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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
I've tried on a couple of occasions to provoke a speeding ticket by passing cop cars on descents while over the speed limit. I thought it would make a great trophy. The cops never seemed to take any notice. Awww, that's too bad. If I managed a speeding ticket, I'd probably frame it and display it proudly. Cops here don't take much notice either...although I would be pretty ****ed if I got a 'rolling stop' or a 'running a red' ticket. FWIW, I only run reds at traffic-activated lights, and only when there's NO traffic around. I figure I've got an excuse if a cop does pull me over for it. As for stop signs, most of my right-hand turns are rolling, but I generally do stop under other conditions. |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:45:43 -0700, "brink"
wrote: It's never happened to me nor anyone I know. I'm quite sure many here have received them -- justified or not. Care to share? What did you receive them for? Failure to yield? Red light running? Speeding? ;-) brink I am NOT going to say that I've never received a ticket. That would surely be tempting the gods. |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
brink wrote: It's never happened to me nor anyone I know. I'm quite sure many here have received them -- justified or not. Care to share? What did you receive them for? Failure to yield? Red light running? Speeding? ;-) brink I got one when I swept around a corner onto a main street right in front of 2 cops on mtbs. One of them had a funny horn thing he sounded for me to stop, which I did. I forget what the actual citation was. I pleaded innocent and sent it to trial. The cop failed to show and I got off. Another one in Toronto, when I had to go north up a small side street; there was a large truck parked in front of a one way sign, there were 3 cops in a minivan parked on the right side of the street on the sidewalk facing south. They stopped me as I rode by, pointed out the sign and gave me a ticket for wrong way. I took it to court, pleaded innocent as the truck blocked view of the sign, and the cop, Staff Sgt.Macintosh lied saying there was no truck so I got convicted with a small sign. Another time at night a patrol car was driving very slowly in front of me in the left hand lane; after a few minutes I decided to go around the car when there was no oncoming traffic. They pulled up alongside yelling obsenities for me to pull over. The cop riding shotgun started to write me up when his partner told him they have to go so I got a quick warning and that was that. |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:45:43 -0700, "brink"
wrote: It's never happened to me nor anyone I know. I'm quite sure many here have received them -- justified or not. Care to share? What did you receive them for? Failure to yield? Red light running? Speeding? ;-) brink Hey, wait a minute... Where's Baka? Surely he's been busted for speeding on his 58/11 geared Huffy... 75 in a 40 MPH zone, perhaps? Oh, and that would be /uphill/. |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
"Peter Cole" wrote in message ... wrote: In Norway I got "caught" for speeding near my house. I saw the cops hiding in the bushes on my way out, so I gave it all I had on the way back in the hopes of them radaring me. They did, and yelled "Good job! 53 km/h!" as I passed. I've tried on a couple of occasions to provoke a speeding ticket by passing cop cars on descents while over the speed limit. I thought it would make a great trophy. The cops never seemed to take any notice. I've passed cops set up with a radar gun on a couple of local streets. One in particular, the Gordon Street hill it is very easy to excede the 50 kmh speed limit on a bike. I've often been tempted to shout out: 'How Fast?!?' as I go by. |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
R Brickston wrote:
Hey, wait a minute... Where's Baka? Surely he's been busted for speeding on his 58/11 geared Huffy... 75 in a 40 MPH zone, perhaps? Oh, and that would be /uphill/. He doesn't have time to post, he's practicing 150 mph wheelies on his new motorcycle. mark |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:42:29 GMT, mark
wrote: R Brickston wrote: Hey, wait a minute... Where's Baka? Surely he's been busted for speeding on his 58/11 geared Huffy... 75 in a 40 MPH zone, perhaps? Oh, and that would be /uphill/. He doesn't have time to post, he's practicing 150 mph wheelies on his new motorcycle. mark That must be the one with the stacked FET's, milspec, of course. |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
"brink" wrote in message ... It's never happened to me nor anyone I know. I'm quite sure many here have received them -- justified or not. Care to share? What did you receive them for? Failure to yield? Red light running? Speeding? ;-) In Germany I was once stopped at a red light in a construction zone. Once the oncoming traffic had cleared I started riding even though the light was still red (and couldn't see the other end, so I was just guessing that the ocomoing traffic was done). I had turned around once to check who is behind me (one car) but didn't check again when I started riding. So later I noticed that a second car had pulled up. A cop. They pulled me over afterb the construction and gave me a ticket. I also was riding in the Basque Country once in a hilly area where there were downhills into town. They had lights that would get triggered and turn red when the speed was over 50kph (31mph). I was faster on two occassions. One time it didn't trigger the light and one time it did. I didn't stop for that red light (there was no cross-street, its only purpose was to slow down traffic). Oh, and Jan Ullrich apparently got a ticket in Berlin once for speeding... brink |
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So who here has received a ticket while bicycling?
Zoot Katz wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:45:43 -0700, "brink" wrote: Care to share? What did you receive them for? Failure to yield? Red light running? Speeding? ;-) I know a few people in Vancouver who've gotten tickets for not wearing a helmet. The cops go on a MHL ticketing rampage for about a week per year. I almost got a speeding ticket at the bottom of a hill I liked to ride. There was a cop sitting there and he was just looking for the usual cars not paying attention and I blasted past him at about 35, not even noticing him. He says he got me on radar at 35 and could write me a speeding ticket. The only reason the discussion got that far was that he pulled up to a stop sign and did a full stop when he came up and stopped next to me. He rolled down the passenger window and told me I had been speeding, but he also said that he wasn't even going to think about writing me a ticket because of trying to explain it to his captain. He gave me the usual about it being a residential area, etc., and then I asked him if he had ever tried it and he said no. I told him to borrow a bike and try it and he would know. I don't know if I made a convert or not but I did go past him a few more times that year and he just waved. I think that counts as a good turnout. Bill Baka |
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