08-07-2014, 01:52 PM
Common sense is not so common as it would seem, though. At a bike night a few weeks ago, I was involved in a conversation with 3 riders who carry and who had been stopped at different times for whatever reasons. 2 of them thought it was best to not mention a thing and for one of them it worked out--he got a ticket for whatever it was. The other one spent some insanely long period of time either on the side of the road or in the station (I forget) while they searched the bike,miss person, and ran whatever checks they felt necessary. The third, who disclosed up front, wound up not even getting the well-deserved speeding ticket he said he was stopped about in the first place. Of the 4 of us, at least two were morons, not counting me.