just got pulled by the cops

[cannondale-rider]

got pulled for doing 50 in a 30, and got a warning and my first section 59

[FURBAR]

What reason did you get a 59 for ... ??
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Fuk um !!

[RussG]

Anti social use of a motor vehicle
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Geek, father, biker

[FURBAR]

Fucking judge jury and executioner you mean then ... can any rider any age get a 59 .. ??
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Fuk um !!

[cannondale-rider]

i was happy that i didnt get a fine and points though how is i anti social behaviour?

[Ariel Badger]

Cus u is init?
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Bikers make great organ donors, get 115 on your licence today.

[L4Isoside]

Lucky escape really!

[FURBAR]

50 mph on a mountain bike and a asbo ... that's cause for splashing out on a new hoody if you ask me .. !!!
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Fuk um !!

[cannondale-rider]

that would be a good speed for a mountain bike lol

[ollieholt]

59 Vehicles used in manner causing alarm, distress or annoyance

(1) Where a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle is being used on any occasion in a manner which-

(a) contravenes section 3 or 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) (careless and inconsiderate driving and prohibition of off-road driving), and
(b) is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public,
he shall have the powers set out in subsection (3).

(2) A constable in uniform shall also have the powers set out in subsection (3) where he has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle has been used on any occasion in a manner falling within subsection (1).

(3) Those powers are-

(a) power, if the motor vehicle is moving, to order the person driving it to stop the vehicle;
(b) power to seize and remove the motor vehicle;
(c) power, for the purposes of exercising a power falling within paragraph (a) or (b), to enter any premises on which he has reasonable grounds for believing the motor vehicle to be;
(d) power to use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of any power conferred by any of paragraphs to (a) to (c).
(4) A constable shall not seize a motor vehicle in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section unless-

(a) he has warned the person appearing to him to be the person whose use falls within subsection (1) that he will seize it, if that use continues or is repeated; and
(b) it appears to him that the use has continued or been repeated after the the warning.
(5) Subsection (4) does not require a warning to be given by a constable on any occasion on which he would otherwise have the power to seize a motor vehicle under this section if-

(a) the circumstances make it impracticable for him to give the warning;
(b) the constable has already on that occasion given a warning under that subsection in respect of any use of that motor vehicle or of another motor vehicle by that person or any other person;
(c) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that such a warning has been given on that occasion otherwise than by him; or
(d) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that the person whose use of that motor vehicle on that occasion would justify the seizure is a person to whom a warning under that subsection has been given (whether or not by that constable or in respect the same vehicle or the same or a similar use) on a previous occasion in the previous twelve months.
(6) A person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (3)(a) is guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(7) Subsection (3)(c) does not authorise entry into a private dwelling house.

(8) The powers conferred on a constable by this section shall be exercisable only at a time when regulations under section 60 are in force.

(9) In this section-

"driving" has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52);
"motor vehicle" means any mechanically propelled vehicle, whether or not it is intended or adapted for use on roads; and
"private dwelling house" does not include any garage or other structure occupied with the dwelling house, or any land appurtenant to the dwelling house.


so to glance over it all.... i think your fine. unless they did something there and then i.e. take your bike then your good... i think. just dont do whatever you were doing again! you're not the messiah you have been a very naughty boy!
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< This? Well this is just a day brightner.

[FURBAR]

Seems like a backdoor way to seize insured bikes without court or jury ..

Can you contest or appeal ...
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Fuk um !!

[robbieguy2003]

[pepperami]

yet another way for the state sponsored plod brigade to spoil your day

1984 is here
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[FURBAR]

Thanks,

Incenses me that 59 crap ... at least there gone after 12 months .. but still ...
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Fuk um !!

[kbot]

once I had to brake suddenly as some idiot driver in front of me slammed the brakes.

couple of hundred metres later the cops pulled me over and said "saw you riding erratically, and saw you didn't have an L plate so we thought we'd stop you and check". (so basically I should have left my L plates on indefinitely).

they then proceeded to check my bike top and toe. Took some calipers out and found my rear tyre a fraction below the legal limit (which I would have changed when my MOT expired the next week!).

Fair enough the law is the law - I had non-road worthy tyres. But I get 3 points for that!!?? (in addition to the £60 fine, instantaneous non-road worthiness so I had to push the bike, and the fact that they keep your licence for ridiculously ages for admining the points which means you're screwed if you want to try to hire a car overseas).

Talk about disproportionate punishment.

[gooner]

[quote="kbot"] . . . . . and the fact that they keep your licence for ridiculously ages for admining the points which means you're screwed if you want to try to hire a car overseas).quote]

If you hand your licence in at the local nick they will give you a receipt which can be used to hire a car in Europe.
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Better to be scared to death than bored to death!

[kbot]

[quote="gooner"]