How many speeding tickets have you had (car or bike)?

[Mellow]

This was on another board and thought it might be interesting.

So, how many legit tickets, even if you were able to take defensive driving or probation... basically, anything but warnings....

[Bruce_C]

2.
Bruce C :mad:

[STCPO]

Well up until about 4 years ago I only had 1 and that was in a car when I was about 20 years old. However, luck would have it, I got three more in the span of about 1.5 years. These three were also in a car.

I've only been pulled over on the bike once and he just told me to slow down.

Pete

[sttourer]

The last speeding ticket for me was a little over 3 years ago. The Highway Patrol clocked me at 93 in a 65. I was on my FZ-1. Since I had a clean driving record and was up front with the trooper, he cut me some slack. Only wrote me up for 10 over. First time I ever thanked a leo for a ticket. He saved me $200 and 2 points on my record.

A few weeks prior I was on that same stretch seeing what that bike could do. I had an indicated 156 on the speedo. Thank goodness he wasn't around then!

[georgeorge]

Back when I first got my license, I just kept gettin tickets. I couldn't get i n the car without gettin a speeding ticket. As my insurance premium reached $4000.00 a year I started to slow down. Young and Dumb. I've been there. Here in CT if you get 10 "points" on your license, you lose it for a period of time. Points stay on your license for I think 3 years. There was one month when I had 11 points on my license, but CT didn't catch on and a month later I only had 9.

I've only gotten one speeding ticket on a bike. My '84 Yamaha Seca 750 back about 10 years ago. I've been stopped on the ST1300 once, but the cop was in love with the bike and let me go with a warning.

Luckily.....being young and dumb......I never had an accident. Well in a car I mean. I did crash my '88 CBR1000f back about 6 or 7 years ago. That straightened me out. I ride and drive a lot smarter now.

Brian :03biker:

[Hewhois]

I thought these things had time limits :?

I've gotten 2 speeding tickets my whole life, both in a car and both over 10 years ago.

Never been pulled over while riding a motorcycle, not even a warning...yet.

I don't use a radar detector either. I'd probably get more tickets with the detector than without, if you know what I mean.

[Dorian]

When I was young and foolish I figured that speeding tickets were just pay as you go system for driving however fast you wanted. Eventually the cash supply got low. Now I'm not so young, and not so foolish.

[AZST]

Stopped 5x for speeding in 20 yrs of driving.....0 tickets. No explanation why not, except, always polite, don't give the cop any crap.

Did a burnout once at traffic light to impress some femininas one time...officer behind me...doh. Didn't get the girls, burnout was a good one....no ticket either.

No pullovers yet with the ST...despite the fact that most police know that Blue ST's are fastest.

--Bryan
04ST1300A
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[AgSTreak]

0 tickets, 2 warnings. One over 30 years ago in a car and one last year on my ST. :o:

[John Anthony]

4, but it's been about 9-10 yrs. since my last one and that's for 36 years of driving! I don't think that's too bad. None so far on a motorcycle (knock on wood).

John

[coldoughboy]

I got all of my tickets prior to age 25. The only one that I have gotten on my bike was for my 25mph crash (don't get me started). The idiot State Trooper followed my ambulance to the hospital to give me the ticket. I was actually riding with the main sherriff for the area who wanted me to fight the ticket to the supreme court if I had to. I decided it was not worth the risk of losing and getting 4 points off my license. This is probably more information than you wanted but I am still hot about the whole issue.

[sherob]

One 13 years ago in my car... doing 70 in a 30... :D Old side road not really used except by DPS... LOL!!! Was able to get defered judication for it... :)

The others were over 20 years ago... before I knew what DD was, or if it was an option. One warning on my STeed... :D

[beastie]

I never knowingly speed. But the ST (and now the Wing) speedometer reads high. I think by about 40% :D

[Littlejohn64]

2 in the car. One a long time ago, and the other a few years back.

Avoided a speeding ticket on the bike once. Got real lucky (read stupid) I was flyin down the road on a Yamaha 440. Came up on a police car :eek: sitting on the side of the road under a nice shade tree running radar. He had me dead to rights, but about a quarter mile past where he was parked was the entrance to a subdivision with only 2 entrances. By the time he got rolling I was in the subdivision. I turned away from the other exit and lost him in there :rolleyes: , came out the same way I went in right after he came in and went straight home and parked the bike and ran inside....LOL ^Thankfully he didnt get my plate....I dont do that anymore :) ....LMAO

[NewsMag]

I was able to recall 10 in about 30 seconds, so I had to click the "more than 10" button. I'm pretty sure it's less than 20. But really the data should be adjusted for years driving and annual mileage. I was also able to recall about 20 additional FOR SURE tix that I WOULD have had if not saved by the radar detector! Yes, doctor, I do have a problem... :oops:

I have had only two motorcyle tix, though. One in California by an unmarked car who paced us after a marked car going the other way on the interstate spotted us. I had to tell the CHP I honestly didn't know how fast I was going, but I failed to mention that was because the speedo (on my Seca 750) was pegged at 85+!!!

The other I was going exactly what I THOUGHT the speed limit was (in rural Idaho), but it had changed on me - when I was screened by a truck in the right lane. Seems really unfair, as they raised the speed limit to what I was actually going two months later...

By the way, my driving record in the state of Utah is perfectly clean for the last 5 years. Chances of it staying that way through the summer? Pretty slim!!

But lots of tix are no problem. Just the price of having fun! :money1: :money1: :money1:

[Kennedy]

None in the last 20 years touch wood and thank god no body was watching me come home an hour ago from up north in excess of over 100 MPH. Had to go to Lindsay for a burger and fries.

[Pino]

3 speeding ticket in 23 years of driving.

[lionroyboy]

I got one ticket 12 - 13 years ago. It was the 2nd day that I had a Yamaha Radian 600 going 76 in a 45. The funny thing was that the cop was in an old, beat up, unmarked car and, when he was right on my tail for the next 2 miles after he got me in radar, I thought he was some guy trying to screw around with me. Eventually, I noticed the portable light on the dashboard flashing (no siren) and realized it was a state trooper. Luckily, he believed me and didn't charge me with eluding a law enforcement officer. I only got pulled over one time since then, but no ticket.

[Jeff F]

By the way, my driving record in the state of Utah is perfectly clean for the last 5 years.

Mine too, and someday I hope to actually visit the state. :rolleyes:

Talk about rubbing salt in a wound with this poll. I have periods where I can't do anything right. I'm in one now. :eek:

[Carl_T]

Driving in the car passing someone doing 50 on the 2 lane interstate (55mph speed limit). As I'm out there in the passing lane two guys are coming up on me doing better than 90/100 easy and not slowing. I goose it up, get by and pull in the slow lane to slow down just as I crest a hill, and get shot by radar. The two yahoos go by hitting their brakes when they see the cop WHOOSH! The cop pulls out, paces next to me, points at me and wails off after the two guys. A few miles down the road he has both of them pulled over and is standing there waving me in, 72 in a 55mph zone. :mad:

I'm keeping the bike and car within about 5mph over the speed limit max now, until the points are off. Insurance will skyrocket, with points, and enough of them your license goes by by for awhile. NY gets LOTS of revenue through speeding tickets, they fund plenty of revenue collection manpower and equipment in my area.

[seiseman]

Two.

First one almost 28 years ago on a Saturday night in a little town in WI. Speed limit was 55mph coming down a big hill and changed to 25 right at the bottom. Got pegged for 40 in a 25. The deputy had on a hunting type vest and literally had shotgun shells in the loops of the vest. The ticket was something like $35 and I could pay it right then or come back later in the next week to see the judge and get my license back. No provisions for mailing. I only had 20 dollar bills so he led me, with lights flashing, to the A&W to get change. :eek:

The second one was on the way to work one morning about 25 years ago. My wife and I were both first out at the stop light and "raced". The officer wanted to get us for drag racing but decided that it would look silly to write a ticket for drag racing when he only had me for 38 in a 30 on his radar. :p:

Since then I have been VERY lucky....;)


The ironic thing is that last spring my two daughters (20 and 22) were following me on their way back to college and I went through a county speed trap at about 75 in a 55. I made eye contact with the deputy as I went by and figured I was nailed. I even started to pull off. My daughters were about 1/4 mile back and he nailed them for 64 in a 55. Go figure.

[Louie Louie]

Last ticket I got was the 2nd day I had the ST. A friendly Palm Springs officer clocked me at 85mph and he tried to catch up w/ me on a Harley Roadking. We spent 1/2 talking about bikes and he complimented me on the ST! :03biker: :sbs1: :chat1: :Chair1: :attentio:

[Pansmiker]

1 only in a car doing 42mph in a 30 - downhill on a quiet road....honest officer!! :)

Paul :D

[GRN]

well... HOLY COW! I used to have my lic and all wheels registered in AL for many years before they began to communicate with the modern world... not sure they do yet, but... I didn't actually live in AL for most of those years, so my travels back and forth 'cross country were executed without much regard for the law... tickets became no more than a high speed toll really (no points or insurance penalties), just paid 'em to keep that state happy for the next pass through...

Since getting legit, have had 7 in the last 12 years I think... all in cars! I guess the sound of the ST's dropping a gear or two and vacating w/ zeal leaves most officers not wanting to really deal with it much :butt1: :pig1: :a13: ................................ :04biker: