(03-21-2024, 01:54 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: You know that chill you get up your spine when you look in the mirror and a lit-up Highway Patrol car is coming up behind you? You start thinking "Oh man, what did I do?"

Other than an open rest stop on I-10 after 200 miles, I don't think there is any greater feeling of relief as when that car swings around you and you realize that you weren't the target. Just felt that relief on the way in this morning. He was behind me on a metered freeway onramp which was moving pretty slowly, no room to pull over, so the agony was palpable.

He was moving with quite a purpose to get on the freeway, apparently to provide some backup to the white CHP car on the shoulder. Must be one heck of a beligerent HOV violator in that grey Honda.

(03-21-2024, 04:37 AM)misterprofessionality_imp Wrote: For me it's that moment when your lane starts hard braking and you check your mirrors and it's clean and you bank right and carry on with your life without touching your brakes.

(03-21-2024, 05:30 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(03-21-2024, 01:54 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: You know that chill you get up your spine when you look in the mirror and a lit-up Highway Patrol car is coming up behind you? You start thinking "Oh man, what did I do?"

Other than an open rest stop on I-10 after 200 miles, I don't think there is any greater feeling of relief as when that car swings around you and you realize that you weren't the target. Just felt that relief on the way in this morning. He was behind me on a metered freeway onramp which was moving pretty slowly, no room to pull over, so the agony was palpable.

He was moving with quite a purpose to get on the freeway, apparently to provide some backup to the white CHP car on the shoulder. Must be one heck of a beligerent HOV violator in that grey Honda.

But have you ever had two (2) patrol cruisers in tandem up your butt with sirens and a loud speaker shouting at you to pull over?

Perhaps my proudest pull-over in my riding career.

Upon stopping, I looked in my left mirror to see the first patrol car waving back to have the second car cover them. (like, sheez!)

At the time I did not like the way to officer approached me with one arm on his hip. It was surreal. Was it my motorcycle super-dark tinted windows or sumthin'?

(03-21-2024, 06:42 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote:

(03-21-2024, 04:37 AM)misterprofessionality_imp Wrote: For me it's that moment when your lane starts hard braking and you check your mirrors and it's clean and you bank right and carry on with your life without touching your brakes.

I can relate to that... I like it when I'm on the freeway and come up on stopped traffic on either side of me, and I just slow down a bit and slice between the traffic.

(03-21-2024, 05:30 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(03-21-2024, 01:54 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: You know that chill you get up your spine when you look in the mirror and a lit-up Highway Patrol car is coming up behind you? You start thinking "Oh man, what did I do?"

Other than an open rest stop on I-10 after 200 miles, I don't think there is any greater feeling of relief as when that car swings around you and you realize that you weren't the target. Just felt that relief on the way in this morning. He was behind me on a metered freeway onramp which was moving pretty slowly, no room to pull over, so the agony was palpable.

He was moving with quite a purpose to get on the freeway, apparently to provide some backup to the white CHP car on the shoulder. Must be one heck of a beligerent HOV violator in that grey Honda.

But have you ever had two (2) patrol cruisers in tandem up your butt with sirens and a loud speaker shouting at you to pull over?

Perhaps my proudest pull-over in my riding career.

Upon stopping, I looked in my left mirror to see the first patrol car waving back to have the second car cover them. (like, sheez!)

At the time I did not like the way to officer approached me with one arm on his hip. It was surreal. Was it my motorcycle super-dark tinted windows or sumthin'?

I can honestly say that I have not had that happen. I did have a CHP car trailing behind my truck and trailer with lights flashing for several miles without me noticing, apparently, until he pulled along side and on his loud speaker, politely invited me to move one lane to the right (I was abesnt-mindedly in the #2 lane, a no-no for rigs on that part of that freeway)

My surreal moment was a felony stop with officers approaching both sides, hands on holsters when my truck matched the description of one used in a robbery ("White pickup truck"... not many of those on the road I suppose)

(03-21-2024, 11:59 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: I could be mistaken, but I think a large 55L bulbous top box on the back of a motorcycle tends to be ignored if you happen to be doing a little more than over the speed limit. At least it always feels that way.

If you are on a scooter, it similarly seems to never get touched when clearly a cage going that fast will get caught.