Bound to happen sooner or later...

[albertaduke]

the one in the back takes the heat starts weaving and when he gets pulled over he tells the police he has a bee up his pants

I will try that sometime!!

 

[1olbull]

the one in the back takes the heat starts weaving and when he gets pulled over he tells the police he has a bee up his pants

Heh heh heh
I usually tell those riding behind me that if stopped, to explain to the cop that I had just passed them at a higher rate and must have tripped his radar.

 

[DJ]

We have a little known loop hole here in Tassie and if you get a speeding ticket you pay say a $1 more than the fine by cheque all is good they take the money and issue with a refund cheque, you just toss it in the draw with all the others and untill the transaction is closed and it won't untill you cash the refund, they don't take any points of you so you end up with a draw full of un cashed $1 cheques and all your points not my draw though no really.

I've heard of that happening hear in California, but I always thought it was a urban legend.
Anybody have any first hand knowledge if this practice is true?

 

[Paul Jacobs]

I live in south east Queensland and the police here are everywhere. They have new video cameras that record everyone passing,in plain cars and send out tickets based on that video evidence, usually about 3 weeks later. In the past two weeks I've seen them up a lane facing up a great left hand bend unless another biker coming down had worned me that would have coast me 6 points. And yesterday one hidden behind a wall filming traffic going buy. This has nothing at all to do with road safety and everything to do with revenue raising.

 

[breeze]

I've heard of that happening hear in California, but I always thought it was a urban legend.
Anybody have any first hand knowledge if this practice is true?

heard bout that very same thing here in N.M.dont know how true it is tho. sounds kind of far fechted to me ??

 

[Big boy]

If you can think positively you will see that speeding fines are just an extra tax we have to pay to allow us to exceed the set limits.
Once you have had a few they lose there sting and you become fairly blase. You may have to walk for 3 months every 4 years or so but that is over quickly.

Exceeding the speed limit and speeding are two different things. One is simple a question of fact that may or may not put the rider or public at risk, the other, to me, implies an element of recklessness and risk.

I have just come back from a ride through the Northern Territory where the open road limit is 130 K's (82mph) and one section it is "what is safe", in a good vehicle this can be 160kph (100mph), the stats show no difference in the incidence of accidents nor any increased severity of injury, these are well maintained open roads and reasonably animal free during daylight. Makes you wonder about some limits in the vast emptiness of other areas

 

[sleeves]

I live in south east Queensland and the police here are everywhere. They have new video cameras that record everyone passing,in plain cars and send out tickets based on that video evidence, usually about 3 weeks later. In the past two weeks I've seen them up a lane facing up a great left hand bend unless another biker coming down had worned me that would have coast me 6 points. And yesterday one hidden behind a wall filming traffic going buy. This has nothing at all to do with road safety and everything to do with revenue raising.

Agreed, I remember seeing the an interview with the head of the road police over here on tele one nigh a few years ago, they are not supposed to "hide" but be in plain view as a deterrent. The TV station had managed to film a policeman hiding in the bushes with his radar gun. When it was showed to the department head, he stated, bold as brass (and with righteous indignation) "he's NOT hiding he's just crouched down behind the bush" I laughed my ass off.

Every work day I travel around 100km up and down the expressway and I have my TPX bike radar in my ute and there's on average three speed traps, the limits 100kph and I reckon you could safely do 120kph without issue. But they never catch the guys robbing our houses too busy with this I guess

 

[LAS VEGAS DAVE]

Here in Las Vegas we have it made. If you get a ticket there are at least fifty lawyers that you can pay 150.00 dollars to and you get no points and it gets reduced to a parking ticket. I love Sin City. The scam about paying a little extra and never cashing the refund has been around for at least 15 years so I doubt it still works if it ever did, but its worth a shot.

 

[smokit2]

Steve, I have a "get out of jail free card" too. But it only work getting into Canada...

 

[1olbull]

Steve, I have a "get out of jail free card" too. But it only work getting into Canada...

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No habla, Amigo.
Missed you guys this past August.