Have you ever got caught speeding?

Zascar

Can't say I've ever seen a bike pulled in but I'm guessing it happens sometimes? I nearly got caught by a van on the blessington road a while back but thankfully someone flashed to warn us. Just wondering how often it actually happens?

Tzardine

Yup about 10 years back at the strawberry beds in Dublin. Cop on a bike was hiding behind a pillar in ........ the Garda boat club lol.

Was doing 80 in a 60. Genuinely thought it was 80. Cop was sound, but still gave me a ticket.

Eidt - A fiend of mine got done on his moped around the same time. He was doing 33mph in a 30 zone lol. Only guy ever to get a ticket on a moped I reckon.

dunner515

Can't say I'v ever been caught speeding, sure I hardly ever see speedtraps anymore

Plopli

Yes, got caught on the M9 few month back.
Lovely dry and clear Sunday evening, no traffic.

I was definitely speeding.
Garda that stopped me was very professional.
Got points and fine.

blackbird99

they've only caught me twice,
once just before the penalty points came in doing 85 mph coming into loughrea at arround midnight,
second was going into carlow from kilkenny, overtook a few cars and bus fairly lively, on e of the cars was unmarked.
o and a summons to court in Scotland for speeding, pulled in by merc camera car. caught me at 85 again under heavy breaking,
speed was a lot higher.
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Frigga_92

Thankfully, no.

Been on bikes about 10 years now and husband has been on bikes about 25 years and neither of us have ever gotten points or a fine. Himself has been stopped a few times by the local cops but it has always been the "ah sure you're grand" attitude. I've been stopped once, got a lecture about what I was wearing :rolleyes: but nothing serious.

BrokenArrows

Strituck wrote: »

doing 33mph in a 30QUOTE]

Was it a camera or did he get pulled over?

If he got pulled over the cop must have been having a ****ty day.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Nope, I'm too fast for 'em

bluefinger

got two points on the stillorgan dual carriageway last July. silly boy really.

Hotblack Desiato

Got done by a fixed camera between Blanchardstown and Finglas on the M50 on the way to Joey Dunlop's funeral. 88MPH in a 70. Speedo was showing about 95. No points then!

Of course everyone else on the road knew about that camera and braked at the right spot, but I never used the northern half of the M50 at that time, so like a dope I got done.

A few years later I was at a bike rally down in the far end of Co. Waterford, was in no rush and super careful with speed limits all weekend. On the way home, most of the group stopped for a smoke (I don't) so I carried on, on my own on the way out of Waterford city just as the dual carriageway started I thought the speed limit had gone up to 50MPH, bike cop was perfectly hidden in an entrance on a gentle left hand curve, got me at 44MPH and the limit was still 30. A 'trap' if ever there was one. That was the only points I ever had.

When I lived out that way in the late 90s/early 00s I got pulled over on the N11 a couple of times for a telling off. A few years later, the speed limit went up where I'd been pulled :rolleyes:

But - that's it. It's not like I never speed any more, but I do it to a lesser amount and less often and am careful on roads I don't know. On roads I do know, it's easy enough to figure out where a van can be parked and where a cop can hide with a laser (and on a city commute you can't gain much anyway.)

And on family duties on the weekend in the cage, I never speed. There's no point, if I'm putting my licence at risk it might as well be fun, and driving a cage at any speed is never fun.

AgileMyth

Strituck wrote: »

Eidt - A fiend of mine got done on his moped around the same time. He was doing 33mph in a 30 zone lol. Only guy ever to get a ticket on a moped I reckon.

Happened my brother too. He'll be glad to hear hes not the only one!

sawdoubters

I have false plates in my car ,I don't know who gets the ticket
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Cienciano

Elaine Thousands Poinsettia wrote: »

Nope, I'm too fast for 'em

PlayerA

Got a ticket two weeks after having my first 600 cc bike, Naas road toward town, I was going 90+Km/h when limited 60 km/h. 80 euros and 2 points.. The police man was not a bad man at all but still gave me the ticket for speeding (I didn't have neither roadtax nore L plates)

There actually is a cop very often on that road.

Alkers

bluefinger wrote: »

got two points on the stillorgan dual carriageway last July. silly boy really.

Same as but two years ago. Was doing 85km or so on a sunny Sunday morning with hardly any traffic. Cop stepped out onto the road and I was very tempted to just drop a gear

Cienciano

PlayerA wrote: »

Got a ticket two weeks after having my first 600 cc bike, Naas road toward town, I was going 90+Km/h when limited 60 km/h. 80 euros and 2 points.. The police man was not a bad man at all but still gave me the ticket for speeding (I didn't have neither roadtax nore L plates)

There actually is a cop very often on that road.

That road used to be a disaster, the speed limit changed about 20 times between dublin and naas because of roadworks which they were doing for years. Thank fúck for the ryder cup, they finally had to get their arse in gear and finish the damn thing

KTRIC

Driving bikes 15 years now, never stick to the speed limits and I've never gotten a ticket or been pulled !!!

GOD, I LOVE IRELAND !!

Wonda-Boy

Never got done thankfully, I only tend to move on when its fairly open and would not be tearing around towns and villages anyway. Funny I go a hell of alot quicker on the bike then the cage and I have been done twice in the car.

Tzardine

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Strituck wrote: »

doing 33mph in a 30QUOTE]

Was it a camera or did he get pulled over?

If he got pulled over the cop must have been having a ****ty day.

Yeah he was pulled in, by a Guard on a bike

PlayerA

Originally Posted by Strituck View Post
doing 33mph in a 30QUOTE]

Was it a camera or did he get pulled over?

If he got pulled over the cop must have been having a ****ty day.

http://www.koreus.com/video/motard-arrete-gendarme.html

Pulled over by a french cop having a ****ty day...

inchiuvatu

Got pulled into the centre of the road on the Sean Moore road, on the way back from a spin last summer, was roasting out and the first stretch in ages with no traffic, doing 77kph in a 50kph zone, two Garda were there one playing hard man (rightfully as we were speeding) other one was a bit chattier, talked about bikes for a few minutes and sent us on our way.
Was a bit mortifying starting up my vtwin with load pipes on a bike with a dodgey plate beside the Garda but nothing was said.

blu3r0ri0n

Nope, I'm a law abiding citizen!

Muahahaha

Got done doing 72kph in a 60 by an unmarked car last year. I was in the bus lane too but it was after 7pm so legal to be there, however my speeding down the bus lane meant I undertook a row of cars so they pulled me for that alone. The thing about it all was that I was due to do my full license test the next day and about 20 minutes before I had got caught I was riding around like as safely as I could possibly be, mirror checks every few seconds, lifesavers galore, etc and after two hours of that I decided to give the bike a bit of a rip and got done for it !
Cops were fairly sound and he ignored that I didn't have an L plate bib on, if anything they pulled me to give a lecture on driving safely, he was a motorbike cop himself. 2 points and a fine, not gonna open her up inside the m50 anymore.

Hotblack Desiato

inchiuvatu wrote: »

Was a bit mortifying starting up my vtwin with load pipes on a bike with a dodgey plate beside the Garda but nothing was said.

You wouldn't have heard them anyway :pac:

Muahahaha wrote: »

I undertook a row of cars so they pulled me for that alone.

Dublin Bus drivers better watch out so... after all the whole point of a bus lane is to allow buses to pass other traffic on the left.

Interceptor

Ah sure if you don't get caught an odd time you aren't trying hard enough. I have a clean license at the moment but its only a matter of time...

'cptr

vandriver

I was done 7 times when it was just a 50 quid fine.None since penalty points.

mickysquint

I got done driving a van with a trailer on the M1 south bound a couple of years back, I was doing around 90kph which is over the limit if your pulling a trailer, also got done for over taking which is also a no no with a trailer, so a nice double whammy, 160 euro fine but luckily no points as I was driving on a uk license at the time.

Muahahaha

ninja900 wrote: »

Dublin Bus drivers better watch out so... after all the whole point of a bus lane is to allow buses to pass other traffic on the left.

Yeah for sure but the thing was I undertook them when we were near a junction. The cop made the point that I was in their blind spot and undertaking them just at the time that they were most likely to cross in to my lane so they could turn left at the junction. He was right, I was wrong.

Cuddlesworth

Simona1986 wrote: »

Same as but two years ago. Was doing 85km or so on a sunny Sunday morning with hardly any traffic. Cop stepped out onto the road and I was very tempted to just drop a gear

I might have lived on the end of the N11 a few years back, might have pulled out of my estate and accelerated hard up to a very disproportionate speed to that of the limit, might have seen the bike cop step out from behind the bus stop and might have dropped a gear when he started raising his hand.

But I can say I have never been caught speeding. In either car or bike. If you get caught by one of the vans you were not paying enough attention to the road.

colm_c

Got caught once doing 137kph in a 100 zone on one of the old N roads before it became a Motorway, took the cop car a good 10 minutes to catchup to me, as I was able to overtake a lot quicker than they were.

Almost got caught on the N11, near UCD, but I just caught the glimpse of the Garda bike at the bus shelter so hit the anchors and dropped a gear to bring me back to just under the speed limit, but the guy in the jag to my right who was almost matching my speed didn't and flew past me.

Garda walks out to the middle of the road with the two hands up and stops both of us, then says to me "you're grand, he was going faster than you, off you go", and pulls the jag in, the guy in the jag looked at me in disgust.

Doylers

Never stopped myself. driving the last 5 years, 2 of which on a bike. I'd be like others where I tend to drive much faster on the bike then in the cage.

BlackWizard

58kph along the quays in Dublin city. The limit is 50kph. This was at 8pm at night.

He stepped out in the middle of the road and waved his torch. I swear next time I am not stopping. I just going to ignore it and turn down the next street I see. "Eh sorry I didn't know it was a Garda trying to stop me"

BrokenArrows

between the car and bike over the past 8 years since I got both my licensees ive never been pulled or caught by camera and im not one to stay within the speed limits.

I got pulled for breaking a red light accidently but I just got a lecture.

Honestly in London at the moment ive gone past police doing 40mph in a 30mph zone loads of times and nothing was said.

I personally think its not just about the speed. If your going 40 in first making loads of noise rather than 40 in 3rd id say your more likely to get pulled.

I also quite like the mornings where the m4 out of London is free of traffic, I get a nice 10km stretch and just gun it. No speed cameras!

Skill Magill

HamSambo

One day, near Cashel in Tipperary I was acting the boy.
While attacking a beautiful section of twisty road i met an unmarked garda car coming the opposite direction. It was a long right hander. I was on the pipes and the car was full of blue shirts. I have this image burned into my memory of the guard in the passenger seat with his jaw on the floor pointing with this surprised look on his face :eek:. It was just a fraction of a second and I got just a bare glimpse of him but it was f**kin' hilarious, I'll never forget it.

Was only ever caught speeding once and that was in an articulated truck lol

Wonda-Boy

HamSambo wrote: »

One day, near Cashel in Tipperary I was acting the boy.
While attacking a beautiful section of twisty road i met an unmarked garda car coming the opposite direction. It was a long right hander. I was on the pipes and the car was full of blue shirts. I have this image burned into my memory of the guard in the passenger seat with his jaw on the floor pointing with this surprised look on his face :eek:. It was just a fraction of a second and I got just a bare glimpse of him but it was f**kin' hilarious, I'll never forget it.

Maybe he dropped a donut into his hot coffee and it splashed his privates, hence the mouth open and the shock was in fact PAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN! :P

MonstaMash

Yes I have been caught speeding :mad: say no more

rolliepoley

Never, and i ride for a living.

Cienciano

Closest I came was doing 90mph in a 60mph section and the garda ahead had already someone pulled in ahead and was writing their ticket. Garda did the "slow down" motions with his hands!
Another time I was doing about 140-150kph on a motorway, undertook some car, and another car was doing the same speed keeping up with me. They eventually passed me and gave a flash of the blue lights, it was an unmarked car. Obviously busy or just couldn't be arsed pulling me in.

Soundman

BlackWizard wrote: »

58kph along the quays in Dublin city. The limit is 50kph. This was at 8pm at night.

He stepped out in the middle of the road and waved his torch. I swear next time I am not stopping. I just going to ignore it and turn down the next street I see. "Eh sorry I didn't know it was a Garda trying to stop me"

Strange. 4am on the quays in the 30kmh zone, doing just a shade over the limit at that section, I have been flashed and waved to go faster by the Garda, before they overtook me and disappeared.

chrismon

How long does it take for penalty points to arrive?
I was passing a camera van last week doing 100, driving on the road again yesterday and noticed they changed the limit to 80!
Didn't notice the new limit at the time.

Interceptor

chrismon wrote: »

How long does it take for penalty points to arrive?
I was passing a camera van last week doing 100, driving on the road again yesterday and noticed they changed the limit to 80!
Didn't notice the new limit at the time.

The GoSafe lads are fairly well organised at this stage and it takes them around ten days to get their love letter through your door. Unless of course you have a teeny weeny number plate like some of the bad people.

'cpt

chrismon

Interceptor wrote: »

The GoSafe lads are fairly well organised at this stage and it takes them around ten days to get their love letter through your door. Unless of course you have a teeny weeny number plate like some of the bad people.

'cpt

Cheers.
I must get one of those teeny weeny plates.

BlackWizard

Soundman wrote: »

Strange. 4am on the quays in the 30kmh zone, doing just a shade over the limit at that section, I have been flashed and waved to go faster by the Garda, before they overtook me and disappeared.

At that speed maybe an alcholic drunk zombie inner city howya Dubliner was running after you! :pac:

BlackWizard

The zoom and focus levels of the Garda speed vans is very good. Im not sure if a small number plate will help. You don't deserve a ticket so I hope you get away with it.

rolliepoley

Ya need to get one of these.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdxIWf6cgMw

Soundman

BlackWizard wrote: »

At that speed maybe an alcholic drunk zombie inner city howya Dubliner was running after you! :pac:

Quite possible.

I always try and stick to the limit though on that stretch down to O'Connell Bridge as I nearly always see at least one Garda car while on my way home. Being a learner still, I don't want to chance getting done since (as far as I know) the points would be double for me.

BeerSteakBirds

Are there any speed cameras on the n11 or m50 ? In my car (getting first bike soon) I seem to go almost as fast as I want on those (very fast on m50) and never had a ticket ever. When I spotted a Garda with a hand held camera on the n11 I slammed on the brakes fairly sharp and smooth a few times. Ditto whenever I spotted a speed van. Maybe I've been lucky but if some of you got tickets on those roads a lot then I am wondering if Bikes are getting picked on more than my small car which nobody would believe can be fast as it really is. I am wondering if my luck will change when I get a bike because my image might change to those in authority.

punisher5112

BeerSteakBirds wrote: »

Are there any speed cameras on the n11 or m50 ? In my car (getting first bike soon) I seem to go almost as fast as I want on those (very fast on m50) and never had a ticket ever. When I spotted a Garda with a hand held camera on the n11 I slammed on the brakes fairly sharp and smooth a few times. Ditto whenever I spotted a speed van. Maybe I've been lucky but if some of you got tickets on those roads a lot then I am wondering if Bikes are getting picked on more than my small car which nobody would believe can be fast as it really is. I am wondering if my luck will change when I get a bike because my image might change to those in authority.

There are no fixed camera's but that's no gurantee of avoiding the fine and points.

There are the usuall spots on the N11 where they will hide behind bus shelters, bridges and hedges.

They have the van at stillorgan at times also.

Just got done few weeks ago at Arklow by one of the vans and have to say it was so well hidden I still don't know where it was.

Wonda-Boy

BeerSteakBirds wrote: »

Are there any speed cameras on the n11 or m50 ? In my car (getting first bike soon) I seem to go almost as fast as I want on those (very fast on m50) and never had a ticket ever. When I spotted a Garda with a hand held camera on the n11 I slammed on the brakes fairly sharp and smooth a few times. Ditto whenever I spotted a speed van. Maybe I've been lucky but if some of you got tickets on those roads a lot then I am wondering if Bikes are getting picked on more than my small car which nobody would believe can be fast as it really is. I am wondering if my luck will change when I get a bike because my image might change to those in authority.

There are a hell of alot of unmarked police on the M50.....my missus got caught speeding and on a mobile on the M50 (family Emergency in fairness) and the book was thrown at her!

I have seen many a person getting done by unmarked cars on the M50.

Cuddlesworth

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

There are a hell of alot of unmarked police on the M50.....my missus got caught speeding and on a mobile on the M50 (family Emergency in fairness) and the book was thrown at her!

I have seen many a person getting done by unmarked cars on the M50.

Yeah there are loads of them now. Some are 10+ years old and the lights are nearly perfect because the LED's they install now are so small.

I got quite a shock last year when I saw the light blue 2003 forester flash the blues and two's at a car that shot past it. Was behind him for well over 5 minutes and didn't notice anything different about the car.