Motorcycle cops of twenty years ago...

[wingman]

Re: Motorcycle cops of twenty years ago...

Hey I intended this thread to be totally hijackable! I guess that takes all the fun out of it!

Neal

[Leo]

Re: Motorcycle cops of twenty years ago...

Well, excuuuuse me!

[Shawn Aro]

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Reno finest

[Leo]

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i'll call them the finest as long as I live here and may get pulled over by one....
Hey Shawn! I was standing right next to you that night.

[wingman]

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Didn't Lloyd Hamilton have a Motorcycle Cop kill painted on Baby Gorilla for a while? I'll have to dig around and see if I can find that one...

I'm actually more favorably inclined towards Nevada cops than CHP these days -- a Cal skunk got me for something like 130 bucks last summer -- SOB wrote me for every single mph I was going too! I've had a fair number of speeding tickets over the years, and don't think I've ever not gotten a few off the actual speed.. I was real nice too "Yes Officer, no Officer" and all that. Bastard cut me no slack at all...

Hell, it was only 84 in a 55...

[Leo]

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My wife got one in the Vette last year just north of Sac. The plane picked her up ("red car" the officer told her). She got 96 in a 55. As she put it, "gee, lucky I had already slowed down".

I had a NHP recently catch me at 80 on an open stretch by entering next to me before I could slow it. He wagged his finger, smiled, told me over the PA to "tone it down" and drove off.

I've found them a little more lenient here EXCEPT for construction zones and DUI where they are cracking down HARD. Good for them.

My only run in with the locals was in 82 when they caught my on my bike without a helmet. The moto-cop made me walk it back from 395 to the Air Race parking lot!

[ShermB]

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One of those early moto-cops was Tom Robinson, Chairman of the RARA Board in 2005.
Betty

[speeddemon]

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Didn't Lloyd Hamilton have a Motorcycle Cop kill painted on Baby Gorilla for a while? I'll have to dig around and see if I can find that one...

YES, that was 1982 back when they still had the downtown displays and parade early in race week. As I recall, they were towing Baby Gorilla, trying to navigate a corner, and knocked over one of the Kawasaki's that the cop had left sitting there.

They came out to the pits the next day and 'tagged' the plane with a RPD sticker underneath the cockpit.

Funny....I would have been more worried about how much damage was done to the PLANE as opposed to whether the bike was hurt or not!

[ShermB]

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Wrong state (of mind?), Dasher!
Used to watch CHPS faithfully. Also, never saw anything even close to Ponch in all my California driving days.

[speeddemon]

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Wrong state (of mind?), Dasher!
Used to watch CHPS faithfully. Also, never saw anything even close to Ponch in all my California driving days.

They were all "Paunch" as opposed to "Ponch"?

[King]

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One of these guys?

[wingman]

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So you saw a lot of CHPs up close and personal in your California driving days, Betty?

[ShermB]

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Like Danny says "Oh Yeeeeaaaahhh"

[440_Magnum]

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Hey -- it's this endless winter up here -- not quite like sunny Texas (though didn't Texas get snowed on a couple of weeks ago?)

Sleet, in my case. Easter weekend. That's just WRONG. Yeah, OK I know....

Hee hee....

My unsolicited opinion on "thread-jacking":

It happens. Very general discussion forums like this one (as I look at the top of the page and make sure I am posting in "Air Racin'" which is pretty broad subject) cover a lot of ground, and free-association is just part of how threads run their course. Yeah, sometimes its a PITA when you post something that you want to discuss SPECIFICALLY and right before your eyes it mutates into a discussion of the effect of Britney Spears' undies (or lack thereof...) on the price of tea in Zanzibar. But more often than not the Brownian motion of a thread leads it into something intersting, funny, and generally worthwhile. You can always post to more restrictive forums, but the audience is commensurately smaller because people LIKE the random facts that pop out on places like this.

[wingman]

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Yeah, I know, but it's still truly somewhere between mildly irritating annd seriously aggravating, sometimes. In my case I really value the conversation, insight and history that can turn up in some of these threads -- like I said before I value good conversation (with content ) above pretty much anything else, including even good photography! This is what friendship is all about.

I still say that anybody here is truly welcome to cut and paste a shot of mine into a new thread and have a new conversation. Anybody SHOULD be able to tell what's more or less on topic! Believe it or not, I do put a lot of work into some of these posts -- I do take them seriously and I see them as a way to start conversations and learn new things. I HATE it when they get buried in a pile of cute or otherwise s**t. More than one thread has ended (my part at least) when the point of the conversation was lost. My silly little Hawk sequence could easily have never happened, if somebody had distracted it, and it turned out fun, I think.

If an interesting thread is happening let it go on! Contribute something that enhances the conversation! Sometimes good things do happen...

Believe me, I'm not looking at all for praise or anything in any of this -- I've had enough praise over the last 35 years to last several lifetimes! I just want some decent and intelligent conversation sometimes...

Neal