Got a ticket today
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Cruiser
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From: Nor-Cal
Got a ticket today
Took a 240 mile ride today most of it in very twisty roads. The Sierra Nevada Mountains are the best, HWY 70,. Any way I come around a turn to a straight and a long the straight I pass a CHP. Look down at the speedo and it's at 65, so I figure I'm going 60-61 tops as it reads High. Don't think much of it until 5 or so minutes later CHP with red lights on pulls me over. Says I'm writing you a citation for excessive speed. I say how can I talk you out of this, reply was you can't my mind is made up. I said exactly what did I do. He says you where doing 66 in a 55 when you saw me and you didn't slow down at all. I said that's because I thought I was within the speed limit. Long story short he gave me a citation and tells me next time you see a CHP slow down. I say just being honest here and figured I wasn't in the wrong. He then tells me to have a nice day. I told him he had already screwed that up. So then he takes off, after a few minutes getting my helmet and ----- together I take off. Couple miles up the road he setting there waiting for me again, however I'm going 45 with five cars stacked up behind me and give him a big wave. I know he wanted to flip me off
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The moral of this tale is twofold....one, never believe it when you think your speedo reads fast....two, when it says 55, don't ride at 60 unless you like collecting tickets.
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I once had a CHP follow me for 5 miles on a feeder with me on the interstate before I did something "wrong" and he could jump on the interstate and give me a ticket. He actually told me "I've been following you for 5 miles." That was in the 80's before they had RADAR.
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I had a similar conversation with my teenage son this past weekend. He got a ticket for doing 35 in a 30. He was all fired up. I told him, "Tyler, you are a 17 year old "punk" kid in the cops eyes. I'm sure you were driving through the neighborhood with your music cranked, making yourself a target." Unfortunately on motorcycles we are a target in some officers eyes. He was either jealous that you were out riding when he couldn't or has a "hard-on" for bikers.
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From: Haslet Texas
A cop pulled me over for speeding once but didn't give me a ticket for it as he said that 'Speeding motorcyclists are a self correcting problem'. He did give me a ticket for the inspection sticker that was 1.5 years out of date.
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I got stopped in my Corolla yesterday afternoon on the way home from work, for turning right at a light without using a turn signal. My Corolla is a bit loud, a bit old, a bit beat up and a bit fast. I think he was just trying to stop a "punk" kid to harass.
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"trying to catch me ridin dirty"
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