regarding such things. In any other profession they'd be disciplined or sacked for getting it wrong repeatedly and not learning how to do their job correctly.

Somehow I think that if i got pulled over for my exhaust and tried to tell the coppers some facts about their own job it wouldn't go down to well. Think i may be printing that 'Department for Transport' document and keeping it under my seat with my ever-growing amount of documents i need to prevent me or my bike from being arrested / recovered on the spot!

[jonny.boyd]

Originally Posted by fatneck

I like the way the swearword filter filtered out t_w_a_t from Nigh-t_w_a_t-ch.

Gotta love over-protective site filters! =p

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Correct - you don't need a BS or E mark as long as the manufacturer has his name or trademark on the exhaust. So theoretically, both lads on last night's programme were within the law because both silencers showed the manufacturer's name clearly. The copper mentioned the words Yoshimura and Wolf after quickly looking at the pipes, so it's obvious that both were marked..

Edit - My bad - didn't read properly.

[L3nny]

Originally Posted by specialone

Sorry Lenny thats not always true either, Flameboy believed he was abiding by the law with his supplied 33hp restrictor, but they decided to try and prosecute him anyway.
Fabricated offences do happen im afraid, that said, i have broken the speed limit and got a reprieve so has balanced out in my experience.

Did he get prostituted in the end then? Sorry didn't follow that thread that closely it was a bit of an epic.

The point I was trying to make was if you have stuff on your bike you know is illegal AND break the speed limit sooner or later you are going to get into trouble.

Not saying it is right but if you know the rules and choose to break them you can't really complain when you get your collar felt.

[yorkie_chris]

No but they were using the threat of prosecution to try and strong arm him into not complaining about the damage to his bike.

Originally Posted by L3nny

Did he get prostituted in the end then?

[L3nny]

Originally Posted by Amplimator

ROFL

Bloody spell checker.

BTW to my knowledge he has been compensated now for the damage but sold or is selling his bike.