The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

If there are any LEO's here who take offense to this question, I apologize, but you know what they say about curiosity....

 Anyway, the story/question is this: I constantly hear war stories from sport bikers about how they ride without plates, or bend them all up so that LEO's can't read them and how they pretty much blast around with impunity because LEO's simply cannot catch them.

Has anyone tried this with a Warrior and succeeded? Tell your story, if you dare!

Sushi_Biker:

If there are any LEO's here who take offense to this question, I apologize, but you know what they say about curiosity....

 Anyway, the story/question is this: I constantly hear war stories from sport bikers about how they ride without plates, or bend them all up so that LEO's can't read them and how they pretty much blast around with impunity because LEO's simply cannot catch them.

Has anyone tried this with a Warrior and succeeded? Tell your story, if you dare!

INJEKTER:

you cant outrun the radio

But is very easily fooled.

I'd never have the balls to even consider out running a cop.  As injektor said, they have far too many tools at their disposal.  If they want to catch you, they will.  Especially on a cruiser.  At a top speed of roughly 120mph... hell, my 4 door Mazda will do 150mph.

I've always marvelled at my buddies who've claimed to have cracked their throttles instead of pulling over on their sport bikes.  I just don't have it in me to even consider it.

Charger top speed:  145mph

Impala top speed:  140mph

Crown Vic Interceptor top speed:  130mph

Choose your battles carefully...

On the way home from the bowling alley a few years ago, a guy on a gixxer pulled up next to me at a light.

He twisted the throttle and I decided to just keep up with him. Next thing I know, BLUE LIGHTS!

I pulled over, but the other guy just kept going.

The cop asked me why I stopped, "You know we're not allowed to chase you"

It had never even occurred to me to run from a cop.

Gave me a roadside sobriety test (Which I somehow passed) and a ticket for 125/45.

I know I was lucky as hell I didn't go to jail and he even gave me a break when we went to court.

He didn't object when my attorney got the judge to reduce the ticket to 85/45.

The fine was still $380.00 plus the attorney fee.

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40 over? I don'tknow about your state, but over here, we would not have a licenese to drive for that.

Let me share a true story with you guys. Some of you know of the NY State Thruway (87). A colleague of mine was riding with his two friends on sports bikes weaving through traffic at 100+ mph. They passed 2 state troopers at a speed trap and gunned it. They made it a few exits away when they came upon a road block. The troopers they passed had the next set of troopers at the next speed trap block the entire southbound highway. All three lanes. They lost their bikes, lost their licenses for 5 years and had to pay thousands in fees.

 You cannot outrun a radio and IMO its just not worth it.

 The police should be required to beat people @sses for running. They should be fired for not beating them. When you run you put peoples family in danger. If you run I hope you pile it into the guard rai.

JMO after a laarge coffee.

patriotins:

I pulled over, but the other guy just kept going.

The cop asked me why I stopped, "You know we're not allowed to chase you"

You should've said, "If I knew, then I would've never stopped!" 

On a serious note, It's the same policy here in Maryland not to initiate a chase on sportbikes. This started a couple years back when an off duty LEO on pursuit of a fleeing suspect on a sportbike. The off duty LEO crashed onto on coming traffic and started a chain reaction of accidents. The rest as you know it is history. It does SUCK how the "squids" are able to get away with all this immature $hit they do on public roads. Don't get me wrong, I own a sportbike myself and I love how this machines are built to do. However, do it on a SAFE environment!

Ok, I need to calm down.....  WWWOOOOOSSSAAAAA..... that's why I love my sig.... 

Sushi_Biker:

If there are any LEO's here who take offense to this question, I apologize, but you know what they say about curiosity....

 Anyway, the story/question is this: I constantly hear war stories from sport bikers about how they ride without plates, or bend them all up so that LEO's can't read them and how they pretty much blast around with impunity because LEO's simply cannot catch them.

Has anyone tried this with a Warrior and succeeded? Tell your story, if you dare!

Maybe you shouldn't be listening to idiot SQUIDs (Super Quick Until I Die)

I'll try to keep this simple lol...

Most all departments will not (and should not) simply chase a speeding bike.  You get the plate # and discription, radio ahead or meet them at there home later with the ticket.  Officers will (and should) chase a speeding bike who's rider just committed a felony. 

 If the suspect has already committed a crime which involves the infliction or threatened infliction of bodily harm, officers must act upon the belief that if the suspect gets away he will be a threat to others... thus the chase is justified.

A chase should constently be under assessment.  If an officer stops a simple speeder and they flee... the chase is justified.  BUT.... if by chasing the suspect and possibly endargering others out-weighs the severity of the original offense, the pursuit should be called off. 

Well stated!

two great ditching the leo's stories

1) just after i picked my warrior from the dealer when i had my "phat" front tire set up installed, i was pulling out of the parking lot and noticed 2 motor cops behind me. the bike was legal and i was being a good boy and all that (maybe it was my coolent recovery bottle that caught their eye) , but they were stuck to me like glue. 2 became 4, and so i knew that my life was about to change and i pulled into a gas station and fueled. they came up to me and all the while one of them was all over his radio, then there were 5, and the 5th was the shift supervisor. they were really cool, and just wanted to know about the bike and the 280 rear, 200 front, the nitrous, etc. all totally positive. BUT....the sergeant kept asking "how fast will it go ?", does it handle?, and "was it ever orange". i kind of deflected the questions, mumbling about track time and stuff, but he kept it up. finally, one of the other guys asked him what was up with the orange questions. so it seems an orange warrior ditched him big time on the freeway, and he just wanted to know wtf? at the time our local leos were riding some really nice bmw's, but they topped out about 122 or so, and the warrior "got him". all was cool, and they all were appropriately excited when i fired up the bike and popped the throttle on the open executioners. but i have been dying to meet the guy with the orange warrior to hear his side of the story.

 2) as they say "some of my best friends are cops", and one day a rocket bike shot past one of them. the guy was going fast enough, and the road was open enough that my friend decided to chase him for a while. the bike finally pulls off onto the dirt and climbs an available hill.( if you have never been to reno, the city sits, kind of in a dirt bowl, so you are rarely more than a mile or 2 from a good bit of dirt). my friend is fairly pissed, but since we both played the same game in our youths, he took it in that half pissed, half rotflao, way. about 20 minutes later, dispatch gets a call from a girl who wanted to know which jail her husband was at? she was sure that he was in jail, because she had seen him "getting chased by a  cop". SOOOOOOOOOO.....dispatch took her name, and her husbands name, and the description of the bike, and......................they got to meet again. WHOOPS.

We had a guy on a rocket go through a small town in our area at 120+/30.  Cops turned on him but where never able to even get another look at him, until his family reported him missing later that day-they found him dead against a tree a couple of days later.  Missed a curve at who knows what speed, went way off the road, and died because of it.  Its probably not worth it.