Have You or Would You Ever Run?

[gregp]

Have I ever run on my streetbike? No.
Would I ever, on my street bike? Doubtful.
Have I ever run on my dual sports? Yes, several times. Got away each and every time. As long as I know exactly where I am, and the trail network that exists, and as long as I make the decision that I can easily evade (I usually have 1-2 seconds to make this decision), I'm outa there.
Would I do it again, on my DS? Easily. The problem is that every time I was chased, I was not doing anything wrong! They just see a "Dirt Bike" and go into pursuit mode (Search: Red Fox Fiasco)
Normal scenario for me: I am traveling from trail to trail, going down a back road at 35-50 MPH, A cruiser is oncoming at 35-50 MPH, we pass each other, I look in my mirror and see him turn on the lights and start to turn around. I slip into the woods and pretend I never saw him attempting to come after me.
All they see is high fenders and bright colors. They do not see my plate, inspection sticker, blinkers, mirror, etc..
Why ruin my day?
I have been pulled over on a street bike (several years ago) and been *accused* of having run from this officer before! I was berated and treated extremely poorly. I was ticketed for speeding. I fought the ticket and won, and wrote a letter to the officers comanding officer explaining the entire event. I was contacted and an investigation was held. The officer left the force early. He clearly did not deserve to hold the position he did. (They don't like it when their superiors stick a microscope up their ass!)

[Doc]

Sadly I must confess I ran once.

It was a knee jerk reaction to my friend taking off in front of me.

On a back road going along at a good clip, crest a hill the same time the cop does. I roll out of it and my friend downshifts and takes off. I think "well shit your not leaving me here" and give chase. Look back and the cop didn't even have his blues on and hadn't turned around. (Is that really "running")

When we stopped I expressed how unhappy I was because I knew he thought I would stop and take the ticket, letting him get away. I never road with him alone again.

[ChrisNoF4i]

Ran on the bike.
Ran in the cage.
Ran on the 50.

ChrisNoF4i - 12
Cops - 0

I'm like a white Jason Bourne.
I'm still running.

[RyanNicholson]

I've never run, but I suppose I've "strategically evaded"....not gunning it but definitely quickly taken some "scenic" routes away from from where I may or may not have seen blue lights.

[Pleasegivesoap]

is Jason Bourne not white?

[mikeb]

i usually stop and kiss the cops ass especially in my own town buuut i have been know to simply roll on the throttle to stupid speed and take the next exit on certain highways. if i know i can get away i'm goin sorry.

[Evil_Weasel]

once or twice when i was young and dumb. the best chase i was involved in was out in cali and i didn't even know i was running. hitting up the mountain twisties with my roommate on his bike and some random dude in an RX-8 we found on the highway. apparently we went ripping by a CHP officer (i never saw him). once he finnaly caught us he pulled over all 3 of us. he was kinda upset. something about trying to catch us for 10 miles and topping out his crown vic repetadly in the proccess. we appoligized and walked away with matching speeding tickets.

i flew by a radar trap out in the middle of nowhere south AZ. 100 miles of dead flat, straight highway and a cop sitting behind a shrub in the median. didn't see him till it was too late...went by around 150ish. checked the mirror and i don't think he wanted any. i upped the pace to the 170s (police helo only good for 140) till i got off the highway 30 miles later (no closer exits) just to make sure.

that was the same day i covered 100 miles in about 45 minutes. i left gila bend with a full tank and my fuel light came on after only 95 miles at speed.

[Kham]

damn! this thread explains the crackdown lately. yay for all the ones got away.

[OreoGaborio]

Kham's gonna get busted again, I can see it

[tom5796]

On a bike no, but as a 16yo in a 77 Regal...

Driving to a party one night a friend unexpectedly passes me underneath in a left hand turn. Of course my teenage kneejerk reaction was to pass him right back immediately. So going over a hill, around a corner I'm in the oncoming lane and I see headlights emerge. Cut to the right, but the girl riding with me looks back and says "That was a cop!" and then I see the lights.

I bang a right, fly up a side street... park in a strangers driveway and we run into the garage. The cop drove past and I thought we were in the clear but then saw him hit the brakes and put it into reverse. Knowing we were caught we walked out and took the punishment. He told me that he could have brought me to the station; passing in a no passing, reckless driving (I forced the cop off the road into the woods), speeding, evading arrest, trespassing etc. But no, instead he was going to issue me a $40 ticket (Whew!)... and then escort me to "the young lady's house" to explain to her parents what happened, and then to my house to explain (No! Just arrest me!). My mother had a heart attack when she saw there was a cop in the foyer.


Stupid, stupid, stupid. In retrospect a very cool thing for the cop to do. I learned a lot that night.

[Kham]

Kham's gonna get busted again, I can see it

i know. everyone gets away and tomand me are gettin fuck. oh wait. now i sound like a "victim". fuckit im running

[Mystic]

no i have never ran ....i know to many cops or people who work in the courts to bother running and risking shit ....

plus i know of someone who ran a few years back did a smoke show at the light cop was coming other way ...threw on the lights and turned around well kid jumped on the highway and lost it going on and slid into the grass when the cop caught up to him lets just say he got his ...ended up with a broken nose and a few cheap shots for running

[SSearchVT]

Out ran the Fish and Game several times as a kid on the dirtbikes...

On the roads - not in the last 15 years - my brains have increased, past the size of my balls. However - Blew past a State trooper sitting in the median at about 145 on a GSXR-1100 in REALLY small town Vermont. Later that night I was having dinner at a pizza place- the bikes out front. Same trooper (went to high school with him) comes up and starts talking - mentions a bike 'Just Like that one out front' blew past him earlier that day...

'You don't say? Funny how they all look alike these days..."

[ChrisNoF4i]

is Jason Bourne not white?

Not as white as me.

The following has been reposted for entertainment purposes only:
We were just minding our business trying to get home from the keg party. Myself, Mr. M and Mr. D. 3 guys on fifties, alone on the mean streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. When the cop starts tailing us through the backroads. So naturally, we speed up. And naturally, they throw the blues on. So I decide to lead the way and ditch these clowns. After all, fifties can go where cop cars can't, right? So we cut through a funeral parlor yard. I figured we could cut across a few roads and come out somewhere different. I certainly did not figure that they would fly up on us and chase us on foot though. Most cops are way too lazy for that. But then it dawned on me that these were State Troopers.... young, full of energy, and always ready to hand out a beat down, even if they have to work for it.

And I didn't figure on cutting through a house with a fenced-in yard. So the cop cars cornered us in the yard and I just followed along the 7 foot fence, hoping it would end somewhere. Well, it didn't end but there was a gate... and Viola! it had no lock. So I turn to tell Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dumber that I found our out..... and they were gone. They broke right instead of following the fence to the left. I yelled to them, but they did not hear. That's when I saw flashlights coming at me - FAST.

I booked throught the gate and wound up in another fenced yard. Fuck beans! But it too had a gate, so I booked it through there and came out right behind the cruiser. I hid behind a parked car and waited for two more cruisers to pass. Then I headed for *destination unknown*. Left, right, right, left, right, right, left. Stop. I couldn't find Mr. M's house, but I found the keg party again. Took me a few more hours to find Mr. M.

They tried interrogating Mr. M once they knocked his ass to the ground - but he wouldn't flip on his boys. He's a stand-up guy (even when he's getting knocked down!) I got a ride home from the party and then quietly placed my fiddy to rest in the back of the Burban. Then I came across the 3rd hoodlum (Mr. D) walking down the street with a gas can. He told me he ditched his fifty in the backyard and hopped the fence, and that Mr. M was in jail. So we went and found the fifty in dude's bushes (about 2 blocks from where Mr. D claims he ditched it). Then went jail-hopping. Until we finally found the cop, and he told us that all he did was take away the key and the backpack full of beers and make Mr. M walk home because he was bombed. Mr. M wandered around for awhile because he couldn't remember where he lived but he eventually found his way. So all-in-all, it wasn't too bad. No one got incarcerated, no one got a traffic ticket, and no fifties got impounded.

Protect and Serve!

[rjh200]

I have never run and I never will once I see the blue lights I stop. However on occasion I have passed cops going in the opposite direction and did not give them a chance for me to see the blues.

[seth399]

I havent run and wouldnt on the street...that isn't counting times on my mx bike I 'evaded' environmental police or town police.

[tsanterre]

Can't post all the details (no time @ work...) but yes I've ran on more than one occasion.

1st time - outran one city cop...then after entering the next city, a diff cop pulled me over (for doing 50 in a 35...of course 50 feels like 20 after doing 120). This guy was young and obviously liked bikes...my plate was in the storage trunk, and he called it in and said it didnt match the bike description. Long story short he let me go with a "ride safe".

2nd time - kinda fell to peer pressure when my buddy took off in front of me. There were three of us...I was in the middle. The guy behind me dumped his bike trying to corner over a set of RR tracks too fast. I didn't see him lay it down so I kept going. Long story short...I had to meet the cop anyway...again a cool guy and only busted me for "rolling through a stop-sign".

I'd have to say I've pushed the luck factor (both cool cops)...

[TheIglu]

Hell, I've stopped even before the lights were flashing on a group ride once. Pretty sure it saved the people behind me the ticket.

I saw KB's penis on that ride too.

[NashuaMatt]

never...ever ever ever ever ever ever...never

[-jro-]

nope, never have and never will. I've been pulled over twice on the bike but not a single ticket yet

[scottieducati]

So... I crested a hill going triple digits thru a 35, trying to catch 2 guys in our group that missed a turn. Top of the hill, local SUV lights up the disco lights. I roll off the throttle and approach a fork in the road, stay to the right as I'm coasting down the road. Granted, I didn't light it up and take off, but I didn't hit the brakes and stop immediately either...

I turn around and see the SUV go BLAZING down the road and takes the left fork.... so I stopped and pondered for about 20 mins, got on the bike, rode home....

Not sure if it counts as "running" but yeah, I didn't stop and pull over.... sure was lucky though, which I have never, ever, ever, ever been before. Not sure how the stars aligned that way, but I know damn well it happens again I won't be so lucky.... and I'm certainly not stupid enough to gun it and try and outrun the .50.

[Fitz]

Shrug.. never run on a motorcycle. Frankly I know I don't have the skills.

I did compete in the Cannonball One Lap of America put on by Car and Driver in 2002 and 2005. First in a turbocharged and heavily modified RS and and then in an older Impala with an LT1 swap. Truth be told that event is all about expediting travel.

I've raced cars since I was 14. Just stepped away this year and sold the race car. I'm much more confident in a cager than I am on a bike but the wife/kids/house/old man syndrome has tabled most of my reckless behavior.

Fitz

[GixerJockey]

I don't run... It puts me in danger... It puts the officer in danger... I don't want to be responsible for me, or anyone else getting hurt because I did something irresponsible.

[Jenni]

pfft... why bother.
i couldn't run if i tried.

I don't run... It puts me in danger... It puts the officer in danger... I don't want to be responsible for me, or anyone else getting hurt because I did something irresponsible.

All my stories are on a need to know basis and no one here needs to know them.

heh, why am i not surprised you have a book of 'em, timmy.

[brewmaster]

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