had a few like that when I was younger............. trouble now is cameras don't exercise judgement on the conditions and decide to just give you a lecture
best one was when I was still racing [about 20yrs ago] and didn't have a roadbike, there was a lull in races and I was getting withdrawl symptoms, so I went to the local bike shop and took a demo of the new BMW boxer 1000 [when they updated to air & oil cooling]. I went out about 1pm and they told me I had to be back before closing at 5.
I thrashed it mercilessly round the Warwickshire countryside, tried to work out how to wheelie it with the crankshaft spin making the bike bank to one side, tested the brand new ABS and generally acted like a hooligan.
on my what back into Brum, I was tanking past a little Chef, when a tan coloured Volvo looked like it might pull out on me then stopped. I gave them a wave to acknowledge their observation and opened the gas again............. turns out they were an unmarked cop car.
4 miles up the road it has started raining, so I pull over and am half way through getting my 1-piece waterproof on when the Volvo skids to a halt behind me with the blues flashing in the grill........ its 4.40 at this point and I am only about 3 miles from the bike shop.
I spent the next hr in the back of the cop car being shown the on car camera footage in which I appear 2 times, once at the start and once at the end, but the bits in the middle show the cop car being thrown around, overtaking on corners, over double white lines and hitting some serious speeds to try and catch me...... its not looking good if you use the average speed of the car!
they alternate between...... "you will get a ban for this" back to "you were riding well, but there is a place and time", and every time I think I might get off with it, they come back to throwing the book at me
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but in the end they kick me out of the car [and it has stopped raining now
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but now I have to go back to bike shop where they are still waiting [it was pre mobile phones!] and get all the documents so I can produce them at the police station, so I need to tell them the story as well.
license - 1, Pants - moist