The lying afterwards on a public forum is v stupid and is a lesson to anyone who goes on internet forums to boast about what speed they get to. If you choose to speed you accept the consequences.
Got what he deserves. 122mph then trying to lie to cover himself. Idiot....
I agree very stupid
but shows big brother is watching you , every which way.
You show me a biker who doesn't break the speed limit and i'll show my arse
The lying afterwards on a public forum is v stupid and is a lesson to anyone who goes on internet forums to boast about what speed they get to. If you
choose to speed you accept the consequences.
Speeding is usually points, fine and sometimes a ban
Perverting the course of justice is almost always jail time
He was probably reported by the forum owner or another member rather than any big brother technology.
Spent most of my life on bikes, sold my last one just over a year ago for various reasons, one of which was tw*ts like that who give every biker a bad
name. Had some knobo came through the village 2 days ago doing at least 70mph, and it's a 30 going into a 40 limit! lucky for him I wasn't
pulling out of our drive at the time!!
Rant over
Hmmm interesting they used his forum comments as evidence, Have seen this done before and i think the lad was on the Honda Civic forum.
Be careful what you post, Big brother is watching
Agreed it was a Daft speed
The 'A' road up the road from us is like the Isle on man on a Sunday morning 
[Edited on 8/5/13 by perksy]
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Originally posted by perksy
Hmmm interesting they used his forum comments as evidence, Have seen this done before and i think the lad was on the Honda Civic forum.
Be careful what you post, Big brother is watching
Agreed it was a Daft speed
The 'A' road up the road from us is like the Isle on man on a Sunday morning
[Edited on 8/5/13 by perksy]
Yes you're right it was a Civic forum, you'll even find a link on here somewhere.
They used his posts as evidence that he was an ar5e and he was capable of driving like a twat.
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Originally posted by perksy
Hmmm interesting they used his forum comments as evidence, Have seen this done before and i think the lad was on the Honda Civic forum.
[Edited on 8/5/13 by perksy]
Let's be honest, it's not really big brother is it, it's just natural progression from listening to intelligence from the community. Any cop who ignored an info source like that wouldn't be doing their job properly these days, it's the modern equivalent to asking about the neighborhood to see if anyone saw anything.
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Let's be honest, it's not really big brother is it, it's just natural progression from listening to intelligence from the community. Any cop who ignored an info source like that wouldn't be doing their job properly these days, it's the modern equivalent to asking about the neighborhood to see if anyone saw anything.
Another accurate news report... "Motorcyclist Andrew Kelly jailed over 122mph ride"... was he really BBC?!
I think they should have sentenced him to 8 months under the "being a complete tool" law. They do exist right?
We all love the thrill of speed .....if we didn’t we would all be driving around in shopping trollies not making our own sports cars.
But there is a time and place for speed and now in the UK you are lucky with over 500 trackdays a year.
If we feel the need for speed and take a chance on the roads then if we get caught we should just man up and take the rap.
Over here there are few track days but also there are some awesome driving roads and if you get caught you can get away with giving the cops tea
money.
But due to again stupid people they are now stiffening up the law so we shall see.
The police definately use the forums to get information on all sorts of crime. I know that a significant number of banned drivers around here get
caught driving because a: the police know who has been banned and b: they post pictures of their 'new motor' online, thus causing a police
patrol to loiter close to their residence........
Regards
Hugh
I recently gave my bike up, mostly due to the wife nagging about our first born being due but I have to say that without doubt the roads have changed
so much over the last 10 years the modern sports bike has no place.
It is too busy even at 5am, there are too many plod making money for shooting you with a camera for their force, I decided it is just pointless to own
a fast bike anymore.
(And plod do keep the money from your speed awareness course there is just clever accounting in the background that allows them to claim they don’t –
fact!)
I also agree there is a time and place for speed, but also the hate in this thread generalising bikers is not something I would have expected from
these forums, and I would also point out how easy doing 180 mph is on a bike when quoted book figures for 0-150mph on my last bike is 11 second.
I have ridden the Isle of Man and done Mad Sunday on many occasions and can tell you biking is as close to god as you get both when it’s going right
and when it’s going wrong and like anything in life you get some t00sers and some really nice people.
Tell lies to the courts and be a tool and get locked up that’s fine, but why should a biker go to prison just for speeding (As seen in other cases)
while the crack head who mugs and rapes an old woman for £5 gets a couple of hours of community service?
What about the countless loons who literally use their cars as attack weapons every morning I drive to work, that cause the countless crashes/death
that I see on my hour on the motorway each way to the office?
I bet we are all guilty of that at some point yet I don’t see a witch hunt for them?
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Originally posted by EX01
(And plod do keep the money from your speed awareness course there is just clever accounting in the background that allows them to claim they don’t – fact!)
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Originally posted by scootz
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Originally posted by EX01
(And plod do keep the money from your speed awareness course there is just clever accounting in the background that allows them to claim they don’t – fact!)
Usually when someone ends their point with 'fact', I automatically think 'fiction'!
But anyway... so what if they do! What do you think they do with it? Split it up and spend it on the shift night out? I'd imagine that if the poilice do retain it, then it will be used for business matters - perhaps for even improving their speeding awareness courses!
PS - Most people who ride sportsbikes ride like tw*ts (dare I say 'fact'!). I know as I used to ride sportsbikes and I occasionally rode like a tw*t... and all my sportsbike riding mates occasionally rode like tw*ts... and the random sportsbike riding folks I met at meets occasionally rode like tw*ts!
It's just not possible to own a sportsbike and not occasionally ride like a complete and utter tw*t-loon-kamikaze-spaceball! It's why I gave them up...
... it's also why I'm thinking of starting again (despite knowing the born-again biker theory more than most).
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And I agree allot of riders are tw*ts but not the majority and I don’t think riding at 90% of your skill level in correct conditions is being a tw*t even if it is over the speed limit by some margin, you pays your money you take your chances.
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Tell lies to the courts and be a tool and get locked up that’s fine, but why should a biker go to prison just for speeding (As seen in other cases) while the crack head who mugs and rapes an old woman for £5 gets a couple of hours of community service?
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
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Tell lies to the courts and be a tool and get locked up that’s fine, but why should a biker go to prison just for speeding (As seen in other cases) while the crack head who mugs and rapes an old woman for £5 gets a couple of hours of community service?
Because speeding (especially excessively) is deliberately risking the lives of everyone around you. Whether a rapist gets a different sentence is unimportant and pointless discussion - if you feel strongly that those penalties for that crime are wrong go and argue that with your MP. Riding like an idiot on public roads is tantamount to running about playing army with real weapons - might be good fun and you're aiming at tin cans and not people, but you're still risking killing people by your stupid games in a public place.
Don't think there's much rage about him speeding...
certainly not from me anyway... I only posted up the link to show what a nobber he was for boasting about it, getting himself caught and then breaking
a 'jail-time' law in some pathetic attempt to get himself off what would have been a fairly minor offence!
+1
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Originally posted by scootz
Don't think there's much rage about him speeding...
certainly not from me anyway... I only posted up the link to show what a nobber he was for boasting about it, getting himself caught and then breaking a 'jail-time' law in some pathetic attempt to get himself off what would have been a fairly minor offence!
Sorry EX01, I re read your posts and it still comes across as "I don't condone speeding but....excuses..... he did it too". If I come
across as aggressive it is because I'm sick of road users driving dangerously when I'm around, be they on a bike, in a car, in a bus. I
wouldn't say any group was worse per se, but bikers are the only group I've heard discussing cutting people up as making room for themselves
and claiming they are better than other road users because they are vulnerable and have to be, yet the stats suggest otherwise. I'm all for any
road vehicle used sensibly. if you want to drive like a fool do it on a track or closed road is my only point. I don't care if anyone else is
more or less vilified.
[Edited on 9/5/13 by coyoteboy]
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Sorry EX01, I re read your posts and it still comes across as "I don't condone speeding but....excuses..... he did it too". If I come across as aggressive it is because I'm sick of road users driving dangerously when I'm around, be they on a bike, in a car, in a bus. I wouldn't say any group was worse per se, but bikers are the only group I've heard discussing cutting people up as making room for themselves and claiming they are better than other road users because they are vulnerable and have to be, yet the stats suggest otherwise. I'm all for any road vehicle used sensibly. if you want to drive like a fool do it on a track or closed road is my only point. I don't care if anyone else is more or less vilified.
[Edited on 9/5/13 by coyoteboy]
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
If I come across as aggressive it is because I'm sick of road users driving dangerously when I'm around,