Originally Posted by evanyc
my question is, honestly, who get's caught by a cop when they are on their bike? i know that if i were riding down the street and a cop attempted to stop me, and i would an overwhelming urge and definate ability to blow by them and not get caught.
This is the issue I was going to raise: what if you ran? Putting aside considerations of whether or not it's a good idea, what would happen if you ran? Obviously, as the cliche goes, no one outruns Motorola, but I figure on a bike you can make a better go of it than in a car or on foot.
Seriously: in my town, bike cops are fat men on dual-sus mountain bikes, packed down with rack-bags and first aid gear and such. They don't stand a chance. Cars are easily defeated - how many cops would follow you doing 40 km/h the wrong way down a busy one way? Cops on foot - they'd have to deploy a net to stop you (which, thinking about it now, is a frigging funny idea). I think the most dangerous foe to the miscreant bike rider would be a cop on horseback, but depending on the terrain and traffic, the bike would have the advantage there too.
So I put it to the forum: the pigs vs. fixies. evanyc and I can' t be the only ones who think about booting it from the cops.