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me and AndyT decide on last minute trip into Wales to visit Thumper at Barmouth. We had a pleasant ride until about 6 miles from our destination…..I got my collar felt….filtering past some traffic I get to behind a caravan waiting for oncoming lane to clear, looks in my mirror to spot an unmarked blue volvo estate (900 series so fairly old car) blue lights flashing coming steaming through the traffic behind……
Pulls over and gets a £30 fine for my reg plate. Whilst he is examining my bike he rubs the grit from my tyre to check the tread (had parked in gravel layby) and points to a nicely comfortable nail embedded in my rear tyre…..fuggin great. I hate Wales! Thankfully its not losing too much pressure too quickly so we carry on to see Thumper.Welsh Coast –
Bikes at Welsh Coast –
After a few cigs and a cuppa we head home…..taking it easy cos rear feels a little squidgy lol I stayed below 90 for most of the way home but its tedious slow going, by the time I reached the dual carriageway just outside Tamworth I was cold, hungry, and pissed off and there was no way little boy racer in his daddys’ car was gonna beat me….found out tyre was still good for 140 (private road occifer)……
Its a newish tyre so gonna see if it can be safely plugged.
So folks, beware if you head into Wales, my reg plate is not a piss take, its only slightly smaller than standard, as a matter of fact the copper checked it several times to make sure the lettering was indeed smaller than required…..but I still got the ticket…..Thats a bummer mate, they are shit hot in Wales, really surprised they havent tried to ban all forms of motorised transport…
Good luck with the tyre
Hi Gix, was that a Non-Endorsible £30?[V], just wondered, as I got done years ago with a fine, and I have a bike related plate which is ever-so slightly undersized, and itching to be fixed on. Did you say below 90, well I thought you had gone over to kilometers, which was just a steady 56mph, but when I read 140 I thought, oh forget the wise cracks. Yeh, a nail can be a real b*mmer, went to Donnington 2 years back on a quarter worn rear, tried it to around the same figure, got there and found I’d picked up a 2nd one, needless to say I didn’t push it a second time. [
]Good luck with getting it fixed.[]Bloody Hell Gix – tough luck
Last year the coppers were out along the Evesham Bypass, rulers in hand – so not just a Welsh thing.
I keep looking at getting one of these:
https://www.mandp.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?catRef=507010
anybody used them?
I have had a couple of back tyres puncture early on over the years, one with only 300 miles up and it could not be repaired. Major bummer. Even that rock hard BT21 I had fitted for the French run in 2007 got a puncture somehow! Did at least get that fixed.
Bad luck on the plate thing too
That copper sounded like a bit of a jobsworth
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