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#2974379 - 03/10/10 08:33 PM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: Dart]
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Originally Posted By: Dart
I'd hate for this guy to be the one to judge the motorcycle driver's course for a license!

Simply amazing riding.

Reminds me of when I took my test roughly a zillion years ago in Montana. Being terrifically broke, the only transportation I could scrape up enough money for was a little Honda 90 scooter.

Yeah, I was that broke.

Anyhow, I still had to have a motorcycle endorsement on my license, so on the appointed Saturday morning I show up to the snickers of everyone else. The one guy that didn't laugh was this huge biker guy on this full up chopper. Absolutely gorgeous, a real 1970's throwback sort of custom job, with extended forks (though not the nine foot long rediculous types), raised handlebars, etc.

Well we get to the cones and there is no way that bike is gonna make it. One got three tries; otherwise it's a fail. Twice the guy tries, and even though he handled it as well as anyone could, it was a physical impossibility.

"Hell, why don't you ride the scooter?" the officer in charge says.
"Do you mind?" the biker asks.

So here's this 300 pound leathered up biker on my little red scooter putting through the cones and nobody's saying nothing. Absolutely nothing.

But it is a mental picture I will keep forever.


Good story Dart. Yea I remember an old navy buddy, was about 5'6" and could do donuts, win the slo race and pull a wheelie on a 81 Superglide.He wrecked it on a field in a drag race in a grass field. , in a meet in South Carolina....and walked away, riding the bike the next day home with the front forks twisted..... Don't sell the bikers short lol.

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#2974382 - 03/10/10 08:42 PM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: Domestos]
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Awesome control. I think that's the BMW R1200RT Police model. Those BMW 1200 GS hybrids are awesome. If I were to get one last bike in my life it would be the BMW R 1200 GS Adventure. You can run those suckers around the world.
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#2974485 - 03/11/10 05:16 AM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: Dirt_Diver]
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Dart - "Six months later they got raided by the cops and cleaned out (drugs or something) and the girls across the way got busted for prostitution; the trailer park lost all of its charm and we moved back into the barracks."

You and I would get on well. We share a similar zest for life.
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#2974526 - 03/11/10 06:37 AM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: oldgrognard]
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I vowed at a very young age that should I become senile at the age of 95 and trapped with only memories of what happened sixty years before that they would at least be interesting.

Now I live a pretty pedestrian life, mostly by design.
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#2974871 - 03/11/10 05:59 PM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: Dart]
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Insane!! Where can I sign up for that kind of riding skills?
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#2974895 - 03/11/10 07:26 PM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: wheelsup_cavu]
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Impressive!
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#2974905 - 03/11/10 07:49 PM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: K6_Scorpion]
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"Dont try to run away from him".....

In a walmart isle? i wont biggrin.

Thats just slow speed handling, what about the high speed stuff? police bikes with all their equipment have their CG way higher then a normal motorcycle, which means they'll wash out real easy on high speed turns, something cars dont have much of an issue with if the driver knows his stuff.... or a decent sports bike.

Nice skills though.

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#2974947 - 03/11/10 09:13 PM Re: Don't try and outrun this Policeman!! [Re: Domestos]
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The irony...a cop on a bike and the song that was played..Tequila!
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