Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > police don't you just Love them

[Gordy]

Kev, I never knew you were on the top 10 villians list!!. Ok so it was under the limit, but perhaps a bit of discretion maybe. . but what do you expect, as you ride a 2 wheeler you must be a badass criminal.

bad luck mate, may see you at the bmf at the weekend. take it easy.

Gordy.

[baylissboy]

I'll second dave w................TOSSERS!!!!!!

[skidlids]

Hi Gordy
Nice to see you on the site again.
I'll be up at the BMF with Kev, Trudi and a mate from work on Sunday.
Be careful as you come past Oxford as Local plod is obviously on a Fund raising campaign with Zero Tolerance.

Anybody got one of those Bad Ass number plate thingies that flip up, I wouldn't mind getting hold of one. As without the plate visible they wouldn't have stood a hope in hells chance of catching me. I was 300 yards from the biggest council estate in this part of the country with more alley ways than you can shake a stick at, all passable on a bike but no chance of a cop car getting up them and by the time they would have jumped in their car I would have been long gone.

And why not. you get told to stop for no reason and as you think you haven't anything to worry about you do as your told, but they proceed to measure your tyre so they can find something to do you for, his first choice was the No. plate but he was stumped there. Bike was taxed, MOT'd and Insured, wearing a good quality helmet, leather jacket and Sidi boots.

Yes I feel **** on and then they wonder why nobody on the estate gives them any co-operation.
They can take a hike, even when you do need them after you have your garage broken into on several occasions they never get a result and its left to you and the insurance company to foot the bill. Tax money well spent NOT.

Still can't do anything about it now, but next time ........

[Glyn]

is there an appeal you can go through

[Ian]

Originally posted by skidlids

Anybody got one of those Bad <B>***</B> number plate thingies that flip up, I wouldn't mind getting hold of one.

be very careful with one of those, - if they even see it on your bike they will take away you numberplate, therby loosing your registration of the vehicle, you will have to re-register as a Q plate. My opinion is that this is seen as red rag to a bull and asking to get yourself into more trouble.

I think there is a major clamp-down going on right now with bikes due to the type of "Fast Bikes cover shot" / "Mad Count" mentality, and then given rising accident rates, you can see the justification for the crusade. I know its not in vogue to say so but I think we have a duty as motorcyclists to clean things up a bit, - we have n't so as such all of us are paying the price for this sort of thing.

Perhaps understandably the Police cannot tell apart the gixxer boy racers from us old timers on our noisy Ducs. Might be wrong, but you might be paying the price for some looney on an R1 that went by that policeman on his back wheel the day before.

[BDG]

Kev,
Sorry for you mate. Like everything there's good uns and tossers.

I got a good one in an unnmarked car who had me on video at 112mph on a country road, 60 limit, before i cleared off even quicker. He caught me 10 miles later when stopped in a layby for a fag, sowed me the vid and i thought i was done for, banned etc. Very nice copper gave me a fixed penalty. What a result.

However when my warehouse was broken into 3 times in 5 weeks (always saturday night between 8pm and 9pm) i was told by the police that they knew who was doing it but couldn't catch them! and no they didn't have the resources to stake it out on the odd Saturday night.

Also had a case of fraud for £2000 a couple of years ago which they said would take too much time to investigate for what it was worth!!!

Moral of the story pick your crime or hope you don't get a knobhead. I know one long term guy in the police who is sick of the job, masses of paperwork, and CPS, attitude of the courts when villains are nicked and he's just waiting for his pension.

Sorry you got one with no discretion but motoring offences are a very easy nick. Personally if it were me i'd have you beheaded for such a crime coz you've got more hair than me.

[bradders]

sorry mate, knew we should have not chatted for so long

[DC]

Mmmm,

I suppose at the end of the day. Apart from the sun setting. You were on the public highway with a dodgy rear tyre. So bang to rights officer!! But,.....................

I would have thought that at most, a HORT/1( produce your documents etc.) and some sort of Vehicle defect rectification notice would have been in order.

That way, you as the motorist get a ticking off and a chance to rectify it as soon as possible or at least within a set period of time. And the police get the message across and hopefully the traffic message sets in with the motorist. I suppose a bit of education.

But thats the way the cookie crumbles.

DC.

[skidlids]

Originally posted by Ian
I know its not in vogue to say so but I think we have a duty as motorcyclists to clean things up a bit, - we have n't so as such all of us are paying the price for this sort of thing.

So should we as a club denounce the use of Termis, open clutches, any number plate that doesn't conform, tinted visors, speeding of any kind and definately no wheelis, stoppies and other such antics. Maybe we should denounce the use of Super Corsas, Rennsports and alike on the road as it could rain on any day of the year in this country.
May be time to buy a Virago and join their owners club if that is the case.

I didn't have to produce MOT or Insurance which I find a bit odd considering the type of offence was a defect.

And I'd still like to know what this box relating to supervised driver having a tick in the yes box relates to.

I could well have been targeted because of some of the antics of the Gixer boys at the local Monday bike night but does that mean anybody returning home in the evening rush hour on a motorbike is a target. especially as most of the accidents around here in the morning and evening rush hours usually involve more than two wheels.

[Ian]

Originally posted by skidlids
So should we as a club denounce the use of Termis, open clutches, any number plate that doesn't conform, tinted visors, speeding of any kind and definately no wheelis, stoppies and other such antics. Maybe we should denounce the use of Super Corsas, Rennsports and alike on the road as it could rain on any day of the year in this country.
May be time to buy a Virago and join their owners club if that is the case.

skids I am certainly not saying we as club should do anything like that, far from it, which was why I put in the word motorcyclists. I believe people should be free to make their own choices.
I just think there is another side to the story of how we as a group (motorcyclists) are seen by non motorcyclists. Recently it has surprised me a bit when talking to non-motorcyclists who have not known of my interest in bikes; some of them really do hate us as a group. And in this day and age where the minority are brushed aside (ban of hunting with dogs) I think we perhaps need to just be aware. I think there has even been a recent Bike editorial that was saying the same sort of thing. I really do think that as a group (motorcyclists) are the best group of people you could come accross (even the gixxer boys), how many events could you get 120,000 people at without a single case of trouble? But the non motorcycling public (and non bike cops perhaps) just don't understand or see the positive, they only see the negative.

My own opinion is that loud bikes make for safer bikes; I am planning talking out my 2 catalytic convertors, putting pipes with removable baffles in so don't put me down for Mr PC.. yet.