*BUSTED* your experiences

[Sniper]

$400 ticket for riding a 400 on a L license (Only reason they caught me was because I had an accident that the cops had to attend. The lady cop even had the nerve to say "The ticket will be in the mail to you" as I was lying on a stretcher with a broken collar bone and deep grazing. Bitch)

Oh yea, and I got a ticket 3 days ago for "accelarating through a roundabout" toatl of $200, anyone know what thats about???

[vifferman]

Just wondering what sort of tickets your all getting? - if any :sly:

any stories would be great!

The life 'lived' vicariously...?

[onearmedbandit]

i use to be able to tell cop cars from just the headlights but now the lack of night time riding i can't do that )c:<

Please tell me how you could identify cop cars from just the headlights??

[crashe]

$170 for speeding one saturday morning at 7.30am - now I ask you what cops are out and about on a saturday morning at that time of day.... why arent they in bed asleep! I lost my first lot of demerit points that day - (35 demerit points) but since its been over 2 years I got them all back again...YAY. I was late going to help a friend moving house that day.... in the car.

A few speed camera tickets like doing 61km = $90 - in my car.

Been stopped in the car and given warnings, like remember to indicate on the motorway when changing lanes at 2am when there is no one else out there except me and the police officer... Yes Sir I will do that.... Mind you I am a great stickler about indicating.... so I didnt push it to be 'on' far enough, as I was holding it up to indicate...

Stopped for not stopping at a "stop" sign when in fact I had.... police doing a blitz at the time.... but they needed both officers to deal with the front car that was stopped so sent me on my way..... could have been a $75 fine back then.

Stopped and informed that I was not wearing my seatbelt.... another of my sticklers... I ALWAYS wear it.... so it was a $150 fine, told that 'nice polite' police officer that I would see him in court... Fought it all the way and it was thrown out of court...... Think that officer was having a bad day going by the way he was having a go at me. He was so rude and agro from the moment he came towards me.......

Stopped a number of years ago coming off the motorway, for having my cell phone in my hand..... then he (police officer) decided to check out my whole car.... asked about the damage on my car - "gee officer if you look carefully you can see that the dent is a number of years old....one can tell by the rust that is there...." oh dear it seems that some officers do have some bad days out there...lol. Couldnt charge me as its not illegal to have a cell phone in hand.

Have to admit that I dont have any on my bike YAY.

A cop car did do a u-turn and stopped me..... mistaken idenity as they thought I was someone that they had stopped the day or so before for having no bike license.... nice cop as he chatted away to me about other things....

[Mongoose]

Please tell me how you could identify cop cars from just the headlights??

Same way you an tell an out of uniform cop by their eyes, they are closer together than normal ones

[Cajun]

Please tell me how you could identify cop cars from just the headlights??

hahahaha shape of headlights and the way the beams worked, its hard to say, but i knew how you could tell it was a cop car, if it was coming towards you, or you coming up behind it, this was 6 or so years ago when i did 95% of my riding at night, on open road, so i use speed alot, and just got use to knowing what to look for

[vifferman]

Excellerating through a intersection too fast. $150
Parking on a foot path ($40)

What?!?!! Both of these sound totally bogus! Especially the "parking on a footpath", which I often do (so therefore it must be alright. )

I must admit that I've been riding more carefully since I was pinged for 132. A real shame that was, as it ended a ticket 'drought' of about 30 years, and made me more than a bit paranoid. (To add to my other mental afflictions... )

I thought for a horrible moment I was in trouble when I passed some cars going up the hill from the Okoroire turnoff up towrds the Fitzgerald Glade on Saturday morning, and saw a high-viz vest in the back of one of them. Then I realised (a) I wasn't speeding anyway (but I had neglected to indicate), and (b) if it was mufti cop, he would've been wearing the vest and a uniform.

The dumb thing is it takes a lot of attention watching my speedo on the highway, as the numbers are so friggen hard to read (the kph figures are on the inside of the dial), and they're so close together. In any case, the difference between legal and a big ticket is a fraction of a degree of turn of the throttle, so too much of my small brain is not occupied with trying to NOT exceed the speed limit. Dangerous, that is.:sneaky2:

Maybe I need to swap back to the Volty - that was about 3 or 4 turns of the throttle to get a 10 km/h speed increase (that and about 20 minutes...)
And I'm not altogether sure it was capable of speeding. I did see nearly 120 on the speedo, but that was going downhill with a very strong tailwind, and I reckon the speedo was lying.

[vifferman]

hahahaha shape of headlights and the way the beams worked, its hard to say, but i knew how you could tell it was a cop car, if it was coming towards you, or you coming up behind it, this was 6 or so years ago when i did 95% of my riding at night, on open road, so i use speed alot, and just got use to knowing what to look for

Yeah, it's weird, innit? I used to be able to tell too, but I couldn't tell you how.:spudwhat:
It's all a bit hard now, except when there are obvious 'giveaways' like those steel wheels with no hubcaps, extra aerial, etc.

[Cajun]

Yeah, it's weird, innit? I used to be able to tell too, but I couldn't tell you how.:spudwhat:
It's all a bit hard now, except when there are obvious 'giveaways' like those steel wheels with no hubcaps, extra aerial, etc.

during day easy as pie to spot them out. but i was a pro at night as well

why didn't ya give me a bell if you were down this way, i would have come out for a little run and to say howdy

[vifferman]

why didn't ya give me a bell if you were down this way, i would have come out for a little run and to say howdy

I did think of it, when we were coming into Papamoa. But I don't got your number, and I don't know your real name! :spudwhat:
PM me.

[Cajun]

I did think of it, when we were coming into Papamoa. But I don't got your number, and I don't know your real name! :spudwhat:
PM me.

hahahah i live at end of papoma beach road, well until thrusday then i move in to my own house in welcome bay.

name wouldn't have been in the book since, i am house sitting

[750Y]

I did think of it, when we were coming into Papamoa. But I don't got your number, and I don't know your real name! :spudwhat:
PM me.

you could of shone your special banaman torch into the evening sky, he woulda seen it from the banana-cave. 8-)

[Two Smoker]

Yeah, it's weird, innit? I used to be able to tell too, but I couldn't tell you how.:spudwhat:
It's all a bit hard now, except when there are obvious 'giveaways' like those steel wheels with no hubcaps, extra aerial, etc.

Now they are getting even trickier.... the ariels are being intergrated into the FM/AM radio ariel... and they have mags instead of steel wheels

[Motu]

At one stage I was getting pulled over by the cops all the time,seems they knew all about me,I would get full numbers checks on the bikes,damn near had to bend over for a body search on the side of the road - one cop even told my mother I had better watch it,because they had a file on me a mile long...cool,I thought,I'm a bad boy just for a few speeding and no WoF tickets? Then some guy with the same name went up on a major drug charge...then they lost interest in me....my short lived fame.

[NC]

NOW that's what I call EXPENSIVE fun, naked arse, just think what else you could have done with the dosh!

A faster bike...