Dyfed/Powys Police at their finest - Bikers stopped for going too slow!

Hello, welcome to the channel. I just wanted to reflect on some r m and I guess that happened to us last summer so we went out for a walk down the most rural road you can imagine here we go you can see us here this is um. around the back of a place called helli, which is at the bottom of penivan, so in Wales, in the Breen beacons, for those who don't know where most of the Ro roads are, you can imagine a nice night walk. Kate's in a little Honda MS 6125. I'm in my crf300, which is what I'm racing, so yeah, we're not exactly flying and, uh, yeah, yeah, it's nice, even looking at the scenery, we turn the corner and there's a

police

car. waiting for us so just a little background here as we headed back from the mountain towards the main road we had to

slow

down to pass some tractors on a very rural lane and we actually saw the

police

car in front of us but it took off huh , we were

going

at a steady pace, the road was not fit to go any further and to be fair we didn't think anything else, the only thing I really thought was that the police car was

going

a little FAS for the conditions while was walking away, so at this point it's worth adding that he hadn't actually seen us in his mirrors, okay, so anyway we get off, we get off the bikes, he asks us to take off our helmets, kinda of a funny attitude and starts looking around the bikes trying to find faults so effectively he is on a fishing trip there is no reason to stop us at all he just

stopped

us so he could try to find faults and then his opening words were: I received good news and bad news. good news is like license plates bad news yours is illegal very very nice opening dialogue so I knew right away we were going to have some fun so that's what I made it into.

The situation was so ridiculous that I thought he would have done it. a little bit of fun, so yeah, let's see how the conversation goes, we'll continue a little bit more on one thing. I just have to add that it was very interesting. The policeman's attitude changed greatly when I turned on the uh 360 camera to record. What was happening all of a sudden, the way he spoke to us was much more polite and less arrogant and condescending, so anyway, I have good and bad news for Mr. Police. The good news is that we have a YouTube channel.

Bad news. You got the lead role, so guys. Look how things are going, they

stopped

us because we were

slow

ing down to overtake the tractors on the most rural road. You can imagine, you would slow down, you would stop quickly. I only see you in the distance. Absolutely not, I'm not. AR no, I'm not AR either. I said I saw the speed slow down in the distance and I stopped you for going too slow. It seems absurd to me, absurd in the extreme, yes, that's the part I'm struggling with, yes, I'm really struggling with that. Because it seems like we're going around in circles.

Did you stop the tractor because they didn't have the PL number on

their

trailers? No, I couldn't see that. Did you understand that? Didn't you see that we tractors, three tractors, went through enormous things. take the whole road and no license plates on

their

trains, that was good, look, it's a joke to bother minorities, as it always bothers minorities, not to talk to you, let's travel, let's travel like idiots or yes, yes, the speed limit is 60 M. hour presumably we were going to ride because I was worried about the track, yes you are a motorcyclist, which surprises me, I want to see what it has to do with it, but there you go, same with some of your questions, I didn't see what they were relevant and the questions I have to do things, unfortunately I have to, okay, I understood, I didn't have to ask them.

It wouldn't, yeah, well, it didn't, it didn't have to stop us, did it, but you still made four of them. them at another job, actually on two bikes for going too slow at the traffic office, yes, yes, let me do the verification, good luck, thanks, what do you say, that's for me, to do a verification and I'll go to put the details here to make your fine. They gave it to me to give to him, ask him nicely this doing real police and it turns out the police were in the area looking for someone. Ask him why there were two police vehicles in the middle of nowhere because yes, none.

Does it make any sense why there would be police? Know? in this area. It is a horrifying example of everything that is wrong with traffic. The circumstance occurs. Yes, social or you use juice as PR juice and also social. I'm not an idiot, no. Are you trying to surprise me with insurance? No, because it's a question I have to ask you. Business is social pleasure. I know. I guess you're using social pleasure today. Alright? What do you think we're doing here? I don't know, that's why I ask. Yeah, you're just trying to take as much time as possible to be fair.

No, I'm trying to deal with you as quickly as I can. I have to ask now while I try. turn this into a little joke and laugh at this situation. There is a serious point here: this guy took more than 30 minutes to deal with us on the side of the road when he could be out doing something that actually makes a real difference in people's lives this is a rural area with many farms, already You know, people exposed to rural theft to a large extent. He could have gone out and given those guys advice on how to protect their farms and actually done the police some good, I don't think. that this type of traffic surveillance like this does not benefit the reputation of the police at all, in fact, it acts just the opposite.

I have to say that while this video is obviously very critical of this officer's particular actions, I am actually very supportive of the police. There was a terrible story the other day about a police officer who died trying to rescue someone from a railroad track. You know, that guy died a hero and I'm sure this guy here, to be fair, has to deal with some really bad traffic stuff. accidents and all that kind of stuff, but on this occasion I don't think this is quality policing. I think this is just a waste of time. Everyone has their own opinion of it.

I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but that's absolutely it. Well, I just feel like this could have been handled totally differently. The guy could have just chatted with us and that would have been the end. I'm not really interested, to be honest, no, it's okay, it's not, it's not. The pered legislation doesn't show the fabrication, it doesn't show the British stance, okay, the two offences, it's a DV matter, something they will sort out, okay, it doesn't make sense, p okay, I said, warn, do you want to respond, no There's nothing to say, Jo, don't do it. to say to say that's so absurd it's false it's absurd given the options that were available to the officer list check the bike it didn't have to be like this these bikes look like they're not taken care of, of course not, because you know you're in front of the Camera, you're not going to say anything.

I'm also recording because I'm not interested, that's very helpful because that means that if we wanted to complain about the comment, you caught my attention because you were going too slow. I have our whole trip in the movie, yes, everything, including the tractors, including you, the tractors, everything, so that's one point because the officer stopped to let the tractors pass, yes, all three of them, yes, but did not review. Not their license plates, which we have evidence of, we have evidence in our camera that they didn't have license plates, so if you want to challenge, you don't want me to explain, sir, I'm just trying to be neat with you, but obviously not all at once. way it's a little late to be sorted with us now is it english or do you speak english you go tonight and think you did a good day's work you're fooling yourself license plate without number give me the number so I can contact just for the camera another The tractor passed by in front of a trailer with no license plate on the back, that's the fourth one, but yeah, you can't tell that, you can't notice the visor, don't you know about the visor?

So I'm a little disappointed in myself. I shouldn't even have gotten into a debate with the guy wearing dark visors here. Don't do it if people not everyone may not be aware but the law on dark visors is very strange so dark visors are illegal however you can wear sunglasses. under a clear visor you can't wear a visor, you can't wear a visor or glasses and that's legal so because of this kind of weird shape the law is the ACO guidelines if it's daytime and my understanding is that if it's day they don't. process and I got that information from a previous interaction with a David Pois police officer, so I shouldn't have even engaged in a dialogue.

I should have told the guy that I wasn't prepared to discuss it with him because there was nothing he could do, but here we go, what are the ACO guidelines? We don't process at 50% it has a stand up can without a visor that's fine, the 50 stays off the road with no eye protection of any kind that's fine but if it's installed it's being used. is part of this, okay, if you want to accept, if you don't want to accept, let's see if this doesn't have another tractor without a license plate, possibly yes, and he's still not doing anything, so let me talk. to the lady d I'm talking to a lady you can talk well I'm talking to the camera but you don't talk about me anymore okay you must have one my concern if it doesn't have the stone blow it could break if you're not wearing any eye protection, Obviously, there is a chance that you will get out of your fight.

They use them in moto GP normally at 60 F, but obviously, on that occasion, so be careful, you will be affected. the same Vis that Moto GP use exactly if it doesn't fit it's illegal it shouldn't be on the road it should be fine and you're wrong I'm right no no you're not you're not right So where is the Europa Mar standard? I'm not arguing about that. I'm saying they use these same vises in Moto GP. I think they are much riskier than us. That's not what it is. that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying that's what I'm saying, it's in the way, it's okay, there's a difference between the two, thank you very much for your time, take care, enjoy your day, clearly here we go guys, the police at its best and that. was that half an hour later he left and oh now it's been eight months since this incident, I think maybe more than 10 months and what did we hear from the dvla about our number plates, absolutely nothing, nothing because I was wrong in the information that the The fact that he was trying to quote us the license plates was incorrect, so here we go, what a complete waste of taxpayers' time and money.

We actually received an apology from the police from David Pois for the way he initially spoke to us. more they wasted their time to be honest, here we go, let's hope that any interaction we have in the future is much more positive, safe travels, subscribe to our channel if you haven't already, see you in the next one.