Speed Guns..

[Jaye]

Hi all, I went for a short ride over to Dawlish Warren today and as I was coming out of Topsham on the long straight towards Countess Wear I passed two coppers on the end of the grassed area with a speed gun. Luckily I had let a car pull out from a side street, as it was half way across my lane anyway and I did think about overtaking it but decided against it which, it turns out was also lucky as I think I may have been caught out! You can't help but take advantage of a long straight with very little traffic about.... !Has anybody else seen any about? Jaye

[roryb]

hey jaye was you in the warren today saw a black honda pull up and my mate said thats a nice bike and found out it was a ladie lol

[Blue]

I went into Exeter today via countess wear roundabout and hit a police stopcheck, Must have been a dozen coppers there and me with dark visor, small plate and a back tyre thats now on the tread indicators. thought i was gonna get pulled but they waved me through more interested in cars.

[steve-d]

I don't see a problem with dark visors, its no different to wearing sunglasses, and they don't obstruct your vision like glasses do.
I got stopped on the way to college for a spot check.
And iv seem about 4 police cars in the past 2 days on my way to work.

[dayz]

weird our whole area was covered in cops yesterday spot checking loads of people and most groups carrying speed guns, i didn get stopped either, saw lots of cars stopped around the place though

[Mike Rowley]

I think I saw something in the news this week about D & C Police having a purge on crime at the moment, the aim apparantly is to reasure people that the Police are pro-active on crime in order to improve the relationship between the public and Police.

Funny though, crime purges these days seem to inevitably translate into a purge on the motorist. I suppose its natural to follow the path of the easy target and greatest potential revenue. Criminals = expenditure and effort whereas motorists = revenue + targets + statistics = happy political masters. No brainer for the ambitious Chief Constable.

In the words of the imortal J. Cleese, "Your f.....g nicked my son"

Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my dotage.

[Jaye]

Roryb - I expect you saw my little display with the car driver as I was waiting to go under the bridge, I couldn't believe that the guy waited until I was about to go under to come through, I was not happy!

Like everyone else i've been wearing my darkened visor but i've not had any problems, I thought they had relaxed the law on them, treating them like sunglasses...?

[roryb]

lol yeah i was talking to my mte that works at the fair

[Varcon]

I was heading to Marlbourugh on the A4 a few days ago, overtook a car on a straight (following another rider infront of me). Wasnt the safest of overtakes, but IMO it was ok to do, then noticed a police car parked up on the other side of the road a few hundred feet ahead, slowled down from 80 back to 60 just in time, lucky they didnt pull us, but i really thought i was [Censored] !

[SlowR1der]

Funny though, crime purges these days seem to inevitably translate into a purge on the motorist. I suppose its natural to follow the path of the easy target and greatest potential revenue. Criminals = expenditure and effort whereas motorists = revenue + targets + statistics = happy political masters. No brainer for the ambitious Chief Constable.

In the words of the imortal J. Cleese, "Your f.....g nicked my son"

Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my dotage.

Before i start i i will say sorry this aint a dig its just an alternative point of view

Believe it or not criminals do use vehicles to get around Alot of the work the police do now is intelligence led and they use ANPR. Its also just through random stop/check sights loads of uninsured vehicles are taken off of the road, i know loads of motorists are inconvenienced but you wouldn't be to happy if you were hit by an uninsured driver, i know i wouldn't. At the end of the day if all your docs/vehicle are in order for then they aint gonna make any money out of you.

[hazard9]

COUGH BMW COUGH BLUE COUGH UNMARKED COUGH... FOLLOWED BY COUGH CAR COUGH... DEVON AT MO .. COUGH..



BLOODY COLD....

[SlowR1der]

What the COUGH are u going on about

[hazard9]

IF ANY ONE NOWS IT REALLY SHOULD BE YOU,, YOU COULD SAVE MY BACON .. NO OFFENCE.
I GOT DONE BY AN UNMARKED VEHICLE ONCE I FEEL THEY PUSHED ME INTO GOING FASTER...
DONT LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU.... I WONT REPEAT MY SELF... THE FACTS ARE THERE....

[hazard9]

COUGH THATS A BIKE COUGH.. BM FORGOT TO POINT THAT FACT OUT... COUGH

[SlowR1der]

No offence taken mate so no worries there.

I am not D and C and am unaware of what vehicles D and C use. As for being pushed into going faster well thats not for me to comment on as i dont know what happened with you, but i ride my own ride i decide when to ride quick and when not to (and i have no doubt quick is alot slower for me than it is for you as u).

Everybody speeds and a small percentage get caught and then we hate the system when we are caught, and i say we cause i was caught at just over 90 in a 70 at 1am on the A3 with 3 clear lanes ahead of me. 3 points and £60 fine i didn't like it and thought the bloke that gave me the ticket was a c*ck...........it happens nobody made me drive that fast however ultimately at some point most of us will get caught.