I'd just like to see what your routine is when you get pulled over on a motorcycle.
Killswitch and side stand would come first, but what after that? Do you just sit there and take off your helmet, get off the bike, suspiciously start digging through your pockets or what?
I'm sure I'll get pulled over eventually on the bike. I certainly have enough times in my car!
for me they pulled me over because my brake light didn't work...(got a citations long story) but I stoped side standed the bike and got off it to appear as if tho I was not running....They really can't tell if you still sitting on the bike if your planning to run or if the bike is even running for that matter....
I didn't put my hands in my pockets or anythingI just parked, got off, leaned up against the guard rail.
While there is relly no rule for it... When I was a cop in the Airforce I liked to see...
Bike shut off
Side stand down
helmet off and set on the ground
hands on the bars or tank
Dont reach for anyting until you are asked for it :thumb:
What he said
I always take my helmet off and set it on the ground. Then I wait with my hands on the tank until he requests my information
Turn it off, get off, and get your license and registration ready. At least this is what I do. Why the hell not? For some reason this has worked for me twice when I could easily have been ticketed. The first time was at 2AM, it was about 32 degrees outside, and I had eaten about $10 worth of pot 3 hours prior, I could barely make a right hand turn or complete a stop. He let me go. The second was doing 50-ish in a 35, combined with quadruple multiple lane change. Also let me go.
most of the time I have all my gear off and my licence, reg, and prof of insurance sitting on the seat by the time the cop even comes to the bike.
Engine off, helment on one of my mirrors, hands on the tank :icon_mrgreen: granted, with our small town cops here, thats still enough to get a gun pulled on you... :cookoo:
shut the bike down and stand to the side. Take your helmet and gloves off and keep your hands in sight at all times. That's the only thing really to do.
That is all too complicated I'll just not go and get into any trouble. But if it is just not avoidable and you get one: stay on the bike, helmet off and hands on the tank. Or you could try hands on the head, :icon_lol:that would look totally funny.
Being polite and waiting for him to ask before you get your insurance/registration etc. Be very non threatening. I got out of a ticket for 90 in a 55 with that method. Told me to slow it down and be safe :o
If the lights come on in the mirror, I like to pull over to the nearest vertical surface, such as the side of a building, a retaining wall or failing that, I just "assume the position" against the bike.........it saves everyone a little time and a few steps that way :laugh:
Down 2 crack the throttle wheelie away and don't look back, always have a preplanned set of routes you have ridden many times in advance where you can ditch the pigs. If you are in unfamiliar territory just don't break the law. :thumb:
turn bike off and sit there wait tell he comes up to you .. then ask him why he stoped you ... i always ask " is there something wrong sir. ? " you never admit to what you think you where doing .. he may not have pulled you over for that reason ....
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I did that once....... I got pulled over about 1/2 mile after I blew through a redlight in a 25 at about 80 :o :o Cop stopped me asked if I knew why he pulled me over. I said I could probably think of a few reasons :laugh: :laugh: Turned out he just stopped me cause one of my tail lights was out ( BTW the light is one of the ones where after 9pm both sides go to red until a vehicle pulls up and I never trigger the fuckin sensor on bike so I just blow it)
Get used to it man, 'cause it's going to happen often. Cops don't like bikes for some reason. I just pull over and kill it, put the side stand down and wait. Some cops want you on the bike, some want you off; you can never win.
I would Shut the Bike off throw my hands in the Air and Slowly Back towards the car Then Lye down on the Ground. :laugh: :laugh: If they want to do their Job Might as well Keep them Busy trying to Figure out what the F&#% is Going on. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Let them Call in Back up and Keep 2 busy why not? :laugh: :laugh: If it really makes them Suspictious they Could Keep the K9 unit busy trying to Sniff out Drugs.When Everything is Over Shake the Cops Hand and tell Him that you was Honored to Help in their Training and that they done a Very good Job. :laugh: :laugh:
then ask him if you can play with his gun. when he says no, just say, " i just want to see if the one im carrying is bigger", or when he cuffs you, say " usually my dates buy me dinner first"
Runnings more fun, :thumb:
A lot of the local hot shot's used to bet on who could come flying past the local friday night hangout with the most units in pursuit.
with or without a valid tag for the bike?
next time you get pulled over for speeding you could say " sorry sir i have the runs and i'm just trying to make it home before i cant hold it any more !" most the time they just laugh there ass off :)
edit** oh and by the way . any of you guys that live in texas .. if you get a ticket and you get to dissmiss it wtih DD you cant get on line and take one of them stupid courses you have to take the rider safety course ...... thats what i had to do .... but the guy just gave me the stuff i needed to turn in cuz he was over booked .. i have to go back next week ..... i just want to see what i can learn from them .. i was going to take the adv. course ..
I've been pulled over 5 times here in California. Once on the Ducati, the rest on the GS. I have always pulled over immediately when I noticed the lights/siren/him yelling at me thru the PA. Once, I blew past a cop that was just taking off from a light in an open lane at 15 over the limit, and was hard on the gas until he caught up to me and lit me up. Another time, 95 mph indicated on the GS500 on the 405 headed south just north of LAX at dusk. He came up an on-ramp, noticed me blowing by in the carpool lane, got right on my ass and waited a bit till I chopped throttle when I saw his lightbar, then lit me up.
Best was when I was on the Duc, there is a very steep hill 2 blocks from my house, and I always pull a wheelie coming home from work or a friend's place to celebrate another beautiful day in San Diego. Cop was rolling down this hill as I came off the light, and wheelied past him. He flipped around, and basically followed me home.
Warnings each time, verbal only because I've never been cocky, snotty, or had any sort of attitude beyond full respect for them and their job. Think about it, they are in customer service, but each of their customers automatically want to make it personal and hate them before they ever even make face to face contact. Wouldn't you be happy to have somebody use a bit of logic in that situation, when dealing with you? I sure would, so I've been respectful and appear willing to learn/change, and they've not disappointed yet.
indeed. many thanks. well written. btw 5 tix? geez man, if youre going to get wild, dont do it where the cops are ;) :laugh:
re-read. he only got warnings. i've been given 4 tix and been pulled over 13 times, but never on a bike. the tickets i beat in court because the cops never show. the other 9 were always because they could tell i wasn't an a$$.
Well if i were pulled on my bike again, pulled once for going 5 over the speed limit and warned, here is what I do:
1: kill bike
2: put bike on sidestand
3: remove helmate and place on ground
4: return hands to handlebars and wait for instruction.
I never get off or put of my vehicle without being asked.
Just for sake of curiosity...
why are you required to put your helmet on the ground when pulled over on your bike?
and not, say, on the tank?
I would quite mind putting my helmet, be it new or old or whatever, on the ground. :icon_confused:
sorry for this dumb question.
Quote from: simon79 on June 20, 2007, 11:29:24 AM
Just for sake of curiosity...
why are you required to put your helmet on the ground when pulled over on your bike?
and not, say, on the tank?
I would quite mind putting my helmet, be it new or old or whatever, on the ground. :icon_confused:
sorry for this dumb question.
if you put it down beside you the officer that see your hands, if you put it on the tank he can't.
hm,got the point...so, from this perspective, the police officer that makes you pull over, stops his/her vehicle just ahead of you, am I right? ;)
In this case, yes, if you put your helmet on the tank (s)he can't see your hands. This makes sense. :thumb:
But...
wouldn't it be better if you take your helmet off, put it on the tank, and immediately after this you put your hands on the grips, waiting for him/her to come and talk to you? Seems just a bit more logical/practical to me. You don't risk to litter your precious helmet, and the officer still can see your hands. :dunno_white:
yes, I'm logorrhoic and stubborn. :laugh: :laugh:
But I live in a place where when pulled over (no matter what's your vehicle), you're not required to do anything else than switch the engine off. Though, here you'll never see a patrolling officer alone (this happens in the US instead, right?), always two or more...officers' safety is still guaranteed by the fact that while one comes to you and asks you for license, documents etc., the other one is pointing a machine gun at you, so...better keep a nice attitude :o
Lamps! :thumb:
I know with me the helmat would end up on the ground, i'm clumbsy, so i just put it there in the first place. Better to set it down flat on the gound then to let it fall and scuff the finish.
^^^
good point mate!!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
:cheers:
Actually since I carry I don't do shaZam! except kill the bike put it on the sidestand and leave my hands on the bars while I wait for the officer to approach, unless he tells me to do something else my hands stay on the bars till I can inform of my permit and where the weapon is located. Those are the very first things that should come out of your mouth BTW if you carry.
Actually in the fucktarded state of georgia the statute is very clear that if you legally carry you have no respnsibility to inform the officer :dunno_white: :dunno_white: I always let em know though :thumb: Just polite
Oklahoma says that you must disclose to an officer if you come into contact with them in an official capacity.
well carrying changes things but I don't carry yet so I do as I stated. In VA if you have a permit to carry the office will know as soon as he runs your plates. Them knowing that you can carry tends to make them a little more nervous as they approch you so I would probably leave everything as is untill the approch me too.
It's about the same here natedawg....except military is exempt from having to obtain a CCW :thumb:
Quote from: natedawg120 on June 20, 2007, 02:28:25 PM
well carrying changes things but I don't carry yet so I do as I stated. In VA if you have a permit to carry the office will know as soon as he runs your plates. Them knowing that you can carry tends to make them a little more nervous as they approch you so I would probably leave everything as is untill the approch me too.
That's f%&ked up then, our carry permits are not associated with anything to do with license plates. If you are not carrying your CCW does not come up here. There is a delay when they run your license and the officer has to give dispatch verification of their commission number anytime they pull you but it doesn't tell them why. Buddy of mine had a Top Secret clearence when he worked as a contractor installing security systems on Military posts, and it used to do the same thing whenever his license was ran, your ID is just flagged because they want to know who is looking at you. It's a one way street the cops don't know why your flagged just that you are.
I can second that..... I've got a Top Secret/SCI and it always takes like 25 minutes for em to check my shaZam! :icon_rolleyes:
Here in texas, you assume that everyone is armed until you find out otherwise :icon_mrgreen: heh.