| Author | Message | ||
     12r |
...I came to a 1/2 mi two-lane queue of traffic on the approach to a roundabout, so exercising my prerogative as a motorcyclist, I filter carefully along the middle of the queue. In the foreground is another motorcyclist who is making hard work of it, moving needlessly from side-to-side with this awful elbows-up-and-down style. So I catch him up and he's on an incredibly clean Pan European - I swear he's polished it lol. He sees me straightaway and then stops between 40 tonnes of Spanish cabbages and a delivery van, who are like 10 mm closer than the rest of the traffic. There's still loads of room but I think oh well and wait for this fu*kwit to paddle his barge out of the way, but instead he rides at a wobbly walking pace to the front of the queue and then pulls out in front a car already on the roundabout  I negotiate the roundabout and catch up with Mr.Honda, quartz-locked to the outside lane despite there being no other traffic. In England we only undertake motorcycles in special circumstances (like when the rider is a total jerk) so I wait patiently for him to pull over. We get to the next set of traffic lights in this sad procession and again he does the wobbly filtering thing. The lights go green and he pulls away so slowly I have to ease off to avoid tailgating him. Modest family saloons are catching us up, thinking WTF, then suddenly he turns on his flashing blue lights and swerves off down a side street. Must've been his first day on a police bike  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Sounds like your boys get some good training. | ||
| Xbullet |
um...wow. | ||
| Paw |
Sounds like to me he was trying to get you to do something stupid like pass him on one wheel. | ||
| Naustin |
1/2 of all cops are below average. | ||
| Ryker77 |
had a ••••••• cop wreck his patrol car into the back up my fully parked car. His car slid 48 feet. Mind you he gave me the blue lights and I pulled over. Idiot was playing with the buttons or radio and failed to notice I was on a 35mph road. He was the laughing stock of the police department. BTW Do a search for cops death rates/causes.. It's sad but some of them get run over by there own car since they forget to place the car in park. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
there was a woman sheriff deputy that was so bad that they finally put her behind the desk to keep her off the street. | ||
| Stack |
They need to train like the Japanese Check this video out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaq0zOaAVU stack | ||
| 12r |
Yesterday's story is unfortunately not an isolated case. Only last month I caught up with a police bike on one of my favourite roads and it was interesting to watch how he handled the corners. He was doing everything by the book, that is, well over to the left on the approach to right-handers and near the crown of the road on left-handers. Problem was, he never deviated from this approach even when the tarmac on the left of the road was rippled or when a truck was coming the other way. His overtaking was erratic; sometimes he looked over the roof of the car in front, pulled out (good) and then had to pull back in because he hadn't seen the car coming the other way, other times he just gassed it and went. Whatever, he was clearly not giving it 100% concentration. And last year, a local traffic officer was speed trapped at 150 mph 'testing' a pursuit vehicle on a public motorway (our speed limit is 70 mph). After a number of hearings and appeals, the officer's conviction was overturned on the grounds that he was a skilled traffic officer and trained to drive safely at high speeds. Do as I say, not as I do eh ? | ||
| Bcordb3 |
1/2 of all cops are below average. where did you get that statistic? | ||
| Rainman |
We're lucky in Charlottesville, Va. We've got four guys who ride all year long and they are extremely good. I even got to "ride along" with one on patrol, with me on my Sporty behind him. It's amazing what he could do with that Road King, but he practiced all of the time, whether making U turns or taking lunch in the parking lots zagging between parking spaces or running up roadside berms like a dirt bike. | ||
| Dbird29 |
Wouldn't it be 1/2 half are below the median? | ||
| Jayvee |
C'mon, in common parlance "average" is used for what is technically called "median". That's the way the average person uses the term... | ||
| Ryker77 |
Either way a bike cop has a dangerous job and most of the time they are just used as revenue sources to write speeding tickets. I wouldn't risk my life for 15-20/hr only to write bullshitz speeding tickets. |
