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From: lee@wang.UUCP (Lee Story x77155 ms 1989)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: another starter problem; a started problem.
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 20:44:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 20:44:44 1986
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> BTW, what are people's experience with dealing with police while driving
> motorcycles vs dealing with them when driving cars?  I was stopped for
> speeding on I-495 in Massachusetts at about 10:30 at night by a state cop who
> spent ten minutes yelling at me, calling me a moron, ...

Amazingly, perhaps, my experience on I495 (round about the [in]famous 
Tewksbury speed trap) have been quite the opposite.  I commute about 70%
by Honda VT500, 30% by Toyota, and a year or two ago was stopped three days
in a row for absent-mindedly letting the Camry glide down the long,
gradual hill at 65 to 70 (probably 0.1 MPH faster than the average
traffic?).  I've NEVER been stopped while on a motorcycle in about 14000
miles of riding, and have often wondered why.  Do the State Police want to
avoid possible high-speed chases?  Do bikes fail to show up clearly on
their radar?  Are there other less obscure reasons?

Many policemen are riders, and all are trained to deal politely and
professionally with us errant citizens; I'd bet that the one referred to
in the posting was an extraordinary exception, at least in this state.

                                     Lee Story @ Wang Labs