There are 3 different safety awareness courses. Speeding on normal roads, speeding on motorways, and jumping red lights. (Not sure if those are the exact titles). If you got caught speeding on normal roads, and then a couple of months later got caught speeding on a motorway, you could take the two different courses and avoid points on your licence. You cannot take the same course if you get caught for a similar offence within 3 years I believe. If you opt to take the course online, you can choose to take it anywhere in the country. Last time I looked, Newcastle had the cheapest course fee, but some people may struggle with the accent .
Many moons ago when a custon plate was a rarity, you could buy a blank plate and the numbers and letters, we would put the right numbers on in the wrong order, despite being pulled for "Infringment of Ministry of Transport Regulations" for the plate size, never got done for a wrong reg. I remember one policeman having the booklet out at the roadside, then the standard "Producer" swap the plate, show it to an MOT tester then take the producer to the Police Station. To get done for speeding would amount to a police car chasing you down the road for a certain distance, never happened.
Ah divn't knaa wot ye're takkn aboot....man. Hartlepool Borough Council course was the cheapest at ~£70 last October...and the presenter spoke reasonably close to the King's English
Most definately, there were no roadside checks, whatever you told him and the reg was it and very few cars that would keep up with a bike
it's a shame we can't create an "Off the Record" thread on here, because we now know it would result in the very opposite of the title, but i personally would relish the idea of reading everyone's naughty "out for a ride" contributions from the 60's and 70's in particular.
How long have you got? Quite normal to ride around on old bikes with nothing legal, all country lanes, we knew the local police and their rounds, all the bigger villages had a police house, they knew your name and you knew knew theirs, the chances are they would be in the lock in at the local pub, underage drinking, lock ins, jumping on some old bike that you managed to cobble together, drinking and driving, thrashing through the woods, all seemed to be alright as long as nobody got hurt, generally they didn't, it just worked, don't judge it by todays standards, that was then, this is now
i thought better of it, as laying all contributors open to multiple "tut-tutting" etc. Best reserved for meet-ups.
lol - about 30 years ago now...ended up in court with 2 other mates (all 3 of us on mk1 250 gamma's) flat out though the middle of Bristol (90+) - Police sierra 4x4 managed to get in front of us with one of them hanging out of the drivers side window shouting his head off.... through sheer idoicy and dumb luck (on our side, in court) - it got thrown out...
brave to divulge this^ - if we are doing this: - I have unwittingly overtaken a plain-clothed policecar only twice in my life, once around 1976 and once only a few months ago on a Multistrada. Also very lucky to get off both times, the last one because they were military police with possibly bigger fish to catch, and the chap was probably the nicest Policemen i've been stopped by. You might think, well i would say that but, to put it another way, if i'd been nicked then i would liked it to have been him!. I had committed 3 offences observed by all 3 officers before being stopped.
I’d be very surprised they do to be honest, on MOD property yes civy street I’ll go with no. Might be why Chris was only given a dressing down? Not sure I’d ignore a Police car with Blue lights flashing though TBH, not sure what I’d say once I knew them to be MP’s though.
I lived in a reasonably small village with a single Bobby patrol, thing was he was my brothers mates father. His Son knew his comings and goings and would when given the opportunity borrow his Police bike when his Dad was elsewhere, nothing fancy just an Eastern bloc 2 stroke either a CZ or MZ.
I pretty much don’t speed so much as I used to since the proliferation of ‘safety’ cameras, especially on motorways. I do as a way of assisting with keeping my licence clean use a SatNav that tells me where cameras are as I can do without the points for the reasons below. I’ve been on 2 motoring causes lately due to excessive speed, one was on a motorway in the early hours after a night shift. TBF I didn’t expect the camera to be working at 4am on an overhead warning me of workforce in road think I was 70 in a 40. Second time was average speed camera where the speed limit on a dual carriage changes from a 50 to a 40 with a traffic roundabout that splits them. Both courses were pretty enlightening and has actually made me reduce my speed TBH.
Depends if they are Military Police or MOD Police The Royal Military Police are soldiers, MOD police are civilian police working for the MOD edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_Police#Jurisdiction
