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...first speeding ticket in almost EIGHT fuggin' years! First time I've ever been zapped with the laser - the bit of the A13 I've been down a dozen million times and never seen a speed trap. Decelerating, in lala land slightly hungover and oh looky look it's mr plod with his phaser set for daylight robbery. Cop was rather nice actually - a gixxer thou' in his garage apparently - but still, wallet £60 lighter and license 3 points heavier. Dude reckoned he could've given me a ticket to court (71mph in a 50), but since I had no points... bless him. Ironically, he said he did send another biker to court for doing 103 in the same spot ... another teacher (yiz may call me 'Mr k1w1boy' or Sir )

I was in a similar situation a few years back. Had never had a ticket for speeding, then was caught with two lasers in a week and another ticket came by the post right after that to top it off. Instantly I was on the verge of loosing the licence. Oh joy.

I've been riding & driving for more than 35 years with no fines or points etc.

.... Tuesday we went down to visit the parents - "one of us" was driving the Mrs car ....
Just after the end of a dual carriageway - fairly well concealed - was a stripy van .... which had a window for a camera.

Might have been a bit too late in spotting this .... I shall be sooooo pissed off if a letter does drop through the letter box ......

I got done last October, on my way to work at 0530, Sunday morning doing 81mph in a 60. Zero traffic, explained very politely, on my way to start my shift for the Ambulance service, & he says "no problem" (thought he was going to let me off) "We'll call them and let them know you're going to be late!" DOH!!!!!!!! hello - 3 points, bye bye £60.00

Got my first (UK) one last summer for doing 49 in a 50 limit.

Only problem was I was driving an HGV and should only have been doing 40. Hadn't realised that particular one had weight sensors as well

Ouch, sorry to hear these boys, v. unlucky.
There is a favourite place where it has been known for certain types to see high revs in 6th gear of their bikes round here
But some days, the old bacon box is there too!

D-Rider - having been driving for longer than I've been alive - I think you've done bloody well!

As a teen - I kept getting busted on my old RD80 (it's 50cc officer!) and AR80 (50cc again!) for stuff like L plates, allegedly running a level crossing - even though the Plod were 200 yards down the road - and then doing 70 in a 40, but not properly clocked. So I had 12 points on my provisional when I was 17 and had to carry these for the first few years of driving!

Been happily points-free (touches desk!) since, even through owning 20 odd cars - pretty much every 80's & 90's hot hatch or saloon going and a good few superbikes - HOW IRONIC!

D-Rider wrote:"one of us" was driving the Mrs car ......

That worked for me in the past.

touches wood

currently I have a totally clean driving licence.... as from 5th august that is.....

as i am moving house i do have to send it off anyway - so will be photocopying it first!

Aladinsaneuk wrote:touches wood

currently I have a totally clean driving licence.... as from 5th august that is.....

as i am moving house i do have to send it off anyway - so will be photocopying it first!

The DVLA Natzi`s wont accept a photocopy licence, or anything else, as proof of entitlement to ride cat "A" motorcycles. There has been much in the press re this and on TV`s Watchdog.

I strongly advise to "Loose" your licence before you move and get a replacement from DVLA. Not only will you have a spare, but this will also confirm the licence entitlement that they have on record for you. If like me you took the bike test in the mid 70`s, pre computer, God only knows whats on record, or not.
It would seem that lot are so inept, they couldnt find their A-se with both hands

Aladinsaneuk wrote:touches wood

currently I have a totally clean driving licence.... as from 5th august that is.....

as i am moving house i do have to send it off anyway - so will be photocopying it first!

Don't bother with a photocopy, although a colour one suitably aged usually does the job on hols at the hire car shop.

I'd be rockoning it got lost in the move and you need a new one.

Well in 35 years of speeding I've been done once, I currently have zero points as it was 5 years ago and no I won't moan even tho it was a gatso, live and learn

.... I lived in Japan for a couple of years and while there I had a 400cc, shaft driven (!) baby-intruder. Road tax was prohibitive there and based on your engine capacity - 50-250, 250-500, 500-1000 and 1000+. To tax a 1000+cc bike was about UD$2000 for one year - hence all the little mid-cc'd oddities people occasionally import here.

Anyhoo, I lived worked with in a little town 50km or so east of central Tokyo called Yachimata - famous for its peanut crop, over insured gangster country homes which regularly burned down, and dangerous teenagers. One of my Japanese colleagues was being forced by his fiancee to give up his baby intruder so he sold it to me for a song and helped me sort out my license and all the rest of the paperwork. Over three years, I ended up doing around 50 000km. In my first week with it I got my one and only speeding ticket....

....a mile from home, rice paddies on my left flammable houses on my right and a gentle bend obscuring the rest of the road ahead. It was a 60km/h zone and I was doing 75 or so, and then the little black and white car with the red lights on top seemed to materialise out of nowhere. Very soon, I was in the back trying to give the two guys my details. Japanese cops, especially country ones will often give up in the face of language barriers (a friend of mine when he got caught used to fake a panic attack and shout 'TABEMASEN! TABEMASEN!' which means 'I don't eat!' to try to deter them). To their credit mine stuck with it. I'd swapped my kiwi license for a Japanese one and I duly presented it before their arched eyebrows. They read it and established that it was only endorsed for motorcycles and in the most English I'd gotten from them, the senior cop looked grumpily over his shoulder and grumbled "Bike-u onlee, mmm?"
"Yes sir" I replied.
"Hrumph. Get-u car neh!" was his verdict and I was sent on my way. I still have the license as a souvenir.

pic: Himeji Castle, the baby intruder and me- ten years younger

Ah I guess you must have been fairly near Narita Airport then?

I only know that area from riding the Narita Express in to Tokyo on the few occasions I've flown in to Narita.

We were pulled by the traffic cops in Japan once - was out there with work and we were demonstrating some navigation systems to Jaguar. Fortunately a couple of our Japanese colleagues were driving the two cars when the flashing lights instructed us to stop ......

D-Rider wrote:Ah I guess you must have been fairly near Narita Airport then?

I only know that area from riding the Narita Express in to Tokyo on the few occasions I've flown in to Narita.

We were pulled by the traffic cops in Japan once - was out there with work and we were demonstrating some navigation systems to Jaguar. Fortunately a couple of our Japanese colleagues were driving the two cars when the flashing lights instructed us to stop ......

...yep - Narita was a 25 minute ride up some quite pretty local roads from where I lived. Great place to get your foreigner-fix when small town Japan started to get trying. I loved the ride into Tokyo on the expressways from out there - Navigating into an area called Shinjuku, you were mostly flying along half way up skyscrapers. Was there for 3 years between '98 and '01 and saw most of Honshu (the main island) by the time I finished. I rented a bike for a mate kiwi mate while there and we rode up to the Honda Motegi test track. Should really go back and do a proper nostalgia trip rather than pouncing on the chance to bore peeps with it here

Got lost in Tokyo once (actually almost everytime I rode in), found a more organised speed trap and was cheeky enough to ask for a snap

Is "International Rescue" based in Nippon then? he does look a bit like a "Scott Tracy" puppet