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Jul 24th, 2008, 8:26 pm
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Largo, FL, USA
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bad times for the Dragon!
well I guess some dumbass cop ruined deals gap for everyone. Apparently last week some total idiot decided to run a bike off the road since he could not catch him and killed the guy. The guy on the bike happened to be an off duty officer on his personal bike.
The story is that police have swarmed the area and have started writing every bike a ticket for anything, everything and even nothing at all. They are nitpicking so bad that every bike is being pulled over and getting a ticket from anything to insufficient tire tread to license plate location. I also heard that road reflecters were put in to complicate things just a little bit more.
This is just terrible that a rider had to lose his life because of some idiots bad judgement and now the legendary deals gap will not be the same anymore.
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Jul 24th, 2008, 9:52 pm
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Phx, Arizona, USA
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Not quite sure I follow your story here. The off-duty officer was run off the road and killed by an on-duty officer? Or the off-duty officer was run off the road by someone else or someone else was run off the road by an off-duty officer. Not quite following I guess.......... 
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Jul 24th, 2008, 10:13 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Columbus, GA, USA
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The Dragon was ruined years ago by herds of cruisers, and by squids who think it's a race track instead of a two-lane public road.
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Jul 24th, 2008, 10:17 pm
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Motard-Menace
Not quite sure I follow your story here. The off-duty officer was run off the road and killed by an on-duty officer? Or the off-duty officer was run off the road by someone else or someone else was run off the road by an off-duty officer. Not quite following I guess.......... |
I read it a couple of times and cant follow it either.
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Jul 24th, 2008, 10:35 pm
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: somewhere between atlanta & n.cali, ITALIA->UK->MI->GA->CA, USA
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off-duty officer was riding his bike... someone in a car was chasing him, couldn't catch him, and ran him off the road prob. because he was following him too closely. That's my interpretation of the OP's post... regardless, it sucks. Was at the dragon 2 weekends ago and there were 6 LEO's... oh well, there are better roads to ride around there anyway.
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Jul 24th, 2008, 11:00 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Franklin, TN, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Libido
The Dragon was ruined years ago by herds of cruisers, and by squids who think it's a race track instead of a two-lane public road.
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AGREED...
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Jul 25th, 2008, 1:11 am
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Location: Austin, TX, USA
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If he couldn't keep up or catch him how did he run him off the road?
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Jul 25th, 2008, 3:45 am
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Join Date: May 2008
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does anyone have a link of a newspaper atricle or anything? I looked on a couple deal's gap websites and couldn't find anything about it.
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Jul 25th, 2008, 3:55 am
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Milton, PA, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Z1K2HYPER
well I guess some dumbass cop ruined deals gap for everyone. Apparently last week some total idiot decided to run a bike off the road since he could not catch him and killed the guy. The guy on the bike happened to be an off duty officer on his personal bike.
The story is that police have swarmed the area and have started writing every bike a ticket for anything, everything and even nothing at all. They are nitpicking so bad that every bike is being pulled over and getting a ticket from anything to insufficient tire tread to license plate location. I also heard that road reflecters were put in to complicate things just a little bit more.
This is just terrible that a rider had to lose his life because of some idiots bad judgement and now the legendary deals gap will not be the same anymore.
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I hope you aren't calling a deceased off-duty cop a dumbass? That is beyond harsh
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08 Ducati HM
03 Yamaha R6 track bike
02 Suzuki TL1000-R RIP baby
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Jul 25th, 2008, 4:09 am
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: i see twisty roads..., and I like it, I Like it a lot!
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We (enthusiasts in western NC) usually hear current rumors of above average bufoonery and tragedy from the Gap. Some of them are even true. I've heard nothing about this. That said, every itteration of lunacy has probably seen the light of day at the "GAP", one time or another.
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