Laser scam vans and bikes

[the t boy]

I posted this in SP&L but thought I might get some more advice here. Any thoughts?


On the way home tonight there was a scamera van parked on my side of the road in the shade under some trees, catching drivers coming over the brow of a hillas the angle of the sun made it difficult to see the van parked in the road.

I was on my bike and possibly over the limit but I'm not sure as I was actually watching the road not my speed due to the difficult conditions. My question is that obviously I don't have a front number plate but can the scammers capture my speed using the laser and then note my plate details separately as I go past? If so how would this stack up as "uninterrupted footage" or does that not matter?

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[Rawwr]

I had a nice long chat with plod about bikes and lasers. Apparently, 99 times out of 100 they can't get a 'lock' on a bike at any worthy distance.

[gordski]

the only way you can get done, is if the chap in the van clocks your speed on camera (assuming he gets a good lock) then reads your number plate as you go passed. Even then there has been a lot of discussion about this practice, not least since all speed cameras are not tested on bikes (see any issue of MCN).

[driller]

If they don't work on bikes how come every time I go by a mobile gatso here in France (they have them in the back windows of unmarked cars) a flash goes off as it registers that I'm over the limit?

[YamR1V64motion]

but if he was going at such a pace to warrant thier attention, thier not going to get his plate before its out of vision, have you ever been on a hard shoulder and tried to read a plate on a car at 70 mph? almost impossible now imagine a bike plate at higher speed, i would say hes pretty safe.

[the t boy]

It was a 30 limit and so I was not going particularly quickly. He could easily have got my plate if he wanted to and can use his word as evidence that it's the same bike.

[Fire99]

I'm no expert but wouldn't it be difficult to prove if the camera took a picture of the front of the bike coming towards him but had to make a separate note of the reg number once he had gone past?
How could he prove when he took the reg number of the bike down?

All sounds a bit hard work for the Van Operator.