Do you stop for police?

[grant965]

Been watching a few ghostrider videos and wondered if there are people in the UK that actually just 'do one' when the police put their lights on. Thought it would be tricky these days as the camera would pick up your details anyway.
Don't worry I am not some nob who is going to do this, just interested if it actually happens.
Grant
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[V2]

nevarrrrrrrr, a one wheeled getaway ensures they cant see your plate, if they get too close I've heard a punch to the throat will send em packing.

[MyCarVsYourHe...]

I have done once when I was younger I was test riding a DT125, I took it to an unused field and the police showed up about 15 minutes after riding the bike, I panicked and took off, they couldn't keep up. I wouldn't do that now though. I've seen the ghost rider video's including the one where he causes a police car to crash, I don't like the police but I think he's stupid, I used to love watching his stuff before I owned my own bike.

[Vincent]

I don't think I'd even try it nowadays, what with all the cameras and other technology.
I did once run from who was at the time cheif of traffic police where I lived, a certain DC Levitt who also raced 500 Kawasakis in production classes. I managed to loose him in his Marina TC somehow but he had a word with me at a bike club a few weeks later and told me "you won't be doing that again". Last time I tried, the rear wheel bearing collapsed on my GPZ550 and it was getting a bit hairy. Ended up losing my licence for 6 months that time.
Hard to magine now but in the 70s, it was relatively easy to ride outside of the law. If you managed to lose a "jam sarnie", they'd have to stop at a phone box to ring the station and arrange an interception further on Same with coppers on the beat except they had their own Police phone boxes dotted about. Unless you've just robbed Brinksmat, it's hardly worth it now.
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[Marmalade]

Only once. Me and a mate on a bike with no anything. They tried to stop so i took off through the lanes and turned off lights before crashing through a hedge into a field where we stayed for half the night shitting it
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[Vincent]

[newmannewy]

Only way I wouldnt stop is if the bike was unregistered or had no number plates tracing it back to me..

Which will come about when the government in cahoots with the criminal bankers collapse the economy again and start their planned 3rd world war.

then the number plate is coming off & no I wont be stopping

[Im-a-Ridah]

No reason not to...

[Rebel]

A few, instigated a couple back in the 70's .
What's really fun is when your bike decides it needs to switch to reserve 5 seconds after you've given the v's to the traffic car you just overtook.

[pinkyfloyd]

When I was growing up if you did not stop for the police you wouldnt get much further down the road before getting riddled with bullets. Over here police tend not to stop me.
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[CoolBanana]

Not proud of it but I have done this once...

I was 19, riding an RZ350RR in South Africa in 1988 and every day I'd open the taps and ride at 100 mph + on the last stretch of dual carriageway before I got to my neighbourhood.

This road was (is) a favourite place for the local police to stop taxi's to search for weapons and drugs etc. with snipers in the bushes on either side of the road but further down, well past my turn off.

One day however, the cops decided to have a speed trap literally 20 meters or so past the off-ramp I needed...So along I come, cops jump out of the bushes and run into the middle of the road waving me down, I look at my speedo...I'm doing 180 km/h (112mph) which is an instant ban etc and in a panic took the off-ramp! They were close enough so that I saw their incredulous expressions.

The ramp was almost level with the road so the cops saw me at all times as I raced along it parallel to the dual carriageway - I saw them jumping into their cars and driving down the bank after me as I was racing up the adjacent hill. My house was only about a minute away at this point and I got the bike into the garage, closed it and went and waited for the doorbell to ring. It didn't, cops never caught me. I was a very worried lad for days though!
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Not sure - I have sped up then turned off the road I was on as a copper coming the other way stuck his lights on, no idea if the lights were meant for me, probably not but I didn't fancy finding out.

I wouldn't run from the police if it was clear they wanted me to stop.

[Ben.]

I used to do a runner on my R6, it had a tiny plate and cop cars cant weave in and out of traffic at 150mph on the motorway so the 'chase' used to last about 15 seconds until I was gone.
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[Kwaks]

Once was "told" about an incident on a thurs night run.

The bikes had met up at the usual starting place, about 10/12 bikes in total, making progress along some great roads, went through Callender and heading to Strathyre. Police car came round the bend at the start of Strathyre as we approached on the straight, first bike passed him at about 140mph, police flicked on their lights and stopped in the straight as a procession of bikes flew by.

At the other side of Strathyre (going through the village is a 30 zone and everyone observed this, tiny village anyway) the bikes all swapped order and carried on heading for crieff.

At crieff all discussed what had happened, one bike which had tried to hide in strathyre turned up, he had a flea in his ear but had been let go as the popo couldn't positively ID him, and the last few bikes to pass had bled their speed sufficiently . Reckon a phone call had been made as the crieff police car was driving up and down taking more interest in the bikes than usual.

Cue a new route home.

Bike spoken to in strathyre said some of the conversation went like this

Popo" These roads are very dangerous, do you know 8 people died on these roads last year?"

Rider "Not surprised, some car drivers seem to have got their licence off a cereal box"
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[truslack]

In my youth ( ) I may have run from a Traffic BMW X5 on a motorbike and sidecar, it is not an experience I wish to repeat
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[Paulington]

I am fairly sure I would always stop for Police. I have been asked (and do long wonder about) a question about whether I would stop for the Police if the circumstances were as follows:

Doing, say, 100mph down the motorway on a 600/1000cc supersports, you pass a Police car who instantly puts on their blues and twos, would you:

A) Slow down and stop for them.
B) Accelerate, hard.

Most cars the police use, apart from the specialized ones like Evos/Subarus/Insignia VXRs have a top speed of no more than say 130mph, so if your bike (and most supersports are now) is capable of around 150-180mph, you could just accelerate and bugger off at the nearest exit and hide somewhere as they would never catch up, the only way of catching you effectively would be with a helicopter if they didn't have your plate.

I'm still fairly sure I'd stop though. !
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[EXC-Rider]

Did it once on my XT me and a friend went to a nature reserve and there was about 5-6 people on motocross bikes, 2 police men turned up and told us to get off the bikes so everyone took off. soon as i see the exit there was a police car backing up blocking it me and my mate just got though and ripped down the road and parked the bikes in the nearest ally way.

scary thing was we could hear my police cars driving up and down the road looking for us (or any other bikes what was there)

not gonna lie it was good fun
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[Frost]

I've done a runner once, in a 950cc citroen ax!
To be fair the police car was going the other way and i was speeding last a bastard. When his lights came on i floored it round a few corners made some random turns, parked the car up behind some garages and walked to my mates i was heading for.
He may or may not have tried to follow me. I suspect he did, but by the time he'd turned around and got up tot he same speed i was doing i would have made a couple of turns so i'd only give him about a 1 in 10 chance of going the same way i did. If he assumed i was going to stick the the main roads, he would have been wrong. If he'd assumed i was going to take to the back roads right away wrong again. I went for a major road, then smaller, then tiny

I'd say that the only place you can run from the police these days is in a city at rush hour after doing something not very naughty. If you're lucky they might decide it's not worth the effort, or maybe they'll decide that as you've tried to do one, maybe you ARE worth the effort

[Recluso]

I totally would.

I'm a pansy. But I'd probably cry a bit for good measure.


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[arry]

I've never stopped for the police whilst on the bike as I'm a double hard bastard





That said, they've never actually wanted to stop me

[LeNoir]

I ran on a ZX6R back in the late ninties on the A5 through Wales. My buddy and I had intercoms so we know if the road aroud a bend was clear or not so double white lines became 'optional' to cross. I was overtaking a line of cars, and drew level with the front one on a long right hand bend on the wrong side of the white lines but beleived this to be perfectly ok as I knew the road was clear. As I went past the car the driver looked at me with his mouth wide open in disbelief and as I looked back at him I saw the hi-vis and number on his shoulder and realised it was an unmarked omega. I $hit myself and was unsure what to do so I kind of spluttered between backing off and maintaing speed so I was kind of kangarooing on the wrong side of the road round a blind bend. I thought I could never talk my way out of it so deceided to go for it. Expalined over the intercom to my buddy and we rode like the wind for a fair few miles before diving in to a farm track and waiting. A minute later the sirens went by and we got back on the road heading in the direction we came from at a sensible pace and heard no more about it. Those intercoms were great in the country but they use to work on the same frequency as baby monitors and the such like, riding through towns was defeaning from all the crap you would pick up.

I wouldn't run nowadays, too many cameras and ANPR and if I lost my licence I would loose my job so not worth it.
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[Pol Anorl]

semi tried it on my old chinky 125 off roader near the gf's, speedo didnt work so i came past at what i later found out 45 in a 30 they didn't like it, i noticed they where following me so i took it easy untill i got in the estate where i gave it the beans when they couldn't see me

got into gf's road which is a dead end except the huge bank at the end which was my planned escape route

they had put the lights on about 30 seconds prior to this so i knew i was going to have to just go.

got down her road and some pillock decided they wanted to drop there wife off in the middle of the road.

ended up with me being boxed in and pulled off my bike

got a bolocking and was let free.
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[Fifteen15]

A few years ago I was riding my push bike home from school on the path, and a PCSO shouted at me, "get off the path!". I ignored him and sped off. To this day I've never been caught.
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[JoeDougieDoug...]

A lot of you are going to prison shortly

Some good storys here.

Only been pulled once by the police - and that was for the guy I was riding with, we stopped, the cop said his bit, then we went on our merry way.
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[Alpha-9]

I wouldn't bail from the police unless I KNEW i'd be able to get away, and even then it doesnt seem worth it depending on the crime...

The closest was in a car with a mate at about 4 am at an abandoned airfield in Dalby

He let me have a go (first time ive tried driving) and it was bumpy and pitch black, then suddenly 2 white security cars appeared and started shining flashlights at us from the distance, I bailed into the passenger side and he sped us out of there down some crazy country roads...It was fun!

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=great+dalby+&hl=en&ll=52.73125,-0.878391&spn=0.042048,0.077162&sll=52.653062,-0.930405&sspn=0.336985,0.617294&hnear=Great+Dalby,+Leicestershire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=14&layer=c&cbll=52.734825,-0.886782&panoid=w7lMceXpEe7sJImVc9ITjg&cbp=12,293.2,,0,6.11

Looks like a fun place to drive right

could be a good spot for greenlaning https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=great+dalby+&hl=en&ll=52.732498,-0.871868&spn=0.042047,0.077162&sll=52.653062,-0.930405&sspn=0.336985,0.617294&hnear=Great+Dalby,+Leicestershire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&layer=c&cbll=52.732561,-0.88824&panoid=QU93O4QWduIUkfcYnP4gzw&cbp=12,78.22,,0,6.04&z=14

Dunno what an irustrial estate is though
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