Remember these stories the next a car does something stupid when you're on a
bike.  In other words, stupid works both ways...

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of chris Moyles
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:45 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: "Blue light" incidents..NVC..

I am the proud recipient of a bicycle speeding ticket from Boulder,
Colorado- 44 mph in a 25.

c
Don Hanson wrote:
> Some years ago, we took the split window  VW panel south from Jackson
Hole,
> Wyoming,  for our normal springtime Baja trip.  On the way south, we swung
> by So California to visit my brother's family, still living in my
childhood
> home in Belmont Shores..now an up-scale marina area and quite congested.
We
> had our race bicycles along, so, having grown up on a bike in the area and
> having an adventure-some and fit female cyclist as a companion, we decided
> to go out on our bikes for some fun in the traffic..
>   After doing the 'bike-messenger' thing up and down the main street,
> dodging cars, ducking through alleys, jumping curbs and generally being
'not
> grown-up' we were headed home across the bridge that spans the Long Beach
> Marine Stadium.  The only hill we'd seen all day, so predictably, we had
to
> see how fast we could go...A 6- lane bridge full of traffic (that we
passed
> easily) with a signal at the bottom. When we were kids, we always just
> turned right, then quick left onto the 'feeder' street that paralleled
the
> main street and kept right on going...
>   So, we did that and at the next signal we encounter a policeman with his
> car stopped and light flashing...Huh?  He points right at us and motions
us
> to the curb...and tells us we'd been clocked at 52mph in a 25 zone!
Illegal
> turn without a stop--no signals--passing on the right--blah blah blah!..
> Wanted our drivers licenses...Huh?  To ride a bike?  Drivers
license?..Speed
> limit?---we played it dumb---Then Marie, my now S.O., plays the Wyoming
Hick
> Card.  (she happened to have her Wyoming license with her..it has that
cool
> outline of a cowboy on a bucking bronc as a background).."Well shucks,
> officer, we're sorry, we come from Wyomin', and up there, if there ain't
no
> cows to harm, you kin do 'bout anythin' you want"...
>   He let us go after shaking his head in disbelief..
>   The old '57 36hp van worked great, btw, as usual..Slower than the bikes,
> but ...
>   Don Hanson
>
>
>