Hahahahah you can all stick it... here we can't have the highest part of the bar more than 300mm above the lowest part of the seat which if you work it out...is **** all.

 

It's pretty simple to see if you sit back and look. People driving minivans, Lexuses, BMWs, etc usually fly under the radar. People on bikes, those who drive lifted pickups, beaters, or anything that's not a silver or tan 4 door blob always get LEO attention. Those who fly under the radar are usually the social elite in the community, at least in the eyes of the law. It's the evil biker with his leather jacket and his buddies that are going to cause a scene at the community block party.

 

I do love hearing all the stories about getting stopped by the police for doing absolutely nothing. Now I'll go read something with less BS.

 

I had to chuckle when I read this post.........Come on people he lives in New Jersey, what did you expect.

Last year I rode up to South Jersey to visit family, and one of the forum members here. The ride went smoothly, I had a great ride up there, didn't get stopped once. I stayed 5 weeks up there and was stopped 4 times, well three of the times were because the officers just wanted to look my bike over (I was surprised, and flattered). The fourth time stopped; the officer wanted to know about my Disabled Veteran tag on my bike, and how did I ride it all the way up there from Louisiana, if I was disabled..........So I told him, "very carefully with all the idiots out there on the roadways". Although I don't think that was the answer he was looking for.

Hey! After all it's New Jersey..........

 

What answer could he have been looking for? He should have thanked you and said how glad he was to see a vet not give up something he fought for.

As for the OP, Really simple, in my experiances in the last 30 years with riding, Ive never been pulled over and i always have had loud pipes. BUT Ive been on the recieving end of sweating my *** off while guys with real high bars got tickets. The cops see these as a safety violation also, its because the bikes are nowhere as menuverable as a bike with shorter bars. Ive always only seen guys with TALL ape hangers get stopped, its like waveing a red cape at a bull around the tri state area.

 

Well if Dear Leader Obama has his way there will be more ticket ****'s on the road in no time. Of course it will be billed as a "jobs" program...

 

So, OP, are you a member of your local/regional COC/COIR/other MRO? While the stop of the 2 with the high bars would be legit, even if typical BS, stopping all of you and spouting the "don't ride in groups of more then two because we're goin to pull you over and find something wrong" is wrong, and probably would contribute to the stop being borderline illegal. But if all you do is come on here and gripe (not that I have a problem with that) then you're doing nothing to improve things.

I wonder if your dad didn't get the pipes-ticket 'cause the cop knew he was on swampy ground. If he said the stop was for the high bars and then started on you and your dad, who didn't have high bars, then he was pretty much admitting he had no legitimate reason to stop you. Only way out was a "warning", or to flat-out lie about the probable cause.

U.S. Defenders is starting a push on anti-profiling legislation. Can't say for other states, but here in TX they want anybody profile-stopped to document the stop, record it if possible, and submit it to them for possible action, and to show that there is a need for anti-profiling legislation to prevent harassment.

My area seems to go thru phases, probably changing whenever a new cop is hired by any of the small towns I travel thru. I'll get followed thru several of the towns for awhile, then nothing for months, then it starts again.

Sometimes it gets almost Keystone-esque, LOL. Had one local gendarme following two of us from different clubs. We weren't riding together, but just happened to be going in the same direction for a couple miles. LEO got behind me, came up way too close, backed off, moved over behind the other guy, zoomed his rear, then slid back behind me. This happened a couple times before it really got comical. I kept on one highway while the other clubber turned off onto another highway. LEO zipped back and forth at least 3 times before figuring out which one of us to follow.

Anyway, it's getting time to do what is needed to put a stop to this sorta crap. Yeah, I've got a one-track mind on this stuff - join your local motorcycle rights organization and start working together.

 

+1 I was doing 95+. I was respectful, had my paperwork in order. I think he let me off easy because it was almost my birthday had like 30 minutes to go or something lol. He asked how fast I was going I said I wasnt paying attention. Then he said I was doing 95 when I caught up to traffic, but I know I was going much faster lol. Then he asked why my license plate was bent like it was. Well a buddy of mine slid in to me and bent my bracket.

All in all he told me to slow it the hell down and fix my plate and let me go with a verbal warning.