Today, a local casino hosted the Annual Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department SW Area Motorcycle Competition benefiting the Special Olympics for Nevada. Most of the departments were from Arizona and California, there were a couple as far away as Wichita Falls Texas and Eugene Oregon. The riders were timed and penalized by seconds, the amount varied by the severity of the penalty. Penalties included: touching cones, knocking down cones, placing a foot down, to dumping your bike (there were plenty). There were individual courses, tandem teams ( you have a strap 2 feet long that is velcrod at each end , if it detaches from your partner you disqualify). Team competition in groups of four (four bikes in that small circle, not much room for error). Bikes are grouped by make. Harleys, BMW's etc. BMW has a dry clutch so you could smell them burning their clutch out everytime they finish the course. The Harley's foot stool were scraping the ground all the time. You can see some of the scrapes from the photos. Many dumped their bikes, the side bar attached to the bikes really works. They picked up those monster bikes the same way you saw on the "how to pick up your bike" thread.
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