Has anyone ever gotten a speeding ticket riding a bike?
02-03-20, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by DrIsotope
My grandfather got pulled over once for doing +65mph in a 50 zone. This was in the late '80s, when he would have been in his 70s. The cop gave him a very protocoled warning, but just shook his head and said something to the effect of "you've been doing it this long, you must know what you're doing."
my top speed is 49 before spinning out, it was a 50 zone. someday i'll get there.
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02-03-20, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by spelger
65! WOW! who can do 65? I am not challenging, just amazed...that is just crazy fast.
my top speed is 49 before spinning out, it was a 50 zone. someday i'll get there.
my top speed is 49 before spinning out, it was a 50 zone. someday i'll get there.
02-03-20, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil_gretz
Does failure to obey a traffic signal count? Apparently it did to Sgt Nugent of the Loudoun County Sheriff's motor patrol. He ticketed me for leaving about 1 second early on a red-to-green change. Hi, Sgt Nugent!
02-03-20, 06:01 PM
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I have not but witnessed a person getting one. We have a city ordinance on our MUP in a few spots that its 10mph max because the high population areas around parks. Rarely enforced but last fathers day it was super busy of course and I saw a guy get a ticket for doing at lease 25-30 though one of the areas. He deserved it could have been really bad too. During he week is very quit and nobody cares on the weekend its watched.
But its only a city ordinance so not speeding ticket per say like a car.
I can't be the only person when they see the big rolling trailers that show your speed try the darndest to beat the speed limit and get a pic!?! Then I would be proud to get one, short of that I don't want to give away any of my hard earned money.
But its only a city ordinance so not speeding ticket per say like a car.
I can't be the only person when they see the big rolling trailers that show your speed try the darndest to beat the speed limit and get a pic!?! Then I would be proud to get one, short of that I don't want to give away any of my hard earned money.
02-03-20, 07:46 PM
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We did not get one in 2013 on a flat road in flat farmland north of Indy when the radar detector display showed us at 40 on our tandem. Hmmmmm. Probably more like 14 or 15. We have been in the low 40's on downhills on that bike.
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I was riding past a school once (no computer/speedometer) and heard someone yell out "Eighteen!" - it was a motorcycle cop hiding behind a wall. Didn't get a ticket, but he certainly could have nailed me.
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02-04-20, 03:30 PM
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I was a member of the Arlington County bike club in VA '79-'81. Rides started just outside Arlington National Cemetery close to the Lee mansion at the top of a hill. It was easy to exceed the speed limit, and the cops often gave chase in the Studebaker Larks. They never caught anyone on any of the rides I was part of.
02-04-20, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by skidder
Yes, doing 45mph in a 25mph residential zone about 20 years ago. It was downhill, with a good view of the traffic, and about 200 yards of run-out at the bottom, so no safety issues with other vehicles. While I had chugged up the hill (original intent was just to get up the hill) a cop had pulled up on a short, undeveloped cul-de-sac at the bottom. I came screaming by him and he caught me and wrote me a speeding ticket. I went to court on and got it dismissed since the cop did not have a speed monitoring device focused on me to check my speed (he just guessed). I still have a photocopy of the ticket. 
FWIW: This is one of the very few times I've gone fast on a downhill since I had some ideal conditions - I could see the route and the run-out area ahead of me, the pavement had just been resurfaced (nice and smooth, no potholes) and it was in an area that was just being developed with custom single-family homes with lots of empty lots (making for the great view of the route).
FWIW: This is one of the very few times I've gone fast on a downhill since I had some ideal conditions - I could see the route and the run-out area ahead of me, the pavement had just been resurfaced (nice and smooth, no potholes) and it was in an area that was just being developed with custom single-family homes with lots of empty lots (making for the great view of the route).
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02-05-20, 06:13 PM
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Back in the '70s, the small town where I grew up had a well-known speed trap (after a short steep downhill of a ~30-foot drop, the road leveled off but was a 25mph zone) The cops would sit about a quarter-mile after the downhill to catch 'speeders'. Since they were sitting there daily, and I had to pass by there on my way to the city swimming pool, I tried my best -- on my trust Sears 3-speed - to catch the cop's attention. Every day I'd pedal as fast as I could and yell out 'How fast today?', and the cop would laugh and call out my speed as I rode by. I think my fastest was 29mph. Ahh, life in Smalltown America...
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02-06-20, 02:42 AM
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02-06-20, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Moishe
In the history of the universe, has it ever happened?
A few years ago, I was riding down a long hillside slope of a rural wooded road. At about 30+ mph, I noticed a car behind me. Well, at that speed, I was taking the entire lane, especially since the speed limit was 30 or 35, so the car was just going to have to follow me for another mile. Then I noticed that the car was a state trooper. By then I was well over 40 mph, and no way was I going to slow down after sweating so much to summit that hill. My only thought then was Oh man, it would be so great if the guy gave me a speeding ticket. I would have been so proud, I’d have had the ticket matted and framed and hung in the most prominent spot in my house. No such luck—the bastard gave me nothing, just a friendly wave as he passed me.
A few years ago, I was riding down a long hillside slope of a rural wooded road. At about 30+ mph, I noticed a car behind me. Well, at that speed, I was taking the entire lane, especially since the speed limit was 30 or 35, so the car was just going to have to follow me for another mile. Then I noticed that the car was a state trooper. By then I was well over 40 mph, and no way was I going to slow down after sweating so much to summit that hill. My only thought then was Oh man, it would be so great if the guy gave me a speeding ticket. I would have been so proud, I’d have had the ticket matted and framed and hung in the most prominent spot in my house. No such luck—the bastard gave me nothing, just a friendly wave as he passed me.
02-07-20, 04:20 PM
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We have a time share in Belleair Beach, right next to Clearwater. The overpass/causeways are speed traps.
I've never been pulled over or ticketed but I've had them while their lights many times.
That almost shouldn't count as they are VERY pronounced downhills. If you really wanted to, I'd imagine you could get up to 70 MPH or even higher. Braking is required if you don't want to hit 50.
I've never been pulled over or ticketed but I've had them while their lights many times.
That almost shouldn't count as they are VERY pronounced downhills. If you really wanted to, I'd imagine you could get up to 70 MPH or even higher. Braking is required if you don't want to hit 50.
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Not speeding, but as a youth in Mt. Prospect, IL I was cited for riding in the middle of Northwest Hwy (with someone on the handlebars) on a stingray. I had to attend a class on a Saturday, where I and other bicycle hooligans got lectured on bike safety.
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Originally Posted by Ogsarg
Not speeding, but as a youth in Mt. Prospect, IL I was cited for riding in the middle of Northwest Hwy (with someone on the handlebars) on a stingray. I had to attend a class on a Saturday, where I and other bicycle hooligans got lectured on bike safety.
02-09-20, 05:44 PM
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Back in the day on a tour through upstate NY, I was barreling down a hill on my fully-loaded touring bike coming into a "hamlet", with a posted speed limit of 20 mph. The local officer gave me a verbal warning for doing 43 entering his "hamlet", and continued to be gracious and recommended an ice cream shop "to let my brakes cool", as he stated. Later that tour, somewhere in PA, I did manage my top speed of all time, 62 mph down a gloriously steep, straight hill, that ingloriously ended at a T-intersection. So unfair...
02-10-20, 08:44 AM
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one day I was on my way to a big group ride, when I saw a speed trap up ahead with cops with radar guns. I sprinted as fast as I could right towards the cop and he shot me and as I was passing said 32 miles an hour oh, it was a 25 mile an hour Zone. turned around and begged him to give me a ticket but he wouldn't do it. If he had I would have framed it.
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02-10-20, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by San Rensho
one day I was on my way to a big group ride, when I saw a speed trap up ahead with cops with radar guns. I sprinted as fast as I could right towards the cop and he shot me and as I was passing said 32 miles an hour oh, it was a 25 mile an hour Zone. turned around and begged him to give me a ticket but he wouldn't do it. If he had I would have framed it.
But you get enormous credit for asking.
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Originally Posted by Theypeedonmyrug
I don't think it should count if you have to beg for the ticket. The cop should give it to you out of the badness of his heart.
*I can't imagine a woman pulling such a lame stunt.
02-10-20, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by westrid_dad
Back in the day on a tour through upstate NY, I was barreling down a hill on my fully-loaded touring bike coming into a "hamlet", with a posted speed limit of 20 mph.
02-10-20, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
I think that anyone requesting, let alone begging that an LEO cite him* for speeding and issue him* a ticket for some sort of bragging rights is asking for a sobriety or drug test.
*I can't imagine a woman pulling such a lame stunt.
*I can't imagine a woman pulling such a lame stunt.
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Originally Posted by San Rensho
How many guys wearing lycra, at 8 oclock in the morning , who can sprint over 30 mph are going to be targets for a sobriety test.
