What are the odds?

[madboy]

For years I ride without ever getting pulled. Then I decide to pull my head in for a while and be a good boy, and what happens? I get pulled twice in two days! Last night, refer my other post for the pisstake of that, and this morning.

This morning was a biker cop. Pulls me for lanesplitting. In fact, pulls me for the exact same thing I've been doing for the last 2.5 years - past cops past everybody. This morning I was doing it even more cautiously than I normally do. Well, if the ticket does arrive in the mail like he promised, I have this funny feeling there could well be a few head to head comparisons between heavy BMWs and lightweight jappa sportsbikes.

[SwanTiger]

THEY'VE BEEN READING THIS FORUM!

You're fucked.

[Str8 Jacket]

Do you believe in Karma madboy? You should...

[GR81]

i prefer to 'pull' at pubs and bars, more chance of picking up a chick and less chance of picking up a cop! :P

[SimJen]

Yeah being pulled over, seems to go in cycles.
I had been riding for 10 years without ever getting pulled, then I had rebuilt my NSR about 2 years ago and took it to town to get some gas, a cop pulls me up and I didn't have a warrant (as it had been off the road for 6 months).
Then a few months back when I had my 600, I got busted twice in two weeks, once by a hidden laser out by my home, 120kmhr (they told me they were actually trying to catch some cock in an XR6) and another by a fingerprint cop who was a cunt in town....doing 80 he reckoned in a 60. When in reality he was driving like a wanker in the right hand lane of a double lane road.
Just gotta expect to get pinged every now and then I reckon......call it additional tax if you will.

[sAsLEX]

Do you believe in Karma madboy? You should...

what so clean up your act and get done for your past mistakes?! Kinda points towards never coming back from the dark side there dont it str8

[Str8 Jacket]

what so clean up your act and get done for your past mistakes?! Kinda points towards never coming back from the dark side there dont it str8

Well you can take it that way I guess. For every action there is a consequence, sometimes things take a while to catch up to some people...

[Swoop]

See where it gets you in this country being legal!!!:kick:

[Switch]

[QUOTE=madboy]For years I ride without ever getting pulled. Then I decide to pull my head in for a while and be a good boy, and what happens? I get pulled twice in two days!QUOTE]

aw gutted, hope you didn't get pinged too much :rofl:

[sAsLEX]

Well you can take it that way I guess. For every action there is a consequence, sometimes things take a while to catch up to some people...

Well riders with the temerity to lane split at pace obviously get away. What is the advantage of not displaying temerity?

[R6_kid]

not quite sAs, i was splitting last night, at about 80-90% of the speed we were doing last time i followed you in to town.

Nodman was on his police bike and had received calls about me, doesnt take long to sneak up in the bus lane and pullup alongside you while you negotiate cages.

Thankfully he just gave me some 'advice' and left me on my way, which was subsequently followed up by a polite PM telling me to be a good boy.

[riffer]

My commiserations. The cops are cracking down on it.

I got pulled on 2/5/06 and charged with unsafe lane changing.

The cops reason was that, although I was indicating and legally moving between lanes, the speed differential between me and the cars was too great.

I had a discussion, but when he started talking careless riding I backed off.

Seems to be the price of doing business lately.

[NodMan]

not quite sAs, i was splitting last night, at about 80-90% of the speed we were doing last time i followed you in to town.

Nodman was on his police bike and had received calls about me, doesnt take long to sneak up in the bus lane and pullup alongside you while you negotiate cages.

Thankfully he just gave me some 'advice' and left me on my way, which was subsequently followed up by a polite PM telling me to be a good boy.


Dont tell sAs how the ole ST snuck up on ya...Im still HUNTING him ...lol

[sAsLEX]

Dont tell sAs how the ole ST snuck up on ya...Im still HUNTING him ...lol

you should probally get a less noticable bike!

ps I ride a blue r6 with an orange bag on.....

[Two Smoker]

Well just think of it this way.... Think of all the times you have been given a warning, had the lights flashed momentarily then turned off, had a finger waved in a "naughty, naughty" motion etc.... Then think about how little tickets you have actually received.... (this isnt directed at you madboy, just people in general...)

I for one, are one of the few KB'ers that have been truely screwed over by the police for something i should have only received a ticket for exceeding the 100kmh speed limit... But you dont see me saying how all cops are wankers and blah blah blah... There are rules, you take the risk of getting pinged if you break the rules, so people cant go crying when they get a ticket or lose their licence...

So i changed my riding style to suit... Yeah i admit it i go fast occasionally... and yeah i used to do it all the time... But how about we go fast in the quiet areas... and when you come upon a cage, pass them safely and with respect, thus you get less attention when they dont *555 you...

[madboy]

And the tickets arrived. 1 x Obscured Licence Label $200 and 1 x Illegally passing on left $150. Yay!!

[sAsLEX]

And the tickets arrived. 1 x Obscured Licence Label $200 and 1 x Illegally passing on left $150. Yay!!

How was it obscured?

[Wasp]

how do you think? by the blank space infront of it ofcourse....

[madboy]

How was it obscured?By the tailight, seat and plastic fairing that sit around the underseat storage area where the licence label was residing.

[Drum]

$150 for lane splitting! This could get expensive!

[Hellraiser]

Now here's one for you, I have had a leanrers Licence for 17 years and only recently decided i wanted to get a bigger bike so sat my restricted. As luck would have it i managed to get my crubby little hands on a brand new ZX6 which i fell in love with and bought on the spot.

Now in the 17 years i spent on a learners i never once been pulled over (not counting check points). I had the ZX6 less than 2 hours and i got pulled over ........ now i'm sitting on the side of the road shitting myself as i'm only on my restricted, the nice policeman comes over and asks me who owns the bike so i explain that i've only just bought it, i then ask him why i have been pulled over (seeing i was behind them and they pulled over to let me pass) and am told its a routine check, the officer asks me for my licence which i hand over the officer then makes a brief comment about me being on a restricted and the bike being bigger than a 250 and then proceeds to as me if i'm wanted by the law, at which point i answer NO so he says he'll just do some checks and be back shortly. He comes back 5 mins later hands me my licence and leaves.

Now i am greatfull that i didn't get a ticket and wasn't forbidden to ride but it raised the question of "a maori on a flash new bike + sth auckland = thief?"

Too me that just sucks

[nudemetalz]

Bugger !!
I've decided to be extra careful now when commuting to the City. I saw a cop bike parked up near the armco this morning while I was lanesplitting and decided to pull in and go with the traffic 'til I was out of view.

Now reading Madboys's bad luck makes think this is a good move from now on.

[Lou Girardin]

Bugger !!
I've decided to be extra careful now when commuting to the City. I saw a cop bike parked up near the armco this morning while I was lanesplitting and decided to pull in and go with the traffic 'til I was out of view.

Now reading Madboys's bad luck makes think this is a good move from now on.

Nah, just follow the rules and it's all good. I've split past a bike cop without getting a second look.
But then I ride a shite bike, not one of those sporty thingy's that never stop for cops.

[madboy]

"a maori on a flash new bike + sth auckland = thief?"How could they tell the colour of your skin through the full face helmet? Please don't tell me you were riding with an open face on a sportsbike... argh, fashion disaster!!

[sAsLEX]

By the tailight, seat and plastic fairing that sit around the underseat storage area where the licence label was residing.

oh the rego label little thing I thought you meant the plate, write in explaing you have had trouble with it staying on ( well you do always take it off) and had put it in there for safes keeping should get off it.

Hell heaps of people keep them in there!

[Insanity_rules]

Bugger !!
I've decided to be extra careful now when commuting to the City. I saw a cop bike parked up near the armco this morning while I was lanesplitting and decided to pull in and go with the traffic 'til I was out of view.

Now reading Madboys's bad luck makes think this is a good move from now on.

Oww man, maybe they're doing a crack down on splitting. That sux.

[nudemetalz]

Looks that way, Is_Rules

[pritch]

I get pulled twice in two days!

Mine always used to go in threes. Be afraid...
Or at least be careful

[pritch]

but it raised the question of "a maori on a flash new bike + sth auckland = thief?"


If you are wearing a helmet, gloves, and all the other gear, it should be hard to tell who is maori and who is not. Add a dark visor and I would have thought it pretty much impossible.

Sometimes it's difficult to even tell gender. Recently I was standing outside MacDonalds in New Plymouth, bike jacket on, helmet in hand, with a friend who used to rejoice in a considerable reputation as a ummm tomcat(?).

A CBR complete with radar detector pulled in and I said, "That's a girl."
He said, "No, it's a young guy."
I nodded to the new arrival who, although looking straight at me, didn't acknowledge me at all. So I said, It's definitely a girl.
When the rider removed her helmet to reveal blue streaks in her hair that settled it. My friend does seem to be losing his touch...

Saw her heading north out of town while I was filling up with gas some time later. Hope she had a good trip...