Lucky escape

[phatstorage]

Heading for westminster this morning, a massive silver merc 4x4 pulls out on fonthill road with a suited type driving, as I go past him in the bus lane at around 40, he starts to play catchup.

Here he is, my commuting buddy.

I start down towards camden, this guy's always trying to keep up, I'm not going mad fast but I notice I'm going quicker than most with the exception of suit boy.

Then along comes a proper dangerous nob in a little old fiesta, cracks past the merc and sticks to me, we all stop at some lights, I check this punk out, some dishevelled 30 something behind the wheel, the suit's sat behind him.

As I gun it off the lights to get infront of the tramp in the ford, we zip left, the fiesta belts past me at around 45 at which point the suit behind me turns on his blue lights, steams past me and pulls the guy over.

Absolutely no idea this guy was a rozzer

I start thinking about the slightly dodgy stuff (I counted at least 5 things) I was doing while this dude was behind me and consider my self quite lucky.
Maybe he was baiting me earlier until trampster in the fiesta came along.

Also very glad I wasn't on my cbr, definite nick.

[Tungtvann]

Your ticket's in the post!

[Andy_Pagin]

Lol, like the time I did a full e-stop when some tit pulled out of a side road, car behind did a full e-stop, put on the blues and sirens, u-turned and went after the tit.
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[Rogerborg]

Might have been worth stopping and earwigging. I'd be interested to know what a single crewed CID type was doing in an unmarked but blue lit traffic-style car, and why he had time to (attempt to) pull someone over for a minor traffic offence.

Reminder: plain clothes = perfectly legal to say "Get a uniformed unit if you're really a copper and want me to stop" and continue riding/driving.
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[-Matt-]

[phatstorage]

More than likely just a word in his shell telling him to calm down before he ruins someone's day.

Maybe had a camera? didn't really look that hard, just cracked on, albeit a little slower than before.

[Serendipity]

I had a similar experience on Thursday morning. Coming down the Paddington Slip off the A40 I briefly opened her up and gunned it around a transit so we didn't get tangled up with each other.

It was only then that I spotted a police bike parked up at the corner ahead. The cop came striding out of his hiding place behind the chevrons and flagged me down. Oops. Here we go.

Parked up and removed my helmet. He waved his little laser gun around and said he'd nabbed me at 57 in a 40 and did I have my license with me. Bum-fiddling arse-monkeys. This wasn't going to go well.

He strode off to grab some lube from his Beemer and just at that moment he saw some yoof in a car do something and took exception to it. He leaped into the road and forced the kid to come to an abrupt stop. The guy in the car seemed to be burdened with an especially big chip on his shoulder and started a vigorous arm waving argument with the cop. Bad mistake. Attitude test failed beyond recovery.

The cop got the guy to reverse his car out of the slip road into a little access way the. Turned to me and said the legendary words:

"I've finished with you."

I wasted no time in jumping on the bike and getting the fvck out of there before he changed his mind.

Of course, it's possible that he said "I haven't finished with you" and I misheard. There's probably a swat team outside right now.

I personally think the speed gun was wrong and I'm fairly convinced that I was only doing 30mph. I know this because the slip road is actually a 30 limit and I always obey all speed limits. At the time I decided that pointing this out to the nice policeman probably wouldn't help matters, especially if his faulty device was saying 57mph.

So thank you to the angry young man in the car. Your bad attitude is my gain. And thank you to the policeman for relishing a fight with a feisty kid rather than a boring old middle aged biker.
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[Rogerborg]

[guile]

[Tungtvann]

The cop in the Merc wasn't in uniform.

[Christoffee]

It's in the attitude. I was doing a steady 95 per the speedo (so probably slower) and an unmarked Seat Leon pulled me. First thing he said was 100mph is an instant ban and and he pegged me at 100.3mph. I didn't see any point in arguing, was polite and decent and I got off with 3 points and £60.

If I'd have ranted and told him he was wrong it would've been a ban.

PS It's a car story
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[Rogerborg]

[Walloper]

Another glorius example of how unfair the justice system is towards car drivers.
Bikers aye get away with murder yet some poor driver gets the heat.


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