Just had the bike serviced this week. Was riding to work yesterday and decided to give it a bit of a squirt on a quiet back street to see how much better it was going. Came out of the roundabout in second gear, gave it a squirt and watched in the rear view mirror as an un-marked Falcon did a u-turn from being parked on the opposite side of the road with his tax collecting machine on. He clocked me at 103. Luckily, the bloke was in a good mood and he liked the bike. He knocked it down to 30km/h over. He said that he saw that I was just giving it a bit on a straight piece of road and not stupidly overtaking anyone or anything like that. I thanked him several times and was on my way. Got to work, got on the internet and paid the ticket (still thinking how lucky I was to get off with what I did). That afternoon , I rode home the slowest and most carefully I have done in a long while. Goes to show that being pulled over has much more of an effect than a fixed speed camera and a fine in the mail 2 weeks later. Today, I got the train to work :-)
