It's obvious some of you have never ran from the cops in a two stroke...

[coolchange]

Riding my buddies Kawi 750 triple with Chambers, squirting it through a neighborhood, roll through a couple of stop signs, lay it over through an s curve, not very hard though it was a Kawasaki, and pull into my buddies driveway. Shut it off, then hear the buuhhWaaaa of a quadrajet around the corner and go flyin by.
Ah the good old days.
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[JD D05]

I ran from a cop on a Yamaha YZ400F...It was the first year they came out. Also in a STS V. And also in a 28SS and kind a sort a in a 35 Flame.

 

[Waterjunky]

I had friends go chase cops on 250R ATC's. I was never on anything fast enough to pull that maneuver. Then I got smart enough to not need to.

 

[Uncle Dave]

1980 CR-125 = got away every time.

UD

 

[mash on it]

I might have been followed by Riverside Cops on my YZ 125, but I couldn't tell because their lights and sirens were on. Around the corner, there was an empty lot, that went down to a ravine, to my backyard. Caprice Classic's didn't off-road to well.

Dan'l

 

[92562]

I ran from a cop on a Yamaha YZ400F...It was the first year they came out. Also in a STS V. And also in a 28SS and kind a sort a in a 35 Flame.

There seems to be a pattern here...

 

[JD D05]

There seems to be a pattern here...

Well the two boats aren't really fair...It was a few of those deals at Lake Powell where a I go past a fish cop and they may have started to turn and I didn't really turn my head and rolled into the throttles.

 

[AZMIDLYF]

RM250 did the job for me back in the day...

 

[CLdrinker]

Dam near got caught on my 400EX

Ditched them easy on my yfz450. It had a +4 LT and I could drift that bitch around corners on asphalt like a mofo. Sure was rough on tires

 

[green250]

In our high school days my buddy and I took a couple girls out to Cal City. The dare was to ride through town naked and back to the house. They went first. Then me and my chick and I was told, "you gotta go the same route we went" Fack! Ok get on let's go. These were mid 90s KX 125s. So I go through town through the gas station. All good. Almost home then i see five O just on patrol. I see him he sees me then I said hold the F on!And remeber we are buck naked! For those of you that know Cal City know the main boulevards form a square around the city. I am 5th gear wide, lights, sirens whaling! All I had to do was go straight and I'd be by the Benz Waste building and out in open desert. So why I veered right I still have no idea. Anyways next thing I know I hit two mounds of dirt perpendicular to the road. You know the ones that are left on the sides of the road when a blade scrapes it. So I got into whoop stance and told her hold on! No idea how she hung on but she did. So now I literally ride into the county impound yard. I'm boxed in now. So I ditch the bike, pull up the bottom of the chain link fence and tell her go under and start running. We make it to the banks of a wash and we take a break and reassess. By now all I see are more lights, sirens and the bouncing of mag lites from them searching on foot.

Now I said let's keep running out and we circled back to he house on foot, naked and ducking at the site of every headlight. We made it back to the house and my buddy said I knew that was you! Where's your bike. Anyways it got impounded of course then the next day we schemed a way to get the bike back. I did but that's another story.

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[SoCalDave]

Lost a few on my 79 RD400 back in the early 80's but wised-up by the time I had my RD500 and FXDL.

 

[Your ad here]

Not on a 2 stroke but on an XR50 a couple times when I was a kid. Like 12 years old. After the 2nd time I started cruising the 1970 CT70 around with just a paper plate. No title, registration, or insurance. Cops never took a 2nd look but security would stop me. Ask if it was street legal and I would point to the paper plate and say yes. They went on their way. Now as an older kid I wouldn't run but am testing my luck on a CR250. Hey, its street legal. Titled, registered, and insured but a little obnoxious.

 

[ArizonaKevin]

Not on a 2 stroke but on an XR50 a couple times when I was a kid. Like 12 years old. After the 2nd time I started cruising the 1970 CT70 around with just a paper plate. No title, registration, or insurance. Cops never took a 2nd look but security would stop me. Ask if it was street legal and I would point to the paper plate and say yes. They went on their way. Now as an older kid I wouldn't run but am testing my luck on a CR250. Hey, its street legal. Titled, registered, and insured but a little obnoxious.
View attachment 740105

Why do I see 2 buttons on the handlebar of an 03 CR?

 

[Dan Lorenze]

I have no comment on this subject..

 

[DaveC]

Buncha hooligans.

I approve.

 

[Blackmagic94]

The trick to running from the man, cough I’ve been told cough, is to put as much distance as possible in the shortest time and then make a 90 degree turn on side streets and rinse and repeat. Then get the fuck off the road and wait hours. And don’t wait with the vehicle.


But this is all second hand info I was told cough

 

[Your ad here]

Why do I see 2 buttons on the handlebar of an 03 CR?

Black is engine kill. Red is the horn. I did have a multifunction switch in earlier pictures but took it off because I dont have hi/lo beam or turn signals. It was to bulky for what it needed to do.

 

[ArizonaKevin]

Black is engine kill. Red is the horn. I did have a multifunction switch in earlier pictures but took it off because I dont have hi/lo beam or turn signals. It was to bulky for what it needed to do.

Ah that makes more sense, I thought you were doing some electric start witchcraft on it.

 

[Ziggy]

Done it a few times(aka multiple) back in the day. Carlsbad PD had dirt bike cops but they couldn't ride for shit. It was a day of overtime and a pleasure ride for them mostly. Then one day they deputized Marty Moats.....only had one encounter with him. Me and a buddy tried to run one time but Moats came right up on us and chose to kick over my buddy, lol. I was probably home safe by the time the ticket got written
I can still remember the exact spot it happened, think about it often as I drive by on the street which is now there.
Brrrrrrr......rap, rap

 

[Jonas Grumby]

Riding my buddies Kawi 750 triple with Chambers, squirting it through a neighborhood, roll through a couple of stop signs, lay it over through an s curve, not very hard though it was a Kawasaki, and pull into my buddies driveway. Shut it off, then hear the buuhhWaaaa of a quadrajet around the corner and go flyin by.
Ah the good old days.
.

I never ran away on my kawi trip (boy didn’t you love the on/off power band and the vibration. But did get away from them
on my RD400 with TZ motor parts smuggled out the back door of Yamaha warehouse in Buena Park.

 

[spectras only]

Riding my buddies Kawi 750 triple with Chambers, squirting it through a neighborhood, roll through a couple of stop signs, lay it over through an s curve, not very hard though it was a Kawasaki, and pull into my buddies driveway. Shut it off, then hear the buuhhWaaaa of a quadrajet around the corner and go flyin by.
Ah the good old days.
.

Liked your story until this sentence.'lay it over through an s curve,' The 750, 500, never was a handler, only a straight line Corvette eater.

 

[ArizonaKevin]

Done it a few times(aka multiple) back in the day. Carlsbad PD had dirt bike cops but they couldn't ride for shit. It was a day of overtime and a pleasure ride for them mostly. Then one day they deputized Marty Moats.....only had one encounter with him. Me and a buddy tried to run one time but Moats came right up on us and chose to kick over my buddy, lol. I was probably home safe by the time the ticket got written
I can still remember the exact spot it happened, think about it often as I drive by on the street which is now there.
Brrrrrrr......rap, rap

Speaking of moto legends that are now PD, I heard that Damon Huffman is an LAPD guy now. Could you imagine if they had a dirt bike division?

 

[checkrd past]

A friend wanted to try my CR500 at Gorman,Tried to out run the rangers on XR 600. Cr was faster but they knew every inch of the Valley

 

[Meaney77]

Out ran them several times back in my younger years.

Most recently about 5 years ago we were in Mammoth doing an annual guys trip dual sporting the Sierras. I was on a borrowed bike and knew that it hadn't been registered in years but it looked like it passed the visual with a paper plate, blinkers, light, etc... so I rolled the dice and ran it. On this trip I had a buddy who just ran the dice with a non plated XR 400. This particular day we had pressed our luck. We had rode from Mammoth down to Bishop and pulled into the Chevron station to get more beer (when we rode, we always stuffed a few beers into our camel backs along with the water in the bladders). We had already been drinking by this time and we were buying more. So we are sitting there loading our camel backs and topping the bikes off with gas when all of a sudden a CHP pulls in behind us and starts giving us the stink eye (female officer). She comes up and starts asking us questions about where we are headed and also pointed out that my buddy's XR 400 wasn't legal to ride on the street. We are all freaking out thinking we are going to jail. All of a sudden we come up with this story that its our 1st time up to Mammoth and we had gotten off the trail and we were lost. She asks if we had a map which I did but its in my camel back with all of the beer. So I unintentionally pull my camel back off and go in for the map when all of a sudden all of the empty beers and the fresh ones fell out. She starts lecturing us and ends up telling us that what we are doing is illegal and that we need to get back on the dirt trails- she ended up being super cool and letting us go and actually telling us how to get back into the trail system.

So we end up getting back onto the dirt trails and are making our way back to Mammoth- by this time its starting to get dark. We end up riding some dirt and eventually jumped on the highway because we couldn't see. As we are riding back one of the guys in the group has some issues with his light so we stopped in the town of Crowley Lake to take a look. As we are riding through, we see a CHP car parked in a residential driveway and a cop out watering his lawn (he lived in Crowley and takes his car home). We kind of came into town hot before we see the highway patrol. So we pass by his house and pull into a restaurant parking lot and sure enough he gets in his car and comes in and lights us up. By now, our nerves are shot- we has been riding all day (rode about 150ish miles), we are tired, we had been drinking a good portion of the day and we had already dealt with the CHP once earlier. We are all freaking out thinking we are going to jail for sure. He gets out of his car and starts laying into us about riding fast on the street and everything else. We used our same story- that this was our 1st time here and we were lost but he wasn't buying it. He ran all the info on each of the 4 bikes and found that the bike I borrowed wasn't registered and my buddies bike wasn't even street legal.

There was 4 of us- 2 bikes were legit and street worthy while the bike I borrowed and my buddies wasn't. He told us, I am gonna go sit in my car and watch you guys- 2 of you head back to Mammoth and get a truck to transport these bikes now or I am calling a tow truck. He sat and watched us the entire time. We didn't end up getting back to camp until almost mid night by the time it was all said and done, but man what a day and what a story to tell around the fire! We all felt like someone was looking out for us that day, what an experience!

 

[DC-88]

In jr high we used to leave the garage doors open and ride the Tampa land / Chatsworth area . I'm sure neighbors and horse riders complained, and I never got caught but came real close a couple times , having to abort going straight to the house to gain enough time to barely gap the caprice. Later they sent cops who could ride on XR's and from what I heard they definitely made an impact.

 

[coolchange]

Liked your story until this sentence.'lay it over through an s curve,' The 750, 500, never was a handler, only a straight line Corvette eater.

Hence my disclaimer statement" it was a Kawasaki"
Tampa land, Sesnon, the green water tower, lol

 

[wsuwrhr]

The statute of limitations prolly limits anything I can add to this thread.

Sorry @t&y and the other LE in here.

 

[wsuwrhr]

Smart move.

..,....but wised-up by the time I had my ....FXDL.

 

[HALLETT BOY]

Riding the Snake in So Cal , we made a game of running . It was always fun to get way ahead , pull off and hide , then go back the opposite way , park among the numerous other bikes at the Rock Store and blend in with everyone else .

 

[Your ad here]

Ah that makes more sense, I thought you were doing some electric start witchcraft on it.

I would never do such a thing, on any dirt bike.

 

[ArizonaKevin]

I would never do such a thing, on any dirt bike.

Boy the general market really does seem to be moving in a different direction. So far only Zuk has a kicker on their 450's but rumor says that's changing next year as well.

 

[Your ad here]

Ballsdeep story reminded me of my run in with the law. 2 years ago at Ocotillo on Pole Line it's starting to get dark and I ride over to the flats and mud hills to make some noise on the mini bike. Bike has a 117cc stroker motor and a badass rider. Anyways I'm riding over and get pulled over for no taillight. Chick ranger that was easy on the eyes. Asked if I'd been drinking and said no. Got called out and amitted to 3 since 10am and it's like 6.30pm now. She tried everything to get me for DUI. So 25 min. later she's taking my pulse for about 2 minutes with my head tilted back and another ranger pulls up and my pulse rate increases. Her eyes lit up thinking she got me and asked why my pulse increased. By this time I'm tired of this bs and let her have it. Told her she's been taking my pulse for 2 minutes and now I feel uncomfortable being on the spot for 30 minutes and a second ranger now pulls up. I'm completely capable riding my bike back to camp that is 300 feet away without crashing, hell I'll even walk it back. You've given me every test that has resulted in me being fine and still choose to keep me here wasting my time and your time. She's was like fair enough but before you go I have to right a report to release us from any accidents should one occur from here to your camp because we are responsible for you until you get back to camp. I ask if I could walk the bike back and she hold my hand. She said no. So ended up writing the report but I was to give the verbiage on the report. I had her writing for a good 5 minutes on a tiny piece of paper. BTW the second ranger looked like Courtney Love.

 

[mjc]

I have on my ktm many years ago. All good until the police helicopter comes circling over my house and calls out from the speaker for the motorcycle rider to come out and sit on the curb until an officer shows up. Can't outrun the copter.

 

[SixD9R]

Yea this thread brings back memories for me. I’ve had a few dirt bikes in my youth. Most notably was a YZ 250. I was around 14 maybe 15 years old. I kept my bikes at my parents place along the New Jersey side of the Delaware river. Every now and then myself and some local kids my age would take a rather long trip across the river via a train bridge to Pa. to a somewhat abandoned stone quarry which was awesome for hill climbing. One day we overstayed and it got dark on us. There was 4 of us I think total and nobody had a light on their bike. We were riding down a quary road in the dark heading for the bridge when all of a sudden the man comes at us head on and threw his lights on when he saw us. He whipped his car sideways to block the road but unfortunately for him the road was a little wider than his car was long. My friends were going around the front and rear of his car and he was actually jockeying the car back and fourth trying to block us. I don’t know if it was nerves or what but my f-ing bike stalled when the cop came up on us so I was actually the last one to get by the cop. We raced down the road to the trail that went through some woods and brush to the bridge but it was a narrow little trail and hard to find in the dark so we end up passing by it the first time. We turned around and found the trail just as the cop caught up to us again head on. We got across the bridge back into New Jersey and rode the tracks back home. I whipped my bike inside and told my parents what happened. They were not happy but this wasn’t my first run in with the law so I think they were a little numb to it. We locked the place up and headed home to to Pa. Well one of the guys in our group that I didn’t know very well had a much longer ride home than I did. He basically had to ride past my parents place and go another 5 miles or so. He also lived on the outskirts of a small town. When he got home there was a Jersey cop waiting at his parents house with his parents home. The cop told him he better plan on spending the night in the clink and hulled him away. As far as I ever knew he didn’t rat any of us out. The only thing we never figured out was how in the hell did the Jersey cops figure out from the Pa cops who this young man was? All in a matter of about a 1/2 hour.

 

[RiverDave]

Growing up in Carlsbad in the 80's / 90's it was all hills and trails. I still never understood why they bought the police motorcycles to go out and harass the people that were off roading but they did. I can say with confidence I never talked to one of them. LOL.

In Parker I have some great stories, but would never tell them on here just because it's a small town and some of those guys are still around.

Street Racing though, I got a ton of them. It was probably once a month!

RD