Got done for 46 in a 40, what's your most pathetic?

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Heaveho said:

Mine's pathetic, but at the other end of the spectrum. An alleged 123 in a 30 on a Yamaha YPVS 350, on a closed trading estate on a Saturday afternoon, in the early 90s. Nothing came of it, even though it was probably about right.

Was it a F1/F2 or a N?

I had an F1 later on ( I think it was called an F1, you'll see the pic so you can remind me if I'm remembering the designation correctly or not ), but this was an earlier black and red one on an A plate with the small fairing and bellypan. Microns, obviously!

This prompted me to have a look for the very few bike pics I have, found more than I thought I had.......

Kawasaki AR125, first bike. I was 18 in this pic.



My first 350 after passing my test. I was 20. Look at the clip of me there. WTF is going on with my hair!



Same bike a year or so on at the famous Westgate hill in Newcastle. It's gained a few bits, fairing, Allspeeds etc.....



My first and most beloved YPVS. My favourite bike out of everything I owned........this was the one that got me into trouble that Saturday......



Even had my lid painted to match this one........



This came up front ended. I had it jigged, put forks etc on it. Turned out it had some mad tune on it that I didn't know about when I bought it, seem to remember seeing an indicated 140mph on this....



I took these pics on the day I was finished repairing it. I was working in the paint section of Custom Lids on Westgate Hill by this time, so I prepped the fairing etc and it was painted and put back together the previous day, finishing touches that morning........



This was the little bd that pretty much finished it for me with bikes. I stacked it at fairly high speed on a road just off the A1, near where the Angel of the North is now. Broke my neck in 2 places and damaged a carotid artery which subsequently blocked some years later and left me with blackouts and temporary blindnes in one eye for a few months until it was diagnosed........4 tablets a day for the last 18 years. Evil handling thing on 16 inch wheels, it turned in ok, but it wasn't what you might call stable or trustworthy. I had to replace the engine among many other things after the shunt, the impact snapped the end of the crank off.....



I had 3 years off after this, then tried again with an import CBR400, but I wasn't the riderI had been and didn't wan't to ride if I couldn't be quick, so that was that. I'd got to the stage where I always felt like I might have another off.

Sorry for the OT, got carried away having a blast down memory lane. The years I had with bikes were the best of my life.

Edited by Heaveho on Monday 1st July 17:05

Edited by Heaveho on Monday 1st July 17:08

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Can you copy and post this in Biker Banter.

I fear we have rather a lot in common. As a taster, I wheelied my RD 500 into the back of a car on Westgate Road on 2nd June 1990. (I have the producer for that also)

I'm happy for it to go into Biker banter, but I'm unfortunately too stupid to know how to relocate it there. If you know what you're doing on that score, feel free to take it there.

I have a feeling I would have witnessed that accident or certainly have been on the Hill if it was a Saturday, and possibly through the week if I was already working at Custom Lids. How did it end, did you repair the bike? And did you come out of it ok?

BTW, do you remember the bike copper, Johnson? Hated and avoided by many, but for whatever reason he and I really hit it off. He could have nicked me half a dozen times, but he always let it go. The first time he stopped me, his parting words were " My name's Johnson, spelt B A S T A R D and if you keep riding like that you'll be seeing a lot of me ". Genius.

Edited by Heaveho on Monday 1st July 17:22

[CABC]

20chf (cheap!) for 1km
Reading was 86 in an 80. 3km allowance and 2km instrument tolerance left just 1 for the fine.

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Its in a picture a day Biker Banter.

Nice one, thanks. We've probably met..........I bet we know a lot of the same people.

[Jimjimhim]

I did a speed awareness course for doing 34 in a 30, no doubt I will be told I was a lier, but why would I lie? This was nearly 20 years ago and maybe things were different then.

[wyson]

Pit Pony said:

One of our local councillors, who is good friends with my wife's sister, got done for speeding in a 30.

She told my sister in law it was 31 in a 30.
My sister in law refuses to believe that there's a strong possibility she's lying through her teeth.
I went as far as saying "unless you've seen the notice of intended prosecution, with 31 clearly stated, then your friend should be judged as a liar"

My wife uses this "fact" this totally believable 31 in a 30, to chastise me, for setting the cruise control at 74 n a 70 when the GPS on Google maps is displaying 71 mph. Apparently I'm definately going to loose my licence.

Someone on my speed awareness course claimed this as well. It was in one of the London tunnels, a point where it curves and multiple streams of traffic join, its apparently an accident blackspot. The course leader said sometimes the police will set a camera on the nose and then look at reducing the speed limit if accidents continue to occur.

The rest of us followed the 10% plus 2mph rule though. I was caught going 48mph in a 40mph zone. It’s the only speeding ticket I’ve had. I generally stick to the limit in areas I don’t know as I find it less stressful.

One of those village speed limit squads seemed very disappointed I slowed to 30mph right at the gateway to their village and I didn’t speed up on my way out until I hit the NSL sign.

Edited by wyson on Monday 1st July 21:34

[Pit Pony]

Heaveho said:

Mine's pathetic, but at the other end of the spectrum. An alleged 123 in a 30 on a Yamaha YPVS 350, on a closed trading estate on a Saturday afternoon, in the early 90s. Nothing came of it, even though it was probably about right.

The west Pimbo race track ?

[AyBee]

Fatherdougal said:

AyBee said:

The only pathetic thing about 46 in a 40 is complaining about getting caught

Hardly. I agree with OP - not exactly crime of the century is it.

Indeed it's not, but the OP obviously subscribed to the game of how much they could exceed the speed limit by and is now complaining about getting caught because they sailed too close to the line. If you don't want to get caught, drop your speed by a couple of mph and make sure you won't get caught. When you think about how much time you actually save by doing 46mph rather than 42-44mph, it'll only add a couple of minutes to your journey so it's not worth the risk in my opinion. Quite often you'll do 46mph in a 40 and then the limit will increase to 50 and you'll get stuck behind some womble doing 40 anyway and lose all the time you might have gained exceeding the 40.

[Heaveho]

Pit Pony said:

Heaveho said:

Mine's pathetic, but at the other end of the spectrum. An alleged 123 in a 30 on a Yamaha YPVS 350, on a closed trading estate on a Saturday afternoon, in the early 90s. Nothing came of it, even though it was probably about right.

The west Pimbo race track ?

Queensway on the Team Valley trading estate in Gateshead, circa 1989, before the introduction of the retail park. It was a pretty safe haven for nonsense at that point, or so I thought up to the day I got caught.

[bad company]

I’ve never been done for a slight infringement but I did fail my first driving test for ‘speeding’ at an indicated 32 mph.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Heaveho said:

Queensway on the Team Valley trading estate in Gateshead, circa 1989, before the introduction of the retail park. It was a pretty safe haven for nonsense at that point, or so I thought up to the day I got caught.

Little Chris wheelieing his RD 125 Lc and other lads doing Burn outs on Suzuki GSX 1140 EFE's and such like. I have a good video of them lot at Team Valley.

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Heaveho said:

Queensway on the Team Valley trading estate in Gateshead, circa 1989, before the introduction of the retail park. It was a pretty safe haven for nonsense at that point, or so I thought up to the day I got caught.

Little Chris wheelieing his RD 125 Lc and other lads doing Burn outs on Suzuki GSX 1140 EFE's and such like. I have a good video of them lot at Team Valley.

Yeah, I had a reunion with a few lads from the hill a few years ago, and Chris was there, along with Robbie Dixon and a few of the lads from Gateshead that I used to knock about with back then. We did another one the following year at Robbie's pub in Bolden Colliery, Chappers, the other lad that was one for wheelying the length of the hill ( black 350LC with an alloy Metmachex swinging arm, then he went on to a GPZ900 ) turned up to that among others. That guy with the EFE always had his Mrs. on the back, Alan I think he was called.

I used to get to the valley and occasionally participate in the racing after Birtley caff on Saturday nights after a day on the hill, such great memories.

One of the other lads that came to one of the reunions had an LC500 ( still had it when we met up all those years later ), but had hurt himself pretty badly on it. Ronnie, nickname was Smeg I think?

Edited by Heaveho on Tuesday 2nd July 18:04

Edited by Heaveho on Tuesday 2nd July 18:08

[Biker's Nemesis]

Heaveho said:

Yeah, I had a reunion with a few lads from the hill a few years ago, and Chris was there, along with Robbie Dixon and a few of the lads from Gateshead that I used to knock about with back then. We did another one the following year at Robbie's pub in Bolden Colliery, Chappers, the other lad that was one for wheelying the length of the hill ( black 350LC with an alloy Metmachex swinging arm, then he went on to a GPZ900 ) turned up to that among others.

I used to get to the valley and occasionally participate in the racing after Birtley caff on Saturday nights after a day on the hill, such great memories.

Yep, I've met all the lads you mention and did the Birtyley thing too.

Great times that will never be repeated.

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Yep, I've met all the lads you mention and did the Birtyley thing too.

Great times that will never be repeated.

Were you there the night the locals living near the Valley got pissed off with us being there and came out shooting at us with air rifles?

[Biker's Nemesis]

Heaveho said:

Were you there the night the locals living near the Valley got pissed off with us being there and came out shooting at us with air rifles?

I wasn't but I remember hearing abbot a kerfuffle.

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I wasn't but I remember hearing abbot a kerfuffle.

I heard great things about the meets at Tranwell woods near Morpeth but sadly that was all done bar the shouting by the time I was getting started with bikes. Also, rarely made it to the Mayfair in Newcastle city centre, although I used to get in The Farmers Rest, Percy, etc, all bikers bars back then.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Heaveho said:

I heard great things about the meets at Tranwell woods near Morpeth but sadly that was all done bar the shouting by the time I was getting started with bikes. Also, rarely made it to the Mayfair in Newcastle city centre, although I used to get in The Farmers Rest, Percy, etc, all bikers bars back then.

Tranwell is just a couple of miles from me, I started going by Pushbike then got the summer there on my Fizzy before it was closed in early 1983.

Friends who are just a couple of years older than me have great photos from there, I posted one a week back of him on One wheel on his 6 Cylinder Honda.

This should really be in BB.

[Heaveho]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Tranwell is just a couple of miles from me, I started going by Pushbike then got the summer there on my Fizzy before it was closed in early 1983.

Friends who are just a couple of years older than me have great photos from there, I posted one a week back of him on One wheel on his 6 Cylinder Honda.

This should really be in BB.

Yeah, I'll start replying to this over there.

[kingofdbrits]

Bobtherallyfan said:

kingofdbrits said:

32 in a 30.

Many years ago now, this wasn't Police enforcement but a group of old folk in a village that had been given a high viz and a radar gun loitering at a bus stop, so got a letter on yellow paper asking me to think about my speed followed by a guilt trip on the possible repercussions of my reckless actions.
I guess the Police must have posted the letter to get my address, unless they'd seen my car parked at home? No mention of police or DVLA on the letter.

It did give us a laugh.

But it didn’t happen did it…Speedwatch use 35mph as the minimum recorded speed as per Police guidelines. If you were caught, presumably at 35mph, perhaps you should be thinking of how on earth you missed people standing on the side of the road in high vis jackets.

Love contributions like this, I'm sure you like your High Viz. Thanks.

[Boleros]

kingofdbrits said:

Love contributions like this, I'm sure you like your High Viz. Thanks.

It's quite an odd place, PH. We are all car enthusiasts and our experiences are wide and varied and yet when we tell a self-confessed tale of speeding, traffic violations or even just a general interest story there is always someone ready to attack, vilify or just be overly sanctimonious. The site no doubt attracts its fair share of bluffers and chancers but even so, the constant bickering is quite surprising. And boring, frankly.