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I don't know what I find more humoruos(sp?) "Well I hit a bump and my front wheel went in the air" or Hmmm 3 times the speed limit and you had your bike taken away.....

 

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sounds like a great way to encourage people to run from the police if asked to pull over.

True. If you're already doing 50 mph over the speed limit what's runnin' from the law.........

While I'm no fan of property confiscation, ok how many people thought it was ok to do this to drug dealers, I've gotta say that if your on the same roads as me and your doing 50 over I want you pulled. While I'm busy to 10 to 15 over, for safety am I gonna notice you in time to get the hell out of the way.

10 over on GPS around here won't even get the troopers to put down the paper.

 

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Why is managing this through license suspension or forfeiture inadequate?

I suspect that the primary reason is because it doesn't give the same visceral sense of satisfaction to the non-riding public as seizing a $10K piece of equipment (as opposed to actually being proven more effective as a deterrent).

The non riding public is scared, otherwise they wouldn't have gone to their legislators.

I suspect that for you and I such things are a deterent. I'm going to guess, please correct me if I'm wrong, that neither of us operate motorcycles 50 mph over the speed limit on a public road, nor play "snake or follow the leader" thru the traffic on the 4 lane. A license is not required for guys with forum handles like ipassdacop and people who regularly post about running from cops. I think that this legislation is aimed at those riders. Is there a danger of this eventually restricting me, sure. You know the old saying "...they came for the Gypsys and I did nothing." right, well I do too. But sometimes your, and I use the term loosely, "peers" have to be let go.