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Was filtering through traffic today and got to the front of the lights. Wicked campervan on my right, blue/silver toyato aurion on my left with a thick antenna and two burley looking blokes in casual clothes.
Uh oh i thought... could be an unmarked cop car, and here's me sitting next to them with my 15mm spikes around the nose cone collar. I take off slowly and pull in front of the campervan, aurion changes lanes.... i'm carefull to stick to the speed limit and not doing silly... for 5 k's i change lanes a couple of times (indicating for 5 secs first), each time aurion does the same....
I thought f*** just get it over and done with, pull me over, tell me off and let me be on my way...
Anyway just happened to ride past the police station and guess who pulls in?.. Yep the aurion, so obviously they had better things to do than to pull me over.... Phew!!!
Peace and happy riding
Rob
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(18-05-2009, 06:25pm)rob Wrote: Was filtering through traffic today and got to the front of the lights. Wicked campervan on my right, blue/silver toyato aurion on my left with a thick antenna and two burley looking blokes in casual clothes.
Uh oh i thought... could be an unmarked cop car, and here's me sitting next to them with my 15mm spikes around the nose cone collar. I take off slowly and pull in front of the campervan, aurion changes lanes.... i'm carefull to stick to the speed limit and not doing silly... for 5 k's i change lanes a couple of times (indicating for 5 secs first), each time aurion does the same....
I thought f*** just get it over and done with, pull me over, tell me off and let me be on my way...
Anyway just happened to ride past the police station and guess who pulls in?.. Yep the aurion, so obviously they had better things to do than to pull me over.... Phew!!!
Peace and happy riding
Rob I wasn't as lucky mate, was at the Police College last week for a 5 day course. 4 traffic blokes there doing their 1st aid or some such. Guess who got told "remove the spikes or we take you off the road by the traffic Sergeant!"
And they wonder why they get called "Concrete Heads!" Good for nothing else.
Max
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im thinking of becoming a 'concrete head'hahaha!
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Yeh better things to do,as in they got radio'd in...
' hot doughnuts,1st in best served'
Be prepared to be in the job for about 5 years before hand hutch, & that's IF a position comes up. They are pretty popular positions for some reason, who'd wanna ride a beemer? lol
Now if they had a busa squad, then I'd understand! 
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Now on FJRs in NSW.
"If time catches up with you. You're going too slow!"
Regards BUSGO
My freind saw an all black cop bike that pulled a car over the other day,
It was bigger than ur average sportsbike, he said he couldnt beleive it.
I just wonder what the hell it was!
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(18-05-2009, 08:25pm)Madmax Wrote: (18-05-2009, 06:25pm)rob Wrote: Was filtering through traffic today and got to the front of the lights. Wicked campervan on my right, blue/silver toyato aurion on my left with a thick antenna and two burley looking blokes in casual clothes.
Uh oh i thought... could be an unmarked cop car, and here's me sitting next to them with my 15mm spikes around the nose cone collar. I take off slowly and pull in front of the campervan, aurion changes lanes.... i'm carefull to stick to the speed limit and not doing silly... for 5 k's i change lanes a couple of times (indicating for 5 secs first), each time aurion does the same....
I thought f*** just get it over and done with, pull me over, tell me off and let me be on my way...
Anyway just happened to ride past the police station and guess who pulls in?.. Yep the aurion, so obviously they had better things to do than to pull me over.... Phew!!!
Peace and happy riding
Rob I wasn't as lucky mate, was at the Police College last week for a 5 day course. 4 traffic blokes there doing their 1st aid or some such. Guess who got told "remove the spikes or we take you off the road by the traffic Sergeant!"
And they wonder why they get called "Concrete Heads!" Good for nothing else.
Max
Max,
Rather harsh don't ya think? Bit like pot calling kettle black. Ever wonder what the insurance assessor would have to say re a claim for your bike if you were to have a prang on it even if the prang was not your fault (skippy) and they saw your bike as is?
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What are these spikes you speak of 
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(19-05-2009, 02:08pm)afp3765 Wrote: Rather harsh don't ya think? Bit like pot calling kettle black. Ever wonder what the insurance assessor would have to say re a claim for your bike if you were to have a prang on it even if the prang was not your fault (skippy) and they saw your bike as is?
Hey Marcel, my only gripe was the way the words were delivered. It was only a matter of time before either plod or RTA gave me the nod to remove them - just concrete heads being concrete heads. I've been pretty lucky with insurance claims, just the one in the last 27 years (FFS touch wood) so they don't worry me, mind you I still pay their premium.
I did the right thing after class and after getting home took them off. He had a pretty good look at the bike the next day. Lucky me. As I say - the delivery was pretty severe but no defect so lucky at the same time.
Two of them on ZX14s, one on an older black and silver and a third on the Gixxer thou. Jealousy is such a curse. 
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(19-05-2009, 11:01am)2wheelfreak Wrote: Be prepared to be in the job for about 5 years before hand hutch, & that's IF a position comes up. They are pretty popular positions for some reason, who'd wanna ride a beemer? lol
Now if they had a busa squad, then I'd understand!
wish i was a cop in the UK then!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRW-0W3PpSE
try getting away from this guy!  hahahahahahaha....
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(19-05-2009, 09:15pm)Madmax Wrote: (19-05-2009, 02:08pm)afp3765 Wrote: Rather harsh don't ya think? Bit like pot calling kettle black. Ever wonder what the insurance assessor would have to say re a claim for your bike if you were to have a prang on it even if the prang was not your fault (skippy) and they saw your bike as is?
Hey Marcel, my only gripe was the way the words were delivered. It was only a matter of time before either plod or RTA gave me the nod to remove them - just concrete heads being concrete heads. I've been pretty lucky with insurance claims, just the one in the last 27 years (FFS touch wood) so they don't worry me, mind you I still pay their premium.
I did the right thing after class and after getting home took them off. He had a pretty good look at the bike the next day. Lucky me. As I say - the delivery was pretty severe but no defect so lucky at the same time.
Two of them on ZX14s, one on an older black and silver and a third on the Gixxer thou. Jealousy is such a curse.
Max
Max. I'm sorry, but the way I read your original post didn't sound like a gripe about a lack of diplomacy of the so called concrete head/s asking you to remove your spikes or else. At least you had the freedom of riding your bike home and fixing the problem and not having to either push or trailer it home and present it for an inspection. Plus time and costs. Irony here is, I believe, that we work for the same organization. Have the same big kahuna and get paid by the same pay team. Hello.
My question about the insurance is. If you did hit the skippy and your bike was a write off, do you think you would have got a payout from the insurance company? Bike as it was. Forget your good riding record.
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If you did hit the skippy and your bike was a write off, do you think you would have got a payout from the insurance company? Bike as it was. Forget your good riding record.
Marcel
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I don't think I'd have had a problem with the Insurance claim after hitting a skippy. My real problems would have been hitting a pedestrian, and that's why I didn't mind taking them off. The bling effect was awesome, the over riding responsibility for other road users was more pursuasive on balance. And of course whenever I took sweet Mary or one of the kids out on the bike I took the spikes off the grab rail. I love our employer - he keeps my kids fed, my mortgage paid and my bike on the road. I don't feel that way towards our traffic brothers as they seem to grow to superhuman status when they put those silly looking jodpurs on.
Max
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Yeah they are slowly fazing in the FJR's, mind you they are still classified as on trial. They had a couple of ZX14R's on trial during WYD & for a while after that but havn't heard what's happened to them.
I think the drama with them was that you can't get them in white as standard so they had to cover them in vinyl & sticker them up.
Now seeing as busa's are coming out std in white......
Shouldn't give them those sorts of ideas tho, beemers aren't a worry but if they started riding busa's we'd all be in trouble! 
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