Duncan
27-10-2005, 07:17 PM
I got nicked doing 95 on the motorway today on the bike. No complaints, the patrol driver was very polite and showed me a film and with speeds up to 111 mph I can count myself lucky to have been given a £60 fixed penalty and 3 points. :)
As I am a jammy bastard they have even offered me the option of paying £80, going on a litle training course and avoiding the points and fixed penalty. :D
HOWEVER
Heres where it gets scary.
The copper tells me that my bike is uninsured. How he knows this is that his computer says so!!?!! :eek:
The Police now have powers to remove uninsured vehicles from the road and impound them for 14 days after which time they are crushed. I would have to pay £105 for the tow, plus £14 a day storage, plus find my way home fom Devon to Bristol and then get back to Devon to retrieve my bike.
Well, I have 4 bikes and 2 cars and dont carry their documents with me. However I do have insurance so I was naturally pissed off at being effectively guilty until proven innocent and have to put in a call to Carole Nash to get it straightened out. :confused:
What I find scary is we are effectively guilty until proven otherwise. :eek:
That a computer can criminalise me due to an error.
That if I had a 'rider' policy allowing me to ride any machine then I would be permanently getting in trouble.
That if I was to use my insurance to ride an uninsured machine not belonging to me (as my insurance allows me to do) I could get in deep trouble, have the bike impounded or crushed, be left to walk home and NOT have commited an offence. :mad:
That this could happen to anyone including a girl on here and they could be left penniless at the dead of night in an inner city car pound miles from home with no means to get safely home.
As you dont have to carry documents so long as they are presented in 7 days and on a bike its impractical to keep them clean, dry, in the right jacket etc etc this whole thing is a disaster about to happen.
So, if you can manage it, keep your insurance with you at all times, you might just need it.
As I am a jammy bastard they have even offered me the option of paying £80, going on a litle training course and avoiding the points and fixed penalty. :D
HOWEVER
Heres where it gets scary.
The copper tells me that my bike is uninsured. How he knows this is that his computer says so!!?!! :eek:
The Police now have powers to remove uninsured vehicles from the road and impound them for 14 days after which time they are crushed. I would have to pay £105 for the tow, plus £14 a day storage, plus find my way home fom Devon to Bristol and then get back to Devon to retrieve my bike.
Well, I have 4 bikes and 2 cars and dont carry their documents with me. However I do have insurance so I was naturally pissed off at being effectively guilty until proven innocent and have to put in a call to Carole Nash to get it straightened out. :confused:
What I find scary is we are effectively guilty until proven otherwise. :eek:
That a computer can criminalise me due to an error.
That if I had a 'rider' policy allowing me to ride any machine then I would be permanently getting in trouble.
That if I was to use my insurance to ride an uninsured machine not belonging to me (as my insurance allows me to do) I could get in deep trouble, have the bike impounded or crushed, be left to walk home and NOT have commited an offence. :mad:
That this could happen to anyone including a girl on here and they could be left penniless at the dead of night in an inner city car pound miles from home with no means to get safely home.
As you dont have to carry documents so long as they are presented in 7 days and on a bike its impractical to keep them clean, dry, in the right jacket etc etc this whole thing is a disaster about to happen.
So, if you can manage it, keep your insurance with you at all times, you might just need it.