Today I swung my leg over my Trump to run it in, the Guys at Triumph said 250 is all it’ll need and they’ll get the first service out the way. Hour into it I’m really appreciating how nimble the bike is and the extra torque Triumph have squeezed out of it but am definitely not enjoying the experience. Stick me on a V4R on the road and I’d still hate it, I know the majority don’t just track but I think I get more excited about my dinner than riding on the road. I’m 5 miles from home seriously impatient and kicking my self for not paying for a Dyno run in, just after a bend on a national speed limit road the car in front of me is literally doing 30 mph and so on a double white line I overtake probably hitting 40mph. Cop car coming the other way comes past, obviously I’m a bit like oh crumbs so think whatever I’m still under the speed limit nothing to worry about. 5 minutes later he comes flying out of a slip roads to my left and pulls me over. After a pleasant chat, I’m very respectful, say Sir every 4 words (have a lot of experience at my work of getting told off by muppets and biting my lip for things that aren’t that major). He asks me why I did it, I take the honest approach and say I was being impatient and shouldn’t of done it. Types on his little pad thing for about 5-6 minutes and then at the end asks me to sign and says I’m being ticketed probably 3 points & a £100 fine or a SA course. I take this with a yeah fair one mate attitude but what happened next sent me over the edge and has just changed my opinion of every melt that got bullied in school and now wears that uniform. He says “drive save” while grinning (its ride, you fu**ing melt) then hops in his van and pulls out onto a main road without indicating. I mean, yeah fair plays mate you’ve pinged me I accept that, but don’t lord it over me then go ahead to conduct another major driving error in front of me. Can’t wait until Ive hit the 250 mark and can launch the number plate and SP’s in the very back of the garage to gather dust. It’s funny a couple of days ago people can stand on the cenotaph and burn the flags there penalty free but Oh no Bondy crosses a double white and that’s it, insurance price going to be hiked. I’m whinging like a complete b*tch here but hey ho, anything I can do about it? Cheers Bondy
So what exactly has he ticketed you for? dangerous riding ? It can’t be speed as there’s no calibrated measurement used in this instance and you’ve said you weren’t speeding ... wouldn’t have even worried about running it in dude, just do it on track. Has the copper got video evidence of you going across the white lines ? Rule number one, if he was going the opposite direction, you should of nailed the trumpet and disappeared
Double white line mate. Yeah mate your right, waste of time. Gonna cancel my insurance now, do first day with 50 miles on it. Ive already fucked it i admitted it on the questioning, and yeah i know I should’ve just nailed it but i was going that slow i thought no way he’d turn around to catch up.
Make sure the oils hot. Properly hot not 5 minutes run up on the stand hot. A moderately warm motor takes two laps to bring the oil up to temp properly, then use the revs dude. Plenty of engine braking I don’t like traffic cops as much as the next guy
Aye will do, got 5 weeks till Anglesey, I’m just gonna get him sent off somewhere and built. I’ve told my self before last time I rode on road, never do it again and soon as I did it again I bored my self to tears and got a ticket all in an hour
I've been finding the same. I can't raise the enthusiasm to get the bike out to finish running it in on the road. I'm on Donington beginning of next month so will finish running it in there.
Rant away good sir. Good for the soul. Even coppers hate Traffic Coppers. I took more notice of a lawman that talked to me like a person, and provided me with some sound advice and words of warning, after a stop for some overenthusiastic throttle movements (no ticket) than I did when I was tugged by some cage driving, hi-viz wearing, notebook scribbling, white cap doffing ass monkey, who clearly took great delight writing me up for a slightly irregular sized number plate and a baffle that had mysteriously “fallen out” Still, glad I ain't a copper in the present climate, they cannot look at you without being criticised.
It’s why white line overtakes area no no. Easy bonus for plod. You’d have been better to get hammer down and quickly turn off somewhere. Either they go past or pro0f needed it was you when you say it wasn’t. But they may (probably) have front facing cam
Yeah it was the obvious course of action but I was gling that slow and didn't realise it was a double white that I didn't reckon bed turn around.
Out of interest how many points have you got on your license? And if you name some digits what we're they for please & thankyou.
None mate. Got a speed awareness course 6 years ago at the age of 22 in my M3 doing 50 in a 40. Thats it.
Ps I'm now vexed having just read that. If it's any consolation, I met my cousin in Manchester in the week. She'd been isolated for two months so I met her and went into cafe Nero to buy a coffee for us both. Left my bike on the end of a pushbike parking place for all of five mins, out of the way, not obstructing, not on the road, the place was deserted, and I came out to a £100 fine taped around my throttle. Never even saw the bollox. He must have watched me park up, slapped it on and legged it.
