02-04-13, 05:31 PM
(02-04-13, 05:18 PM)simonm link Wrote: [quote author=His Dudeness link=topic=7046.msg66863#msg66863 date=1364919206]
Now admittedly I only glanced through your post :lol but it seemed like they had every right to pull you on those two occasions so what's the problem? Do you want them to go around high fiving people all day? They're there to enforce rules not give out hugs.
What right did they have to pull me the second time ? I wasn't breaking the law in any way shape or form....unlike them. They were speeding. Interested to hear your rationale for that.
They are there to enforce the law on others, but break the law themselves ? Isn't that a bit sanctimonious ?
Thanks for your view though. Glad to know I'm in the minority.
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Not sure if you know this Simon but cops on motorways have to sit at one of two speeds, either about 55/60 in the inside lane, or sit at 85 in the outside lane - it's basically so that they can get along without causing a massive tailback!
For what it's worth I do tend to respect the plod as I've never had any problems with them - I openly admit to speeding, but it's (I would say never, but I'll go with incredibly rarely) in 30/40 zones, it tends to be for me either country roads, or cruising at higher speeds on the motorway, and I've never been in trouble for it.
I've done a bikesafe course myself in Leicestershire, and thought both it, and the coppers running it were fab, proper bunch of great guys. They weren't fussed about what speed I was at particularly (long as I kept to the 30 and 40 limits, and below 100 on motorways), they just wanted to make my driving safer, which I'm sure they did.
Only issue I have got at the moment is trying to get them to go round and sort out my last bike - it was stolen off me, and a shit load of parts have turned up on eBay from it from a breaker not that far away from when it got stolen - this is proving to be a bloody nightmare, but the last ditch solution I'll be going up with a bunch of mates to the guys house on Saturday and ringing the cops from outside letting them know if they don't get there pronto we'll be going in and taking back what's rightfully mine!