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BubbaZanetti said:This is the most logical thing with regard to citing motorcycle riders i've heard in a long time. Forget cages, they're just dangerous, but a motorcycle, in the middle of nowhere on a two lane backroad (where i bet most of you do your hard riding) is not harming anyone except the rider. i could honestly come aroudn a corner wide, at full tilt and get mashed by some SUV and its not gonna hurt anyone in the truck (as long as they're obeying the law and wearing their seatbelts) i view speeding as a safety issue more than anything and safety is all relative. if i choose to put my life in danger by riding fast, thats one thing. but the chances of someone else getting hurt, by me, where i ride fast, is minimal. basically, what i'm saying in this rambly-rant is.........
abolish speed limits for motorcycles outside populated areas.
i dont think law enforcement has such a libertarian view. we've got some folks on here with experience in this area, and i'd wager that their job is to protect you from yourself as much as protecting you from others, or to protect others from you.
that said, i f-ing hate speeding tickets. this is one reason i like living in central texas. my ratio of times i've gotten a speeding ticket to times that i shouldve gotten one is near zero.
in austin they put the locations of speed traps in the newspaper and on the local news. our cops TELL you when and where theyre writing tickets. the other day i headed south out of town, and there was one of those highway signs, for construction that would say, "right lane closed." it said, "speed enforcement ahead." sure enough, about a mile down the road, there were cops, running radar. we all slowed down. that shows me that at least on the roads i ride around here, the cops are interested in me slowing down, not in me giving them money.
if i ran the world, every ticket a motorcyclist gets for speeding, the cop must then go into town and cite a vehicle for turning left in front of one of us.