How do bikes get busted??

[ToSsMaStR]

Most of the speed traps in my area, are camera's set up by the po po, and they take a photo from the front (when you are speeding)... so i was thinking, bikes don't have a number plate in the front? how the hell do they get caught for speeding... on one of those cameras tho ^^^


(obviously if your get pulled over it is a different story)

 

[werner]

a long time ago in a far away land i worked for a bike dealership when the zzr1100 came out.

you will be surprised to see how far the cops will go. they came round to our dealership, got a list of all the zzr's we had sold and figured out who lived where, and who worked where, and they found the bloke like that. they would go to all the bike shops in the local area and do the same, slowly eliminating people. never underestimate the determination of a government employee who gets paid irrespective of results...these blokes would come back two months later with more info etc until they found their man. i think they took it personally

we have also had cases where they came in to get us to help identify a bike...i.e. via colour scheme, shape of mirrors etc...

oh , look, a 1989 gsxr-750, etc...and from there a trip to the licensing offices to find out who owns them.

there is safety in numbers, but when you have the only superbike in that colour scheme registered in that year for 200km's area then you dont have any numbers to hide you. you just stand out.

distinctive helmets can also aid in identification.

there were times when we just point blank didnt know who the rider was, or what bike it was. not from incompetence but because it was my brother, or one of his tjommies, or one of our good customers.

 

[Pitbull]

I have never received a fine on a Bike.

I also don't stop when they flag me down. NO WAY they can cath me.
We'll that day might come where they do catch me, but I figure it's worth the risk. I was chased down William Nicol once going to Sandton. I got thru the traffic fine, I thought he'll have a hard time to get thru, suprised I was when all the cars made way for the bastard

Eventually lost him when I ducked into the Underground parking for Sun International head office. Think it's in Alice Lane... next to discovery.

 

[LandyMan]

like werner said, they go to alot of trouble ... checking jacket, helmet, bike colour, brake calliper colour, etc, etc ... so the more unique your kit is, the bigger the chance they will find you

 

[dam]

My friend's bike (he had sold it) got a fine for speeding so he downloaded the pic while I was at his place and it was taken from the rear of the bike, so it does happen.

 

[Ecco]

Of all the fines i have received where there are pictures, they have all been pictures of the back of my car. So i don't think they trap much snapping pics from the front.

 

[Hell_Fire]

Fixed camaras only catch from behind due to the flash that has to go off, only radar and lazer traps are from the front

 

[Pitbull]

Bikes don't have plates

 

[esvl]

I heard that if you go faster than 400km p/h the cameras cant get you? Must be a myth.

 

[killadoob]

yea all my fines last year where from the back

dude htf do you go 400 on our roads

at 400 there is no way in hell you could stop for a guy changing lanes or whateva

beating a speeding fine aint worth your life

 

[Hell_Fire]

tests done in the uk on fixed camaras showed that if u do go past one at a speed of 270km/h it wont flash u its 2 fast so u wont get get a pic in the post

 

[supersunbird]

Fixed camaras only catch from behind due to the flash that has to go off, only radar and lazer traps are from the front

So the camera on the centurion part of the N1 south doesn't point to the people driving towards it? (I noticed they have removed the one on the N1 north)

 

[dam]

M5 also has a cam facing the traffic.

 

[bwana]

Fixed camaras only catch from behind due to the flash that has to go off, only radar and lazer traps are from the front

All the fixed cameras I know of (in PE anyway) have the camera facing oncoming traffic.

 

[HavocXphere]

They had that on Top Gear I think. You need a 2km airstrip and a million bucks+ car to beat cameras with speed. Took them 4 tries I think...

 

[Hell_Fire]

Jip HavocX thats the episode i refered to< i dont know who hear would like to go test it out for us? Im definatly not speeding on public roads again so unless they put a trap on a track or airstrip im out

 

[Ecco]

Fixed camaras only catch from behind due to the flash that has to go off, only radar and lazer traps are from the front

All my fines are from non-permanent traps, and all from behind.

 

[Dange--Russ]

I used to ride with original repsol team leathers. I too was recognized on more than one occasion. Never stopped though.

Never had a plate on the bike. and never gotten a fine. funnily enough that worked for the car for a while too.

 

[Frankie]

A long long time ago I had the Z1000 and joined a group of bikes to the Saturday racing at Kilarney.
Heading towards the Kilarney hotel there was the old Gatso wires on the road - when the tight formation of bikes were over these lines there was a major shower of sparks from the guys pushing their stands onto the road.
Looking back there was a bundle of wires on the road and the cop just shaking his head - they made no attempt to stop anyone.

 

[ToSsMaStR]

yeah well, all of the camera's i seen in the Richards bay area are from the front... normally the po po try and eat dough nuts near it.... so ones from the front cant bust bikes... right?