[Ducati] run in with the law

[Kevin Kachadourian]

Okay, this is not my run-in with the Law story, but I was witness to part of
it.
Back in my days of frequent Yosemite rock climbing, a bunch of us were
camping at While Wolf, on the road from Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows.
As a few of us were headed off for the Meadows to climb, my friend, Tim, who
had come in late on his F1, was just stirring in his sleeping bag. We drove
to the Meadows, gathered our gear and were starting up the dome (Pywiak),
when Tim shows up on the Duck. He stops, gets off the bike, watches us for a
minute or so, waves and then takes off. About 30 seconds later, a park
ranger car comes, lights flashing, like a bat out of hell. We tried to do
the rough math: took us 30 minutes to drive here, and another 10 to get to
where we were on the rock; Took Tim maybe 20 minutes to get up, have a tea,
and then take off; Cop probably picked him up shortly after leaving the
campground; by the time Tim reached us, he was only 10 minutes behind us;
(here are the impressive numbers ->). In the 15 to 20 minutes he was chasing
Tim, the ranger lost about 10 minutes worth of ground. As it turned out, the
ranger finally caught up with Tim, cause Tim had to stop for gas.
Apparently, the ranger was hopping mad, when he got out of the car. Of
course, Tim got a big and angry lecture, and a very stiff ticket.
BTW, for anyone who doesn't know yet, the National Parks and forests have
their own rules, speed limits and cops (Rangers). The speed limits tend to
be low, and the fines huge,... but damn, some sections of 120 going through
and coming out of Yosemite are sweet.
Kevin


On 5/14/08, Brad Giddy <bradly at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> Enjoyed the thread on the" Longest", Iam 55 and not even in the
> show!!.Tends to support my theory that the sooner you start the better
> chance you have of surviving, and theory 2 that you should ride to your
> ability and not the guy your chasing..
>
>
>        Have not suffered to many majors with the law in OZ, however
> remember one instance when I was riding down Macquarie Pass (The road Wayne
> Gardiner learnt to ride on....world champion 1987 Rothmans nsr honda)..Guy
> comes the other way on one of those 4 cyclinder BMW's and was pushing pretty
> hard, so I chucked a U-turn and after him(hell this was MY territory).Its a
> particularly difficult and varying climb through a rainforrest and few
> center lines,blind corners , the works.I did not think I was going to catch
> him ,then all of a sudden a glimpse as he dissappears around the corner
> ahead. Thats it I'm flat strap and nearly threw it down the road when the
> left hand peg dug in, OOPS, finally pegged him and did a desperardo around
> the outside in a left hander (american equivalent ...around the outside on a
> right hander)  and I'm in front now and really pumped .Pulled up at the pie
> shop at the top ,the 900ss has been flogged, and only just get my hat off
> and the BM pulls up . Guy takes his hat off walks over to me and says "If I
> was doing my day job you would be in jail now".....such is life
>
>    Just realised I blew theory 2 out of the water!!!   bye Brad
> *****
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