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Since that A-Hole put the officer at risk...
From a practical point of view the highside mount/dismount is also very helpful to those vertically challenged folks with tall bikes. Mount up and dismount like a horse and you will not have to do the one-leg dance and scratch up side cases.
Rob: See if your wife can mount from the left side by stepping up on the peg or whatever with her left foot and mounting the bike like it is a horse. It will be much easier. That also works quite well, and I use it all the time on the RT, and for sure on GSA bikes.
Nice Vid, and kudos to the officer/rider. It's reasonably well known that, even if you MIGHT outrun a car or bike, you'll never outrun a radio. Unlike some posters, I'm not much of one for advocating either beating up on, or taking civil rights away from people.
For point A, it IS the 21st century. Cops beating people up unnecessarily is SO 1973. It really is NOT their job. Kudos to these guys for doing their job well and acting professionally.
To address point B- rights... While I couldn't agree more that there are many problems with the American Judicial System, none of them are going to be solved by stripping US citizens of OUR civil (and other) rights.
Just remember these rights serve YOU TOO. The fact of Civil Rights is one of THE primary differences between the USA and many other countries. It is the very foundation upon which this great nation was built. To suggest that civil rights are not deserved.... Or needed?
Well. Maybe someone who holds himself to the absolute letter of every single law on the books can afford to be so careless as to think they don't need, and will never need their rights... But I doubt very seriously if that person exists in the real world.
Anyway, thanks for posting that video!
There's a difference between rights and law. Just saying. May be it's better to say that we act according to our own will, limited only by the same and therefore equal rights of others and not according to the tyrant's will, which can be law. Someone said something like this before and they understood liberty better than most of us.
I'm OK with that- but still not OK with the police beating up on people, or with denying U.S. citizens the premise of civil rights held forth within the U.S. Constitution.
Just Saying.
I'm surprised that he didn't, at several points such as stop signs, hit reverse and ram his back bumper into the cop's bike. That would have disabled the bike and he'd have a good chance of getting away. Glad he didn't, and was caught. Must be something going on there, like a stolen car or outstanding warrants, etc.