| Certainly does seem like a case of stop the bike and see what they can find.
Well every car that they didn't stop could well have had a "bald tyre" but they would never know as they didn't bother stopping them.
I doubt if I had been in the car that I would have been stopped.
tyre was a Metzeller sportec, 180mm wide, for the first 75mm in from each edge the tread deapth was anything from 2mm to 3mm, the remaining centre part of the tyre was less with the lowest point along the centre being 0.8mm with the pattern still vissible.
It all happened within a quarter mile of my home on the return journey so who can say what the centre depth was when I left home. So why couldn't they just give a rectification notice or a stern warning.
As it happens I was down the local police station producing my licence within 30 minutes of the ticket being issued with another tyre in the back of the bike. If I had felt the offending one was dangerous to ride on it would have been easy enough for me to change it.
Now the front with above the legal limit of tread is getting harder to turn in due to having worn a step on the sides of it and I would consider less safe than the rear, but what do I know other than I already have a brand new set of Pirelli Diablos sitting at home waiting to be fitted as soon as I finish these night shifts.
I wonder if they were stopping the Pikeys that have again gained access to the land next to the sub station less than 100 yards away, probably not as theyre not on bikes.  |