strictlye
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Thank God my bike was in the shop. I dont usually like riding on long weekends anyway.
So...anyone get busted by the OPP??
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As i was driving east on Bloor to the DVP north i caught up to a couple cars running side by side. The cop steps out in the road, stops all of us and then tells the guy in the center lane (The other car and me were in the right lane) to pull over and told us to go.
On my way home Saturday from the start of the DVP to 401/Mavis i saw 3 cruisers on the highway. This was at 1:45AM. Meanwhile at about 11:30PM me and a friend had a quicker than intended ride to the beeches and saw no cops.
On my way home Saturday from the start of the DVP to 401/Mavis i saw 3 cruisers on the highway. This was at 1:45AM. Meanwhile at about 11:30PM me and a friend had a quicker than intended ride to the beeches and saw no cops.
Saw boatloads of cops Sat/Sun/Mon in and out of the city, they were out with radar guns on the 401 (though some guy passed me at 135+ at the gun and didn't get stopped), on the Bloor street viaduct in their favourite spot, unmarked cruisers on Lakeshore in the west end, etc. Passed lots of cages getting ticketed, didn't see a single bike pulled over though
Really? I don't think I can remember seeing speed traps on the 401 any time in the last ten years. (At least between 403/Whitby, sometimes I forget the highway is actually bigger than that) Where where they?
espro
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It was probably somewhere around Pickering/Ajax, I was in the express and there was a motorcycle cop in the collector parked on the left shoulder at the barrier, with his bike facing traffic aiming a radar gun into the express lanes. It didn't really make much sense to me, there were no cops ahead
They sit there all the time. Doesnt matter if your in collectors or express .. it splits right there anyways. They have access to both Express or collectors from that vantage point.
I saw this guy on Sunday afternoon right after the Morningside exit at 3ish. He actually had one foot in the left lane trying to radar.
ABadjusterrider_5
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Was running back and fourth to Newmarket all weekend (My brother and his fiancee had a baby girl) stayed on Bathurst and Yonge didn't see a single cop. Monday night coming back from the hospital around 10pm got stopped by RIDE.... Cop practically had his face inside my helmet.
He was doing the same thing on Saturday.
Really i am curious to why he would put himself at risk like that, a bone headed move just to catch a couple of long weekend speeders.
espro
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:lol:
theassassin
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I didn't see one cop all weekend. I was up and down the 404 in the car Sat nite and monday. Out on the bike on Saturday nothing. 401 to 403 to Guelph line, Halton Hills over to Dundas and Ancaster, back roads out to Niagara Falls. back on QEW from Hamilton, 403,401, Nothing.
The only one I saw was having lunch at Mud and 20 Hamilton and I said "I wore this shirt for you" which says "its all fun n games till the cops show up" - it has a stick man running away from a police car. He actually laughed. Of course I was wearing my blue/white leather leathers so he's the only one I've met with a sense of humour!
They are welcome to have their blitz's anytime if it means they're somewhere where I'm not! Not that it would bother me much out in my riding areas................er, I mean - I never speed in my riding areas, yea, that's it......It would never bother me to see the police in my riding areas because I wouldn't be speeding anyways.
The only one I saw was having lunch at Mud and 20 Hamilton and I said "I wore this shirt for you" which says "its all fun n games till the cops show up" - it has a stick man running away from a police car. He actually laughed. Of course I was wearing my blue/white leather leathers so he's the only one I've met with a sense of humour!
They are welcome to have their blitz's anytime if it means they're somewhere where I'm not! Not that it would bother me much out in my riding areas................er, I mean - I never speed in my riding areas, yea, that's it......It would never bother me to see the police in my riding areas because I wouldn't be speeding anyways.
slogan
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Saw a lot of cops on Ontario lake yesterday. I did not know we had so many marine-cops...:confused5:
Pretty useless to fight this case, except to extend punishment date... In the Court you gonna fight against the initial speed "139", which is about $300 and 4 points) not the reduced one (120). And than they gonna more like drop it to 29 over.
RedDogDarren
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Initial speed is not on record.
That was exactly my reasoning...
He was pretty nice about it, told me had he caught me doing 139 on the bike he wouldn't have reduced it because "most bikers have run" when he's tried to pull them over
I asked him what he thought I should do and that I was worried about my rates and he told me that before he was OPP he had 4 speeding tickets and his insurance company didn't care.
Since the court date would be in London and there may be a possibility that it may come up before my renewal date in March why even book one... he also told me it wouldn't be him who shows up but the officer that was radaring so I wouldn't even know what he looks like to check if he showed or not.
I had already been driving for 6 hours and still had 2 ahead of me so I'm just glad he made it quick and pleasant...
He was pretty nice about it, told me had he caught me doing 139 on the bike he wouldn't have reduced it because "most bikers have run" when he's tried to pull them over
I asked him what he thought I should do and that I was worried about my rates and he told me that before he was OPP he had 4 speeding tickets and his insurance company didn't care.
Since the court date would be in London and there may be a possibility that it may come up before my renewal date in March why even book one... he also told me it wouldn't be him who shows up but the officer that was radaring so I wouldn't even know what he looks like to check if he showed or not.
I had already been driving for 6 hours and still had 2 ahead of me so I'm just glad he made it quick and pleasant...
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Bigevildoer
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You forgot to mention that you were pulling a wheelie without any clothes or helmet on when you got nailed by the radar.
Houghtonator
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Used to have a second property in Shelburne. The news paper highlight was the High Miler....some of the speeds you would think it was the track...
If there's a "R" on the ticket, then you can be certain that the original speed is on record. That's also the "out of court settlement", so the charge can be amended back up to the original speed.
