Someone filmed my DH on his bike - could he get in trouble?

[ilythia]

He was riding, at legal limits, on a country road with his friends, however, being an idiot, he did a wheelie on a straight clear stretch of road as he was coming up to a house.
He then noticed that some weirdo was filming them from his front step, and as they went past he turned the camera to catch all their rear plates.
What I need to know is...would the police do anything if shown that video (of him wheelying?) or is there nothing they can do.

[FolornHope]

its evidence of him being a knob end

[OldLadyKnowsNothing]

Was it the kind of country road where many bikers would feel that impulse? Because it would annoy me if every sunny afternoon were filled with roaring bikes flying past my country home on one wheel, (and I like bikes ) and I might take to filming them. I'm not sure that the police would prosecute on the stregth of a homemade video, but they might take to patrolling there more often.

[DarrellRivers]

10 years surely

(I'm sure someone more sensible will be along soon]

[mollymole]

nice area - wierdo filming knob head
why was the wierdo filming them - is this a usual occurence, pulling wheelies on this stretch of road

riders like your DH give the decent motorcyle riders a bad name and deserve
to be prosecuted

[FolornHope]

yes of course its evidence
they have done so from youtube stuff before
and that dog being abandoned rememvber?

COURSe they do

[GColdtimer]

Well, the "some wierdo" probably didn't like a bunch of people on moterbikes doing wheelies outside his house so decided to catch them in the act. What were the "legal limits" because if it was a country road, it could have been 60 miles an hour which could be pretty intimidating if there were a bunch of them doing wheelies.

Not sure if the police will do anything but perhaps it will stop him acting like a knob in future!

[FolornHope]

im always stunned by the bad basic driving of bikers

is there a no overtake marking on the road? oh god they overtake willy nilly
riding up your read end. speeding all the time

bloody hell

[ilythia]

lol at knob end. You sound like me

I can totally see why he is filming if people zoom past a lot, but they weren't speeding, and there was no other traffic. We aren't local to that area either. Don't know why that is important but DH seems to think it is...

he has asked for constructive answers only and says (I can hardly bear to type this but here goes)
'He can wheelie as he is a good motorcyclist'

[goingroundthebend4]

sorry they do it pass mine and yes i would happily film and report it i get sick of them that think its fun to do it orgetting that i live there as do my kids and .Maybe first time your dh done it but bet it happens a lotl.

And sorry dont care how good he is .at those kind of speeds he can lose control in a second

[FollowMe]

If he was such a good motorcyclist then he wouldnt be doing wheelies!!
If you dont drive safely you arent a good driver (even if you havent had an accident yet)

[mollymole]

'he can wheelie he's a good motorcyclist' my DH was a professional motorcycle racer for 15 years and when he sees riders 'wheelie' in the road he calls them 'fucking dick heads - should have their licenses taken away'
your DH is a double dick head

[Decorhate]

Is your h still a teenager or a middle-aged bloke having mid-life crisis??!

[colditz]

Er, no. He's not a good motorcyclist, as good motorcyclists don't do things that endaner other people's lives, which if he was riding as a group, pulling wheelies would be.

[goingroundthebend4]

and so your dh might not be local to the area so thats ok .

But the poor man that has to live there is local and probably gets a load of idiots bikers that are not local doing it all the time .

Ask dh how he would feel if someone was doing wheelies up and down your road all the time not nessecarry the same person infact even better if they did not live there becuase hey you dont want to annoy people where you have to live

[jade80]

Tell him to take it to a track if he wants to piss about. That way, if it does go wrong (even if he reckons it won't because he's too good) he's less likely to wipe out a child...

[IngridBergman]

Ah excuse me forlornhope

I ride a 500 and don't do ANY of those things thanks. Yes I get knobbers coming up on me in the car too, but it doesn't mean we are all shoite riders.

Most bikers I see are really good and sensible and so on. It's only the knobheads you notice.

OP I'm not sure, I know some fantastic riders who pull wheelies including pro mechanics and engineers but they would normally do so where they wouldn't get caught! It doesn't mean he's a crap rider. It was a foolish thing to do in the circs though. Could posssssibly be done for reckless/dangerous driving but more likely not, I'd have thought.

[IngridBergman]

what bike you got Ilythia's DH?

[jammietart]

I would think it could be used as evidence of dangerous driving which of course it is. So yes the police could do something if presented with the evidence.

[herladyship]

I spend my days providing an inpatient rehab service to idiots who thought they were good bikers... Worse than that i get to see plenty of people (including bereaved families) who became victims of idiots like this

Feel very when I see stupid behaviour like you describe, perhaps the man filming is trying to get something done to improve the roads safety? Maybe there have been accidents along there? Don't know if you've ever been at the scene of a nasty RTC but it is not an experience you would want!

Sorry if that's not want your clever bike riding dh wants posting on the thread!

[IngridBergman]

i'm not sure doing a wheelie is that dangerous.

[Sidge]

So we'll probably be seeing him on one of those Traffic Cop type shows where they show total twats in cars and on bikes?

[IngridBergman]

how high did he get the front up anyway, and for how long - was it just as he was starting off or was it like, no hands, back wheel for ten metres waving kinda thing?

[IngridBergman]

Look here these hits are all people doing really high speeds.

It might depend on how fast he was actually going which a home video camera can't prove, anyway.