So hypothetically, you find yourself being chased by a helicopter

**madandy** · 7th November 2012, 19:16

Originally Posted by sugilite

You mean putting on hi viz fluro gear? Sheer genius!!!

Yep!
Not so effective on the long straights but sure to kep you unssen in heavy traffic and especially at intersections

**sugilite:Me** · 8th November 2012, 06:13

Originally Posted by madandy

Yep!
Not so effective on the long straights but sure to kep you unssen in heavy traffic and especially at intersections

Woah! where did that come from??? Who said that??? Your wearing it now aren't you ya sneaky buggar!

**madandy** · 8th November 2012, 06:17

Originally Posted by sugilite

Woah! where did that come from??? Who said that??? Your wearing it now aren't you ya sneaky buggar!

Hmmm, not sure. It works in mirrors too and I cant see myself right now!

**nzmikey** · 8th November 2012, 06:27

Originally Posted by DEATH_INC.

Ammatures. You should be long gone before the eagle gets to you. If you can't loose 'em in under a minute you shouldn't be doing runners...

Unless you're like this guy and didn't know the chopper was after him...

lol I called him the other day & was having a laugh with him about it ..... he said the footage showed the choppa join in at Greenlane & follow him to his place in MT Welly, go through the gate & into the house where he got changed, & then came out & put the bike in the garage & then go back in the house ..... & mr plod turn up & knock on the door

**zique** · 8th November 2012, 22:09

Weird I was out riding tonight and the eagle was out tonight flying over whoever,for whatever reason.Rode straight home,garaged the bike and made a nice hot cuppa.

When my bro was lost,the cops told us the eagle can see someone switch on a lighter from about six miles away.

**Berries** · 8th November 2012, 22:39

Originally Posted by zique

When my bro was lost,the cops told us the eagle can see someone switch on a lighter from about six miles away.

Bit of a bugger if he didn't smoke though.

**zique** · 8th November 2012, 22:52

he didnt....he had his flashlight on,pointed up into the sky and the eagle didn't pick that up lol

**Disco Dan** · 9th November 2012, 07:52

Head to nearest airport - Whenuapai usually works... no fly zone for the Eagle

**jim.cox** · 9th November 2012, 08:20

Originally Posted by zique

the cops told us the eagle can see someone switch on a lighter from about six miles away.

That's pretty much right. Those night vision goggles are that good.

But only if there aren't many other heat/light sources around.

So great when searching bush, not so good in the city...

**G4L4XY** · 9th November 2012, 09:44

You could ride into an old abandoned warehouse where you have hundreds of fellow bikers waiting....

Then when the factory is surrounded all the doors lift up and you all make a break for it on your bikes Fast and Furious style!!!!

**Dave-** · 9th November 2012, 10:18

This really isn't a question about speed, it's about stamina

So a bike is only going to sit on 300km/h for half an hour before its tank is empty? so the furthest you can go from any point is only ~150km

A police helicopter can top out at 280km/h, but can do so for much longer (I think it'd be about 4 times longer, but as we're about to see it only needs to be a little bit longer)

Given that you can only out run a police chopper in basically a straight line we'll run with the following:

The police helicopter would get 139km before you ran out of gas at 150km, so it's 11km away, and closing at 278km/h which gives you 2 minutes and 20 seconds to refuel and/or find somewhere to hide.

So I'd only attempt a runner from a helicopter if I was on an adventure bike, I'd hike it into the high country where no cop car could follow, and just work away at the helicopter and hope he ran out of gas first, this would give me at least 40 minutes (they have a 20 minute reserve tank) to refuel and find somewhere else to hide.

How's that for dropping some university knowledge on ya's bitchez?!?!

**Banditbandit** · 9th November 2012, 11:41

THREAD HIJACK - NUDES AND HELICOPTERS

**nzmikey** · 9th November 2012, 12:33

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

THREAD HIJACK - NUDES AND HELICOPTERS

Now THAT I would stop for

**onearmedbandit** · 10th November 2012, 18:54

Rather boring video. But for 10 minutes the bike wasn't losing the chopper.

**Akzle** · 10th November 2012, 20:13

Originally Posted by Dave-

How's that for dropping some university knowledge on ya's bitchez?!?!

[insert incredibly witty comment about the usefulness of tertiary education in NZ and those that aren't smart enough to fuck off to ozzie]

you got that empircal data on the effectiveness of policy enforcement yet?

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

THREAD HIJACK - NUDES AND HELICOPTERS

Hijack accepted.