My knee slider is happy...
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Awesomeeee!! Umm also did I miss something.... Senior Member...
Dragging your knee is legal
Dragging your knee is legal
I think I shall interpret it as reckless driving and make a citizens arrest sir!
Yay for real world :admin:
Actually, I've been wondering about that. There's this other guy around, who looks just like me, on a bike just like mine. That guy sometimes rides a bit - "spirited" on some corners.Dragging your knee is legal
I've been curious if it couldn't be considered as reckless driving, if the local constabulary wished to make a point.
Law Enforcement would have a field day if it was. It's my understanding it's not and it wouldn't constitute reckless.
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NICE! hey you got to start somewhere! I think that's cool though, it must have been a huge RUSH to get down that far?
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In California, Reckless requires wanton or willful disregard for people or property (other than yourself and your vehicle). So if you're doing it on a fairly empty road where a worst-case crash isn't going to do anything more than kill you and wreck your bike, it's not reckless. Might be speeding, but generally not reckless. Do the same thing through a crowded parking lot on the day before Christmas and it probably is reckless.
In practice, Reckless Driving is what they usually throw at you when the speed violation is extreme (more than 30mph over the limit, or over 100mph), or when you're doing a whole bunch of bad things all at once (running a stop sign and making an illegal turn while speeding through a residential neighborhood). The theory being that any one thing can be bad judgement or a mistake, but doing a whole bunch of them at once generally requires some level of "willful disregard."
Over 100mph is still just an infraction. Although you do lose your license for 30 days! But your right on the reckless part. The cop just has to articulate it.
Realistically, if you're going 100 on anything other than a completely empty road in the middle of nowhere, they will probably be able to come up with some other thing you were doing wrong that would combine with the extreme speed to make it reckless. They don't have to, but they usually can. Whether they choose to can depend on you.
But back to the original point, taking a corner too fast isn't reckless on the twisties up in the hills. It might be if you do it in a place where a fall will send you and your bike into a playground full of kids. The law does allow unusual levels of risk-taking, so long as the only person you're likely to kill is yourself.
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That's a good cop right there.... See guys, were not all bad