New habit, hope not.

[loosegrit]

Hope this is not a new habit in my scooter life.

In 2 years and 24,000 mile of full time scooter life
I have been pulled over 1 time for blowing a Stop
Sign on a right hand turn. 100% my fault but the
Officer let me off with a verbal warning.



On my improved scooter I have been pulled over
2 times in the last 2 weeks. Both started out
the same way. We are concerned about your safefy
and then added a small excuse.

Both time the next question is how fast does the
scooter go. Answer 25-30 and was doing same.

Next thing they begin to ask and/or inspect the
scooter. Then ended the conversion with, you can go
and be careful out there.

Just making friends all over.

[Tweak09]

I get pulled over on a regular around here. I follow all traffic laws etc too. I'm pretty heavy on the throttle though coming off of stop signs or lights though. Think my zuma being a 2t and most people around here ride 4t cops just assume that since my scoot gets up to speed fairly quick that I'm doing something wrong. I'm always 100% honest with em and they let me go.

[90GTVert]

The cops in a local town I ride in a lot are used to me by now and seem to pay me no mind these days. State troopers and sheriffs are what always pull me over to ask what it is (on T2 with no fairings) or for some other weird issue. I got pulled over one night for having blue or purple tail lights and given a verbal warning when on the Venus. It's got red LED tail lights and a white tag light (that shines onto nothing). I stared at it for a while and still think he pulled me over just because. I got one warning for speeding doing 40ish in a 25 because there was a tight turn I wanted to try out in a town. :riding:

[tango]

In the 5 years that I've been riding I've only been pulled over twice. Police here have "routine spot checks" all the time. This is where a group of them will be at a particular spot under the guise of checking documents and vehicles. Whatever. They're there to extort who they can and harass who won't yield to their extortion. The first time was fine, all was well. The second time I was admittedly in the wrong (insurance had expired the day before) but this guy gave me the entire epistle about how tough things were for cops, and how they got thirsty standing there all day, and how people can be evil when they make "contributions" to cops they then go and report the cops...all kindsa jazz. <smdh>. I hate them, one and all.

[speedy1125]

I run 45+ on midnight all the time but everyone speeds here. i will be the one to get the ticket though

[90GTVert]

It just takes the right (wrong) cop. I've had a cop pass me when I was on the shoulder doing almost 60 in a 50. Then I've had the ones that want to investigate things so you can't help but wonder what if the cops that have pulled you over for nothing saw you doing double the scooter speed limit? That's why I've started cruising at 40 a lot more. Still 10MPH over, but I don't think they'll do a whole lot about it.

The one thing I've still never figured out is what do they do for loud exhausts on scooters when you live in a state with no inspection or registration for a 49cc? I had a friend get pulled over after we put a car's glasspack on his 50cc 4T and the cop told him he better not catch him with it that loud again. He swapped to a better exhaust right after that. I've had some loud ass pipes on my 2Ts and never had a problem yet. You can't get an inspection ticket I wouldn't think. Noise violation and fine? :dunno:

[slawenm]

I got stopped for "running a redlight" in my town by two cops, I argued my case saying I had a taxi up my ass and my bike could of safely stopped at the speed I was going however I'd of been rear ended and I made a split second decision to run the light which was amber not red.. needless to say they was rubbing their heads and let me off, simply because they knew I had some brains and wits about me.

my whole point is I had no exhaust on my bike at the time it sounded like a tank popping and misfiring the police asked where it was and I pretended like it had just come off and I was as shocked as they we're.

been pulled a few times and the reason given is always "just checking its not stolen or anything"

I guess they dislike young lads riding around on bikes and scooters where I live lots of crime and accidents on them here.

[aeroxbud]

as soon as your scooter does not look standard cops just love it as a reason to pull you. i am suprised i have not been pulled though as in the uk most sports scooters are ridden on an "L" plate as you have to pass a test mine does not have any but in five years of scooter riding never been pulled

[stepthrutuner]

There are so few scooters down here in Hogsweat that I usually wind up explaining the 49cc autoscooter code to them. Lucky I've always gotten off with verbal warnings for speeding or an improper turn.

[fng]

I got stopped on a roadblock situation once on my ghetto-sled...cop says "the hell are you riding?" Then he asks for I.D., sees that I have a valid liscence in the state of North Carolina... Now he is suspicuous...in NC, if you have a helmet on and your engine is 50cc...it is seen as a bicycle....so when people get caught with a DUI, they get a scooter to get around because there liscense got suspended...(don't even need a liscence to ride)...the cop just wanted to make sure I wasn't drunk.