10 year ban for wheelies...

Charlie · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 May 2007 Karma :

Just seen this on digg

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Well, that's going to make people stop for the police, isn't it?

Suspect there may now be a rife trade in fake licence plates there Smile

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McGee · O RLY? Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Karma :

Welcome to the States.

As a cop kindly told me he sees a Sports bike as an idiot tax and he loves nothing more than ticketing them.

If you can afford one you can afford the tickets and punishments.

Cops here are twats and few and far between you will find one that will give you a break.

And if you have ever been a on a group ride out in LA you can have bikes in the numbers of a couple of hundreds and you just get tailed by the cops and if you stop they ask you to move on. Hell they will even have the choppers come in low and tell you to move on.

And during bike week in most places the cops must make millions of the sh!t they ticket for.

Bastards the lot of them.

And G they wont bother chasing you if your doing over a 140 Wink

seeing thats how fast their tanks go.
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

Ravo · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 May 2007 Karma :

McGee, for living here you have a seriously bad disposition towards certain aspects of the country.

IOW, you're sounding more American by the day. ;)

Unless "Excessive Speeding", "Stunt Riding", and "concealed licence plates" are giving unarguable definition, that law should not exist. Cops write tickets and tickets pay the cops' salaries, so the more tickets they write the better they eat, so to speak. Sportbikes are easy targets because any motorcycle apart from a Harley or a Harley knockoff* is considered a plaything and not a vehicle.

* Unless it's an Indian. Cops and traffic gets out of your way when you ride an Indian Chief. Planes fly low and the rains part and any road spills clean themselve off when you ride the Indian Chief. Women swoon over you and beg to ride, other bikers envy you. It's just that awesome of a bike.

McGee · O RLY? Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Karma :

What do you mean I sound like I yank.

I hate this place a lot and I can not wait to get out of the sh!t hole and the cops here are scum utter twats the lot of them.

Show a cop respect in the UK they show it back and you get let off alot of the time.

Here they think you are below them.

I have had cops turn around just to follow me to see if they can ticket me.

Man I can't be fvcked telling any one any more how big of a sh!t hole this place is. I'm not here by choice, I'm here because I "have to be".

Also the bank of mum and dad have cut me off so one more ticket or fine I refuse to pay it and will just come back to the UK before Feb Mr. Green

Any Americans read this fvck you.

Except California your the only normal ones but your cops are twats Karma

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Its pronounced Jixxer!

MarkJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Karma :

Jesus, someone sticking up for the UK. Is the US really that bad? Shocked

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Joeb46 · Traffic Copper Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Karma :

I dont mean to be intrusive Mcgee but how come "you have to be" in the states?
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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

the only reason he is coming back is to go touring with us , anything else is imaterial!
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

It's probably after that guy wheelied all the way over the seven mile bridge then posted the video on youtube.
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Ravo · Scooby Slapper Joined: 19 May 2007 Karma :

dabigginger · Crazy Courier Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Karma :

I totally agree with McGee. I spent a while living in America and most of the cops there are arseholes. They are on a massive power trip and always talk down to everyone else. I was so surprised when I came back to England and a cop walking towards me said good morning as he walked past.

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TripleR · L Plate Warrior Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Karma :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmTErGYujK0

As requested

Ciar?n · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Karma :

After reading the same thread on stuntlife.com

It's the powerrangers that CAN'T wheelie properly, that are giving bikers in general a bad name.

You know, the kind that flip it at 100mph.

Not the real stunters that ride around in circles all afternoon at 10mph.
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Syx · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Karma :

TBH if I lived there I'd be getting my plate changed to something fake already. And if I ever saw the fuzz, I'd be dead before I pulled over for them. Twisted Evil

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Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

That was a truly beautiful wheelie.

And ravo, only people who cant do wheelies hate them Wink

It makes girls wet, and thats a scientific fact.

One day, im gonna stick moisture sensors up a dozen ....

Enough of that, but keep your eyes out for that paper Wink

The reason i rarely ride in groups is because for me riding is enjoyable because of the speed. I can ride fast because i know what im capable of, what the bikes capable of, and what the cagers around mes reactions will be. When you add extra bikes into the mix it all goes tits up. Only time ive EVER impacted another vehicle was at about 2 mph because my mate froze up pulling out of a junction in a landing strip sized gap. My fault legally, and technically. But had i been on my own or behind a car it would DEFINITELY not of happened. It was only because i expect people on bikes to be able to use the fuckers Rolling Eyes

Also ravo define a low speed wheely?
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Ciar?n · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Karma :

Yes lee stuntlife is full of haters.

But stinkwheel is right though, if the guy infront is doing a wheelie, back off, and sit over to the side, in case he does fall off.

I don't see what all the hate is really.

Yeah it's pretty fucking dumb on public roads, but until each borough gives us all a nice big airstrip to crash on, it's the only place.
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