Pulled by the rozzers

[mangocrazy]

I have to say, I did spend a week up in the Peaks last month (with the fam-a-lam in the car). I can see why the police take an interest, there was some properly shocking riding on display. Must be a magnet for dickheads. And mango

Oi! I resemble that remark...

[Taff]

I have to say, I did spend a week up in the Peaks last month (with the fam-a-lam in the car). I can see why the police take an interest, there was some properly shocking riding on display. Must be a magnet for dickheads. And mango

This is pretty much my experience of driving through mid to north Wales this year. Bikes either doing 40 in a 60 or hooning along at speed that’s really drawing attention, and absolutely shocking overtakes. And to think that there’s so many roads that’s not the A470/A40 etc

[The Spin Doctor]

It was a method used in Wales. Stop every bike and s l o w l y check them, documents and bikes one ... by ... one.

The point being to make it place riders wouldn't bother going to, they could go and crash, or be disruptive, elsewhere.

Ah... dear old Brunstrom. Whatever happened to him? And why didn't it happen sooner?

The peace and quiet of lockdowns has turned motorcycle noise into a political hot potato. If you are worried about a bit of police presence here in the UK go take a look at Austria where bikes are now banned from big chunks of the countryside.

Fav tug was:

"Did you know it's an offence to ride without an L plate on the back of your bike" (preparing pocket book for notes")

ME - "no it isn't"

"Yes it it - the law says you must have an L plate on the back of your bike"

ME - "no it doesn't"

"Eh?"

Me - "I've got a full motorcycle licence"

I was on my AR80 at the time. He was so surprised he didn't even ask to see it.

Second best... stopped at traffic lights

"I've stopped you because your indicator isn't working"

"That's because I'm going straight on"

After the usual 'do you have your licence, there followed a short conversation about why are you riding a learner bike? Why not? I'm in Tottenham Court Road with a 30 limit, on a wet winter day and my CX is in the garage nice and dry and out of the salt.

Fair enough he said.

[Horse]

It was a method used in Wales. Stop every bike and s l o w l y check them, documents and bikes one ... by ... one.

The point being to make it place riders wouldn't bother going to, they could go and crash, or be disruptive, elsewhere.

Ah... dear old Brunstrom. Whatever happened to him?

Retired in 2009. This was his retirement gift:

[Mr. Dazzle]

"Did you know it's an offence to ride without an L plate on the back of your bike" (preparing pocket book for notes")

ME - "no it isn't"

"Yes it it - the law says you must have an L plate on the back of your bike"

ME - "no it doesn't"

"Eh?"

Me - "I've got a full motorcycle licence"

I used to ride a 50cc as a teenager when I had a full pink licence. So therefore I had no L plates and I could carry passengers.

More than half the times I've been pulled over were for that 'offence'. 'course, some coppers are bellends and then have to go over everything with a fine toothed comb 'cause they've been caught out. Others just laughed it off and said "you'd better piss off then! "

[the_priest]

I got stopped in London on my nice Sprint RS with Titanium Race can. I pulled over, took my helmet off, put my hearing in and said "Yes, Officer, I now hear you, how can I help?" He laughed, asked me to tell him my plate number and checked ins and MOT. All fine. Then tells me, take it easy, low revs leaving here as they are trapping people just down the road. Nice of him.

Another stop on my Speed Triple last year near an industrial estate that was being hit by fly tippers, got pulled, sat up on the bike which showed my clerical collar above my jacket collar, officer looks at me, and goes "Carry on Father". I smiled nicely said thank you and rode on.

[Dickyboy]

Come to think of it I think I've only been pulled on a bike three times, once as a learner for apparently riding in the centre of my lane instead of to the left/in the gutter , once when riding on a rupp but I quit my arguing when he mentioned that they'd also had complaints about bikes riding on the beach and lastly by a plod on foot for pulling a wheelie down a side street in Swansea - all of them a very very long time ago

[Noggin]

I got stopped on the pink blackbird once. 100% deservedly!! They were really angry with the guy I was riding with (who was also the reason they followed and stopped us - eventually!) because he wheelied away from some lights, and past the unmarked car! And he also wheelied through the traffic

I had kept everything on the pink bike standard, cos I couldn't exactly say, it must have been another pink blackbird!! I think the plate was the minimum size, but still legal

The unmarked car had chased us for a while before I noticed them and the road we were on meant that whilst our overtakes were ok, the ones done by the car would have been seriously scary!! (The copper in the passenger seat looked green when he got out!)

The only 'illegal' thing I had was the black visor on my lid - which I put down by the front wheel with the visor facing the wheel!! The copper did a very thorough check of my bike, including reading every word printed on the totally factory fitted/standard exhausts!! LOL

I was lucky - on the ticket, he forgot to tick the MOT box - luckily, as I was a week out on the date of the MOT! He did offer me the chance to go to court to argue the ticket, but the speed he wrote was, well, 'kind'!!! He was seriously pissy as he knew he couldn't prove more!!

[Bustaspoke]

The last time I remember getting pulled was 1998,& I reckon these days I would have been in a bit of bother,FZ750 flat out on the M58, in top,the only time I remember it pulling in the red,I thought I'd missed a gear,but no it was in the red in top gear & there's a traffic cop on the hard shoulder with his lights going before I've even got to where he's stopped.He said 'I'm not having a go because your'e riding bikes,I ridie a YZF750 myself,but that's taking the piss,you were doing at least a ton when you went past me.If your'e doing those speeds,do it at 4 in the morning'!'
I've not took the piss since...

[ChrisW]

FZ750 flat out on the M58, in top,the only time I remember it pulling in the red

There used to be a timed challenge from the junction at Bickerstaffe to the roundabout at the Wigan end. Apparently

Also, the armco barriers under the bridge between the two roundabouts at the Wigan end are directly attributable to my having smacked into the central bridge support...not my finest moment. You can still see the scars on the concrete to this day.

[Bustaspoke]

There used to be a timed challenge from the junction at Bickerstaffe to the roundabout at the Wigan end. Apparently

This was downhill heading back to the Bickerstaffe junction

[KungFooBob]

Last time I got pulled on a bike was maybe 15 years ago. I got chased between junction 1 and 2 of the M18 at 140mph.

Well the T5 Volvo was doing 140mph, I was doing 160mph and had no idea I was being chased (he made me watch the video in the car, it proper struggled to get past 140).

They didn't get close enough to stop me until I came off the M18 at Doncaster, past the Lakeside and on to Bawtry Road and the bus stop outside The Dome (if anyone knows the area).

I got a proper telling off, three point and £60 fine. No one believes me. People do time for lesser!

[Mr. Dazzle]

The last time I got pulled was a few days before my car driving test. I'd already given my licence in at the police station for its allocation of points, so I had to turn up to my car driving test with the police receipt for my driving licence

Passed though, first time.

[ZRX61]

Last time I got pulled on a bike (IIRC) was a 6' 7 (at least) CHP & we ended up talking about his recent holiday in the UK.
I was *making good progress* & was on the silly side of the limit'
Do you now what the limit is here?
55!
No, 45mph
Oh, did they change it? I'm sure it was 55 last time I came long here.
Yes, but that was months ago...

I've been using that excuse on that piece of road for over a decade now. no tickets.

[KungFooBob]

The last time I got pulled was a few days before my car driving test. I'd already given my licence in at the police station for its allocation of points, so I had to turn up to my car driving test with the police receipt for my driving licence

Passed though, first time.

I got a 'producer' after a Corsa took the front end off my CBR400 I bought from a mate 3 days before hand (while I was riding it)... that didn't have an MOT.

I was shitting it, until I spotted the copper had ticked the wrong box, instead of MOT he'd ticked something related to HGV's.

I turned up at the station, presented my license and the insurance for my Fireblade that said I could ride other bikes 3rd party, The women behind reception stamped the form an sent me on my way.

With todays computerised systems I bet it doesn't work like that anymore, in fact are 'producers' still a thing?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I've no idea how many times I was stopped in the 1980s, last time I was stopped was 1990, but as I managed to get done for speeding 5 times between 1985 and 1990, they may have had a point.

[ZRX61]

With todays computerised systems I bet it doesn't work like that anymore, in fact are 'producers' still a thing?

Horti's.

[ZRX61]

I've no idea how many times I was stopped in the 1980s, last time I was stopped was 1990, but as I managed to get done for speeding 5 times between 1985 and 1990, they may have had a point.

Here in Califailure you can attend traffic school once every 18 months to make a ticket go away, so nothing on your record & the insurance co doesn't find out. Now you can do the traffic school online.
I somehow managed to average 18 months between tickets for 15 years.

[Supermofo]

Been pulled twice.

First time was for doing a 130mph in a 50kph limit. Luckily we were in Spain and going home the next day, the copper said 'This is not Castle Donington, you go home I think this is good'

Second time was for skipping a roundabout. It was the pain in the arse one near Staple Corner on the North Circ. So everyday I'd pull out of work, mount the pavement at the pedestrian crossing, ride across the pavement and then ride the direction I wanted to go in, Obvs when no people there. Anyway one day just as I'm leaving the ped crossing I pull away and check over my shoulder (no mirrors on my SMC) and clock the cop car Then my brother the silly bollocks, who'd happened to meet me after work, pins his ZX6 in first and second, screaming up the road Cop car hammers after him with the lights and neenars. About half a mile up the road I pull into the pub car park where they've stopped him. He gets an absolute bollocking After a few minutes of roasting him, one of the coppers comes over to me and says
"You've got no mirrors, that's illegal"
"I saw you didn't I, don't think they helped my brother much and he has 2"
"Fair point"
Anyway, I did my best, never done it before but had nearly been knocked off by an idiot the day before so avoided the roundabout that day. We managed to get away with just the telling off

[v8-powered]

I've only ever been pulled stopped by plod twice in 35 years of 2 and 4 wheels....

1st time - I owned a nearly new Escort RS Turbo at 18, driving to work early one morning so plod pulled me thinking I'd pinched it. 15 mins of interrogation and let me on my way but only after the big f-off stereo amp had flattened my battery so they had to push start me

2nd time - Driving my dads Cortina Crusader, 40 in a 30. 3 points please Sir.....