Pic of me pulled over on Sunday (25 September)

[ManDownUnder]

Looks like we are going to have to disagree on this one sarge.
I think the plod would be more likely to tar young men with the same brush rather then motorbikes in general, and as a under 25yo male that does affect me. Im sure the cops have seen more young men doing stupid shit then motorbikers doing stupid shit.

I think the cops are more ikely to tar motorcyclists with the same brush and under 25 yo males with the same brush.

[SARGE]

Looks like we are going to have to disagree on this one sarge.
I think the plod would be more likely to tar young men with the same brush rather then motorbikes in general, and as a under 25yo male that does affect me. Im sure the cops have seen more young men doing stupid shit then motorbikers doing stupid shit.

Fairer point about the cagers though who only saw a biker doing a burnout and not his age etc, but then what cagers already didnt have a good view of us, theyre just jealous though

how old am i under my gear?.. i have a full face helmet, sunnies, a heavy coat and gloves..

someone your age and someone my age look identical under all that ..

as far as cager jelousy, could be .. but its more like

"stupid dirty asshole bikers.."

i was having a picnic with th family at mission bay on sunday.
and kept seeing a ratty zxr250 flying up and down tamaki drive. i thought who is the twat on th learner bike?????...........????
i now know.

i woulda paid good money for you to toss a bucket of sand in the road

[Filterer]

ahh jeez mark, probably the reason the cops were there was they were responding to a call about a biker hooning up and down takimi dr.....
looks like you made ur own bed on that one.....

Hurry up and finish school so you can start defending yourself cos im not anymore

[Swoop]

I think the plod would be more likely to tar young men with the same brush rather then motorbikes in general,

Are you sure about that statement?
If we ride around NOT wearing a helmet they can see our age/s, but until that happens we are ALL tarred with the actions of a small minority of bikers.

EDIT: Fu*k, need to learn to type faster...

[gamgee]

rofl, i didnt realise its a proper term....
perhaps mark you should do the squid purity test
http://www.bytebrothers.org/SquidTest.htm

So far, 17690 people (including you) have responded to this Squid Test Survey and have been tabulated. Of those responses, the average grade is 53. Your grade was 78 (from 0 to 100), and 0 out of the 115 questions were left un-answered. The average number of questions answered in this test is 47.

A higher grade indicates a stronger sense of common decency, and a lower grade is an indication of conspicuous squidliness and general disregard for civilized society. Your score indicates that you are a halfway decent rider and wise-ass who is way too narcissistic his or her own good.

[Filterer]

I think the cops are more ikely to tar motorcyclists with the same brush and under 25 yo males with the same brush.

Straight from the horses mouth so to speak...
And sarge to clarify your point the cops obviuosly saw him without his gear on

[ManDownUnder]

Are you sure about that statement?
If we ride around NOT wearing a helmet they can see our age/s, but until that happens we are ALL tarred with the actions of a small minority of bikers.

bingo.....

[ManDownUnder]

And sarge to clarify your point the cops obviuosly saw him without his gear on

Yes - but only after they pulled him over. What are they going to do, pull over m/c, then un-pull them over when they realise they're the wrong demographic?

[ManDownUnder]

ahh jeez mark, probably the reason the cops were there was they were responding to a call about a biker hooning up and down takimi dr.....
looks like you made ur own bed on that one.....

Hurry up and finish school so you can start defending yourself cos im not anymore

Bling mate - best laugh of the day!

[Filterer]

Yes - but only after they pulled him over. What are they going to do, pull over m/c, then un-pull them over when they realise they're the wrong demographic?

Well i was assuming they would only pull someone over if they were doing something wrong in the first place, I have personally never been pulled over so either Ive never done anything wrong in sight of a cop or I have been lucky in not being randomly pulled over.

From what you are saying it appears that you are implying that cops would purposly pull over young men if they could for no reason other then that they have previosly formed prejudices. I certantly hope not

[McJim]

how old am i under my gear?.. i have a full face helmet, sunnies, a heavy coat and gloves..

someone your age and someone my age look identical under all that ..

I have the same problem in reverse - coz I've got the L plate on I get cut up by cagers - on the couple of occasions I've followed them to discuss their irresponsible actions they have been genuinely surprised to see a big bloke in mid thirties sensibly chastising them for their stupid actions in front of their children.

With the helmet on people assume I'm like skidmark.....and have spots....

[ManDownUnder]

From what you are saying it appears that you are implying that cops would purposly pull over young men if they could for no reason other then that they have previosly formed prejudices. I certantly hope not

In a way, yes - I'm saying a cop with a history of bad experiences regarding motorcyclists is more like to be unforgiving than one with a history of good ones.

And this is one more of those bad experiences added to that cop's total.

And one more to the total of every motorist on Tamaki drive that we'd like to be understanding and forgiving when we spilt, or request special priviledges in bus lanes or...

[fast135]

i woulda paid good money for you to toss a bucket of sand in the road

i would of done it for free if i knew it was Mark at the time.

[skidz]

If you're going to do that kind of shit, do it in a safe place Mark. I know if I did that kind of thing on my old sportsbikes, I would have lost my licence again. You younger fellas get away with too much shit and then later someone has to clean up the mess.

[BigTex]

weak sauce