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Report: police control
Traffic control on the motorcycle

The police carry out motorcycle checks nationwide at the start of the season. Your options are limited, both technically and personally. So it stays with random samples, which politicians hope to have a positive effect on the accident development. Whether it works out that way?

Michael Schumann

06/21/2012

Do you need customers again? ” Sylvia Burger * stands in front of the two police sprinters in a parking bay and looks questioningly at her four male colleagues. “Yes, two more please!”, Police commissioner Christian Harter calls back, whereupon the blonde police volunteer grabs the trowel and trudges off towards the middle of the street.

It is a sunny Sunday morning and there is a lot going on on the road between Stuttgart and Leonberg. Quite a few motorcycles are on the road, because on days like this, the “Glemseck”, just a few hundred meters away, with its small beer garden right on a steeply sloping, increasing applause curve, is a popular meeting place.

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The police also know this and have specifically looked for the location for the “general traffic control” as part of a nationwide spring campaign at the start of the motorcycle season. And so Sylvia Burger, who actually comes from “the social sector” and voluntarily supports the officials on this Sunday, albeit with a uniform, bulletproof vest and even a service weapon, does not have to wait long. The police assistant – voluntary police officers like her only exist in Baden-Wurttemberg, although the red-green state government is currently considering their abolition – randomly waves out what arrives. In this case two current GS models. The rest of them are allowed to continue unchecked, because now all four officers are once again busy with one motorcycle each, so they have “customers”. The two police chiefs Sven Haug and Alain Brenner wave the BMW drivers over and ask them for a driver’s license and vehicle papers with a routine look at the machines. They are fine and so are the motorcycles. For this, the two officers, as motorcycle relay drivers of the Boblingen police department, often on the service BMWs on duty, have an eye: everything is standard, tires are okay too, thank you, keep driving.


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A routine look is always at the tires. And the footrests must either be standard or require an operating permit or registration.

It gets more interesting when Winny is waved out. His CB 1100 F Bol d’Or not only has a few years under his belt, but also a belt-driven additional unit mounted behind the cylinder bank. “A compressor?” Asks Police Commissioner Uwe Klingler skeptically after he had the papers from the Honda driver from Esslingen. A NOS nitrous oxide sticker on the aged four-cylinder suggests even worse. But Winny remains calm: “Oh no, no compressor, no turbo, that’s what many always think. It’s just an external alternator. ”The inspector remains skeptical, his gaze constantly alternating between the Honda and the long bar of entries in its registration certificate. Now the silencer has piqued his interest. “This is a self-made, here you look, is also registered as such.” Aha, the policeman nods appreciatively: “That’s really rare now … You are probably a technician yourself?” But Winny shakes her 70s mane: “No, no, the exhaust was already on and registered when I bought the bike, and I installed the Lima together with a friend from the Bol d’Or Club. Incidentally, it comes from a 2CV, yes, exactly, from a duck. I’m a bricklayer by trade. “

In the end, it is the too flat inclination of the license plate that the inspector complains: “For legibility, the number must not be more than 30 degrees to the vehicle. I measured 55 degrees on you. From 60 degrees – there is no legal limit – I would consider this to be a misuse of license plates and thus a criminal offense. In your case, 55 degrees would still be an administrative offense. Would you agree to a ten euro warning? ”Winny is contrite and says that he has not changed the license plate, but if it has to … Only when he found out that he was going to present the corrected license plate angle to the police within the next five days he gets angry: “I live in the country, that costs me a whole day’s vacation! Can’t I straighten it out right away? ”The inspector shrugs his shoulders:“ By myself, but at your own risk. If your license plate holder breaks in the process, we can’t help it… ”The holder does what he should: He stops, and with a steeper number and a ten euro transfer form, Winny drives on.


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Operating license expired, air filter unscrewed to preserve evidence, journey ended.

In the end, there will be a total of 73 motorcycles that the four police officers check here on Sunday. There were complaints about 13 machines. Only one of them is serious: through open K&N sports air filter instead of the standard air filter box, the operating license of the eleven-year-old Triumph Thunderbird has expired, according to the police: “You are not allowed to drive a meter with it.” The Triumph then still drives a few meters. Namely high on the loading area of ​​the ADAC van that is supposed to bring them home.


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It is loud, but according to its papers it should be even louder: Endurance test Aprilia RSV4 in the noise measurement.

Commissioner Uwe Klingler pulled out the volume meter twice this Sunday. Once out of competition: MOTORRAD editor Ralf Schneider had asked the officials to please measure the Aprilia RSV4 endurance test. Just out of interest. Because the completely standard Italo athlete is so loud that some MOTORRAD colleagues find it uncomfortable to come home with it in the evening and wake up the neighbors. The first surprise already in the Aprilia papers: a whopping 107 db (A) standing noise – a (literally) official value. For the measurement, Klingler is positioned to the side of the silencer, the driver accelerates up to half the nominal speed while idling.

If the measured value plus five db (A) tolerance exceeds the specified stationary noise, the motorcycle is considered to be too loud and the police can order an official measurement by an expert if the owner does not accept the warning and the temporary shutdown due to a presumably expired operating license . Then the motorcycle or the muffler can be seized or confiscated. And at Aprilia? Gabs amazed faces: 98 db (A). So she should roar a lot louder. All Italian legal…


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MOTORRAD editor Schumann (45), who also checked himself often, about his experiences.

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Police officers are only human too. It can happen, as observed during the control described above, that a small thing, such as a rearview mirror that is too small, is criticized, but the officer overlooks the fact that the (by no means loud) muffler is not approved at all and that the motorcycle’s license has actually expired . One was lucky. Like so many others this morning. If the police had not given the stopping trowel to anyone who was completely inexperienced (but inexpensive for the country) police volunteers when it came to motorcycles, but to a professional who would have waved through a number of completely standard, technically inconspicuous machines in advance and pulled others out deliberately, for example penetratingly sounds like our Aprilia or the Harley rider with the steel helmet. But it wasn’t like that, and MOTORRAD doesn’t want to complain about that. The extremely polite tone of the officers was noticeable. Are they always so friendly or only when MOTORRAD is there? But the reverse must also apply: the officials rightly appreciate being treated on an equal footing. This includes not only a calm, matter-of-fact tone, but also taking off your helmet when talking to someone. Which does not mean for a long time that if you have broken the rules of the game, you should provide information about the matter. It’s best to say that you don’t say anything – but politely.

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