Oops :crazy: slapped legs Arnies a bad boy.
Hi, isn’t 30mph over the speed limit a automatic summons anymore? Funny thing about that flyover is it’s 40mph for artics as well and they struggle to stay in their lane with high winds and so on (and the damage with vibration to the bridge). A bike hasn’t such problems but we’d need about 8 different speed limits signs on the road for all the different users.
If someone got done closer to the “10% +2mph” guide line, then yes, giv’em a FP ticket. Being 80% over the limit is hardly the same thing? I have been proven correct about the mans hazard perception. That, coupled with mans obvious inability to look beyond his own enjoyment makes him a liability in my book. If he’s big enough to do the crime, then can we expect him to be able to handle the time?
When Arnie hurts or kills someone, I wonder if he says something stupid like life’s full of risks or it not his fault!
Why don’t he learn to be a responsible citizen or stop posting whinges when he gets caught? Arnie obviously learnt little on his Bike Safe course. Some might say the he’s young and impetuous. But I’d call it as I see it!
Sorry Arnie, but you might wanna do yourself a big favour and step back and take a good look at yourself.
Are you saying you got your French license back because you had too many points on your UK one or have I read this wrong?
Mmmmm
No one forces you to give up an EC licence anymore, although it does produce a strange anomoly whereby it’s an offence to fail to notify change of address to the DVLA if you have a DVLA issued licence, but if you have a foreign licence it’s perfectly acceptable for that licence to show an address in downtown Paris/Berlin/Warsaw or wherever.
Having a foreign licence doesn’t make you magically imune from points and sanctions from UK courts. It just makes the whole process more complicated and may cost you more, as when convicted at court you may get a larger fine than an FPN would give you, and you may have to pay costs… particularly if you go not guilty.
If you had a UK licence before then that record won’t disappear if you get another french licence. If you have points on it, they don’t magically disappear if you get a french licence. If you are stopped by the police and produce a french licence, they can and probably will (or should) do a check with the DVLA records… If you get convicted the court can still give you points, which will be placed on your DVLA record, and if you get to twelve you get to see a magistrate who will probably disqualify you. The fact you are disqualified will show up on both a check on the DVLA records and the Police National Computer. Driving whilst disqualified you enter a whole new game, which results in arrest, and possible imprisonment.
Ouch… That must hurt!!!
No not really. But it was a game of 6 point for almost 2 years then getting done some 112mph on the M2 and having to play every tricks in the book to push back the court date by almost nine months so that the points got cleared before I show my face in front of judges and got 6 point and £100 fine for the M25 thing…
I had enough so went to France for a few hours, surrender my English license and came back on the next ferry with a French one… Now I just have to be extra careful when I ride in France.
So sorry to hear of your run of bad luck. Saw a red 675 Daytona with number plate lodged in back suspension at the Ace tonight, was it yours?
That’s Arnie, nothing like trying not to attract attention 
Thought so! Wonder how he wired in the number plate light?
Correct but in reality you have to do very stupid thing for them to be bothered.
I got flashed a few times and they send me the standard form. I filled the form and enter all the correct details including my French license number.
They replied with the standard offer of fine + 3 points (please send your license to DVLA)
Obviously cannot do that as my license is French. Go to court, plaid guilty, pay the original £100 fine and go on my merry way.
The cost and trouble are not worth it.
In reality, they also know that the reason why they cannot put point on my French license is pretty mush their fault as UK is the only country that actually blocked a proposal for a collateral system where other EU cops and courts could take off point on other EU members license.
But no, Uk said that their will be no way that anyone but the crowns court could do anything on documents of her majesty the queen, so…
I am not advocating being idiot on the road but it does save me a lot of trouble in red tape and having to play legal loopholes…
I wonder why he bothered.
If you put you plate somewhere where no one can see it, why would you want to put a light on it?
I’m sorry but this is making me cross:(
What part?
Seems to me that a lot could have had that effect.
which part???
Don`t be sorry! What is your specific gripe?:hehe:
Chunky don’t let it get to you…Arnie is old enough to deal with it his own way. If he decides that he is not going to change his ways then he will be walking before too long.
What goes around comes around with regards to the french license thing, being part of the EU they are able to check and deal with it.
Are you having a go at my English?
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still have a nigerian one for good measure but it is a bitch when it comes to insurance :hehe:
By the sound of what is being said here, foreign visitors are not subject to the totting up system that UK licence holders are.I thought the idea of the EU was to unify bureaucracy.