Mitigating Circumstances - Letter to Magistrates

[Biker Biggles]

I regularly ride down the High Street at 40 MPH while pulling a wheelie,then pull up at the traffic lights with a big stoppie.
I like to top 160MPH on every ride out of town when it is'nt raining,and I love to "filter " at 90 MPH In slow moving traffic.

I tend to exagerate a lot.In fact I talk a good line in utter drivel.
Should I be banned from the road?

I just have this feeling that some of GYKD''s stories involve some poetic license,but I could have it all wrong.

FAO Mpaton2005 You have taken select words from various posts and used them against me. Your latest posting is completely out of context and you know it. I consider this a deliberate attempt by you to turn the other members of the forum against me, perhaps you feel threatened by me as most people took myside of the arguement that speed is NOT DANGEROUS!!!!!!!

Yes i have had a few offences for speeding - the last was over 12 months ago.

The DR10 was not drink driving, althought that is the conviction. I had had 1 1/2 pints and was PUSHING the MOPED back to the pub where i worked to i could get a taxi home. The police stopped me and arrested me as i had the keys on my person, therefore it is INTENT TO DRIVE. Hence the DR10 - besides, that conviction is now SPENT under the Rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 and i have not reoffended, or even had as much as 1ml of alcohol whilst driving/riding.

Read the post about riding with no hands again, and read the context in which it was posted. You will find that you have talked absolute ******** and twisted what I had originally said. When i did practice those manouvers, they were on closed private roads at slow speeds. Someone else posted about riding around with one hand - I should hope that they have recived an equal grilling from your sad self.

You will find that if you come riding with me, i am safe, steady, not rushed, smooth, but fast. I do not cross double white lines, overtake on blind bends/summits etc. I have not crashed a bike due to "pilot error", not have i forced other people to take evasive/avoiding action whilst im on the roads.

Yes i have been stopped speeding before, but i have also been complimented by a fully qualified IAM instructor about the high level of my riding/observational ability. I have more experience under my belt for the 4 years ive been on 2 wheels than most 40yo bikers have who have been riding since the age of 60.


ADMIN Please can you lock this thread now.

Thanks to all who have posted comments which are interesting, fruitful, well thoughtout and have aided to the underlying mature debate.

To the people who thought this was a good opportunity to have a personal bash at people who ride faster than they do... before you go calling us all dangerous, wreckless, foolish etc - ENROL ON AN IAM COURSE.. they will prove facts which i, and others, have been saying.

So really what your saying by 'well go for a ride... and you will be made to eat your words' is that you have cleared learned nothing out of any of the 11 points and inevitable ban you've earned yourself.....

I think the one thing i have learned from this is that you are clearly an @rse who needs to be kept off the roads and off a bike. And i don't give a to$$ what you say, there is no way in hell a copper is going to tell you that your a safe rider after failing to stop, more like 'now haven't we been a silly boy'

And if your bike is your main transport, then you really diserve to loose it for not being more careful, knowing what points you were on.

And you are VERY lucky that they are not persuing the running from them!! Now this is my last post on this topic, cos it is becoming tiresome.

Please don't ever send personal threats to me via a PM again.

I'd like to just have my say before this is locked...

a) speed is not necessarily dangerous (yawn... same old ground)

b) what you did was stupid but I'm sure there are lots of other people who would consider doing it too, depending on circumstances

c) by explaining what happened (or what you say happened), you're opening yourself up to people giving your their opinions on the situation, whether you like it or not, if you don't want to respond to them, don't...

d) you're either very unlucky or not observant enough if you've been busted this many times...

Just some of my thoughts...

Just so everyone knows i didnt threaten mpaton2005, i just said that if he had a problem with me, as his forum post had taken everything id posted over the last few months, and used against me completely out of context, then i would rather he said so to my face.

I didnt threaten him/her...

*Sigh* Again you are selective with what you post (like on Pepipoo). I will be making no further comments on this matter.

Ok ok.. before i log out of the forum for a few months (fed up with certain people attitudes on here this last few months, not just towards me but to other people as well).. here is the EXACT copy of what i sent to Mpaton2005.. IT IS NOT A THREAT.

You have taken select words from various posts and used them against me. Your latest posting is completely out of context and you know it. I consider this a deliberate attempt by you to turn the other members of the forum against me, perhaps you feel threatened by me as most people took myside of the arguement that speed is NOT DANGEROUS!!!!!!!

Yes i have had a few offences for speeding - the last was over 12 months ago.

The DR10 was not drink driving, althought that is the conviction. I had had 1 1/2 pints and was PUSHING the MOPED back to the pub where i worked to i could get a taxi home. The police stopped me and arrested me as i had the keys on my person, therefore it is INTENT TO DRIVE. Hence the DR10 - besides, that conviction is now SPENT under the Rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 and i have not reoffended, or even had as much as 1ml of alcohol whilst driving/riding.

Read the post about riding with no hands again, and read the context in which it was posted. You will find that you have talked absolute ******** and twisted what I had originally said. When i did practice those manouvers, they were on closed private roads at slow speeds. Someone else posted about riding around with one hand - I should hope that they have recived an equal grilling from your sad self.

You will find that if you come riding with me, i am safe, steady, not rushed, smooth, but fast. I do not cross double white lines, overtake on blind bends/summits etc. I have not crashed a bike due to "pilot error", not have i forced other people to take evasive/avoiding action whilst im on the roads.

Yes i have been stopped speeding before, but i have also been complimented by a fully qualified IAM instructor about the high level of my riding/observational ability. I have more experience under my belt for the 4 years ive been on 2 wheels than most 40yo bikers have who have been riding since the age of 60.

If you want to insult me, call me a liar, dont do it on open forum, PM me and i will give you my mobile number. We can arrange to meet up and you can say it to my face.

Mpaton2005 - get a life. For everyone else's sake if not your own

And thats it.. ive said what i need to say, hope everyone has a nice summer. keep it rubber side down, and take care out there.

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I've got a great life thanks.

[BillyC]

Going.... going.... going.... GONE!