What are the odds?

[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...