Originally Posted by wabigoon
Dave's comment on a Corvette has me wondering. The story is police hate Corvettes, red the worst, how about motorcycles? Does riding a cycle make you ripe for a ticket?


I never got a ticket on a bike that I actually earned - except once. That time, after talking bikes for a half hour with the trooper who clocked me at 119 (I was just slowing down), he wrote me a cheap ticket for 69mph (55 speed limit days, if you're old enough to know what that means).

Got pulled over and warned many times for doing wheelies and other more mundane speeding type things. But got tickets that were pure BS from a couple cops being an ass. One I'll never forget was the one I got for "basic rule" (exceeding safe speed for conditions) going slightly under the speed limit on an empty road in the rain. Barney was beside himself over how could I possibly keep the front wheel in contact with the pavement.

All in all, it's been a wash, or better. wink


Lunatic fringe....we all know you're out there.