run in with the law

[stinkwheel]

Off for a rideout today on the A66 between Keswick and Penrith. Came up behind a line of maybe five cars following a trailer, the road opened out enough for me to get past. Quick wait, no-one offering to pull out so I wound the bike up and made a comfortable overtake.

Now by the time I was past them I was going fairly fast, just coasted along for a bit then slowed back down to the the speed limit.

Further along the road, I was on a section of dual carriageway when a citroen saxo I had overtaken earlier pulls alongside me. When I looked round there was a bloke in jeans and a t-shirt waving a police warrant card at me. I just waved at him.

Now, I am going to make no effort to justify my riding other than to say that visibility was good, I was riding well within my limits and at no point did I cause any other drivers to alter their speed or course. For this policeman to have caught up with me, he must have been doing a sustained speed in excess of the limit for quite some time.

Is it any more justifiable for an off-duty policeman in his own car to chase after a speeding motorcyclist in order to flash his warrant card, when there is no possability of him taking any enforcement action, than for the motorcyclist to have been speeding in the first place?

Even had he wanted me to stop to 'have a word' I wouldn't have done. I feel remarkably disinclined to stop for an unmarked vehicle containing a person wearing casual clothes just because he has held a plastic card against his side window when travelling at 70mph, and as far as I am aware, I don't have to.
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[Jonathan]

"i just waved back"
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[Frost]

I'd have got in his way and stuck rigidly to a speed well within that of the limit (20mph? ) to show him what a careful rider you are

[Flip]

I would have give him the bird. Lets face it any pr1ck in a car could wake fake ID at people. What a w@nker.

[Nath]

Think some people really don't like being overtaken by bikes. ie he was stuck in the queue of cars, and didn't like the fact that you could just wizz past them all.



I once pulled over in a layby after someone pulled along side me on a dual carriageway and pointed at me, as I thought he was telling me something was wrong with the bike. Infact I think he must have been "telling me off" for overtaking a fair sized line of cars stopped at the lights.

I'd gone past them all in the right-turn lane and since the lights changed as I got to the front I gave it a handfull then moved over to the straight-ahead lanes to the left. I didn't cut anyone up and gave a good shoulder check to make sure I was safely ahead of the cars i'd passed. I'm not sure on the legality of this but it was perfectly safe manouvre I do whenever such a situation occurs. I was still accelerating when this bloke in a big old jag starts overtaking me - I decided that since it was a dual carriageway and I'd been accelerating at a constant rate since the lights I had no obligation to roll off the throttle to let him pass, so I didn't. He slowly crept past me waving his finger at me as he did. What a cunt!

I was already up to NSL as he started passin me so he could hardly gripe about breaking traffic laws I'd have given him the wanker sign had I known then he wasn't actually warning me about something wrong with the bike

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[tatters]

l,ve been stoped by an off duty police man before and had a telling off, the only reason l did stop because the cunt jumped out in the middle of the road waving his badge.


l,ve had the odd pratt at a front of a que beeping his horn like mad after l,ve filtered past, l just sit there and inorg them.
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[dransy]

its best when u over take a car and you have L plates on your bike lol
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[Villers]

I was out round that way too today, although only made it as far as the roads round derwentwater and back because my bird was badgering for a trip to caspian!

Although I had a minor brush with the law, I drove past that little school thing after bassenthwaite bypass and there was two bikes and a police biker in the car park, I just waved as i flew past somewhere between 70 and 90!

Lovely day today, reet round the lakes!
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[kawakid]

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[danclarkie]

Both my Parents have made several off duty arrests and received commendations for doing so. If a police officer is off duty he can still arrest you if he suspects you of committing a crime . personally i would have pulled over, took his name and reported him for abusing his powers
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[iCraig]

Recently there have been a speight of "unmarked cars" pulling people over which weren't unmarked cars and they have been either hijacking the cars they pull over, stealing from them or beating the drivers up.

So I personally wouldn't pull over for any unmarked car which doesn't have a uniformed officer in it with blue blues and two's on no matter what they bloody waved at me or did on the road.

[stinkwheel]

What gets me is that he had nothing better to do on his day-off. Fair enough, if the guy was in a shop that was being robbed, you would expect him to do something but to chase after someone in your car when you know full well there is nothing you can do about it seems a trifle sad to me.

It is not like speeding motorists are exactly a rarity on that bit of road either.
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[Josh|RD125LC]

Off Topic:

Tatters, I have just realised how many bikes you've owned. And your what, 22 years young is it?
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[cbrbiker]

I usually ignore people alongside me. The only time they'd get my attention is if they've got blue lights and sirens.
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