New Series - Emergency Bikers

[Project C]

On now - anyone else watching? Idiot kid on moped bragging its been de-resticted to the cop!

[Laurel Green]

...and it turned out not to have been derestricted. He probably bought it on it being so too.
Pleased to hear the baby was OK and did not have the feared Meningitis. Can only imagine what the mother was going through.

[untakenname]

I feel sorry for the moped riders, I can't believe that they were charged for having illegal tyres when infact they were 100% legal!

The police officer should be reprimanded as he should know the law if he's got to enforce it.

Is there anyway to contact the police force and get the charges revoked? It's not on really, the kids seemed decent and petty and illegal vindictiveness on the part of the police may well turn them down the path of criminality.

This is the law on tyres, notice the difference between over and under 50cc.


~Bikes and scooters up to 49cc (max speed 30mph) must have visible tread on the tyre

~Bikes and scooters over 49cc (or that can travel above 30mph) must have at least 1mm of visible tread over 75% of the tyre and the tread must be continuous (so you can't have 40% of the tyre on each side with good tread and a bald stripe in the middle!)

[davidn]

What was the irate guy in the Merc being done for? He claimed he had an integrated hands free phone system, officer claims he was using or holding a mobile device. Anyone shed any light?

[Laurel Green]

davidn said:

What was the irate guy in the Merc being done for? He claimed he had an integrated hands free phone system, officer claims he was using or holding a mobile device. Anyone shed any light?

Perhaps he was holding his 'dealer' phone. But, being serious, he did seem to come across as innocent of the charge. Not a PH member perchance? Seem to remember a PH'er saying the same happened to them not so long ago.

[Grandad Gaz]

What do you think will happen to the guy with a car ful of tools and claiming unemployment benefit?

Probably just a telling off, I think.

[anonymous-user]

davidn said:

What was the irate guy in the Merc being done for? He claimed he had an integrated hands free phone system, officer claims he was using or holding a mobile device. Anyone shed any light?

In Plod-speak, "using" a hand held mobile device includes simply having it in your hand so I'm guessing that's how they nabbed him.

[davidn]

Grandad Gaz said:

What do you think will happen to the guy with a car ful of tools and claiming unemployment benefit?

Probably just a telling off, I think.

I wonder what the outcome would have been if the driver had just said that he was having a nice little drive with some of his possessions in the car, rather than going to fix an oven.

[scorcher]

untakenname said:

I feel sorry for the moped riders, I can't believe that they were charged for having illegal tyres when infact they were 100% legal!

The police officer should be reprimanded as he should know the law if he's got to enforce it.

Is there anyway to contact the police force and get the charges revoked? It's not on really, the kids seemed decent and petty and illegal vindictiveness on the part of the police may well turn them down the path of criminality.

This is the law on tyres, notice the difference between over and under 50cc.


~Bikes and scooters up to 49cc (max speed 30mph) must have visible tread on the tyre

~Bikes and scooters over 49cc (or that can travel above 30mph) must have at least 1mm of visible tread over 75% of the tyre and the tread must be continuous (so you can't have 40% of the tyre on each side with good tread and a bald stripe in the middle!)

I would argue that there was no visible tread where there should of been. The tyre was bald through the central 75%.It might of been down to the canvas and still have visible tread on the edges but that wouldn't make it legal as you seem to be implying.