It's not even the fact that they pulled him over, it's the fact that they were so passionate about catching him. They probably show less intensity going to an armed robbery.
You ever seen the effects of someone hit by an object traveling 40+kph ?? I doubt it or you wouldnt have said anything 🤣 he's on a footpath with an engine powered bike... thats not a good combo at all !
@@SXJEREMY true but I've also nearly been hit by cyclists going fast anyway while I was walking. Probably 30kms or so and that woulda hurt either way haha
They are trained and not only that they have they’re own set of rules to follow when pursuing someone and face consequences just like we do if they don’t follow them so don’t start all that blame game bs!!! Bottom line is he did something wrong not them
I was up tossing and turning all night last night unable to sleep because I knew somewhere out there someone might be riding a push bike with an engine slower than what people without a motor can pedal. Please God someone help us , some one think of the children. I just live in constant fear every day that someone might be committing minor offenses that don't effect me , how am I supposed to function day to day knowing this ?
“Yeah let’s pick on the bloke who is hurting nobody but is probably riding a bike because he doesn’t have the money to buy a car, and let’s slug him with a bunch of unnecessary fines just to make sure he never financially recovers’ - the police
He's probably riding a bicycle because he smoked a few cones on Sunday night before driving to work 10hrs later, got stopped on the way to work and busted for "drug driving" losing his license, copping a $2000 fine and having to sell his car to pay the fines.
Lots of illogical people commenting how dangerboy on the bike is putting the public at risk, totally ignoring the cops flogging an 1800kg rocket in a built up area to catch him. Goons!
For those who don't know, riding any powered vehicle in South Australia is illegal, this includes all electric powered vehicles, even electric scooters are illegal to ride in any public place, unless it's one the government has an agreement with a corporation to hire to you and stick on every fucking corner so they can take their cut. Corrupt as shit. And yes, this even means you can't let your children even drive one of those electric cars on the footpath or around in a park. No one legally can use personally owned electric scooters, electric long boards, electric bikes or even a Segway without having a licence and having the item registered. SA great... At making stupid fucking laws.
then buy an actual motorbike, get it registered, get a license and get insurance OR here's an insane idea, just use the bike without the motor. Crazy I know right?
@@youtubR72 oh yes, and be forced to pay stupidly high bribes (I consider registration to be a bribe) just to be able to drive the car, then spend thousands getting your licence (unless you know someone with a full licence) and then spend even more money on fuel, in addition to the thousands of dollars needed to buy a car in the first place The bike is way cheaper
These are old cops waiting for retirement, they basically just enforce road laws. That bike is classified as a motorbike once you attach a motor, that is common knowledge.
I don't get people like you, real cases are being solved by the more advanced police whos main purpose is just that, these are literal road enforcement police, this is what they do. You're also acting like they can just go out and catch a murderer real quick as if it doesn't take time to track them down, plan the sting etc
No comment,it’s just basic common sense ,this guy was not trying to sort out his life,but going to overthrow the state that made him poor….they could have and should have taken him to tazzy,for life. Or nz.
@@evvtet these are the same cops, especially in smaller towns, that take an hour to show up to a call for a domestic or a break in, we over spend on the police force and all we get is people like this cruising around trying to find hairs to split, that’s the point being made that you’ve completely missed here, no one is comparing these bottom feeders to detectives, not to mention how under policed regional areas are in relation to youth crime, but these clowns would rather do this all day long than go and make a difference Try to comprehend that one
In a way this kind of thing is good for taxpayers money (and for road safety as well), really it's a good thing that people can't just make their own motorbikes without zero safety standards to conform to and not pay any registration. Whatever the size motorbikes have to be up to our roadworthy standards and it would be kind of silly for that not to apply just because someone wants to make their own. They can't just ignore it.
@@Roger__Wilco ''They can't just ignore it.'' Yes they can , believe it or not there's bigger problems in the world than this. The world isn't going to end because some druggie puts a 50cc motor on his bike that's actually slower than most push bikes go without a motor on flat ground. Turn off the t.v , put down your newspaper and go for a walk or something and stop worrying about all the drops in the ocean and stop been a busy body.
@@captainslav6528 That's always such a stupid simplistic argument on so many topics ... "there's bigger problems blah blah blah". It's not the job of police on traffic patrol to solve the bigger problems of the world, and working among other things to maintain a basic level of road safety and vehicle standards is. I even specifically said that in reply to someone whining about taxpayers money, explaining that letting people simply make their own home made motorbikes and avoid paying registration obviously wouldn't be a better thing. You're really not in a position to try to act so smug and condescending here.
@@Roger__Wilco They shouldn't have to pay registration if they are literally slower than a normal push bike and back when these power assisted bikes were legal it wasn't like it caused a huge influx of people to not pay rego , it simply didn't happen nor was there any safety issues from it. It wasn't like people suddenly started strapping liter bike engines to push bikes , they allowed up to a certain cc without license or rego and everything was fine until they made them illegal again. Not everything has to be regulated to a tee to scrounge every cent out of people and the police aren't doing much for road safety they just extort money from people I know first hand hearing it from the horses mouth so to speak , they have quotas. If you wanna make roads safer lets start by teaching people how to drive in a straight line at the speed limit and the bare basic ability to stay in their own lane and look ahead not just stare down at the ground 2 meters in front of them. I'd feel safer getting rid of all the traffic cops and spend the money on teaching hopeless people to drive instead of nitpicking tiny offenses the only thing the cops should be concerned about on the road is if they see someone blatantly doing something wreckless that's it. We don't need ''traffic cops'' we only need normal cops. They should be solving the ''bigger problems in world'' instead of harassing people over silly things for money.
@@captainslav6528 I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about the fact that people can't simply turn something into a motorbike and pretend it's not a motorbike to bypass any registration or road worthiness requirements and then whine when the police do their job pulling you up on it. Whatever absolute rubbish you want to talk about engines making the bikes slower or comparing them to engines you'd fit to a 150kg+ bike as if that's in any way relevant makes no difference.
The definition of motorcycle? A two-wheeled vehicle that is powered by a motor and has no pedals. Pretty sure that had pedals so fight it in court people.
Yes it's a motor assisted non registrable bicycle. Not even a moped category so the only charge is if the engine is above 200w. Some jurisdictions allow petrol powered engines as long as the engine only engages is the rider is pedalling under 25kms.
@@glennoc8585 the 200w 20kph limit is ridiculous, I can generate more than that by pedalling (yes I dyno'd myself once) and I have pedalled a bike up to 40kph There's literally no good reason for not copying the US ebike laws here, European ebike laws are garbage
A few years back my partner and I were pulled over by police. The 2 policemen were going over the car looking for defects. Then a 2nd police car pulls up and another 2 policemen start going over the car. The 4 policemen ended up slapping a defect notice on the car. Police are not pursuing criminals anymore. Not in Adelaide anyway.
Used to be a common tactic here in the UK. I got stopped in London because my white van looked similar to a van that was recently involved in a crime. Yeah right, do you know how many white vans are on the street's of London, a LOT! Anyways, i was a little pissed as i'd heard that one so many time's and let them know so with that they decided to go over my van looking for something, anything they could ticket me on. And did they struggle. And what did they get me on? A low, not even empty window washer reservoir. How petulant is that. Anyway, looked at the cop in the eyes and smiled my way through the lecture and i honestly do think, looking into that officer's soul, that inside, he knew he was a dickhead!
Mate I was stopped while riding a bike on a cycle path because i didnt have a helmet by two cops crossing a median strip into oncoming traffic across 4 lanes...
Meanwhile people are getting scammed out of money left right and centre and the cops are like nah that's too hard but I can catch this bloke on a push bike.
@@gold3084 What kills more people? Fully licensed car drivers or motorcycles. Just cause you have a little plastic square and pay the government for registration does not make you any safer
the police officer was really respectful and getting in the backseat with him was super humanizing for the guy which is nice to see as opposed to some north american cities that dont care about rehabbing their people and cast them out
Did they need to go full ham on him, with a breath and drug test? Like come on just tell him he can’t ride it because it illegal and let him off with a warning.
If they didn't police this kind of thing then anyone could just get away with making their own motorbike that doesn't have to conform to any road safety standards, you can't just build whatever you want and expect to be able to use it on public roads. It's pretty much imperative that rules like that are enforced. As for just the money, if anything it's protecting you from higher taxes because people can't get away with riding/driving whatever they want just because it's not up to safety standards and therefore can't be registered.
Yeah bro, I find that utterly disgusting. These people have no regard for society and they are worse than all those other crims who aren't as easy to catch.
i can sleep sound now, cheers lads! this bloke was riding more cautiously than the normal cyclists on the road and they pulled him over like they were going after a murder suspect 😆
Oh you're trying to save money by riding a bike because rego is absurdly expensive, well here's a massive fine to ensure that you can't even save up for it - SA Police
Love the basket on handle bars.we will be driving all these over next few years.for god sake give the man a warning.its now year 2023.how are you going mate.?
Oh thank god. Good to see our hard earned tax dollars being used for a good reason. Houses are being broken into every night where I live. But as long as this concreter can't get to work I'm happy
So glad to see 99% of commenters on this story agree that this poor bloke was hard done by. Everyone is waking up... So now think- if we all started pulling the same way at the same time, the masses could make serious change.
A petrol powered bicycle is a motorbike. Typical Adelaide issues - rampant ice problem, and all Sergeant 80 Year Old and his partner care about is a loon on a souped up scooter.
The law was changed nearly 10 years ago. You need a licence, and the vehicle needs to be registered, which those bikes can not be. So, not legal. Just do a search on the SA.GOV.AU site, the laws regarding them are listed there. Same applies to electric bikes above a certain power rating, but any petrol engines are not legal.
He was riding on the footpath when we saw him, that doesn’t mean he can’t ride on the road if he feels like it. If you put any motor on a bike, it becomes motorbike. It’s the law, parliament passed it for most likely many reasons; we can’t just ignore that. The responsibility of this falls on the biker, he needed to look up if he was allows to do what he did and if it was legal. On top of that, since he was technically driving a motor vehicle, being high on meth is also illegal. He would rather spend his money on drugs than an actual motor bike and license. No sympathy goes his way from me.
Honestly this is the norm, actual crime.. well that's just too much paperwork aswell of risk of getting hurt. Minor infringement? Well there's revenue in that and can palm it off as 'helping the community'
@@alavista4218 in south aust it is illegal as the cop stated. And bc the guy had No licence Was dui And was on the footpath (negligent driving) hes lucky that he wasnt arrested
Pedal assisted is not illegal, as long as he continues to pedal which he was then he is within his rights, i hope he fought this in court, the drug test was illegal !
I thought if it's below 50cc you can ride it. $5k who's the real criminals highway robbery. That money also goes to the police, not the community that was in "danger" police these days seem to steal more money from people than actual thieves. I've been robbed by the police multiple times but never by another member of the public.
They say the bikes are not designed to have motors on them but the motors are actually designed for the bikes.. contradiction #1, they say you need rego and insurance but they don't design a system where these can be registered even tho there'd be good money in revenue for them.. #2, he's cruisin down the street safely with a full faced helmet harming no one, yet they're flogging down the streets chasing him and running red lights and breaking far more dangerous laws than he ever did #3, there's probably about 20 more but who cares coz they're always right, but the biggest contradiction would be # 1, your not aloud a little engine on your mtb that will get you 40kph max but they've taken scooters and fit them with 3000 watts of power that can get you up to 100kph and call them legal (stuff sa, e scooters are legal everywhere else).. they should allow us to put these engines on mtb's and take them over the pits for a rwc and then let us register them, and they can implement a whole bunch of rules that are to be followed but they just straight up ban them, coz they talk about global warming but would prefer us to fire up 6 to 8 cylinders just to get bread and milk instead of letting us cruise down the shops on one of these, if these are so illegal they have to make the pests of the road illegal aswell!! All those toss pots in their lycra that think they own the road and make the road an unsafe place are also the ones that I caught online winging and bitching about these bikes and wanting them to gone, well EVERYONE have been wanting you's gone but you'se can still impede traffic in 80 zones doing 35kph being road hogs!! 20 petrol bikes on a footpath with rules to adhere to would be far safer than just one of these numpty's out on the road that they shouldn't even be on
I don't know why people are complaining, it's a law, they're just doing their job as they would do the same when stopping drink drivers etc People just wanna complain about something.
I don't know why your defending almost every argument. We understand this is law, in case you haven't noticed our fucked up politicians make lots of stupid fucking laws. Including baning all electric powered vehicles unless you have a licence and register it. Look it up if you don't believe me. So now, in a generation when green electric vehicles are becoming the norm, the government literally makes it so no kids can ride them anywhere anymore. Yet we allow corporations to hire the same electric scooters and bikes out to people without the same rules applying. It's hypocritical and a stupid fucking laws.
The motorised bike laws in this country are bullshit Petrol kits are banned, even if the engine is de-tuned to meet the power limits Electric kits have such severe restrictions that they are practically useless (I can ride and accelerate faster using only pedal power than using a street legal 200w kit without pedalling) The laws are so restrictive because the government doesn't want to lose registration revenue, that's literally the only reason the laws are like that
This is what’s wrong with police they just can’t see a man who made his own little engine and enjoying his day. They could have just intercepted him told him it’s not legal and not to drive in public road. But NO they want money.
Driving through red lights and speeding to catch up to dude on a bicycle. Well done SAPOL you've done f@#k all to keep the community safe and made some more money for the coffers. Bunch of crooks with badges!!
I have seen people riding bikes with motors on them frequently.Never knew they were illegal?What about the gofers that elderly people travel in?Do they require a licence for them??I think this was OTT.
I'm SO glad this guy's been stopped, if he'd been allowed to continue, God alone knows what catastrophes would've befallen humanity. Glad to see our tax dollars at work. Now IF we could see a few paedophiles/thieves/thugs/murderers behind bars, the world would be perfect, and most police officers would be locked-up.
Look how excited the revenue raisers get when they spot someone they can fine. Greedy state governments have turned police into tax collectors. I think its time the federal government stands up and forces the states to start using police as they were intended, fighting crime. or amalgamates the state police into the federal police with state branches and takes over their funding and any revenue they raise.
