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Could you please elaborate on the evidence against the cop that was tainted by the investigation?

He was taking a witness statement at a house just off the road but up a steep incline. Could have knocked me over with a feather when he told us he measured our speed by sound. He was also literally frothing at the mouth mad. I think he calmed down enough to not file the tickets. Would...

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Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. There is also one other not if. The time the cop chose to make the U-turn. Using your logic, if the cop had not made the U-turn at the specific time he did there would be no crash. Entirely not relevant but equally as...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Here is a recent quote from your post: "My contention is that the officer never looked (properly) for approaching traffic prior to making that U-turn". You are making that assumption without...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. Actually, Thank you. We are clearly on the total opposite spectrum of belief yet you continue to be polite and reasonable about things. Not exactly a GTAM signature move.. :) As others have pointed out I'd say without some...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. I'm sure everybody would hear the bike. Not sure why this matters? Are we supposed to be able to judge how far away the bike is based on sound? Maybe estimate the speed based on sound? My question to you then is if you...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. In this case it would have been completely reasonable. Based on the sight line there would have appeared to be tons of time to make a U-turn.

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. I believe I'm a pretty reasonable person. I will also say I'm a relatively aggressive rider/driver. The reason I mention this is that I don't tend to wait until there is enough room for "granny" to make a move before I make...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. To me, this whole discussion comes down to one point. Did the cop check the road for on coming vehicles before making the U-turn. If he did not then I can understand his culpability in this crash. If he did look ( by far...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. Where is this 4 seconds coming from? Was this in the SIU report? The most likely explanation is that the cop did look, did see the head light, thought he had plenty of time to make the turn, made the turn and then was...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. Last I read the argument was that there was not a 150m sight line. Turns out there is a 550m sight line. So you have effectively eliminated the distance aspect of making an illegal U-turn. I guess your argument is now that...

Re: Claton Rivert death and Questions Swirl around SIU investigation. When a rider chooses to ride at 150kph+ at night the rider then becomes responsible for what happens. There is just no way for a driver (any driver not just the cop in question) to anticipate this kind of speed... Imo, there...

I use Shell's V-power 91 octane gas not for the higher octane rating but for the fact it is ethanol free.

Agreed. Any crash thread is pretty useless without a reasonable attempt to analyze why the crash happened. I'd suspect you are correct that things go sideways whenever a discussion is attempted about a crash. Hence the fallen rider section with nothing other then gws/rip.... But, this is...

I still lurk at a bit at GTAM. :)

Yup, you would be correct, Jamie on the 600 ( I think it was a cbr600rr) and Tom on the R1.

Seriously ? Do you honestly believe this? Why not add a few more choice considerations then: More abs giving false sense of protection Better tires giving a false sense of protection Better suspension giving a false sense of protection etc etc etc......

I'm not suggesting you do anything. I'm just saying you are making a target of yourself. You might have missed where I said this is not a fair practice. Have fun with your custom bike, just be prepared to deal with the attention a total custom bike will attract, both positive and negative.

Rob, Why not have the and/or explicit in the wording? There should be no having to have a cop interpret the use of specific grammar. Not sure why you are mentioning a 3/4 helmet as the helmet in question appears to be a Zox Chopper Helmet. The op posted a link to it. It seems to be a...