nusman68
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Just got back from a local 250 mi. ride....just outside Houston, through the Sam Houston Nat'l Forest, among other places. Great ride on FM149 with scenery & twisties, very short though (approx. 18 mi. the specific area I'm referring to); but a good warmup for other adjacent roads; been running it for years, a biker mecca on the weekends; speed limit varies between 30 - 60 mph; we were in a 60 mph stretch, about 1/3 of the way through; my brother's out in front, he's at 70; we round a bend and I see a cop Tahoe; hit the brakes, too late; (road is 2 lanes, 2 way, blacktop) lights up, pulls out in front of me; it's the Forest Service! Writes my brother for a 70 in a 60. 
Oh, well. The irony is that usually by this time we've already waved around a flock of crotch-rockets doing 90+.
We stuck to the speed limit the rest of the way out of the woods, and there were (3)! more traps/cops set up along the way, along with a county cop hanging out with the fourth (& final) Forest service cop. Guess they were prepared should any of the sportbike crowd decide to give chase.....
In all the years we've been riding there we had never seen these guys in the area. Later we noticed another sportbike group 'takin it easy' past us while we were pulled over looking at a map; I'm sure their lead guy got nailed too...for probably a lot more than 10 mph over the limit....
Who gets the money? County? Feds? Forest Service? Easy money too...like shooting fish in a barrel for the cops....
Oh, well. The irony is that usually by this time we've already waved around a flock of crotch-rockets doing 90+.We stuck to the speed limit the rest of the way out of the woods, and there were (3)! more traps/cops set up along the way, along with a county cop hanging out with the fourth (& final) Forest service cop. Guess they were prepared should any of the sportbike crowd decide to give chase.....
In all the years we've been riding there we had never seen these guys in the area. Later we noticed another sportbike group 'takin it easy' past us while we were pulled over looking at a map; I'm sure their lead guy got nailed too...for probably a lot more than 10 mph over the limit....
Who gets the money? County? Feds? Forest Service? Easy money too...like shooting fish in a barrel for the cops....
