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I regularly ride over roadkill, not because I'm a sadistic SOB (although I am) but because it's good training for encountering a live version of whatever it is trundling accross the road. You'd be surprised how insignificant even a larger animal can be... most feel like you hit a sack of water. Not abruptly swerving or braking super aggressively, and standing slightly to absorb the impact while lifting the bars up and accelerating slightly, are useful skills. I will say that raccoons are tricky bastards, they have a very hard and angular skull, if you hit that wrong it could spit you off in a different direction than intended. I hit a deer in WV a month ago, killed it and killed it's fetus. $5600 damage, but didn't go down. Continued on my trip with bent forks, bent bars, and a bunch of superficial damage. The bike actually doesn't look too bad in the below picture.

I don't know of any Ohio agency that uses unmarked cars that aren't detective, special purpose patrol (gang, surveillance, etc), or training cars. Unmarked cars in Ohio for general patrol are essentially verboten, and there are further restrictions on non uniformed officers being able to testify in traffic proceedings. Even in the Cleveland area, where every little town has a department and they all want a piece of the interstate pie, the cars are marked. Granted, they have small lettering and a tiny little teardrop style light on the roof to be as inconspicuous as legally possible, but they are in compliance with the ORC as it specifies that marked "cars must be equipped with a permanently mounted roof light and siren". I have a very hard time believing that any unmarked is out there doing traffic stops. Criminal stops, maybe; assisting a stranded motorist, perhaps; but even then that's a big safety risk.

Heh, interesting, did not know that. I'd look it up but I suppose I will defer to your knowledge on the subject. Would a federal prosecutor take that case for $1000?

I find the unmarked car suspect what with them not being used in Ohio for traffic since it's illegal and all.

Wassup Thomas!!! Nice to see ya on here. Mark

What would those be?

Nice. My 119 / 55 was $159 and 4 points in Morrow County back in 2005. I was like, fuck it, it's almost worth it.

Matt, nice to meet you and your girl today. Sorry I didn't catch your screen name. Dude, you were tearing up that gravel on your motard tires, I was impressed! Shoot me a PM if you want to exchange contact info for future rides since we're not that awfully far apart. -Mark

Most employers won't hesitate to fuck you, the least you can do is know that and play by the same set of rules - fucking them if and when necessary. Get a better job, take it.

Awesome! You make most of these pogues look like... well... like pogues in comparison!

I ride to adjoining states on my 250 pretty regularly. Longest trip thus far was with 2 other guys also on 250s, 1150 miles over 4 days, and a lot of that was dirt and trails in the UP. This past fall another guy and I did 3 days, about 700 miles through a bunch of Nat Park Roads in PA. The longest day I've had on my 250 was 500 miles, only just barely left Ohio; crossed into WV near St Marys and played around a bit on dirt roads there but mostly two lane pavement in Ohio. Most of my rides on the 250, come to think of it, are either like a mile on an errand in town, or a few hundred miles. Pretty much every organized ride I get in on requires 120 miles of round trip to get to the dirt, anyway, so those rides pretty much run at least 250-300 miles in a day. So I guess... yes? I tour on it and take in state banging around type trips.

Holy shit, an insightful response.

Then why don't you grow a sack and when a cop says "hi" to you, tell them what you really think. Takes a special kind of pussy to bitch up like you.

Even more hardcore.

Hardcore.

WV 16? Or....?

From Youngstown I would find 800 and run it all the way to the river, cross on the Sistersville ferry, WV 18 down to US 33, US 33 all the way to the BRP, BRP all the way to the Smokies / Deals Gap. You can make Roanke VA at the end of Day 1, and knock off the other 300 miles of the BRP on day 2. With the exception of a small portion of US 33 this is all very nice, twisty, 2 lane; and also excepting US 33 is lightly trafficked. Once down there, I concur: 441 through the Smokies, 28, Cherohala Skyway, US 19 into GA... hard to go wrong.

A group of us knocked out about 200 miles of dirt and gravel through Knox, Holmes, Coshocton, Tuscarawas, and Guernsey Counties... cold to start the day off but nice and warm to end it.

So you think stopping in the middle of a 4+ lane road with traffic behind you moving at 45+ mph' date=' for no clear reason, is appropriate and legal behavior? My penis is ridiculously tiny, actually. Plus I have a gut which sort of overlaps it. Your girlfriend played hell getting to it, but she's a tenacious little skank.

If we are going strictly by the video and not accounting for any violations having occurred prior, it appears the captain is at fault for ACDA and the rider is at fault for impeding the flow of traffic. Primary cause of the crash can be argued, it's a chicken and egg scenario. Running a plate is different than making a stop, and conducting a traffic stop is different then stopping someone for open carry.

He's my brother, but I'm Patrolman Obvious.

Distance is always measured in feet (or some other unit). By it's very definition it is not an intangible thing.

So a Crown Vic and a 600cc sport bike are traveling at 45 mph on the road, and the bike stops abruptly. Will the Crown Vic, driven by a competent driver and in good mechanical condition, be able to stop as fast as the motorcycle; and stop fast enough to avoid hitting the motorcycle; at a safe following distance of 50 feet?

The article states, although no corroborating evidence is given, that the rider has a history of deliberately causing accidents. If true, that might account for why he was filming a mundane ride from point A to point B through the city. The comments would also seem to indicate, from people who claim to know him, that he is an aggressive, risk taking rider; and also note that his riding skills in traffic seem sub par. While none of that has anything to do with the conduct of the officer after the crash, it sure might contribute to the crash itself.

If in fact that's what he was doing, and how close he was, I would point out it's kind of hard to read a motorcycle plate from more than about 20 feet back, the letters being 1 inch tall and such.