155mph bikers caught by bike copper

[arry]

Doing 144

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-42812086/motorcyclists-clocked-speeding-at-155mph-near-norwich

Stern sentences will be called for as many kittens were killed.

[grr666]

Jail time for them then, unlike the bloke doing 155 in his S4 in the news this week.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5299221/Speeding-62-year-old-driver-hits-155mph-motorway.html
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[Polarbear]

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
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[arry]

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[Rogerborg]

Catch a byklyf by the toe?
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[doggone]

Media like to use the speed used "to catch up" as an indication of how fast they must have been going.
There seems to be an astonishing logic deficit but it's not PC to allow any criticism.
The video showed little evidence of dangerous riding or even particularly excessive speed for a relatively quiet dual carriageway.

[Rogerborg]

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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.
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[Rogerborg]

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.
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[SuperMike]

But they won't go over a light jog to catch the little 'angles' around London on their stolen peds.

[stevo as b4]

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.

[Rogerborg]

[stevo as b4]

Of course it does!
If the cops need to do 155mph to catch a suspect that probably has done nothing more serious than open the throttle, then it's not a worthwhile amount of risk to continue IMO.

Fuck if they'd robbed a bank at gunpoint or were terrorists strapped to the hilt in explosives then yeah that's a different case.

But for a speeding motorist or even a theft, uninsured driver, disqualified driver or similar, if there's any significant danger to the public in a pursuit then IMO it should be canned.

[Bozzy.]

[stevo as b4]

Let's not fuck about though, if the real risk of death or serious injury to the public was that high/almost inevitable (not very likely is it?) of five bikers carrying on speeding, then you'd be far better off deploying a stinger or driving a bull dozer out in front of them.

After all they don't mess about trying to apprehend innocent electricians in London tube stations do they!

[Bozzy.]

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[Kris]

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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.
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