good cop bad cop
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so took the daytona out today for a quick run, coming back home via past loch lomond I pull in for a fag and wave to two police bikers as I turn in.
I get off the bike and next thing I see them both pulled up at my bike.
morning officers I say, where's you reg?
wit, oh f
k eh I dunno musta blew off.
where you came from?
Falkirk via Callander. that's where I last seen it.
they didn't believe it would just come off next thing they are telling me I have an illegal tax disc holder (tube one) and its on the wrong position.
I know it should be in the front left but it looks st. I'm thinking does it really matter. lucky I actually put it on though.
there not happy they can't see my reg on the tax disc as that's also vibrated around so it's just the date.
you got your licence on you.
eh no, fk this isn't going well.
is this you'r bike
are you the owner
are you insured
I think your at it
starts flying at me.
I got the phone out to show them pictures of my reg, explained that its only done 2000 miles and has been sat up for years so likely things will come loose. (lost a paddock bobbin as well)
one was ok but the other kept saying I don't believe it came off in such a short distance. I felt like saying, well if seen the speeds I was riding there you'd think it was lucky the fairing was still on.
anyway, good cop let me off and gave me the benefit of the doubt. nice chap.
the other kept saying I'd be booking you for that. oh I think. like I'd really wave to you and ride around with a pink custom lid on and then pull into a car park If I had something to hide.
went to halfords in Dumbarton but they wouldn't sell me one as I never had my documents. I explained but nothing so I asked for cardboard a pen and some tie wraps to make one up.
anyway got home and got one. i put it on squint (tt).
to top the day off I blew a fork seal hugely on the ride. it's pissing out.
and my ninjas off the road untill Monday. so im bike less even though I've bloody two. luckily I can steal my dads street triple for tomorrow. I've got third party cover on any bike, I think.
I get off the bike and next thing I see them both pulled up at my bike.
morning officers I say, where's you reg?
wit, oh f
k eh I dunno musta blew off. where you came from?
Falkirk via Callander. that's where I last seen it.
they didn't believe it would just come off next thing they are telling me I have an illegal tax disc holder (tube one) and its on the wrong position.
I know it should be in the front left but it looks s
t. I'm thinking does it really matter. lucky I actually put it on though. there not happy they can't see my reg on the tax disc as that's also vibrated around so it's just the date.
you got your licence on you.
eh no, f
k this isn't going well. is this you'r bike
are you the owner
are you insured
I think your at it
starts flying at me.
I got the phone out to show them pictures of my reg, explained that its only done 2000 miles and has been sat up for years so likely things will come loose. (lost a paddock bobbin as well)
one was ok but the other kept saying I don't believe it came off in such a short distance. I felt like saying, well if seen the speeds I was riding there you'd think it was lucky the fairing was still on.
anyway, good cop let me off and gave me the benefit of the doubt. nice chap.
the other kept saying I'd be booking you for that. oh I think. like I'd really wave to you and ride around with a pink custom lid on and then pull into a car park If I had something to hide.
went to halfords in Dumbarton but they wouldn't sell me one as I never had my documents. I explained but nothing so I asked for cardboard a pen and some tie wraps to make one up.
anyway got home and got one. i put it on squint (t
t). to top the day off I blew a fork seal hugely on the ride. it's pissing out.
and my ninjas off the road untill Monday. so im bike less even though I've bloody two. luckily I can steal my dads street triple for tomorrow. I've got third party cover on any bike, I think.
Number plate thing i had similar,left the house and rode for a good few miles.Checked behind me and there was a police car and he stuck with me for bloody ages!I even went deliberately into small streets in town and they followed me absolutely everywhere so i knew they were after me for something.Eventually after following me relentlessly for 15-20 miles they pulled me over,"eh,where's your number plate?"I said you're bloody kidding me,and sure as hell it's missing!!,i just laughed saying i'd washed the bike before i left the house and it was there then.
They were fine with me,just said to put it back on and that was that,Scanned the road all the way home and you'll never guess,it was laying right at the end of my driveway!!Talking about good cops and bad cops i was fitting a gear indicator on a new gsxr600 i had,10 at night,pitch black so i just zipped along my road(quiet street) to test the thing,without a helmet on i might add and i came to the end of the road and looked up to the right,set of headlights coming towards me and you'll never guess,yep,a police car.He gestured at me to pull over.I was bricking it to be honest.All he said was nice bike mate,how long you had it etc.then he said i appreciate you pulled right over,just get back along the road and take care!!That was it,one in a million guy that one i reckon?
They were fine with me,just said to put it back on and that was that,Scanned the road all the way home and you'll never guess,it was laying right at the end of my driveway!!Talking about good cops and bad cops i was fitting a gear indicator on a new gsxr600 i had,10 at night,pitch black so i just zipped along my road(quiet street) to test the thing,without a helmet on i might add and i came to the end of the road and looked up to the right,set of headlights coming towards me and you'll never guess,yep,a police car.He gestured at me to pull over.I was bricking it to be honest.All he said was nice bike mate,how long you had it etc.then he said i appreciate you pulled right over,just get back along the road and take care!!That was it,one in a million guy that one i reckon?
I got pulled on my Daytona 675 a few years back on the A303, testing out the top speed in 2nd gear (103mph IIRC). Biker cop pulled me over, we had a chat and he asked to see my tax disc. I popped the rider's seat off and showed it to him - he wasn't really fussed that it wasn't attached to the bike, or visible.
Sounds like you escaped that pair with a talking-to...
Sounds like you escaped that pair with a talking-to...
Like any job/profession, there are good and bad. It's usually the bad ones we remember unfortunately, which tends to colour our view of "the rest". And the bad ones aren't always bad (a small minority will be). Sometimes it's someone having an off day, sometimes they (we, I) get it wrong and/or make a mistake. No need for BiB to be rude or act like bell ends, but it happens ( and I'm ashamed to say I've been guilty of it myself on occasion).
To be fair, you can kind of see it from the officer's perspective. It's a gloriously sunny day on a road that has had problems with bikes using it as a race track for years and a guy rocks up on a sportsbike with no number plate. Would you believe the 'it must have fallen off, officer' excuse?
Dibble said:
Like any job/profession, there are good and bad. It's usually the bad ones we remember unfortunately, which tends to colour our view of "the rest". And the bad ones aren't always bad (a small minority will be). Sometimes it's someone having an off day, sometimes they (we, I) get it wrong and/or make a mistake. No need for BiB to be rude or act like bell ends, but it happens ( and I'm ashamed to say I've been guilty of it myself on occasion).
My experience (and I have a fair bit of it 
) is that a Traffic cop is a reasonable bloke. It's P.C. Pants in his Panda car (or whatever they're called these days 
) that will shout and threaten.I've had far more 'don't do it again, off you go' from Traffic than from local Plod, even managed to bag a speeding ticket from a redhead driving a dog van on the A1M (I know, I should have contested it but I figure getting nicked once in a while makes up for all the times when I get away with it
) - that is still my only speeding ticket issued by a person rather than a scamera (er, ah, well apart from the one in Austria 
) but managed to impress the two guys who'd clocked me rolling off from 130+ on the M18 in the TVR who detained me long enough to show passing traffic they were doing their job then wished me a pleasant evening Dare2Fail said:
To be fair, you can kind of see it from the officer's perspective. It's a gloriously sunny day on a road that has had problems with bikes using it as a race track for years and a guy rocks up on a sportsbike with no number plate. Would you believe the 'it must have fallen off, officer' excuse?
If you removed your plate to avoid the law and knew it wasn't on, you'd fk off sharpish if you saw them following you. Why remove you identity then stop for them?Charlie Foxtrot said:
Dare2Fail said:
To be fair, you can kind of see it from the officer's perspective. It's a gloriously sunny day on a road that has had problems with bikes using it as a race track for years and a guy rocks up on a sportsbike with no number plate. Would you believe the 'it must have fallen off, officer' excuse?
If you removed your plate to avoid the law and knew it wasn't on, you'd fk off sharpish if you saw them following you. Why remove you identity then stop for them?Try to get away with any camera enforcement & plead innocence if stopped rather than up the ante any further?
Charlie Foxtrot said:
Dare2Fail said:
To be fair, you can kind of see it from the officer's perspective. It's a gloriously sunny day on a road that has had problems with bikes using it as a race track for years and a guy rocks up on a sportsbike with no number plate. Would you believe the 'it must have fallen off, officer' excuse?
If you removed your plate to avoid the law and knew it wasn't on, you'd fk off sharpish if you saw them following you. Why remove you identity then stop for them?All that said, this obviously isn't what happened here and it was a genuine mistake. All I'm saying is that a part of me can understand why the officer in question reacted in the way he did. Wasn't there also a serious accident involving a bike on that road the same day? If so, then I imagine they were even more alert than usual.
theshrew said:
Bloke I work with is a bit of a loon on his bike. He tried the plate must of fallen off job but didn't get away with it.
What was the penalty? I'd always heard that it was a fixed penalty with no points, but was never sure if it was true. At a guess, it depends on if you are done for 'no plate' or something more like perverting the course of justice?theshrew said:
Bloke I work with is a bit of a loon on his bike. He tried the plate must of fallen off job but didn't get away with it.
Now he rides his bike with a snapped plate on it at least then he can say he just broke it etc doesn't look the best but works
Only if 'they' let it work.Now he rides his bike with a snapped plate on it at least then he can say he just broke it etc doesn't look the best but works
It just broke is little different to it just fell off.
Hooli said:
That was funny seeing you try to blag your excuse about cruise control whilst attempting to translate it
Ja, herr unteroffizier, ich habe die autoschnellschnellwhowonthewaranywaydumkopf wasn't it...? I still say we could have outrun them... well you could have, I could have blocked the road for you...
moanthebairns said:
the mighty do it yourself reg
Except for the plate, that looks ace mate!Too bad to hear about the s
tty ride out...I'm often without my license as well, only always carry the paperwork for the bike (tax, insurance, registration) as it's under the seat, but often I'm out without my own paperwork (money, ID, drivers license).
I do get the plod's POV a bit though, sportsbike without reg... "it just fell off", does sound a bit like "I tripped and fell with my cock in that kid" kind of excuse.
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