Wasn't really doing anything crazy, just going down the motorway on my way home in the dark. Overtook a car, and a few seconds later saw blue flashing lights, slowed down and moved to the slow lane, but it took me a whole minute to stop and figure out what was going on, pull in and stop on the hard shoulder
Took my gloves, helmet and earplugs out and the policeman asked me to get in the back of his car (for safety I assume). Had a chat with him and was humble and polite. He told me he'd measured me doing between 84 and 88mph, and asked if my helmet cam recorded my speedo (it doesn't, I checked). He then check my registration plate and my licence (it's all clean). He then gave me a bit of a telling off and told me to be careful out to stick to 70-75mph on the motorway and to look out for cars etc. I was polite, humble, and as well spoken as possible throughout.
He sent me on my way and apart from having to give it a little handful to get up to speed as I pulled back on to the motorway I took it easy as I went home.
Turned out that I'd accidentally recorded the entire journey and conversation with him on my camera, though it's probably not wise to upload it. Looking back I wasn't riding like an idiot, and was signalling, moving in etc, I was just going a little bit too fast, but nothing outrageous. It's probably lucky that you can't see my speedo, as it over reads by quite a large percentage.
Lesson learned, I'll slow down a little, I think I was already being pretty careful :thumbup:
Took my gloves, helmet and earplugs out and the policeman asked me to get in the back of his car (for safety I assume). Had a chat with him and was humble and polite. He told me he'd measured me doing between 84 and 88mph, and asked if my helmet cam recorded my speedo (it doesn't, I checked). He then check my registration plate and my licence (it's all clean). He then gave me a bit of a telling off and told me to be careful out to stick to 70-75mph on the motorway and to look out for cars etc. I was polite, humble, and as well spoken as possible throughout.
He sent me on my way and apart from having to give it a little handful to get up to speed as I pulled back on to the motorway I took it easy as I went home.
Turned out that I'd accidentally recorded the entire journey and conversation with him on my camera, though it's probably not wise to upload it. Looking back I wasn't riding like an idiot, and was signalling, moving in etc, I was just going a little bit too fast, but nothing outrageous. It's probably lucky that you can't see my speedo, as it over reads by quite a large percentage.
Lesson learned, I'll slow down a little, I think I was already being pretty careful :thumbup: