Originally Posted by cossynut2

Hi Nick, here is something that happened to me way back in my youth on the Isle of Wight in the late 60's. I had the one and only Dresda Triton cafe racer on the Island at the time, it had some nice engine mods and it was a quick bike which drew a lot of attention. One day I was on my way back to Ryde where I lived and when I was coming through a small place called Wooton which was a 30mph limit I got stuck behind a Police car ( old Austin Westminster capable of about 100mph flat out! ) It had 2 Police officers in it and they kept looking back at me and I was thinking maybe I had done something wrong.I just kept behind them and when we came out of the 30mph limit they suddenly floored it but no lights or siren and the passenger kept looking back at me, I sped up and had a crazy thought that maybe they wanted to race me!!! I thought "fuck it" and went past them flat out laid right across the tank! No lights or siren but we were fast coming into a 30mph limit again. I sat up braked hard and dropped down to 30 and then shit myself realising what I had just done!!! Sure enough a couple of minutes later on came their lights and siren and I pulled in expecting the worst. They both got out of their car and walked up to me and they were laughing and smiling and one of them said "we have seen your Triton a few times and we are both bikers ourselves and we were hoping you would get the hint that we wanted to see how well it went!!!!! I could not believe my luck and spent the next 15 minutes with them looking at my bike and asking me all about it. How times have changed!!! Can you imagine that happening these days!! It was the most outstanding thing that ever happened to me and when I told my biker mates they were astounded that I had'nt got banned or worse. True story which I hope you enjoy.