Support for Steve

He has had a bit of bad news and somebody's trying to make it worse. Visit the Total SV site to add your support please.

Michael.

[northwind]

The what site? Who?

I don't understand

just been to the site, dont see anything

Am I missing the obvious ?

Not the easiest to find but it seems that this Steve guy got done for speeding & is now paying the price.
Seems a fine & a ban were his punishment.

It would be interesting to know what speed he was doing in what speed limit & what the fine & ban was.

As far as I know speeding offences are only punished by a ban if you double the limit, exceed 100mph or have clocked up in excess of 12 pts.

Anyone???

I think he ment the TOTAL SV forum just a few spaces above the ecosse one

This should shine some light on things....... have a nosey in the Irish section for full details.

BelfastBiker2003 Wrote (In the TOTAL SV forum [IRISH Dept])

Hi all,

Last night I was going to the girlfriends house and was sitting at some red lights. They are those sort of ones that have pressure pads below them that detect if a car is waiting to go or not - but dont pick up the weight of a bike. So I am sitting there for ages and there is nothing anywhere even close to going through so decide to just go on. So I get a couple of miles down the road and I see behind me and hear the siren so I pull over.

So they are doing me for jumping a red light - even after i explained why - they said fair enough but you still did it!!!

Also they said I accelerated away from the lights so hard that I "must have been speeding" - no actual evidence and I dont think I was above 70 for more than about 5secs before I relalised my speed and slowed to 70!!!

Also they said that the way I was riding was classed as "Dangerous Driving" - they said I was putting others in danger - how? - well I was sitting just to the left of the white lines so I could see past the car in front of me so I knew if I could overtake or not!!! And this apparently is putting oncoming traffic in danger even though I am not on their side of the road!!!

So I am being recommended for prosecution on dangerous driving, speeding, and whatever it is called when you go through a red light!!!!

Complete prats

They must have had a bad cup of tea or something. I mean I live in an area where (especially on a saturday night) there is more important things they could be doing and they stop me - with NO evidence - and decide I am a criminal.

So with this in mind I am thinking of just dumping the bike and walking everywhere or getting a Mountain bike - I have not long got my licence back so if I am prosecuted I will lose it again for sure - for probably 12 months. Pod said worse case scenario is jail!!!!!!!!!!! I could have hit him!!!!!

So like I said with this in mind i am thinking of giving up the bike and also as such I might hand the reins of moderator ship to someone else - if you are interested pm me!!

Cheers guys so listening

Relates well to our own thread by Quedos HERE

Garry

Steve is one of the boys from Ireland who came over here for a rideout with us.... a top bloke who has not had it easy with the police. I dont know the full ins and outs of whats happened on the forum only what it says on the site