Police bike riders why?
Discussion
CorvetteConvert said:
mckeann said:
I've outrun the police. Does that make me better than them, or was I just crazy??
Agree with your point.It all depends what you were both riding! Police are not hard to shake off if they are on an 1100cc flat twin and you or i are on a 1299 Panigale.
Some won't get it though! They will think the copper must always be quicker! Even on a moped!
LoonR1 said:
Just to be clear, I'm not agreeing with anyone who is even vaguely positive about the police.
Ah, there's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance. And that's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance… …I have quite a local reputation for getting stuck into the many and various institutional (and occasionally personal) idiocies of the police but, wherever you set the threshold of acceptability, there's a job to be done there, if only to help make things genuinely safer for those of us who'd really quite like to be able to use the roads without becoming the collateral damage of someone else's stupidity. My big argument with them is around the simple observation that most roads policing actually has nothing to do with road safety…
mckeann said:
CorvetteConvert said:
mckeann said:
I've outrun the police. Does that make me better than them, or was I just crazy??
Agree with your point.It all depends what you were both riding! Police are not hard to shake off if they are on an 1100cc flat twin and you or i are on a 1299 Panigale.
Some won't get it though! They will think the copper must always be quicker! Even on a moped!
- feel free not to answer , for self-Incriminating, or other reasons
Edited by hebegb on Monday 12th October 20:45
Technomad said:
Ah, there's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance. And that's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance…
…I have quite a local reputation for getting stuck into the many and various institutional (and occasionally personal) idiocies of the police but, wherever you set the threshold of acceptability, there's a job to be done there, if only to help make things genuinely safer for those of us who'd really quite like to be able to use the roads without becoming the collateral damage of someone else's stupidity. My big argument with them is around the simple observation that most roads policing actually has nothing to do with road safety…
…I have quite a local reputation for getting stuck into the many and various institutional (and occasionally personal) idiocies of the police but, wherever you set the threshold of acceptability, there's a job to be done there, if only to help make things genuinely safer for those of us who'd really quite like to be able to use the roads without becoming the collateral damage of someone else's stupidity. My big argument with them is around the simple observation that most roads policing actually has nothing to do with road safety…
hebegb said:
mckeann said:
CorvetteConvert said:
mckeann said:
I've outrun the police. Does that make me better than them, or was I just crazy??
Agree with your point.It all depends what you were both riding! Police are not hard to shake off if they are on an 1100cc flat twin and you or i are on a 1299 Panigale.
Some won't get it though! They will think the copper must always be quicker! Even on a moped!
- feel free not to answer , for self-Incriminating, or other reasons
Edited by hebegb on Monday 12th October 20:45
There have also been 3 police/ gun point incidents, happy to tell them on the forum as all happened abroad obviously
Technomad said:
LoonR1 said:
Just to be clear, I'm not agreeing with anyone who is even vaguely positive about the police.
Ah, there's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance. And that's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance… …I have quite a local reputation for getting stuck into the many and various institutional (and occasionally personal) idiocies of the police but, wherever you set the threshold of acceptability, there's a job to be done there, if only to help make things genuinely safer for those of us who'd really quite like to be able to use the roads without becoming the collateral damage of someone else's stupidity. My big argument with them is around the simple observation that most roads policing actually has nothing to do with road safety…
k 'em, fk 'em all. Never had time for coppers or teachers in my youth and the dislike of coppers is well and truly back. mckeann said:
hebegb said:
mckeann said:
CorvetteConvert said:
mckeann said:
I've outrun the police. Does that make me better than them, or was I just crazy??
Agree with your point.It all depends what you were both riding! Police are not hard to shake off if they are on an 1100cc flat twin and you or i are on a 1299 Panigale.
Some won't get it though! They will think the copper must always be quicker! Even on a moped!
- feel free not to answer , for self-Incriminating, or other reasons
Edited by hebegb on Monday 12th October 20:45
There have also been 3 police/ gun point incidents, happy to tell them on the forum as all happened abroad obviously
LoonR1 said:
Technomad said:
LoonR1 said:
Just to be clear, I'm not agreeing with anyone who is even vaguely positive about the police.
Ah, there's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance. And that's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance… …I have quite a local reputation for getting stuck into the many and various institutional (and occasionally personal) idiocies of the police but, wherever you set the threshold of acceptability, there's a job to be done there, if only to help make things genuinely safer for those of us who'd really quite like to be able to use the roads without becoming the collateral damage of someone else's stupidity. My big argument with them is around the simple observation that most roads policing actually has nothing to do with road safety…
k 'em, fk 'em all. Never had time for coppers or teachers in my youth and the dislike of coppers is well and truly back. moanthebairns said:
LoonR1 said:
Technomad said:
LoonR1 said:
Just to be clear, I'm not agreeing with anyone who is even vaguely positive about the police.
Ah, there's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance. And that's nothing like a bit of consideration and balance… …I have quite a local reputation for getting stuck into the many and various institutional (and occasionally personal) idiocies of the police but, wherever you set the threshold of acceptability, there's a job to be done there, if only to help make things genuinely safer for those of us who'd really quite like to be able to use the roads without becoming the collateral damage of someone else's stupidity. My big argument with them is around the simple observation that most roads policing actually has nothing to do with road safety…
k 'em, fk 'em all. Never had time for coppers or teachers in my youth and the dislike of coppers is well and truly back. Are any of you "quicker than plod" bikers really going to try it on nowadays? For all of your posturing, declarations of skill, more powerful bikes etc, are you going to risk it? One would assume that any Panigale owners out there have something more to lose than their licence, and that they have decent jobs and an income to go with it that the risk of a court appearance for both speeding and failing to stop would rein theme in a little.
More to the point, without having met the plod rider who is chasing you, do you really have any idea whether you can outrun him? Do you know, for as fact, that you are quicker/ better then him? Sure, if you've seen him at a track day wobbling around the track you might have a clue, but otherwise it's a bit Russian Roulette.
The point is, you're never going to know if you can outrun him until you try it on, and by then it could be too late to realise that you actually weren't as good as you thought you were. I'm pretty sure that some biker cops are reading this and thinking "go on, punk. Make my day".
Anyway, it's moot. All you have to do these days is take your helmet off. Police Scotland won't pursue in those circumstances, and we only seem to have one helicopter, so it's a slam dunk that you'll get away.
More to the point, without having met the plod rider who is chasing you, do you really have any idea whether you can outrun him? Do you know, for as fact, that you are quicker/ better then him? Sure, if you've seen him at a track day wobbling around the track you might have a clue, but otherwise it's a bit Russian Roulette.
The point is, you're never going to know if you can outrun him until you try it on, and by then it could be too late to realise that you actually weren't as good as you thought you were. I'm pretty sure that some biker cops are reading this and thinking "go on, punk. Make my day".
Anyway, it's moot. All you have to do these days is take your helmet off. Police Scotland won't pursue in those circumstances, and we only seem to have one helicopter, so it's a slam dunk that you'll get away.
Mad Jock said:
Are any of you "quicker than plod" bikers really going to try it on nowadays? For all of your posturing, declarations of skill, more powerful bikes etc, are you going to risk it? One would assume that any Panigale owners out there have something more to lose than their licence, and that they have decent jobs and an income to go with it that the risk of a court appearance for both speeding and failing to stop would rein theme in a little.
More to the point, without having met the plod rider who is chasing you, do you really have any idea whether you can outrun him? Do you know, for as fact, that you are quicker/ better then him? Sure, if you've seen him at a track day wobbling around the track you might have a clue, but otherwise it's a bit Russian Roulette.
The point is, you're never going to know if you can outrun him until you try it on, and by then it could be too late to realise that you actually weren't as good as you thought you were. I'm pretty sure that some biker cops are reading this and thinking "go on, punk. Make my day".
Anyway, it's moot. All you have to do these days is take your helmet off. Police Scotland won't pursue in those circumstances, and we only seem to have one helicopter, so it's a slam dunk that you'll get away.
'Plod' also have radio, so even if you did get in front of him/her (very unlikely in a controlled manner), they would already have vehicles/bikes waiting for you ahead with a potential road block. Sorry but those who have posted here stating that they could/would outrun the police are complete jokers who probably in reality have chicken strips the size of a 500gm rib eye steak and have just passed their CBT.More to the point, without having met the plod rider who is chasing you, do you really have any idea whether you can outrun him? Do you know, for as fact, that you are quicker/ better then him? Sure, if you've seen him at a track day wobbling around the track you might have a clue, but otherwise it's a bit Russian Roulette.
The point is, you're never going to know if you can outrun him until you try it on, and by then it could be too late to realise that you actually weren't as good as you thought you were. I'm pretty sure that some biker cops are reading this and thinking "go on, punk. Make my day".
Anyway, it's moot. All you have to do these days is take your helmet off. Police Scotland won't pursue in those circumstances, and we only seem to have one helicopter, so it's a slam dunk that you'll get away.
Silver993tt said:
Plod' also have radio, so even if you did get in front of him/her (very unlikely in a controlled manner), they would already have vehicles/bikes waiting for you ahead with a potential road block. Sorry but those who have posted here stating that they could/would outrun the police are complete jokers who probably in reality have chicken strips the size of a 500gm rib eye steak and have just passed their CBT.
I actually have a done a few runners. But only from cars. A particularly memorable one was the B3081 were I had pulled out enough of a lead that I could park the bike just out of site at the Albion Inn, sprinted through the door of the boozer in full leathers and lid and then just stood there, peering out of the window as the locals looked on. 
But other than that, I agree with you. Early in my traffic violation career, a copper told me "even if you outrun me, you won't outrun Motorola". I took that as a challenge.
What put me off running from the bikes was a Training course I did with them where I spent the day watching them scraping the exhausts of their Pan Europeans. In the car park.
LoonR1 said:
This thread keeps on giving.
It starts with someone asking why the police ride bikes on their day off and has now morphed into someone (silver993) suggesting that everyone who's posted is somehow claiming they will outrun plod and that we all do it daily.
Durrrrrrrrrrr
True. In answer to the OP, my old riding crew contained two Western Australian bike cops. One had a Fireblade like mine. I remember doing around 250kmh side by side with him on Pinjarra Road, once.It starts with someone asking why the police ride bikes on their day off and has now morphed into someone (silver993) suggesting that everyone who's posted is somehow claiming they will outrun plod and that we all do it daily.
Durrrrrrrrrrr
Cops are still people and many bike cops are on cop bikes because they like bikes in general, is my experience
Silver993tt said:
Plod' also have radio, so even if you did get in front of him/her (very unlikely in a controlled manner), they would already have vehicles/bikes waiting for you ahead with a potential road block. Sorry but those who have posted here stating that they could/would outrun the police are complete jokers who probably in reality have chicken strips the size of a 500gm rib eye steak and have just passed their CBT.
blade7 said:
Silver993tt said:
Plod' also have radio, so even if you did get in front of him/her (very unlikely in a controlled manner), they would already have vehicles/bikes waiting for you ahead with a potential road block. Sorry but those who have posted here stating that they could/would outrun the police are complete jokers who probably in reality have chicken strips the size of a 500gm rib eye steak and have just passed their CBT.
Reardy Mister said:
I actually have a done a few runners. But only from cars. A particularly memorable one was the B3081 were I had pulled out enough of a lead that I could park the bike just out of site at the Albion Inn, sprinted through the door of the boozer in full leathers and lid and then just stood there, peering out of the window as the locals looked on.
So after plod drove on past did you stop for a pint or just go back out and continue on?Reardy Mister said:
Early in my traffic violation career...
Haha, I like the sound of that 
creampuff said:
Reardy Mister said:
I actually have a done a few runners. But only from cars. A particularly memorable one was the B3081 were I had pulled out enough of a lead that I could park the bike just out of site at the Albion Inn, sprinted through the door of the boozer in full leathers and lid and then just stood there, peering out of the window as the locals looked on.
So after plod drove on past did you stop for a pint or just go back out and continue on?Reardy Mister said:
Early in my traffic violation career...
Haha, I like the sound of that Phoned my mate that I was lodging with and had been riding with me (we split up when the blues and twos came on) and hatched a cunning plan to pull in to next doors drive where the gate was already open and waiting. Then go through the hedge and take up our positions in front of the telly with a beer, in case they had our plates and wanted to congratulate us in person for our efforts.
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