Ahhh, yes I remember those days, Ill now push my bike acros the street I live on to avoid having the S.W.A.T. team show up to apprehed dangeous criminals! However,,,,,,
I was riding across the street on a small very tight, 1st gear for the WR 400 woods tracak we have over there, with the owners permission and after a few laps I come bareling down the trail to see the local cheif stadning in the middle of the trail,,, :scream: . So you know these days I stop, even though my first reaction is to do the 180 and roost, I say how it going chief? He gives me the 20 questions on who am I do I know who ownes this, is it ok with him bla bla and says the problem is the NIMBYs called (Not In My Back Yard even though its not their back yard, aka Trolls) and said kids were setting fires back there..... Well Im not setting any fires nor have I seen any ashes I told him, but someone,,, wonder who,, dumped at least a 5 gallon bucket of broken glass across the trail in 2 spots I told him. Any way he told me to have a nice day and all and my heart rate recoverd but, man little old in your biz NIMBYs are the worst. The same small town shut a local racer kid down from practiceing on his own property cause of some lame zoning junk.
I gotta say, if your riding where you think youll have to run from cops, you should not play that way, Look, I did it too and even lost a few bikes that way and got my leg tore up good once. I was lucky to have doged the bullet as many times as I did, but there is real potental to get hurt BAD. You get all amped up and do stuff you normaly would not do, and if they catch you, they can really put a dent in you. They maxed out my brother once for over 2 grand in fines, took his bike and his license. However,,,,,,
I was trail riding on what used to be train tracks, we rode em for years, the tracks were gone but the right of way was still owned by the RR. Turns out a property owner was in dispute with the RR on the right of way, something about if you abandon property and someone else maintains it for so long, yada yada, anyway they were making a golf corse there and were going to lay down the law on the ATVs,,,,,, So Im going through their and a guy in a backho starts chasing me,,, I was not to worried, but I figured, Ok, I wont ride across that section any more. So when I came back that way later that day, I got off on a road to detour around that section, well I had 3 cars (not cops) chasing me and I was not going to talk about it with them. I pinned my little MX 100 and dashed, it did not take the cars long to pass my 50mph flight speed and evenually get around me and try to cut me off, I made a break for a field and the car tried to chase me through the field :eek: . I got away to ride another day,,,,,,, but not there.