Its April. Not long to go. Traded in the VFR for a Transalp so getting prepared! I've added crash bars and an 12v socket for charging the phone.
I have also traded in the CB1000R for a Sprint so today I thought I go for one last ride on it. A few miles from home I cruised past a camera van (its Easter weekend so I guess the boys in blue will be vigilant). Half a mile past the van, I spotted what looked like a police bike in my mirrors so continued to cruise. He followed me in the heavy traffic about 10 cars back for 3 miles, then caught me up and followed me in my blind spot (directly behind me) for another three miles. In the next village he pulled me over. I felt fairly smug as I was certain I had done nothing wrong. He explained that he had pulled me over as the rear number plate light was too bright!! I kid you not.
He said that even in this bright daylight, it was dazzling him. He said he must give a ticket requiring me to sort it. I explained I was trading the bike in and from tomorrow it would not be my bike so he decided not to give me a ticket. Now I ask you, how can a number plate light on a one year old Honda be too bright?! He tried really hard to nick me for something. I guess its par for the course as bikers. We are just easy targets as by default we must be doing something wrong, right? But the worst he could find was a tiny neon numberplate light which was dangerously dazzling motorists in broad daylight! Oh, I am bad, real bad, ha ha
What a crock. Im not against the police at all and lets face it none of us want to die early, so safer roads are a good thing. But some coppers just go about it the wrong way. Why dont we all just get on the same side and have some good safe fun without flying up each others nose.
ReplyDeleteBeing generous, maybe his mission was to get me to tell everyboby that plod was watching so ride carefully. In that, he succeeded. But what I really think is that he was lurking near the camera van to ambush any biker who nailed it after passing out of range. Key lesson learnt: look in your mirrors more often ha ha ha.
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