Welcome to Friday Fudge – a weekly round up of the more 'unusual' motorcycle related stories that are just too silly to post on their own, but raise a much bigger chortle when you slap them all together and take the piss.

Drum roll for Suzuki

Nick Mason, wife Annette, and the Bandit.

A drummer whose beat has influenced the world of music for decades has chosen a Suzuki Bandit 650S for his daily commute.

Nick Mason, an original member of Pink Floyd, owns a stable-full of exotic cars, but chooses the Suzuki for its ease of use and agility in heavy traffic.

He bought the bike earlier this summer. His wife Annette also uses it.

His statement about the bike sounds like something Suzuki in Britain might have cooked up for him, but as long as he keeps in mind the lessons of other drummers - say, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen - he should be all right.

"I've had many bikes over the years, including some big adventure models," he told the press. "But for beating London congestion, the Bandit's proved to be perfect. It's agile enough to cut through traffic and has more than enough power when you leave town. With its fairing offering added weather protection, it's been great when the weather hasn't, too."

That gun shoots crooked

Radar guns are innaccurate, says cop speeder.

A British police officer will fight a speeding ticket by attacking the radar gun that clocked her at 79 mph in a 50 zone.

The officer, a superintendent, pleaded not-guilty to the charge. Her lawyer said the accuracy of the radar gun would be challenged in court.

He also said he would use the lack of warning signs in the area where the superintendent was stopped would also be used in his defence case.

The officer was given a verbal warning when she was stopped, but another officer had that moved up to an actual charge of speeding.

Barbecue Biker nailed

Lucky shot: passing motorist gets the goods on Barbecue Biker.

A New Zealand motorcyclist who found what he thought was a great deal on a barbecue has been fined $800 AU ($750 CA) for wearing it while riding.

The 29-year-old was photographed by a passing motorist as he rode with the barbecue placed over his body on a Melbourne highway. When the photo was published in local papers, police charged the man. He has also been banned from driving for a month.

He had found the barbecue among some garbage, and told the court that he had been inspired to transport it home on his motorcycle by a documentary that showed people in Vietnam using motorbikes as carry-all devices.

The court called his actions "ridiculous." And the barbecue, according to the man's lawyer, was "a dud."

The man was asked by Barbecues Galore to appear in ads for the chain, but he turned them down.

Trees for speeders

These men think they're going too fast.

A county council in the U.K. is using an optical illusion to trick drivers into believing they should slow down.

Nothing new there — but in this case it's not lines on roads, but trees that are meant to fool speeding drivers.

The Norfolk County Council has planted 200 trees at four villages in order to get drivers to slow down by a few miles an hour.

The trees are located at decreasing separations as they get closer to a village, so a driver's peripheral vision will sense increasing speed even as a vehicle runs at a steady rate. That should convince the drivers to slow down, the council thinks.

In other areas, lines across roads are placed at decreasing distances apart from each other in order to simulate the effect of higher speeds.

Cuts in government funding are likely to interfere with speed camera operations around Britain, so planting trees may offset that. If nothing else, they'll make good stoppers for out-of-control cars and trucks.

Round the clock rider

Even spectators will be exhausted.

A Massachusetts man plans to spend 24 hours riding motorcycles without a break this weekend to raise money for Boston Children's Hospital, and the Guinness people will be there.

Not the beer people, sadly, but the book people. Apparently, the stunt will set some sort of record.

The founder of a nonprofit group called Riding to Raise Money will begin his 24-hour ride on Saturday. He'll use a Harley-Davidson Sportster, a Kawasaki 636, and a Honda 50.

Organizers are not sure what the old Guinness record is, but they're confident this will break it.

Police will escort the rider through local towns just before he starts his ride, which begins at noon.

He's been practising for it, and apparently he's in pretty good shape, so there's a good chance, locals feel, that he'll do it.