Topic: Profiling?

[anotherCB]

Ok, so whenever I ride my Harley, law enforcement pretty much ignores me. Not so when I am on my cafe'd K7, even when obeying by all the rules, I get lots of suspicious looks from them. Or am I just paranoid

[rbmgf7]

Maybe they're wondering: "Hey, something else besides a Harley or crotch rocket."

[Gordon]

Maybe they're wondering: "Hey, something else besides a Harley or crotch rocket."

+1

They're probably just interested in your bike, and your paranoid ass thinks they're scoping you out for illegal activity. 

Guilty conscience?

[anotherCB]

Always guilty, just picked up a ticket doing 58 in a 40 zone, 1 minute after doing 105 in a 55 zone :-)

[HondaMan]

I wave, and when they roll the window down I tell them it is a 1972 CB750. 

[Terry in Australia]

I have the same problem. Whenever I ride my 2300cc Triumph Rocket III the cops are interested, but not in a negative way, but if they see me on my 160cc motorised bicycle, they give me the stink eye!

 

[BLUE71TURBO]

 The looks i get from cops when i roll up next to them is funny.    The sound of the turbo bike rumbling, the high pipes and the a.r.d. magneto really throws the young cops.   

           

[Terry in Australia]

If I was a cop Jon, I'd confiscate that dangerous looking bike! (and I wouldn't give it back............... )

[MrGardman]

The looks i get from cops when i roll up next to them is funny.    The sound of the turbo bike rumbling, the high pipes and the a.r.d. magneto really throws the young cops.   

           

Wow...beautiful bike.

[MoMo]

I have the same problem. Whenever I ride my 2300cc Triumph Rocket III the cops are interested, but not in a negative way, but if they see me on my 160cc motorised bicycle, they give me the stink eye!

 

Terry, if you rode in PA with that you'd be pulled over for sure, but I must say that is very  ...Larry

[anotherCB]

Hey Terry, now my son wants a bike like yours :-)

[bwaller]

Hey Terry, if you're out on that contraption and the fuzz give you the stink eye again, try shaking your fist & give them the finger. A guy has rights you know. 

[spot45]

You guys are too much.  I get stopped all the time by the police, whenever I am on one of my bikes.  They are all Vintage Hondas.  The last time I was stopped a cop wanted to take a picture of my Benly and then he asked me if he could ride it!  My response to that was if he would let me drive his police car.   What it is, that a lot of police officers ride, and they only know the new bikes not the old ones.  So when they see a guy on a old bike it always attracts a lot of attention.

[Blackandsilver]

I have the same problem. Whenever I ride my 2300cc Triumph Rocket III the cops are interested, but not in a negative way, but if they see me on my 160cc motorised bicycle, they give me the stink eye!

 

Woah! This thing looks crazy!!  I would not want to see what 40mph looked like from the seat of that one!


Win some lose some, it's all the same to me.

[Terry in Australia]

I have the same problem. Whenever I ride my 2300cc Triumph Rocket III the cops are interested, but not in a negative way, but if they see me on my 160cc motorised bicycle, they give me the stink eye!

 

Woah! This thing looks crazy!!  I would not want to see what 40mph looked like from the seat of that one!

Ha ha, well 40's not bad, and 50 is great, but I really worry about the rear wheel flying apart in a corner, so I'm looking for a stronger rear wheel. I've also seen a jackshaft kit that allows you to use the bicycles gears, guys are apparently getting 40MPH with only one engine, so it'll be interesting to see how fast mine will go with gears. Then of course if you want to go really fast there are expansion chambers, better carbs, nitrous kits, you name it! Cheers, Terry.

[socalenduro]

I was going to the library one evening... and a cop followed me for 3 blocks. I parked and was locking up when I saw him roll around the block again.
He slowed in the intersection and rolled down his window as i was saying to myself "here we go...."
He simply smiles and says "hey man is that a 350f? like a 73 or something... I had that bike when i was a kid and loved it..."

[anotherCB]

I guess that's the price you pay when you cafe your bike. It looks like a crotch rocket and cops get suspicious, leave it original and you are good....

[bender01]

The looks i get from cops when i roll up next to them is funny.    The sound of the turbo bike rumbling, the high pipes and the a.r.d. magneto really throws the young cops.   

           

Is there any video of that bike running? Id love to hear it.

[the technological J]

i often stop and strike up some conversation with the cops while in on the bike so they recognize me and roll thier eyes if im pushing the speed limit... cops always have that look on their faces

[78 k550]

Ok, so whenever I ride my Harley, law enforcement pretty much ignores me. Not so when I am on my cafe'd K7, even when obeying by all the rules, I get lots of suspicious looks from them. Or am I just paranoid

Do look at you in ahh with there jaws dropped a bit. HaHa

Paul

[72500john]

most cops look at me funny..and one at a red light said " what the hell is that?"
guees our vintage bikes are neat!!

[HondaMan]

I was going to the library one evening... and a cop followed me for 3 blocks. I parked and was locking up when I saw him roll around the block again.
He slowed in the intersection and rolled down his window as i was saying to myself "here we go...."
He simply smiles and says "hey man is that a 350f? like a 73 or something... I had that bike when i was a kid and loved it..."

That's the kind of thing I get here, a lot. I know almost all the county 2-wheeler cops from it!

[bjatwood]

I stop to fill up with fuel, and it turns into a 20 minute trip down memory lane everytime. 

[Terry in Australia]

Hey Terry, if you're out on that contraption and the fuzz give you the stink eye again, try shaking your fist & give them the finger. A guy has rights you know. 

Ha ha, well I've gotta be careful Brent, my bike is far from legal, so whenever I see the cops I have to kill the engine and pedal past them. It probably looks a tad suspicious when I pedal past a cop car at 50 MPH!

[Retro Rocket]

Hey Terry, if you're out on that contraption and the fuzz give you the stink eye again, try shaking your fist & give them the finger. A guy has rights you know. 

Ha ha, well I've gotta be careful Brent, my bike is far from legal, so whenever I see the cops I have to kill the engine and pedal past them. It probably looks a tad suspicious when I pedal past a cop car at 50 MPH!

Now that would be funny.....    You'd probably end up being searched for steroids.....

[tortelvis]

I find most cops are human and don't give me too much grief regardless of what I am riding. The exception was the Plod in Britain who pulled me up late one night after a club meeting at the pub. "Reason we stopped you is your tail light is out." I banged it and it came back on. "Loose wire mate, fix it tomorrow." Bear in mind it is late at night, I am on a matt black XS1100 rat chop wearing colours. What he said next pissed me off! "Well sir, been to the pub have we? We are going to get you to blow into this device and then WE ARE GOING TO GO OVER YOUR BIKE WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB". I can handle the breath test but he wanted to write me up for SOMETHING! Aside from the dodgy tail light the bike was in perfect order so he had to let me go. Mind you he followed me right up to my door, the bastid.

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, there are cops  and then there are cops 

Back in the 1980's, I did the annual pilgrimage to Bathurst for the Easter Motorcycle TT. It was a fantastic event, but there was a heavy police presence, and a large group of bikers so close to a large group of cops is not a healthy mix, so there were some pretty violent riots up on Mt Panorama in 1981, 83 and 85.

My mate Pete (who'd been arrested with his brother Dave in 1981, but their cases were subsequently thrown out) and I rode to Bathurst (my first trip) in 1983. On the Friday night we went to a pub for dinner. Knowing that the cops would be everywhere, we washed down our food with really low alcohol beer. (Swan Light, .9% alcohol, from memory)

Anyway, we were there for a few hours, and we were buying this "beer" by the jug and going thru it pretty quickly. When we left, we saw a cop car across the street but didn't pay them much attention. We started our bikes, (both CB750's that year) and rode about 100 yards before they pulled us over and breathalyzed us. We both "blew in the bag", and the cops were dumbfounded that we were both well below the legal limit!

That seemed strange to Pete and I, there were other bikers leaving at the same time as us (the pub was closing) but these cops seemed to have targetted us in particular, and we later came to the conclusion that the cops had an undercover "Nark" (Aussie slang for "Informer") in the pub that saw us drinking all this "Beer" and assumed that we'd both be well over the legal blood alcohol limit. I thought the whole thing was a little under-handed that they let us get on our bikes, start them and ride off before they stopped us. If they were worried about our well being, they would have had plenty of opportunity to stop us before we even got our keys out, if they wanted to. 

On the other hand, I've been "let off" more than I've been booked over the years, even when I got caught doing "Speeds in excess of 180 KPH (112 MPH) in a 60 KPH (35 MPH) zone on a learners permit" on my first CB750 when I was 18. Once the cop found out that I was a soldier (he was a Vietnam veteran, which obviously helped) he reduced it to 130 KPH, which only resulted in an 80 dollar fine. (which was still equivalent to a weeks pay then, but by reducing it as he did, I didn't have to go to court and get banned from riding) He didn't have to, he could have thrown the book at me, but he was a decent bloke. Cheers, Terry.