Hampshire Police on Nigh****ch

Originally Posted by specialone

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

Is him selling the bike a direct result of the persecution he suffered?

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Is him selling the bike a direct result of the persecution he suffered?

Not sure tbh, i think he may of needed the cash to help him during the case, but dont quote me on it.

Think he lost his job as well as he had time off to attend things in regards to the case, again dont quote me.

It sucks either way

Originally Posted by jonny.boyd

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!

When I lived with my ex I bought her a personal plate on her birthday for her new Rover, and spaced it to read her name (J4NY G). All the spacing was wider than that required by law by at least 2mm but she'd still get pulled. In the end I took the plates to the local Police traffic HQ and got an Inspector to measure them and declare them legal, then I had him photocopy the relevant pages from the statute books he'd used and put his name, rank and phone number on each page.

Next time the ex got pulled, she waited until the copper was measuring up and called the Inspector then handed the phone and the sheets of paper to the copper who'd pulled her. He got a bit of an earful and let her go on her way, after a couple of those incidents she stopped getting pulled and still has the same number plates mounted on her new Skoda 14 years later. She's not been pulled since.

Hi All,

Just a quick mention on the undertaking issue...

Not sure what scenarios you are all contemplating here, but No 1 is aimed more at dual carriageway or motorway stuff.

1) "...vehicles may pass on the left ONLY when moving slowly, in queues, and when the queue on your right is travelling more slowly than you are."

If you are considering passing on the left on normal everyday single carriageways then you may -

2) "only overtake on the left if the vehicle in front is indicating to turn right, and there is room to do so."

Highway code stuff.

On the subject of traffic cops, any one of them worth their salt will ALWAYS find that little something wrong with your machine that you thought no-one would notice. How they proceed with that is, in part, down to how you play the situation. I've always been very honest and very polite with the law when I have been stopped. This has worked for me for 26 years of motorcycling, from loony tunes teenager to old fart that I am now.

Hope this has helped,

Regards

Rich

Originally Posted by Lozzo

(J4NY G).

Lozzo that number plate is illegal, the correct spacing for that plate is J4 NYG. Characters can not be moved from one group to another.

Originally Posted by bris

Lozzo that number plate is illegal, the correct spacing for that plate is J4 NYG. Characters can not be moved from one group to another.

When the spacing between the 4 and the N is the correct distance as required by law then they are grouped as required by law for that year of plate (1997 car) - plates on cars registered from Sept 1st 2001 onwards have a stricter grouping requirement. I spaced the J4NY at the same distance as that required between the 4 and N, the G is shoved over at the same distance from the side of the plate as the J is creating a decent gap between the Y and G.

This shows how it looks, the same plate is now on the Skoda (first one to take the p1ss out of my leathers gets a smack up the side of the head)



I'll be spacing my new plate illegally but really couldn't give a toss, no-one round here with a personal plate does and the cops just ignore them unless they really are unreadable

I've always loved the irony that by making a number plate easier to remember and more noticeable you break the law.

I believe undertaking is appropriate when the inner lane is for a left hand turn or slip road providing you are making the turn and the traffic on the right is going straight ahead.
i.e. Motorway and the traffic[possibly LGV or slow moving doing 55mph] is on the inside lane but you undertake on the lefthand slip at 70mph,providing you are indicating and turning on the slip.
i couldn't find anything in the Highway code,but I only had a glance.

I got a note for my exhaust the other day.

They reckon a new law is coming out soon that will enable them to make harser penalties from none road legal exhausts.


Stupid law is the no baffles. He said it was inconsiderate to housing estates due to the noise.

OK, so that 30 seconds of noise is too much, but someone taking me out due to driving and not spotting or hearing me, and possibly killing me, thats ok then.....

I couldn't argue, tyres are close, and i run a 7x5 plate (slightly smaller). Two coppers on motox bikes, and a police wagon turned up.

5 of us were parked up, no-one riding.
Ironcially when someone wrote off my dads car on the same day, they wern't interested.



To be fair, the copper that dealt with me was ok, just going to give me a ticking off, but then his superior went off on one at my best friend, for also having no baffles, so he had to do all of us. How lames that.

As long as its a £30 fine, I will continue to have no baffle, as for me, it makes my riding safer as people can hear you more. But thats common sense, and the UK lacks that trait.

Originally Posted by bris

Lozzo that number plate is illegal, the correct spacing for that plate is J4 NYG. Characters can not be moved from one group to another.

This is another thing that grinds my gears....

OK, so im running

D4MO
B

Instead of

D4
MOB


What exactly is the real issue with it? Even though the spacing is there, just moved 2 accross 2, why is it exactly illegal becuase a rediculas lawbook says so. I have a legal sized plate also, lettered like the the above, but its still illegal?? I really cannot see the point, but then im a road user, a motorcyclist, i just cause the problem.....