Motorcyclists can join POLITE force

[CyrilSwan]

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2013/June/jun1413-polite/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Motorcyclists have been told they can legally wear a high-visibility vest that resembles police uniform.

The yellow bibs have the word ‘polite’ printed on the back in large capital letters, along with a strip of blue-and-white crosshatching similar to designs traditionally worn by police.

Cyclists in London already wear them to get drivers to give them more space, after Met commander Bob Broadhurst said they were not illegal. Now the Met has said motorcyclists can wear them too.

A spokesman said: ‘It does not look like a police uniform. It is merely a high visibility jacket so would not be illegal. It is illegal to impersonate a police officer, so that would mean claiming to be a police officer. Nowhere on the jacket shown does it even say police.’

The full message on the bib is ‘Polite notice think bike’. The makers admit there is little difference between the chequered strip on the bib and blue-and-white crosshatching used by police.

Nicky Fletcher, MD of Equisafety, said: “In 2010 we showed the head of ACPO for the mounted section and they cleared it, they said it was fine to use.”

The firm’s website quotes one cyclist as saying: “Sometimes it's like a force field around me when I'm on my bike as cars don't seem to want to get too close to me.”

Equisafety, in Wirral, Merseyside, has won a contract to supply its POLITE range to cycle firm Raleigh, but Fletcher said the bibs were not marketed for motorcyclists.

She said: “We don’t make them for motorbikes. We only make them for cyclists and horse riders at the moment. We know there is a market for motorbikes but we don’t think they’re strong enough just yet.”

The bibs are on sale at www.highvisibility.uk.com
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[CyrilSwan]

I bet you'd still get pulled...
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[Conzar]

I see some good trolling to come of this
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[.Bishbash.]

Oh god, I can see it now, all the Police wannabes buying these!


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[P.]

I pay one of these faggots on his Dullville, he plods at 50 in the slow lane... he looks a complete mong.

[lllN30lll]

I rode around wearing this....

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/424129_140250976134758_2095519165_n.jpg



It did not go down well.

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[James83]

But did they actually get you on anything?I can see a copper thinking "That can't be legal" and pulling you over, but then struggling to actually make anything fit.

[c_dug]

Every now and then I come across a cunting bastard who rides an ex police bike (with the word "police" removed and a thin black net over the blue light on the stick) with one of those high vis vests and a white helmet. When approaching from behind there is no way of telling the difference until you are close enough to read the word "polite".

He pisses me off as it is because he filters very slowly and won't budge to let people pass, but it was topped off on a recent commute home. I was making progress through the limehouse link coming out of London. Between the middle and last speed camera I came across a cluster of bikes who were obviously hanging back for some reason, I made my way through the cluster and the guy at the front gave me the patting the air "slow down" signal. I moved to the left and spotted cunt features a few cars in front. I waggled a finger to the other bikers in an attempt to let them know that it was cunt head and not a real police officer. By the time the finger waggle was done we had moved past the last speed camera. I dropped it down a gear and darted through doing about 45 in a 30 and as I came up behind cunt bubble it transpired that it wasn't fuck head at all but a genuine bona fide police officer.

Fuck sticks.

Obviously I dropped the anchors. By now the car the the cluster of bikes was behind had moved into the left lane. So the other bikers saw me blatantly ignore their advice, semi aggressively make my way past a car accelerate at a police bike and then slam on the brakes meters behind him. Followed by a ticking off by the police officer (while still on the move, didn't get tugged) who had obviously seen the lot in his mirrors.
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[yaigi]

I would feel like a right muppet wearing one of those, I have enough trouble with the ghey appearance of normal high viz vests*... I'm so fickle and vain

*I did wear one on the dark rides home in winter though, and made Mr Yaigi wear his cos on a black bike with a shit back light and black gear plus helmet, he was in full on stealth mode, especially when you saw him from behind
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[Rogerborg]

That's a tricky one.

[pepperami]

Last thing I would want is for some-one to think I was plod.

I could see that shitty garb being provocative and wearing it getting you knocked off your bike by some-one angry at you for being a twat.
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[Al]

I would have thought it would be really annoying as everybody is going to slow down as soon as they see you behind them.
If I think the car behind me could be an umarked police car I'll want to stay at the speed limit but then to actually stay at the speed limit without constantly watching the speedo you need to sit a few mph under it.
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[ginny]

Going by the legislation, You'd still be meeting the standards for impersonating police...

There was recent discourse in equestrian circles, with a warning that wearers could be foul of the law. Wether any plod would be concerned with testing it in court is another question of course....

[Derivative]

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So, what's more legitimate, using police colours, or using police words?

As far as I'm concerned police colours would do the job better - I can't read words from hundreds of metres away.

[Pete.]

Yeah I saw one of those numpties in February, by Clapham Common.
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[ocatoro]

I have a police issue blouson style jacket with the blue and silver strip on.... i wear it for work
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[keggyhander]

If I meet a "motorcyclist" with that polite shite on they'll get a right round of fucks and cunts from me.

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[Irn-Bru]

Saw a lad on a DRZ wearing one the other week.
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[Skudd]

You see a lot of horse riders wearing the POLITE notice pass slowly HiVis tops.

I have a lot of Police stuff, Synchronicity is probably one of their best albums.
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