The answer is simple. If you intend to ride fast, stuff some stolen goods in your pocket or hire a 14 year old to ride with you.
You know, this all makes sense only of you look at it from the viewpoint of a politician. Arrest a criminal, and you have to have a very expensive trial, then feed the bloke for years. Traffic tickets, on the other hand, hardly ever go to court. The vict... ah... dastardly criminal, walks in, pays up and is gone. The government gets a couple hundred quid and it only costs maybe a half crown of some lowly clerks time.
