has he got balls or what?

[Volvi]

Hows this for a story.

Happened this morning in Tooraddin. I stood there in the service road watching all the bikes go by on the way to the Island and this is what happened.

2 bikes entered the service road (towards Philip Island) trailed by a cop car. The bikes a busa and a honda. They parked theyre bikes right in front of me with the cop car stopping on the service road just behind them. I wasnt sure if the bikes were parking for the cop car, however the busa rider casually leaned over whilst still sitting on the bike and reached for his rego plate and swivellled it over covering the number plate. I couldnt believe what I was seeing, youd think it would be the opposite action namely covered number plate then uncover for the cop, but this riders action was to cover it. The cop in car was busily preparing his paper work before exiting his vehicle. The busa rider then casually moved off in front of the cop car (was a high persuit type of vehicle) and started riding off towards Philip Island direction. WTF!!!! As the bike was pulling away the cop gave chase hardly believing his eyes, he was a bit slow to react to what was going on. So there off went the busa with cop in chase. Now at least I understood why he did what he did.

Standing there amazed at what just happened, I looked at other bikies who also saw what he did and we were all just amazed at what took place. 5 minutes later we saw the busa heading back in our direction and towards the city, he doubled up at some point. 30 secs behind the cop car with all lights flashing and sirens sped into town in persuit of this said busa. cop car must have been doing 120 in a 60 or 80 zone. Again were we all amazed at what we all had just seen. Some cheering the scene.

Some 10 min later, cop car returns entering service road where we were, looking quite flustered and intense on his walkie talkie. He returned to see if anyone got to see his number plate.......I didnt recall his number as no one else did. Turns out cop was due to get him for doing 190 in a 80 or 100 zone not sure, and had his speed registered on his radar screen. The cop was no happy camper, then indulged in a burger hoping on the bikes return. No bike did return however.

So it appears he got away with it and may have "saved" himself heaps of trouble or if caught of course worse.

But man did he have some balls to do what he did and so casually. I wont say the color of the busa. If your reading it, you know who you are. Dunno whether to pin a medal to your big balls or other.

On a side note met Cameron there whos was on his copper/silver from Archilles. Good looking specimen of copper, so he did well and proud he was to of it.

END:

[Pug]

Them's some goolies... Gotta say, was impressed by the coppers coming out of the island. They weren't too bothered by people being 'a little generous' with their speed. They were just frowning on stoopid riding.

BTW, was following a Z1000 from S Gippsland to the track (left him at Inverloch) - was overtaking a car on a nice straight stretch of road and saw him shift back a couple of gears. I was entertained as the rear squirmed under power and though "hey, he's really going to take off". I rolled on the throttle in 6th to overtake as well but the bloke kept on accelerating. He got about 10m away from me before the 'busa wound up... I think he got the message at the double ton when he still had a busa right behind him...

I had one of those "I love my bike" moments...

[TimF]

That made for fantastic reading. I couldn't help re-reading it a couple of times, it was so freakin' entertaining.

Can't help but salute whoever it was...

[Ozboc]

just finished a 12 hour shift sun 6 pm till mon 6 am -- that story has cheared me up after a long night -- would have loved to be a fly on the dashboard of the cop car

Boc

[jessie928]

+1 to the Busa,

My hats off to you bloke ;)

Jes

[jessie928]

the above got me thinking, ( i hope the busa was not all red like the one in my avatar..ehehehe)

once a copper has a reading on his radar and has not cleared it, can he get another reading whilst keeping the first one?

JEs

[slowandsteady]

Great read Volvi.
Of course there's two sides to this. There's the humour in this guy's audacity to do what the did, but What a great story for the papers if said rider, just happened to hit some kid/elderly person/other vehicle while committing the original offence? I can see the headlines now "Lunatic Rider on superbike kills innocent pedestrian"

I'm all for giving it a squirt, but reduced speed limits are usually in place due to built up areas or entering traffic. I saw too many Stoner wannabe's on the way home to be impressed..... call me a party pooper

edit:

PS: saw 3 unmarked police bikes (The Blue BMW's with the onboard viedeo cameras) doing the rounds on the 420 yesterday. 2 on the way down and 1 going back. would've been a good day to give Reefton or the Black spur a run.

[TimF]

"Lunatic Rider on superbike kills innocent pedestrian"

They already did it, minus the "kills innocent pedestrian" part.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/...059623.htm?

[slowandsteady]

cool. we need all the good publicity we can get

[NEMESIS]

Shit i thought for a second he did WHILST riding,cuz thats kinda hard lol.

[xocet]

This would be a better headline:

Speed Kills .... Vic Labor's revenue raising abilities.

[Achilles]

Hows this for a story.

Happened this morning in Tooraddin. I stood there in the service road watching all the bikes go by on the way to the Island and this is what happened.

2 bikes entered the service road (towards Philip Island) trailed by a cop car. The bikes a busa and a honda. They parked theyre bikes right in front of me with the cop car stopping on the service road just behind them. I wasnt sure if the bikes were parking for the cop car, however the busa rider casually leaned over whilst still sitting on the bike and reached for his rego plate and swivellled it over covering the number plate. I couldnt believe what I was seeing, youd think it would be the opposite action namely covered number plate then uncover for the cop, but this riders action was to cover it. The cop in car was busily preparing his paper work before exiting his vehicle. The busa rider then casually moved off in front of the cop car (was a high persuit type of vehicle) and started riding off towards Philip Island direction. WTF!!!! As the bike was pulling away the cop gave chase hardly believing his eyes, he was a bit slow to react to what was going on. So there off went the busa with cop in chase. Now at least I understood why he did what he did.

Standing there amazed at what just happened, I looked at other bikies who also saw what he did and we were all just amazed at what took place. 5 minutes later we saw the busa heading back in our direction and towards the city, he doubled up at some point. 30 secs behind the cop car with all lights flashing and sirens sped into town in persuit of this said busa. cop car must have been doing 120 in a 60 or 80 zone. Again were we all amazed at what we all had just seen. Some cheering the scene.

Some 10 min later, cop car returns entering service road where we were, looking quite flustered and intense on his walkie talkie. He returned to see if anyone got to see his number plate.......I didnt recall his number as no one else did. Turns out cop was due to get him for doing 190 in a 80 or 100 zone not sure, and had his speed registered on his radar screen. The cop was no happy camper, then indulged in a burger hoping on the bikes return. No bike did return however.

So it appears he got away with it and may have "saved" himself heaps of trouble or if caught of course worse.

But man did he have some balls to do what he did and so casually. I wont say the color of the busa. If your reading it, you know who you are. Dunno whether to pin a medal to your big balls or other.

On a side note met Cameron there whos was on his copper/silver from Archilles. Good looking specimen of copper, so he did well and proud he was to of it.

END:

Great Story, and glad Cam is super happy with the bike - nice to see it go to a good home!~

A

[bikenut]

I came acroos a bloke in Cranbourne Sunday night after GP. We passed a bike (r6 r1 I think) with 2 cop cars and a bike parked beside and they were loading the bike into a van. I first thought it had pranged but could see no damage. I heard on the radio the following day a bloke got pinged for doing 180 through Cranbourne and they had taken bike under anti hoon laws. Must have been the bloke on the Yammy. So maybe the fella on the busa was lucky, unless the copper had video survalence then hes stuffed.
GO CASEY

Hows this for a story.

Happened this morning in Tooraddin. I stood there in the service road watching all the bikes go by on the way to the Island and this is what happened.

2 bikes entered the service road (towards Philip Island) trailed by a cop car. The bikes a busa and a honda. They parked theyre bikes right in front of me with the cop car stopping on the service road just behind them. I wasnt sure if the bikes were parking for the cop car, however the busa rider casually leaned over whilst still sitting on the bike and reached for his rego plate and swivellled it over covering the number plate. I couldnt believe what I was seeing, youd think it would be the opposite action namely covered number plate then uncover for the cop, but this riders action was to cover it. The cop in car was busily preparing his paper work before exiting his vehicle. The busa rider then casually moved off in front of the cop car (was a high persuit type of vehicle) and started riding off towards Philip Island direction. WTF!!!! As the bike was pulling away the cop gave chase hardly believing his eyes, he was a bit slow to react to what was going on. So there off went the busa with cop in chase. Now at least I understood why he did what he did.

Standing there amazed at what just happened, I looked at other bikies who also saw what he did and we were all just amazed at what took place. 5 minutes later we saw the busa heading back in our direction and towards the city, he doubled up at some point. 30 secs behind the cop car with all lights flashing and sirens sped into town in persuit of this said busa. cop car must have been doing 120 in a 60 or 80 zone. Again were we all amazed at what we all had just seen. Some cheering the scene.

Some 10 min later, cop car returns entering service road where we were, looking quite flustered and intense on his walkie talkie. He returned to see if anyone got to see his number plate.......I didnt recall his number as no one else did. Turns out cop was due to get him for doing 190 in a 80 or 100 zone not sure, and had his speed registered on his radar screen. The cop was no happy camper, then indulged in a burger hoping on the bikes return. No bike did return however.

So it appears he got away with it and may have "saved" himself heaps of trouble or if caught of course worse.

But man did he have some balls to do what he did and so casually. I wont say the color of the busa. If your reading it, you know who you are. Dunno whether to pin a medal to your big balls or other.

On a side note met Cameron there whos was on his copper/silver from Archilles. Good looking specimen of copper, so he did well and proud he was to of it.

END:

Great Story, and glad Cam is super happy with the bike - nice to see it go to a good home!~

A

[tenacious]

Volvi I take it from your write-up that you have a fair idea it was someone from the forum? (just curious)

[Volvi]

no, have no idea who he may be, didnt see his face.