• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Group ride gone wrong hwy 101N (bikes pulled over)

Status
Not open for further replies.
We drove from San Rafael to Infineon yesterday about 9.45am and counted 6 CHP 4 cars 2 bikes from the 101/37 junction to Inineon. They ALL had people pulled over, mixture of cars and bikes

Must have been a good day for the State "coffers":ride
 
Any chance someone could "googlemap" and show exactly where this is with a screen shot?

stoltzf4 said:
I don't doubt it. They always seem to get people coming down that hill....I commute that stretch everyday and know better.
Click to expand...
 
Rel said:
If you dont know what a "speed trap" is, then why call it a speed trap?

QUOTE]

Because what would you call a trap that caught rabbits? rabbit trap
What would you call a trap that caught bears? bear trap
What would you call a trap that caught mice? mouse trap
(group together probably animal trapping)

What IS a trap? "any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares."

so, a LEO camped in a KNOWN speeding spot would be called a?!

Why so much anger with the use of the term "speed trap" to describe exactly what it is?
Click to expand...
 
A bunch of cops in marked cars that any idiot can spot at least a half-mile away seems like a stretch of the word "trap". :rolleyes

Here's some advice that goes back at least 40 years: Never speed within 20 miles of a racing event. I actually learned that lesson the easy way--by seeing other people get tickets around Riverside Raceway back in the 1960s. As long as there has been racing, people going to and coming from race tracks have thought they're Bruce McLaren / Mario Andretti / Kenny Roberts / Mat Mladin. And they're easy pickings for the LEOs.
 
Well, if speeding is "riding like an asshat" then I am guilty every time I get on a moto on any roadway in the Bay Area.

Sheesh, get on freeking 680 from Cordelia to San Jose and you will see an average speed of 80+. Hwy 880? HWY 80? Sheeeeeit. NOBODY is going the speed limit. And, when everyone sees a CHP pulling over someone, they then proceed to notch it up 5-10mph, as they think the cop is gone now. This is indisputable to anyone who drives or rides around here.

If you actually were dumb enough to ride your motorcycle on Bay Area freeways at 10-20 below the flow of traffic, then you aren't going to last long. Good luck with that! :laughing

Just making the point that speeding is not always riding like an "asshat" but sometimes necessary for survival.



In any case, whatever the hell you are doing: You'd better have your papers in order and your bike legal. If you don't, you deserve the flat bed truck and fuck you very much. If we barfers want to see serious action on the problem of stolen bikes ( a huge problem for all of us) then we'd better expect to get pulled over and our papers/equipment checked. If in fact this is actually what the CHP is trying to do then good on them.
 
/dev/null said:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...d=zXuPOgk5EvfR7oh3oAk6kQ&cbp=12,31.27,,0,4.63

They can hit you from the overpass off in the distance as you crest the hill.
Click to expand...

I second this....

...this area is saturated with CHP....

Brown81 said:
In any case, whatever the hell you are doing: You'd better have your papers in order and your bike legal. If you don't, you deserve the flat bed truck and fuck you very much. If we barfers want to see serious action on the problem of stolen bikes ( a huge problem for all of us) then we'd better expect to get pulled over and our papers/equipment checked. If in fact this is actually what the CHP is trying to do then good on them.
Click to expand...

Very true...
 
Ducker said:
so, a LEO camped in a KNOWN speeding spot would be called a?!

Why so much anger with the use of the term "speed trap" to describe exactly what it is?
Click to expand...


No anger... just trying to educate the masses.

Speed traps are normally used with timing devices, Ie: stop watches.

Everyone knows that CHP hammers 17, and 9 to name a few. Does that mean all of 17 and 9 are speed traps? No.

He's an idea... want to ride like your on the race track, then GO TO THE TRACK. Stop endangering everyone on the road.
 
Ducker said:
Because what would you call a trap that caught rabbits? rabbit trap
What would you call a trap that caught bears? bear trap
What would you call a trap that caught mice? mouse trap
(group together probably animal trapping)

What IS a trap? "any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares."

so, a LEO camped in a KNOWN speeding spot would be called a?!
Click to expand...

Officer on Duty? :confused
 
mcarb said:
I don't get it. I ride pretty quick on the roads. But I tend to do it in places that aren't full of people, cars, and houses. My bike has a few mods, yet I never seem to attract the unwanted attention. Why is it so hard for people to figure out there is a time and a place to be an asshat. My time and place was all over the rods between half moon bay and pescadero today. I saw a lot of cops, I rode like a nut, and I had a great time.

Common sense will get you a long way in our world.
Click to expand...

The "don't attract attention" approach is a personal favorite.

I've tried the "Jedi mind tricks" approach, repeating to the LEO in my helmet "this is not the motorcycle you're looking for," and it doesn't work.
 
Ducker said:
Because what would you call a trap that caught rabbits? rabbit trap
What would you call a trap that caught bears? bear trap
What would you call a trap that caught mice? mouse trap
(group together probably animal trapping)

What IS a trap? "any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares."

so, a LEO camped in a KNOWN speeding spot would be called a?!

Why so much anger with the use of the term "speed trap" to describe exactly what it is?
Click to expand...

You can't catch a speed. I do like squid net though. I was thinking that the spot where the LEO hide out should be a 'duc blind.'
 
I had a cop cut over 5 lanes when I was getting onto 101 north from 680.

I thought he was going to pull me over for a modified exhaust and fender eliminator. The stock rear fender is going on this week. I'm too lazy to switch out the full exhaust. :teeth

Luckily, he was just running my plates. Cops are definitely stepping up their enforcement.
 
Last edited:
Rel said:
He's an idea... want to ride like your on the race track, then GO TO THE TRACK. Stop endangering everyone on the road.
Click to expand...

Problem is, you can get a speeding ticket for just going with the flow of traffic or slightly faster.

Don't know what the "take it to the track" has to do with this thread? Were these dudes racing or just speeding?
 
:p

Whever I see a cop, the Star Wars quote from Han Solo always pops in my head...

― Han to Chewbacca about their stolen Lambda-class shuttle Tydirium[src]

"Keep your distance... but don't look like you're keeping your distance. I don't know, fly casual."
Click to expand...
 
Rel said:
Speed traps are normally used with timing devices, Ie: stop watches.
Click to expand...

That clarifies for me, actually and now I understand that nuances of your point. Wikipedia used planes timing vehicles between two points as a speed trap and that's not what they were doing, apparently.
 
calreef18 said:
I got pulled over yesterday for rear reflector/exhaust, one thing the officer said to me that surprised me when he looked at my license was "look an m1 endorsement, I don't see these too often". I am guessing many people are on permits/don't have insurance riding around that shouldn't be.
Click to expand...

True dat. When I took my MSF course, half the people in the room had been riding for years and had finally decided to "go legit."
 
afm199 said:
And honey, on the back of the bike wearing shorts and flip flops, if HE REALLY LOVED YOU, you would be wearing the jacket gloves and riding pants.
Click to expand...

Haha.

I took this girl to Six Flags in Vallejo, and she refused to wear any gear. She wore these shorts and flip flops. I put on my mesh gear, gloves, boots, helmet, threw my beloved cortech tri tankbag on and we both got on the stripped R6. I actually live at the "speed trap" in question, so I saw all those bikes pulled over on the side of the freeway on flatbeds as we started our way up to Vallejo (and past infineon).

Hell, I even saw this CHP Officer Rodriguez in his CHP pickup truck hassling/bsing some sprotbile bubbas at the gas station down the road. He's the mofo who gave me fix its for 4 different things in Santa Rosa when I was dumb enough to go take a ride on a weekend through squidville (Santa Rosa 101S) when coming back from Skaggs. He has a hard-on for bikes and damn does he ever write the sloppiest tickets. Hell, he wrote "Somoona county" on mine, amongst other dyslexic chicken scratch. My Oakland PD Officer friend and fellow combat vet (same platoon) who signed off on the fix-it ticket didn't even bother trying to decipher any of his bullshit.

That teaches me for taking a leisure ride on a weekend, something I usually do on the weekdays when no one's around.

Anyway, so I saw that funny fat bastard when I was getting gas, and continued on up 37 where I saw cop after cop, and moto after moto. I continued on to Six Flags with the crazy bitch on back who bought me a season pass. We spent the whole sweaty hot day there, and then I fu**ed her in a bathroom at the Marriott hotel across the street.

You're right, I didn't really love her.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top