Yamaha TRX850 Enthusiasts Forum

Got a ride out with the boys in blue on Sunday - wonder what they'll make of the TRX?

Depends if they catch you!

You'd better hope they don't have a DB meter with them mate

I registered with Suffolk police to get on a bikesafe course 2 years ago after hearing good reports, still waiting.....

Wouldn`t trust a copper as far as I could kick one these days, and I have a great deal of involvement with them at my work.
The golden days of getting warnings and clipped ears are long gone sadly.

I did one a few years ago on the TRX, didnt stop me crashing last year though.
Dave

Ask for your money back then Dave!

Two mates of mine have done the Bikesafe with the local rozzers and say its a really good course, well worth it.

It is a good course, i should have said that, was well worth doing. And enjoyable too.
Regarding the crash. I was going too fast of course, silly me!

It's good to see you tar everyone with the same brush mince!! Got ripped off by a Plummer once, does that mean every Plummer is a prick??

I speak as I find, and I likely have a great deal more involvement with the police than most (because of my job), it`s rare to find a good one with a balanced attitude these days believe me. The community copper that visits my hospital is one of the laziest barstewards I`ve ever met, hides in our canteen and lies about where he is and what he`s doing when they call him on the radio.
They often arrive at my club racing events to tour the car park checking bikes for tax and insurance etc, when a few miles away in Edinburgh there are dope fuelled muppets driving speeding cars about with dustbin exhausts hanging out from under them!
I`ve spent most of my biking years evading them and their biker unfriendly ways, I`m not going to start liking them anytime soon.

Get on your bike and come for a ride with me, I'll show you a cop who absolutely 100% does not fit into your idea of a law enforcement officer. It really does piss me off when everyone takes the same view. Yeah I agree alot of folk have had a bad Experiance when it comes to the police. Most hard working folk only come into contact with the law for traffic related, I speak from Experianced when I say the majority of people who use the force are not the ones who contribute to it. Do me a favour and broaden your mind mate. Just because a dude chooses a job that is secure because he may have kids to feed and a fuk'n great mortgage to pay, it doesn't automatically turn him into a tosser!!!

Yer I agree with the kids to feed and mortgage to pay. I would watch the local D's come in and supply the bands with the contraband they needed while on tour thro our town.. We all have to make a living somehow and someone has to arrest them further down the track

meensy wrote:Get on your bike and come for a ride with me, I'll show you a cop who absolutely 100% does not fit into your idea of a law enforcement officer. It really does piss me off when everyone takes the same view. Yeah I agree alot of folk have had a bad Experiance when it comes to the police. Most hard working folk only come into contact with the law for traffic related, I speak from Experianced when I say the majority of people who use the force are not the ones who contribute to it. Do me a favour and broaden your mind mate. Just because a dude chooses a job that is secure because he may have kids to feed and a fuk'n great mortgage to pay, it doesn't automatically turn him into a tosser!!!

Rug rats and mortgages are choices, no-one is forced to make them, unlike bikers being forced to conform to ridiculous and draconian laws that limit their biking lifestyle. You are aware of the European type approval laws that are likely to come into power?
I took part in the motorway demo`s because I`m no shrinking, nimby violet who sits in a pub with his mates whingeing about new legislation killing the biker lifestyle and not doing FA about it. Even peaceful biker protests were targeted by the Stasi:

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/ ... rget-demo/

There`s a concerted effort now to see that this biking generation WE belong to is not followed by a new one too, the new rules for the CBT that are soon to be applied, for interest:

http://www.motorcycle.co.uk/Articles/Tr ... ctive.html

Sorry, we`ll never see eye to eye on this subject meensy, my biker lifestyle is under attack and I`ll not be soft soaped about it by anyone.
That said, occasionally I am impressed by the boys in black, an example:

I work at a psychiatric hospital with a 24hr assessment and admitions service, I work very closely with both clinical staff, police and the person presenting at times.
One night a young lassie who had self harmed and was covered in blood, frightened and confused was brought in to be assessed by two police officers.
These `lads` (very young themselves) who were obviously shocked and feeling somewhat `out of depth` in the situation were VERY understanding and even though I was asked to sit with the lass before her assessment (common role for us), one of the lads in particular was trying to help the lass understand why she had been detained for her own safety.
His tone of voice and his calm manner of delivery helped her come to terms with the fact that anyone wandering down a road in a very public place leaving a trail of blood behind her was going to be picked up by the police whether they liked it or not.
Most self harmers do not want anyone to fuss over them, they don`t want any assisstance either, they do what they do to COPE with a mind that is creating feelings of self loathing within them, they feel that they deserve to cut themselves.
Most cut superficially but every now and then they make a grave mistake and arterial bleeding or serious venial bleeding can occur, this particular lass had neither, but her cuts had been bleeding for some time.
I`m a trained first aider so can be involved with `patch up` jobs on folk waiting to be assessed, I had already checked this lass and her arm, and although still bleeding it did not require stitching just loose dressings.
That one young copper that night impressed me, I told him so too after the lass was taken in for her assessment. Sadly MOST police involvement at my place of work is the polar opposite of that which I witnessed that night. As is the `type` of police involvement most bikers receive at the side of the road.
The service the UK police provide has a very long way to go to make me fall in love with it.

I agree that theres good and bad in the force too ...These D's looked after everyone really well, about the only thing they didn't do was take EPTPOS

No need to appolagies to me mincehead your right we prob will never see eye to eye, opinions are there and that's what makes us human, one of the things at least.

I have met, spoke and argued with many people who sound just like you my friend...spouting on about thier human rights and being violated and the fact we live in a nazi state. Your not a one off case mince believe me...I don't see it as my role in life to convert the public from thier antiquated views because let's face it we all know that won't happen and why should it.

Unfortunately we can't strike for any reason but maybe if we did or you woke up and we all lived in an anarchic state maybe you would appreciate the stasis? Look what happened when the police lost control in London, hard working decent people lost thier lives and business's.

Freedom to self rule!! What a great idea....

Your example of police service is fine but let me assure you it's not a one off. I have seen shit that would make you shit your leather pants and I don't ask for any praise. We don't get medals or parades and that's fine, but I still have to head home and do all the things that people find normal.

Horses for courses mate, and I agree not all cops are decent, open your mind dude and think before you treat us all the same that stinks of discrimination in my book.

The offer of a ride out still stands, and believe me the droconian rules don't stand in my way