| There are times when simply being on a bike is going to get you "done", be it 5mph over the limit or 40. If the local police boss has a bee in his bonnet for one reason or another and he decides its open season on bikes then it's easiest and cheapest to just accept it as another form of taxation.....
Got a fixed penalty and 3 points for 44 in a 30. "Hmmm speeding in a 30, I never do that.." 99.9% of people on here (or anywhere) who say that are lying. It's a fact of life, you may not exceed a 30 limit everywhere but you do it more often than you choose to admit. Andyb does it, Rushjob does it, the head of the bleedin' ACPO does it, your gran does it. When was the last time you drove along an open main road with a 30 mph speed limit, no traffic holding you up and exactly 29mph showing on the speedo? It doesn't happen (or so infrequently that the car doing it has a huge queue of vehicles built up behind them)...
And my 44 in a 30.... 300 yards away, with a hand held LIDAR gun (no tripod, no resting it on the car just pointed in my direction) whilst riding in a heavish evening traffic, buses, cars , lorries etc all going the same speed... Only other vehicles being stopped were bikes..  |