insane M/C driving skills..clicky

Think I smell some clutch..

WOW.. We had to do some pretty crazy stuff in a MC course I took a long time ago, but NOTHING like that.. Amazing..

And a Harley to boot..

Thats great. Man he can ride!

man....how do you even remember the sequence???? I bet not a lot of guys go through that without hitting at least a few cones

Wow! That's some awesome riding. Dragging pipes and all!

Having been a motor for 8+ years and an instructor for 5 of those and competed in the motor rodeo (like he was) I can tell you this,,,,,,That man can ride!!!! He is in tune with that Harley

Correct me if I'm wrong, Matt, but from what I hear motrcycle cops are required to have thousands of hours logged on a bike before they even qualify to become a motorcycle cop. I have seen a SDPD motorcycle cop full on dragging pipes around a freeway interchange while chasing someone. Every motorcycle officer I have ever known, can ride. Maybe not like hte guy in the video,(that guy can ride!!!) but they have all been impressive riders.

That's incredible!

If your house front door was open he could chase you thru your house, down the hallway and chase around your bad, crazy skillz

Freakin' Incredible! Lots of props to that cop!

i cant even do that on foot!

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!!!

The 'standard' if there is one is once selected to be a motor the officer gets some pre-training before going to the basic motor school - which is 2 weeks - 80 hours.

Pre-training can be simply going out with a senior officer for a day or as long as 6-8 weeks (that's the longest I know of). In HB we would put the officer thru the 2 week course before sending him to the actuall school. The 1 week is all slow ride/cone work. The second week is road riding - street, freeway, mountains, anything to stress the defensive riding and push skills.

Now in HB they do everything in house, the program has been approved so they certify their own.

The instructor course was also 2 weeks - 80 hours. In HB the officers have to qualify quarterly. Typically its 2 cone days a year, 1 cross country and 1 mix where we may add night riding, shooting, pursuit training with cones.

I have trained peeps with riding experience and some who never threw a leg over a bike before.

Consider that Harley is heavy to begin with, now pack the saddle bags with all the crap they carry and 40 pounds of radio gear and it up's the ante! The Harley floor boards have to be replace because eventually they get ground down so far they become sharp and the rubber top starts to flap.

If you were interested the OCTOA hosts a Motor Rodeo, usually in October, at the beach parkinglot in HB. There are usually 500+ riders from across the state to compete. Some really good riders there too.

That boy has skills!!

Damn, simply amazing what some people can do.

Pig can ride, but nothing like we used to do.

marlboroman's bike skillz

Mac?

ARRGH...

makes me miss a friend.. I knew a guy that was one of the best in the country at those competitions.. He had won several awards. Unfortunately he died in San Diego about a year ago on a scuba diving trip.. He was amazing to watch on that bike..

Bad-Ass.

Bad ass you appreciate that video even more if you have ever ridden a motorcycle!

WOW

. tim

Those handlebars don't look like standard "Cop" issue. . .

Damn "Thumb Tacks" (old non motor officer phrase for the motor guys)

Old Parker Center from Dragnet Days had the retirement office on 7th floor, all retiring cops turned in their gear there on last day.

Old time motor officer comes in on a Sunday, rides the bike in the elevator, parks it on the 7th floor office with a note saying "You said turn in all your gear, here it is"

Stuff of legends,

My cousin was a Chandler Motors here in Az for along time and competed in the rodeos every year. She would regularly come in the top 10. She now works up in Scottsdale and is a detective and they still ask her to ride the rodeos for their department lol. She said after the rodeo bikes would go in and get torn apart, clutches were put in new before and come out shot since they use the motor kinda like a gyro... ill see if I can find any of my videos of her. The other event that was fun to watch is when they take a 2ft rope and tie two bikes together and they have to do a whole course with the rope staying on both bikes.

Yeah, I fell for it.
If I never see that video again, it will be too soon....