Positive interaction today

[unstuck]

You meet the nicest people on a Honda!

Not always.

[Fast Eddie]

haha, it is good, positive reinforcement..

and are we allowed to use bus lanes? and lane splitting? I'm never sure.. If I see a patrol car I usually stop and remerge with traffic if I can

[Berries]

Now, some would say that I should mind my own business, and leave people alone unless they have broken the rules. Personally I believe in promoting bloody good riding by encouraging the positives.

Interested in what you folk think.

I would be polite to your face. Apart from that I do think you should mind your own business. I want you to protect me and my family from the baddies out there, not suck up to law abiding citizens just to get a warm fuzzy feeling.

I said I would be polite to your face, that's because you're a cop and I was brought up that way. But seriously, if I got pulled over to be congratulated for a nice arse or high quality indicating I'd like to tell your man to fuck right off.

[Gremlin]

I'd love to know what he thought afterwards. I think he would have taken your comments on board given that you're a bike cop, been very surprised, but I think it's an awesome idea.

[Tigadee]

Feeling the love.

Cops are human after all, aye?

[Jantar]

haha, it is good, positive reinforcement..

and are we allowed to use bus lanes? and lane splitting? I'm never sure.. If I see a patrol car I usually stop and remerge with traffic if I can

You can legally use any bus lane unless motorcycles are specifically excluded. That is they must have a sign saying "No Motorcycles" or "Motorcycles Prohibited".

Lane splitting is bit greyer. It appears to be leag as long as you stay in your lane and pass to the right of another vehicle in your lane. As soon as you pass to the left of a vehicle in your lane you are illegal.

[Berries]

Of course, if this meant you were not going to stop me for a chat when I get caught breaking a law or three then I am all for it.

[Maha]

Did you swap business cards?

[Bassmatt]

If I was pulled over to be told that, Id be annoyed at being stopped. If i was already stopped of my own accord and you pulled up, Id not mind at all.

good pr!

This
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[duckonin]

Feeling the love.

Get over the 'love' part it does not last on this site.

[CookMySock]

I would be polite to your face. Apart from that I do think you should mind your own business. I want you to protect me and my family from the baddies out there, not suck up to law abiding citizens just to get a warm fuzzy feeling.

I said I would be polite to your face, that's because you're a cop and I was brought up that way. But seriously, if I got pulled over to be congratulated for a nice arse or high quality indicating I'd like to tell your man to fuck right off.

Yeah I think so too.

Nice try coppa, but its too little, too late. There is an enormous amount of hatred out there because ordinary citizens are targetted for minor misdemeanors that even the cops themselves do - cue getting passed by a speed camera van doing 130k plus, only to find him "working" further down the road a bit, or a line of three cop cars go straight through a compulsory stop sign, and then us ticketed heavily for it the very next day, but the very same people. Bona fide safety, or genuinely treading hard on dangerous behavior - yes. Arbitrary fundraising, no.

Maybe it is your personal redemption today to be nice to someone and feel that adds value to them, but it doesn't mate. It's insulting and condescending after the long list of abuse we have suffered at the hand of your industry.

[Maha]

As soon as you pass to the left of a vehicle in your lane you are illegal.

Got be an idiot to that when lane splitting...biker's rule # 7 'own your bit of road'
Those in cars are entitled to the same rule, if they move to the left and you are there, in thier lane? your fault.
If I am splitting, I make sure I always pass on the right of any vehicle, that means getting out of the current lane and into the adjacent one. (moving to the left in this case)

[george formby]

Yes, positive reinforcement is a good thing. I should imagine the rider of the Honda is stoked that his riding has been acknowledged by a professional.

[oneofsix]

Only read the OP.

Yep, you deserve some donuts

[Macontour]

I reckon good effort. Always nice to be complimented, especially when unexpected.

And to all the haters, we really know that like any group of people, 99.9% of them are good people however the occasional bad apple lets the rest down.

I have only had one bad experience when on the receiving end of a ticket and that was a cop on the Hauraki Plains who treated me like a heinous, boy racing, backwards baseball cap, no WOF, over my driving hours criminal for being 10 ks over the limit in my Tour Coach on one of the long, long straights on a dry, sunny Sunday morning. All the rest have been decent even if they still got the ticket book out.

Maybe it has to do with the "Attitude Test"