Apprantly leaning a bike too far is illegal

[DEN MONKEY]

I'd be curious and ask for a definition of "too far" and insist on knowing where the specifications of such a law are documented.
Was the weight of the bike considered, your position in the seat, the style of bike and a number of other things that are going to affect your lean angle.
Of course that would come after I tried the polite angle.

Since you got let go I'd suggest he was just taking the piss and trying to get you to take it easy (his opinion) rather than having anything substantial to snot ya with.
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[extreme3d]

[stinkwheel]

I'd love to have seen him follow an old Z650 round the same corner. They only have two angles of lean. Upright, and pipes down. They flop between the two.

[chalky143]

they pull you over for anything these days They need to get there facts straight and not pull you over because they feel like it

silly coppers

leon
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[colezxr]

ive had this before aswell but i got a asbo for doing it i couldnt work out what i was doing wrong, he started going on that if there was a deisel spill there i would have come off, but theres a good chance that i could of lost it if i wasnt leaning either
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[Jack_Cheese]

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[Jack_Cheese]

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Hi

So why didn't he say "you were going too fast"? Sounds to me more like an excuse for a pull from someone who had no knowledge of what they were saying.

The leaning is irrelevant on its own. You cannot corner above a nominal speed without leaning.

With many tyres the contact patch increases when you lean.

What next, pulling up cyclists and saying "you seem to be breathing excessively"?

All the best

Keith
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[carsounds_dan]

[Itchy]

[paulodd]

I've been pulled for this. Was practicing KD last year (Before i could actually do it). My knee was about an inch from the floor and just came off the roundabout to see the lights in my mirrors.

Got pulled and he told me that i was stupid. Saying that i'm dangerious, shouldn't be on the road, can't ride and have no skill.

I just stood there thinking to myself...... its a warm night, theres hardly anyone around, i can obviously ride and i do have skill otherwise i wouldn't be able to pull of said manover.

He just stood there shouting at me for a good 20 mins and inculded asking if i had a family and how i would like it if he had to go and tell them i was dead and how they would feel when they look at my courpse in the church.

He wanted to do me for dangerious driving and said that if i had have gone 1mph over the speed limit he would have done me for speeding.

He also said that i should have looked in my mirrors, and pulled over as soon as he put his lights on. I said to him, that even if i did i wouldn't see him, as in one i can see road and the other sky. just thought to myself.. seriously dude, use some common sence.



Its also illegal to go round a roundabout more than 3 times, thats a joke aswell!
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[stinkwheel]

[plugger147]

paul the guy might've just had a bad day and spent half of it at a bike crash, or he was just being a twat.

lleast you didn't get a ticket.
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[paulodd]

[Jack_Cheese]

the fact is you stabd more chance of losing it mid corner whilst leaning further, which means you're riding dangerously. In the coppers eyes it's an endorsable offence.

Jack
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[Misc]

What else is 'illegal' when on bikes, listen to music?

[Jack_Cheese]

[Kickstart]

It is not like power sliding a car. It is like bollocking someone for turning the steering wheel too far in a car. Lean is a necessity. If he was travelling at an excessive speed then that is easy to point out and has a meaning, but no mention of that.

You have a some leeway in how much you lean for a certain corner at a certain speed. At that speed the chances of the back wheel sliding out are pretty much independent of the lean, just dependent on the speed.

Honestly it sounds like he was pulled by an incompetant copper.

Years ago I got pulled up because the "back wheel slid, is there sufficient tread". The back wheel certainly had not slid, and they were in no position to see anything anyway with how far behind they were. And the tyre was legal (although a new one was being fitted the next day ready to sell the bike). Some coppers are decent, some are idiots..

All the best

Keith
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[Ste]

[MarJay]

I've seen G corner without leaning on his Suzuki DR thing.

But he was sliding the rear tyre at the time!
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[Biker-Kev]

i got pulled by the speeders for the very same thing on thursday night.
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[Johnny GSX-R]

Never heard such a load of crap in all my service... Wish he's stopped me for leaning too far ..
Ignore it, its complete hogwash and would get him nowhere indeed. Next time simply and politely tell him to go away and stop wasting your time!

I had a cop looking at my cans on Squires car park last week, he said "Those cans don't look legal" 'Don't LOOK fookin legal???
I just replied
"Oh right, you know the regulations do you, you know what your looking for i suppose... Well i'll be leaving in 5 mins if you want to hear it as i pass you!"

Some cops have been getting right up my nose recently.