Came out of a corner at ~130 after passing an elderly couple doing 10K under the limit and there was a cruiser on the other side. He pulled over to chase, I shook my head to let him know this wasn't going to go his way and he pulled back onto the road behind me, and gave me a palms down sign with his hand.
But last year I had two sort-of similar encounters in one day, lol Took the RSV4 into the County again, on a lone ride but meeting up with family. Coming down the hill on #2 at Napanee there was a police cruiser sitting behind a sign not far from the rock cut at Palace Road. I was doing about 120, and I spotted him nosing the car out. As I approached, I slowed down to about 100 and waved at him like I knew him... and kept on going. He did not give chase.
Coming back, I decided to go up #49 and cut off into the back roads to do the loop through Demorestville/Northport in a spirited fashion. I'm travelling up #49 at about 15 over the speed limit behind a line of three vehicles, the last two of which were "minivans" (like there's been a mini van in 10 years) to a sharp corner by Bannister's house near the old folk's home.
On the other side of the corner, there is a speed trap set up with two police cars on Folkard Lane. The vehicles in front of me slow down to a crawl, but there's a single yellow line and so I pull over to the left of the lane to pass the minivan ahead of me, as I can see from my vantage point that there is at least one vehicle pulling over to the right - but I can't see the police cars for the minivan. So I pull over to pass on the left, rationalizing that there's no reason I can't pass this minivan right now. At this point we're basically stopped. So I get on the throttle (in first) and cruise on past the minivan, slipping the clutch a bit under throttle because the RSV4 has fairly tall gearing - which sounds a lot like a race start, to the uninitiated.
That's when I see the police cars and one burly cop, well over six feet, running flat-out in big cop boots, to his car and glancing right at me. Clearly I've disturbed his equilibrium. I look down, I'm doing 70km/h indicated. I look back over at him and the other cop who is standing beside one of the minivans I was following, having pulled it over. Then I wave jauntily to the two of them and continue down the road doing 70km/h. They did not give chase.
I figure that in case #2 he reached the car and looked down at the radar, realising that I wasn't really speeding and there was no legal reason I couldn't pass a minivan that was almost stopped on a single-lined road. But I'd rather think that my jaunty wave gave them a sense of companionship. Yeah, that's the ticket.
