Did Madboy do the runner?

[madboy]

It's well known that I'm a strong advocate for the f***offski approach to minimising infringements. Well last night I roll up to an intersection on the way home. I give way to the car on my right, then I proceed through the intersection, taking a cursory glance to the uniformed patrol car that is crossing from my left. The two officers are glaring at me. The one in the passenger seat almost does a complete 360 of his head looking at me while they do a loop around the roundabout to follow the car behind me.

Hmm... well in my book it's one thing to have a QVR done and your address obtained, it's quite another to have the cop actually know where that place is. So I take the first left. It would appear that I might have been travelling a little bit quicker than the car the police car was following. Then I take the next right. And the next right, and the 3rd left, and the next right... you can see where this is going. All the meantime, I'm never doing more than 50-60k while the police car has any line of sight on me. Not that I would ever speed with the police around anyway So here I am, down the back of some completely random streets, about to turn right and head home, and this police car comes screaming into the street a few hundred metres back with the red and blues going.

That's nice I thought, he must be off to a job, so I tootled off down a few more side streets and in a roundabout sorta way ended up at home. With no Commodores in tow.

Now, am I a bit paranoid in thinking that maybe these coppers wanted to have a chat with me?

[skelstar]

Presumably if you werent going more than 50-60 and they were blue lighting down the street you were on at one stage, then they would have caught up with you?

[SimJen]

Probably late for their donuts.
Or you weren't being chased. They think nothing of doing 100+ in town to catch up with menacing motorcycles doing barely over the limit.
Whats more dangerous, a 1.5tonne car doing 100km/hr+ or a 200kg bike doing 60......

[Sniper]

Selfish bugger, they put the lights on cause they wanted to dance

[Test Pilot]

you gotta wonder if they really have anything else better to do. Funny enough i got pulled over last night in my bloody driveway, was doin 74 in a 50, i had a 2hundy meter head start but i had just left the tyre shop with a brand new set so 10km scrub in wasnt worth the risk, otherwise i woulda gapped it for sure. he only did me 4 14km over so the ticket was only $120 so not to bad.

[SimJen]

he only did me 4 14km over so the ticket was only $120 so not to bad.

What a nice guy he was..........

[Deano]

Now, am I a bit paranoid in thinking that maybe these coppers wanted to have a chat with me?

Not many bikes like yours in the area bud - perhaps you are becoming known and are the flavour of the month ?

[RantyDave]

Whats more dangerous, a 1.5tonne car doing 100km/hr+ or a 200kg bike doing 60......

Of course, the theory is that the piii... police are well trained in the fine art of hooning a commodore around town and can do it with little additional risk. Not sure how this pans out in practice, but I'm pretty sure that's the excuse anyway.

Dave

[sAsLEX]

Not many bikes like yours in the area bud - perhaps you are becoming known and are the flavour of the month ?

time for the respray now methinks, you saw a ***** kawasaki speeding last night? sorry I only have this here black bike.

[Colapop]

WTF happened to my post?
Here ya go again then...

What happened to;
"I speed, I really f*cken speed, I overtake on the left, outrun cops, have my way with your dog...." and all that shit?
(See here - http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ghlight=madboy)

I thought you didn't give a shit? Why do care that they want to have tea and bikkies with you? What do you care if they follow you 'round?

[inlinefour]

Selfish bugger, they put the lights on cause they wanted to dance

KFC was about to close for the night and they knew if they rocked on through the drive through then they'd get some freebees.

[spudchucka]

time for the respray now methinks, you saw a ***** kawasaki speeding last night? sorry I only have this here black bike.

Yeah, yeah, just like on Grand Theft Auto..... must find Spray & Pay.

[spudchucka]

I thought you didn't give a shit? Why do care that they want to have tea and bikkies with you? What do you care if they follow you 'round?

I reckon its a bit like a pre-pubescent boy that talks constantly about having sex but in reality wouldn't know his dick from his elbow.

[madboy]

I thought you didn't give a shit? Why do care that they want to have tea and bikkies with you? What do you care if they follow you 'round?

It's not that I gave a shit, I just thought it was friggin hilarious that I got away without doing anything dodgy. Usually you have to do something at least kinda dodgy... Although usually I'm doing something kinda dodgy to start the ball rolling. This time I figure they mighta recognised my bike as bearing a striking similarity to that other bright green one that a little birdie told me was seen doing....

Respray was actually going to be last weekend, but with a trackday this Sunday I thought that would just be tempting fate. Now xmas will get in the way... yada yada yada. I think I might paint it black and orange, and stick some Repsol stickers on the side.

I've got the scanner and plate sorted already. Might put the spare radar detector on there too for a laugh. But what's that really gonna do? Just give me a run up if I'm lucky. Cos a sportsbike really needs that - not.

And Spud - tell the bros it's game on fella.

[spudchucka]

And Spud - tell the bros it's game on fella.

Its your life so do what you want. What goes around comes around though, you'll get yours eventually.