On my way to work this morning, in the daylight, I was behind a LEO on a bike for a few miles traveling on a 6 lane divided road in pretty heavy traffic at about 50mph. A few observations...
- His brake lights were the brightest I've ever seen on any vehicle. Nothing else even comes close.
- He was on some sort of Harley.
- He seemed to shift gears a lot, or at least more than I expected.
- He was wearing a 1/2+ helmet (not really sure what it was to be honest)
- Not sure what he had on under his outer shirt or pants but it didn't look like he had a lot of protection on.
- It was about 40?F this morning... he seemed a little cold... kept trying to pull his collar up. I was thinking I would have a lot more gear on at 40?.
- At one point, he was traveling in the middle lane. A young lady in the right lane started to pull into his lane and nearly hit him. Fortunately, she saw him and he swerved just enough to keep from getting hit. He lit her up immediately, before she even got back into her lane! I'm guessing he wasn't too happy about that.
- I was only behind him for a few miles but he seemed really comfortable on that bike and he handled the close-encounter very well. I'm sure he's a really good rider, as they probably all are.