DonOR wrote:Dave, do you think things would've worked out better if it was granpa and arctic barbie?

carefull, she has her sights on 2012, at least I think that's what's written in her hand

Jean

norton1973/ As a retired cop, the secret is, closer to city limits, greater enforcement, higher accident locations, greater enforcement, very high over posted limit, excellent chance of citation, rural areas, much less chance, all city pd's usually more officers, sheriff dept's fewer and far in between. Laser radars pin-point exact vehicle, no chance of escape. Regular radar emits a cigar shape beam, the more metal the vehicle contain the more reflective/refractive properties, (better chance of getting lost in traffic) you emit a much more difficult target( smaller) and why you always see a cop pointing straight on (straight line) more accurate, the greater the angle the lower speed recorded from the violator. Lesson 1/ ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BE POLITE/ RESPECTFUL----BEST CHANCE RIDE SAFE

norton1973 wrote:norton1973/ As a retired cop, the secret is, closer to city limits, greater enforcement, higher accident locations, greater enforcement, very high over posted limit, excellent chance of citation, rural areas, much less chance, all city pd's usually more officers, sheriff dept's fewer and far in between. Laser radars pin-point exact vehicle, no chance of escape. Regular radar emits a cigar shape beam, the more metal the vehicle contain the more reflective/refractive properties, (better chance of getting lost in traffic) you emit a much more difficult target( smaller) and why you always see a cop pointing straight on (straight line) more accurate, the greater the angle the lower speed recorded from the violator. Lesson 1/ ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BE POLITE/ RESPECTFUL----BEST CHANCE RIDE SAFE

I have a question ..mr retired policeman...How do you ride safe trying to watch the speedo 100%...Here is a little exercise...i want you to get someone to hold a watch in front of you...ask them to jerk it around ..as it would on the front of a bike...now tell me what time it is..without taking your eyes of the road.. to long..was that easy,,,,should have been ok...now try it though a steamy visor on a rainy day...and its going dark,,,in the time you do this...at 30mph...you have run over a child....dont believe me...i ran over a child on a bright sunny day,,,going 20! ...and i was not looking at a speedo....looking forward [excuse the pun] to your reply..

norton1973/ To answer your question. I've been riding for over 35 years. A motorcycle is a difficult machine to master (if thats possible). The one thing that differs from anything else is the fact that nature is at your finger tips. In addition the power to weight ratio is not in your favor. I don't care what bike you drive, those two factors are ever present. No one is perfect, as a Policeman you come to realize that all (or at least most people are ) people are human. They used to call them accidents, but, today they are crashes, as the insurance industry says, someone is at fault. (Hint - Insurance company ) I'm sorry about your incident. You can't prevent everything from happening. If you are responsible in your operation and are not too out of the norm you'll be fine. Again this coming from a policeman who realized that all people put their pants on the same way. I hope in your travels you meet a fair policeman should the situation arise. It sounds to me that you met someone that I wouldn't have cared for either.
I do open the throttle quite often, however, when I do, I try to do it in an area that is not conjested, thus lowering my chances of meeting someone, literally and figuratively. No one is perfect all the time. Last, an attitude always swayed my decision, whether I admitted or not, favorably or otherwise.

Jeandr wrote:Tell us if you have internet access from a jail cell

Jean

Hi No jail cell...or points or fines...Cheers...Now i feel the need for a leaf change....maby OAK

I forget how many pesos it cost me....I was speeding though. As a matter of fact on each of my traffic tickets I was fairly busted except one which was questionable. I fought that one and won it.
Cops are just people, most good, some bad. The new ones are often out to save the world from speeders and the real vets tend to be pretty fair.
I had been talking to a local cop who often parks at the foot of my street for about a year. He came over to the house and had a look at my Norton, a bit of a bike fan. I had been parking illegally in front of a coffee shop for a couple years and his buddy stopped to give me a ticket. When the cop I'd been talking to heard it over the radio he rushed over and asked the other cop not to ticket me on the promise I'd stop parking there.
When I ran cross country we just looked at speeding tickets as a cost of doing business.

I was very dubious of the sprays, but from experience I believe they work, apparently it is all do do with the number plate background not the figures, as the reflective background is what the cameras record and deduce the figures from it. Maybe why the laws insist on a certain style reflective plate - one that reflects infra-red so it can be read electronically which is also now a requirement in the UK. Most vans now have a camera infront of the vehicle, the camera in the back gets you, but the camera infront records the reg details as many in Southampton / New Forest area have found out.