I got stopped by the Police!

[agagisgroovy]

Certainly a rather interesting commute this morning... 

Almost halfway to school there is a mini roundabout. As I came up to it I saw a Police car parked on the verge, and a Policeman. I wondered for a moment whether there had been an accident, but then saw they were handing out leaflets. They were not 'WANTED, 14 year old girl, tall, brown hair, brown eyes, blue bike, yellow helmet' for me using the pavement on Friday when trying to negotiate a tricky junction at rush hour.

As the car in front of me stopped, I had three options, to stop, to crash into the car or bunnyhop over the Policeman's boots. I chose the first one.

"I won't give you a leaflet, but they're about not speeding, OK?" the Policeman told me, which is proabably a compliment if he thinks I could go fast enough to. 

Personally though I think the leaflets were a waste of trees... 

[Regulator]

You should've gone for the bunnyhop option.... 

[rogerzilla]

I'm waiting to get stopped for only having one brake, but they've never bothered yet.

[Jaded]

That's only because the young-uns can't spell brake.

[Zoidburg]

Furious cycling

37 mph in a 30 zone, they havent caught me yet, but I know they have pulled a chap on bike on the same hill before now

I cant wait to see the footage on police camera action when I am caught

[rogerzilla]

I sometimes get flashed by the speed camera at the bottom of Cumnor Hill in Oxford.

[bomber]

We got approached by an armed officer in Sweden, scared the crap out of me.  Turned out he was looking for an old lady who'd gone missing from a local home on her bicycle

[alan]

Furious cycling

37 mph in a 30 zone, they havent caught me yet, but I know they have pulled a chap on bike on the same hill before now

I cant wait to see the footage on police camera action when I am caught

Which hill is that Z?

[spesh]

Furious cycling

37 mph in a 30 zone, they havent caught me yet, but I know they have pulled a chap on bike on the same hill before now

I cant wait to see the footage on police camera action when I am caught

"Furious cycling, officer? But can't you see I'm grinning like a loon?" 

[nuttycyclist]

That's always been my intended response too spesh 

[Zoidburg]

Furious cycling

37 mph in a 30 zone, they havent caught me yet, but I know they have pulled a chap on bike on the same hill before now

I cant wait to see the footage on police camera action when I am caught

Which hill is that Z?

Porthill bank, short but fast

Just pray that you have clear run over the D road roundabout or you will be leaving skid marks in two places

Have you tried the new link road from Wolstanton? its like a tiny bit of the alps in stoke, I rode down it one night before it opened, silky smooth new tarmac

[agagisgroovy]

I got stopped again today. 

[alan]

Furious cycling

37 mph in a 30 zone, they havent caught me yet, but I know they have pulled a chap on bike on the same hill before now

I cant wait to see the footage on police camera action when I am caught

Which hill is that Z?

Porthill bank, short but fast

Just pray that you have clear run over the D road roundabout or you will be leaving skid marks in two places

Have you tried the new link road from Wolstanton? its like a tiny bit of the alps in stoke, I rode down it one night before it opened, silky smooth new tarmac

Not done the new Wolstanton link. I'll try it sometime soon.

Have you done Ashbank?If you  start at the top (by the detention centre) & catch a green light at the lights on Salter's Lane crossroads,youc an easily exceed the 40mph limit at the speed camera located at Eagles Nest

[rower40]

When: 20 or so years ago
Where: Castle Hill, Cambridge
Who: Me (a student back then), and a Pleeceman

More scene-setting: Cambridge has just the one contour line.  Castle Hill is a major student residential area, and all the teaching facilities are in the centre of town, at the bottom of the hill.

I was a-hurtling down the hill, across the lights (at green), and across Magdalene Bridge.  Pleeceman stepped out into the road about 50-80 yards away from me, looking straight at me, hand outstretched making the "STOP" gesture.

I continued at speed. Pleeceman remained in the "STOP" stance.  With some 8 yards to go, I "dropped the lot" (a railway term), and came to a dead stop less than a foot from the officer.

His hand dropped, and in a voice calmer than I bet he was feeling, he said "Your brakes work, Sir.  Thank you, you may continue.", he stepped out of the way, and waved me on.

So it was just a random check on students' bikes' brakes.

[Dunedin]

When: 20 or so years ago
Where: Castle Hill, Cambridge
Who: Me (a student back then), and a Pleeceman

More scene-setting: Cambridge has just the one contour line.  Castle Hill is a major student residential area, and all the teaching facilities are in the centre of town, at the bottom of the hill.

I was a-hurtling down the hill, across the lights (at green), and across Magdalene Bridge.  Pleeceman stepped out into the road about 50-80 yards away from me, looking straight at me, hand outstretched making the "STOP" gesture.

I continued at speed. Pleeceman remained in the "STOP" stance.  With some 8 yards to go, I "dropped the lot" (a railway term), and came to a dead stop less than a foot from the officer.

His hand dropped, and in a voice calmer than I bet he was feeling, he said "Your brakes work, Sir.  Thank you, you may continue.", he stepped out of the way, and waved me on.

So it was just a random check on students' bikes' brakes.

Seems rather desperate unless he had a death wish?

Now a days it would create an v. interesting conversation between your insurers if you had hit him and whether he contributed to the serious injuries he would have sustained.

[matthew]

I got stopped again today. 

What had you done this time?