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Posted: 09:33 - 25 Jan 2018 Post subject: 155mph bikers caught by bike copper |
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3 men and 2 women.
That will be an interesting conundrum for the judge. How don we jail the men and let the women off with a stern talking to as all women are victims at the moment ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Catch a byklyf by the toe? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Unless they've cut a lot, I don't see he was following behind them for long enough to get a good speed reading on a calibrated speedo or vascar system. If it was laser, we'd have looking at bike cam footage, not helmet cam. So has he measured their speed at all? Is he even equipped with a means of measuring speed?
You'd have a hard job showing dangerous driving or even without care and attention by the footage I saw there
Worth retaining a decent barrister and an outraged sense of denial throughout I'd suggest. Unless they've already been stupid enough to talk to the police and admitted it. Trouble is, if one of them does, he's fucked over his mates too. There was that nippy case in Yorkshire where the judge did the guy at the front of a pack for the speed they caught the back marker doing. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Obligatory anecdote: I'm 0 for 2 when going contrite, and 1 for 0 when simply laughing at the "I had to do (SPEED LIMIT + 66%)" to catch you line. No need to be hostile, but don't volunteer anything.
Obligatory reference: Don't talk to the police. Septic, but it applies here too. Ignore the "may harm your defence" part, it only means that they can point out in court that you didn't choose to conduct your defence by the roadside. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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I think it's a load of bollocks saying 'oh the conditions and road looked safe enough for 155mph'.
If you get caught doing that sort of speed, and let's be honest you'd know if someone was following or keeping up with you enough to be suspicious, that you deserve whatever book they want to throw at you, or highlight you as an example of lunacy.
If I were caught at that speed, I'd fully expect jail time, and wouldn't be crying and bawwwing, about unfair justice or road policing. TBH you do well to accept that it's go to jail time, lose your job etc, and I'd just make the most of my 5minutes of fame/news headlines, or TV coverage instead.
Ignoring the 70mph UK speed limit for a sec, and accepting the 100mph+ insta ban rule, I think your doing it all wrong on modern busy UK roads if you need more than 99mph to have a shit ton of fun on bikes or in cars. If you need to ride at over 100mph to get off, then you're much better off finding a place thats off the UK highways.
I can't see how anyone thought that they needed to ride at 155mph, and let's be honest if they were doing that, then it would be a bloody boring smooth almost arrow straight road anyway. You might as well be at Santa Pod in that case.
Tldr, maybe they were unlucky or victims of officer dread, but I think they had the wrong roads to have fun, maybe the wrong bikes too? Should have ridden a quiet challenging road that would scare you silly at 80mph if you didn't go over a cliff having a Rossi moment that is. |
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stevo as b4 wrote: | I think it's a load of bollocks saying 'oh the conditions and road looked safe enough for 155mph'.
If you get caught doing that sort of speed, and let's be honest you'd know if someone was following or keeping up with you enough to be suspicious, that you deserve whatever book they want to throw at you, or highlight you as an example of lunacy. |
I'm pretty sure they weren't riding at 155mph. It was only plod who was doing that. That road was far too busy to be doing 155 and I genuinely can't see them riding in such a tight pack at that speed. I've done some pretty high speed riding in groups in my time and once you start going properly fast, things start to spread out over a long distance.
If the guy at the front was doing 155, I'd expect there to be AT LEAST a mile between the first and fifth bike, tail ender would not be in touch with the pack leader. If blues and twos came up behind them, they'd start dropping off the back one at a time as he caught them up so the lead bike would have landed up absolutely miles ahead of the rest of the pack.
That then leaves the option of the rest of them simply stopping at the side of the road and waiting a bit once he's honked past after the leader. Once they are past you on a dual like that, it's hard for them to get back to you without either calling for backup or coming back down the other side (at which point you set off again).
Being honest, at 155, which I have only done the once, you probably WOULDN'T know if someone was following or keeping up with you on account of having your eyes very firmly peeled and focussed on a point about half a mile ahead of you. Start looking in mirrors and you're instantly up shit creek at that speed, there simply isn't enough time to spare with your eyes "off target".
Would've been funny if they'd starburst in 4 different directions at the top of the sliproad. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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I think there's a bit of the video we haven't been shown. Anyway, if a stranger's bike is behind you - slow the fuck down. Can't believe they didn't check their mirrors more often tbh. ____________________ NSR125RR - ZXR750H1 - ZX9R E1 - GSF600S - GSF600SK3 - VFR400-NC30 - SV1000N - ST1100-R - CBR900RR-R - GSF1200SK5 - GSF600SK1 - VFR1200FA - GSXR1000K2 - ZZR1400 D8F
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 85 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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