Originally Posted by
GreyGhost
You would win in court, but still be out $1000+. I would have a lot fewer problems with 172 if there were repercussions on the department and officers for issuing 172 charges that get tossed. As it is now, it is an easy fundraiser for them with no downside.
If you put these two parts together, you have a pretty easy (although BS) 172 charge for a 2 stroke in a parking lot.
Where a police officer believes on reasonable and probable grounds that a person is driving, or has driven, a motor vehicle on a highway in contravention of subsection (1), the officer shall
Driving a motor vehicle in a manner that indicates an intention to lift some or all of its tires from the surface of the highway, including driving a motorcycle with only one wheel in contact with the ground
Two strokes like to lift the front, and you arrived on public roads so you are guilty. Again, I think this argument blows, but there is nothing stopping them from charging it.