Roc 2011

[JasonRR]

Vids I took with my digital camera during this year's Ride of the Century in St Louis.

There's lot of other good vids on Youtube, including the footage of the cops shutting down the freeway with a roadblock to stop the ride. Everyone just blew right around them, despite their best efforts with stop sticks, taser, batons, traffic cones, etc.... Lol.

Lots of media following the ride. One rider stopped on the side of the highway to get a backpack he dropped, and while playing Frogger, got hit by an F-350 and split his leg wide open. Almost bled out from his femoral artery, but he wasn't hurt stunting or by stunters.

[dsrtuckteezy]

man ive said it before but highway burnouts=sickness!

[dsrtuckteezy]

"we need to cut the fence down" hah!

[JasonRR]

I do love this one....not mine, but I'm in it

[Hobie]

I don't remember what vid it was, but there was a cop with his pistol in his hand at the roadblock talking to a guy on a blue R1 standing in front of his bike.

[Hobie]

With these big annual rides happening at a few places across the country now I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before Dateline or someone makes a national story about this and everyone on a sportbike gets assfucked.

The media seems to eat this shit up, honestly, surprised they haven't gone after it nationally already. This is the molehill they love to make mountains out of like streetracing after the first fast and furious was a hit.

[ram57ta]

its a shame they cant find a way to stretch razor wire across the freeway in front of a bunch of them.

[JasonRR]

its a shame they cant find a way to stretch razor wire across the freeway in front of a bunch of them.

There we go! I was wondering what took so long....started to lose faith in you haters for a second there. I knew I could count on you though.

Rumor is next year might be it for ROC. It'll be the 10th anniversary, and it's getting so big that it's a lot of work to coordinate and manage. This was my 8th year, and I'd be OK with it. All good things must come to an end, right? Who knows though, I'll go as long as my friends are hosting it. It's as much about hanging out with friends I don't ever get to see as the ride itself. We played trampoline dodgeball and lazer tag on Sunday afternoon, and I think I had more fun then than on ROC itself. The hood ride was my favorite though. Good times.

[dsrtuckteezy]

you should post the road block vid in the picture/video forum if you want some serious death threatening haters haha

[futant]

its a shame they cant find a way to stretch razor wire across the freeway in front of a bunch of them.

why ?
because you're butt hurt about it ?
who are they even bothering?

this so reminds me of the cry baby cops that used to roll around town to kick skaters out of places 'because they shouldn't be there' .
fucking hilarious chest pounding ape bullshit.

You don't do that round here!
People don't take kindly to YOUR type round here!

[futant]

so what was the point of the cops trying to block the road ?

how is that actually going to accomplish anything except stop normal car drivers ?

I guess they are that retarded

[Grape]

bow down to the guy on one wheel with the harley

[Skidmark]

I don't remember what vid it was, but there was a cop with his pistol in his hand at the roadblock talking to a guy on a blue R1 standing in front of his bike.

At about 1:05. Pretty nicely laid out video...

PS: I don't know how to link vimeo videos on here.

http://vimeo.com/29415302

[kingjason]

why ?
because you're butt hurt about it ?
who are they even bothering?

this so reminds me of the cry baby cops that used to roll around town to kick skaters out of places 'because they shouldn't be there' .
fucking hilarious chest pounding ape bullshit.

You don't do that round here!
People don't take kindly to YOUR type round here!

You guys know I am a pretty dedicated rider right? So I am going to address this, but keep in mind I hardly ever drive a car anywhere.

Let’s start off with the skateboard comment. I can guarantee you 98 percent of police out there could give a damn less about skateboarders skating anywhere as long as they are not bothering anyone or tearing shit up and tagging it. What happens is dispatch gets call after call and then we end up having to take action to make someone (usually a business owner) who is actually paying taxes and making a contribution to society happy. Now we all know there are some people that take this too the extreme, calling every hour on the hour orrrrr hanging out at their business after hours to ambush skaters. If the skaters acted right, and did not graffiti up anything there would have probably never been an issue.

Now let us address some of the big bike rides or just a lot of sport bike riders in general. The same thing applies. I don’t know how many times we have sat out and watched the guys blowing up the highway on the sport bikes. Hell they use to come over to a business complex in our city and do stunts. No one ever said a thing until they started messing with cars going in and out of the complex. The problem with these big rides and stunting events is that you are clogging up a major artery by stopping the highway and acting like ass hats in the middle of rush hour. The mob mentality is no different than the kid’s flash mobbing the stores and stealing. You guys organize, get together in a big gang, and go out knowing you are going to cause problems and several are going to threaten motorists like a bunch of bad asses. Also it may not be 80 percent of the riders out there but the ones that have no license, and their bikes are all jacked up or stolen that concern us. You have the guys that have absolutely no respect for the law out there and have no intention of ever being stopped by the police, even under normal circumstances. Now that is stupid, and people will continue to die because of this. I was picking up some prisoners one night coming back from Plano and had three roll up next to me and start acting like ass hats. Then they would haul ass and slow down, do a wheelie etc., then burn off again to see if I would chase them. This is why you piss off law enforcement as a whole not just the occasional out having fun rides. Unfortunately, thanks to the few, there will come a day when drastic measures will be taken to stop this stuff. It would not be hard to do at all to catch a big group. I am in a smaller city and I can say without a doubt we could shut down miles of the highway and you could not get out. What is truly funny is, if you have a good MC endorsement, your bike is not all jacked up, and you have insurance, what they are going to do but tell you to have a nice day. Now I do not for see this happening because we have never had bunches of calls on this over a period of days but I imagine DPD gets them every single day.

Now this is coming from a guy that has been riding since I was 14 and owned a ton of retarded fast bikes. Hell I have been stopped plenty way before I became law enforcement, plenty as a young adult on sport bikes, never one ticket, but my stuff was straight. Imagine other law enforcement and higher ups in department s that have never even thrown a leg over.

[JasonRR]

I don't have any problem with anything you said, actually. And I think you've even got a point about the mob mentality.

It's way different than a flash mob though, as they're stealing and causing harm to others, where we're really just breaking traffic laws. I was actually proud of this group, cause both times we stopped for gas the stations were PACKED with riders going in to pre-pay for gas and get water/snacks. In some groups, that coulda turned into a flash mob and people just walked out with whatever they wanted. No liscense plates on most bikes, a lot of people from out of state, what are they gonna do? I was a tiny bit nervous about it happening, just cause there were SO many people (1500-2k riders, maybe 2,200 people...lots of passengers), but it never did. People waited in huge lines and payed for empty bottles of water. I thought that spoke well of the group.

I rode my DRZ, which is 100% legit. I've had my endorsement for 17yrs and all my bikes are covered by individual policies, and then by a supplementary umbrella policy. That's why I wasn't all that nervous about the road block, cause I wasn't really doing anything wrong. I can say for 100% certainty that the Streetfighterz and Section 518 bikes are definitely not stolen. Stunters have gone away from that, cause so many got busted/burned and it's just not worth it. 636's and F4i's are a dime a dozen anways.

It got a lot more crazy at the road block than you see in that video. I waited for about 2 minutes to see what was going to happen, and those 2 cop cars turned into 6 and there were cops in the road swatting at bikes with batons. I personally saw one throw a road cone. I weaved my way through and clutched-up 2nd gear when they got discouraged and just stopped trying.

For me ROC is about hanging out with 16 of my buddies I never get to see and getting a little crazy. Whether that be on bikes, or going to the bars or throwing dollar bills at strippers like we're Nolan fuckin Ryan. We don't go out there to hurt people and I didn't see anyone provoking any cars, except those that had lights on top of them.