Cops tailgating to try and make you speed

[scumdog]

Ohyez!

And if he can manage hot pursuit at those (perfectly legal) speeds the poor old commode is going to take a beating.

Not the Commodore paid for by the tax-payer

Surely not......

[Conquiztador]

On my chopper I was travelling in Sweden in another lifetime. I was sitting at approx 110k/h. It was wet but not really raining. A cop car, that was sitting on side of the road, decided that I was worth following. He placed him self approx 5 meters behind my rear tyre. That was fine. Then it started to rain hard. I twisted the handle and initially he tried to keep up, but soon lost me. I could see nothing but fuck me, I was not gonna let that stop me. I kept it up (as it was a main road and many k's to ride) but never saw him again. Was expecting something in the mail but nothing. Never seen anything like that in NZ.

[roogazza]

Not one to mince words I trundled the 500m to my house in disbelief at what had just happened.
And when i got on the couch, box on, the fuckers at KFC had forgotten my chips!

No chips, BASTARDS ! hate that.

[Pixie]

Has anyone ever encountered this strategy? I haven't, but according to a chap I know it is quite common.

I had a fucker follow me in the dark for over 20 km.The next morning I called the station and complained to the sargent.Cop was given arseholes for his driving.

And by "tailgating" I mean he was 1.5 metres from my rear wheel....cunt

[Pixie]

I was following a mufti down the Tauranga side of the Kaimais at 100kph. Cop pulls into the slow vehicle lane and stayed in it, still doing 100, obviously hoping i would pass him and thus exceed 100. Pretty fucken cynical policing if you ask me. Also, I tend to pass cars that pull over for me out of courtesy as they clearly would prefer i was in front of them.
Makes you wonder how bad the speeding problem really is if they have to resort to these sort of tactics.
And they dont know why the public doesn't respect em like they used to - wankers.

The "speeding problem" is reducing all the time.However this makes the "achieving quota problem" and the "hitting revenue targets problem" more difficult.

[imdying]

Neither have I, but everyone seems to have a mate it's happened to

I've seen it happen to somebody else (had a moan a few months back). Not a very nice practice.

The more professional a driver is supposed to be, the worse they are though. Taxi drivers, bus drivers, police, all shite to some degree.

[Reckless]

Had it happen weekend before last! Did a Wellington trip stayed in Paraparaumu, Tawa and Upper Hutt over the three nights I was there. 1600k's, 6 hrs to Wellington each way, no tickets, not an over the top fast trip, just cruisin. I must say the cage drivers are being very very good to us bikers, I got warning flashes heaps of times. Twice that saved my ass! Must get that radar detector mount sorted??

On the way home though Desert road area came up on this cop that was obviously hunting! He was slowing down to 50k before blind rises in the road and pulling well over to the left so the on coming cars couldn't see him before he crested them. Because of this drama going on in front I caught up with him and eventually had to pass. So he sat on my arse for about 15 mins, probably doing a rego check etc. But he was really close about a car length. I was bored by this stage so it was a fun game to play I just held the SV digital speedo in 100K even round the slower corners. But he was defiantly having a go! He pulled off around Turangi somewhere I think. That was fine while he was playing with me some other poor prick wasn't getting a ticket and I was able to flash them in return for the good grace they had shown me on the trip!

I say again thanks to all the cagers on the trip that flashed me warnings even when I was being a good boy.

[cheshirecat]

It's happened to me on the Northern motorway, southbound to Auckland. Mufti (blue) car. Tailgating me, and enticing me to race.
Reported him. Apparently, it's perfectly legal to do this. It's not tailgating. It's speed checking.

Surely not as it would be contary to the official road code and classified as careless driving
"At any time a motorcyclist may suddenly swerve or slow down to avoid road hazards."
see here this incredibly well researched thought out, asute, comprehensive, non contradictory,....document

[Scuba_Steve]

The "speeding problem" is reducing all the time.However this makes the "achieving quota problem" and the "hitting revenue targets problem" more difficult.

why do you think they now starting to "blitz" bikes, centrelines, & "slow" drivers?

[shrub]

I say again thanks to all the cagers on the trip that flashed me warnings even when I was being a good boy.

I find a lot of cagers flash me these days. Wednesday I went for a spin up to Kaikoura for fish and chips and over the hunderlees all but 2 cars pulled over to let me through. One that didn't was a woman in a Corolla that cut damn near every corner and the other was a halfwit in a Jeep Wrangler thing that was trying to go fast through the corners.

[martybabe]

It happened to me last week, or did it? who knows what the intention of the copper is bar him but... at least 10k with the marked car a couple of meters off my back wheel at 100k. Reached a passing lane and slowed to 80k cause I was well sick of my mirrors full of cop car but he still refused to go around me.

I quickly shot back up to the ton to give me enough space to pull over without him wiping me up and he shot past at a disgraceful rate of jollies. All happened on an empty road in daylight. If he wasn't trying to goad me into shooting off for the horizon, I have no bloody idea what his game was. Stupid and dangerous driving whatever he was playing at.

Does anyone know how accurate gps speed readings are ? mine has the car and the bikes speed recording at 95ish whilst the speedometers read 100k, at 100k on the GPS both vehicles register about 108-109k.

[Scuba_Steve]

Does anyone know how accurate gps speed readings are ? mine has the car and the bikes speed recording at 95ish whilst the speedometers read 100k, at 100k on the GPS both vehicles register about 108-109k.

I have heard GPS speed readings are accurate enough they can be used as defence/offence

[Maha]

Has anyone ever encountered this strategy? I haven't, but according to a chap I know it is quite common.

I would have thought the smart thing to do would be to move out of the way?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Had it happen in the cage while returning home from town with a feed of KFC. Theres a steep winding hill at the back of town heading up to my place. As I was about to start up from the bottom a muftie coon sat on my arse and almost pushed me up the hill and around the next two corners. Now this critter was using the 'half second rule' and was bloody close! So corner three i took hold of the KFC on the passenger seat, rested my foot on the brake just enough to acticvate the brake lights, and fed it to my Commy. I get a good jump on him, pulling away, and by the fifth corner he's fallen back but his bloody lights come on. I pull the car over in the next side road (100m past the point when he turned on the blue and reds) with great gusto and rip the door open and am pacing towrds him as he pulls up. (This is before the days of P) And I say "what was that all about?' he says 'why did you take off?', I said "because you were right up my arse and and pushed me all the way up the hill, it was dangerous", he said "well what was i supposed to do?, you took off, I had to chase you?" i said " look mate all I was doing was trying to get home to eat my KFC mate" He then said" I should ticket you?" To which i replyed " And I'll lay a complaint with your sergent"
He then asked for the licence, disappeared and returned after about 2 mins and said " I'm going to give you a caution for your excessive speed back there" (I did hit about 90 in a 50 before I buttoned off), "enjoy your meal"
Not one to mince words I trundled the 500m to my house in disbelief at what had just happened.
And when i got on the couch, box on, the fuckers at KFC had forgotten my chips!

The lesson there is






KFC is shit.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Does anyone know how accurate gps speed readings are ? mine has the car and the bikes speed recording at 95ish whilst the speedometers read 100k, at 100k on the GPS both vehicles register about 108-109k.

GPS readings are pretty accurate but, and its a big but... (hey my butts not that big) they only get an update from the SatNAV every 3 seconds, so your GPS could be reading 98.5 kph but you could have crept up to 101 or more before you get the next update ... so you should use it inconjunction with your speedo which will show your speed increase instanly