Police ‘stealth’ warnings prompt controversy

[Graham62]

I've just paused the video at at 13 seconds and  has that van got on the rear wheel ?

[Rusty Nuts]

That looks like a surveying / mapping van to me.

[Graham62]

 

[user650]

It'll be checking for pot holes 

[Brockett]

Pity they don't ride motorcycle, they'd soon find where the crap road conditions are.

[SimonW]

Have your handlebars melted in the sun - they seem to be drooping downwards...? 

[Brockett]

Maybe not a speed camera van then .... good, but just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me. I really really really do hate those things.

[TLPower]

I suspect that vehicle is a google mapping /street view thingy. The device on the offside rear wheel could measure distances. Anything highways/council is plastered with chapter 8 chevrons with amber beacons.

Anyone remember tha camera inside the John Deere tractor on a Yorkshire ride a few years ago, it was somewhere near Fimber?

[Loz]

@ holmesy, I ride a sportsbike and a vstrom, I may push the limits on both bikes, but I always slow for the villages, but in contrast to your Mr sportsbike comment, I have often noticed when on my sportsbike and  that after overtaking a Tourer, Adventure bike,upright bike etc in the lanes, that going through the village they suddenly seem to appear up my chuff, they certainly don't get there by sticking to 30 ;).
I don't think you can label a rider of certain types of bikes (or cars) for speeding in villages, its just idiots in general.