Japanese Police Motorcycle Riding Competition

[IcePickSnowmanzzzz]

ok he is good but lets not evoke the stereotype people ok

[thihal123]

If you look closely, they do have crash bars on the bikes

[peterinfamilyguy]

No wonder they make such good bikes! :P

[sephiroth1386]

Sorry meant to say "BIG" safety bars

[sephiroth1386]

Wow, much repect from rider to rider. At least they ride bikes that can fall over without safety bars like the cops here

[baharsahin]

amazing

[vladt30]

The track is littered with APM's,you fail and you die...hahaahahahhaha

[xsfghxtrfjh]

impossibru

[Jancito1187]

I DID ALL THIS WITH ONE LEG, ONE ARM, AND WITH A BLIND FOLD...

[matgonjinn]

Moral of the story: Don't mess with japanese bike cops :s

[Katipunero007]

F*CK!!!!!!!...I want mad skills like this

[elenagym]

Watching this video hundred times..amazing skills !!

[STATUS604]

Fell on my dad's Harley just about an hour ago when stopping... sigh...

[Phoenixxx215]

these guys are good, great defensive skills , stop on a dime, wow

[XxsadisticpinkxX]

Honda teaches this riding technique at their Okegawa Rainbow Riding Center every weekend. Cost is something like 100Bucks. Lunch and motorcycle included. Just bring your gloves, boots, and helmet. It is a lot of fun, esp since you can literally crash the motorcycle and not have to worry about it. (Not saying it's cool to lay the bike down.)

[unholyimage]

@XxsadisticpinkxX Thanks for the info, guy. I was considering not getting a license here in Japan, but now that I now about the quality of courses, I will definitely rethink.

[XxsadisticpinkxX]

@unholyimage No problem, if in case you just want to get a thrill and need in the Kanto Area, just go to the Riding Center and ride once a month to satisfy your need to ride. Riding in Japan can be really dangerous. Remeber that more than 75% of the accidents happen on intersections. This mean NEVER over take or ride in the dead angle (shadow) of a car in an intersection. You will die if you do this.

[XxsadisticpinkxX]

@unholyimage Also if you get an international license, just rewrite it in Japan. If you do decide to ride in Japan, I recommend that you simulate (in your mind) riding in Japan. Take a taxi cab ride and realistically simulate as if you are on a motorcycle. If you do this a dozen times, you'll get a realistic feel and understand the dangers. Obviously there is no substitue for riding but youll be better prepared. BTW, the guys at Okegawa are so much better than the cops on the video.

[foxfire1112]

This just made me feel like such a noob lol

[FoSbaKiaS]

everything is a matter of practice

[ltcurry]

Damn superbike racers in the Police, Cool!

[wafi0123]

very tough cops but adjectly how I learn the riding control skill I use to play similler allday long there we use to do nasty dozes public and other vehichle hates us road rage.

[opinioncritica5]

amazing!

[DefiantAML]

Yeah last time I got caught for speeding I didnt bother even trying to run. I mean he was on me in a flash and cut me off anyway!

Respect to the J Police Bikers. Otherwise knows as "Shirobai"

[computer305]

19 people were criminals in japan.

[anshumanabhisek]

Awesome riding........ Which bike is that????? Seems to have gud balance!!!!

[satured]

@anshumanabhisek Honda VFR800 modified

[Beriaal]

OMG

[torontothegood]

what??? no chamber and fire sidearm on the fly and re-holster???? wimps!!!!!

[Orangebike666]

Legend has it .......he once handcuffed 2 fleeing suspects and the same time while doing a endo and eating his lunch.

[emerican19]

these guys are great, no doubt. but i take my hat off to the US officers doing it on harleys that weight twice as much (slight exaggeration). Also, for the California DMV (and i think in police training) a foot down is an automatic fail. im surprised how much it seems they're encouraged to touch down with their feet.

[MrAlfredRodriguez]

@emerican19 they are putting down their feet because they have to do a U-turn in ONLY ONE parking space width...

[emerican19]

@MrAlfredRodriguez i know, google some "harley police" videos and they do the same thing on a much heavier bike with no foot down. im not talking crap, just making an observation. i certainly couldn't do it! i just think it's interesting the difference in cultures- we usually view Asians as "overachievers" but they're ok doing the foot touch and in the US you're taught that it's not acceptable.

[MrAlfredRodriguez]

@emerican19 It is not about a difference in cultures - it is just using the right technique for the situation. The reason they put their put down is to make a U-turn in ONE parking space width from a STOP. Imagine an immediate scramble... Even American X-treme bike riders put their feet down when they need to do U-turns in the smallest space possible.

[MrAlfredRodriguez]

@emerican19 FYI, in Japan, these techniques/sports are not restricted to the police. A significant number of riders actually do “motorcycle gymkhana” as a hobby/competition (much like a car track day, etc.). One of the reasons is that when compared to the US, Japanese roads are much narrower (doing U-turns in a 4-meter wide space is more the norm) - it is in the interest of safe riding that these skills are also practiced by the general population.

[flby173]

that is just awesome

[throttlehard]

Ok, so I can't ditch these guys in back alley ways but on the freeway, I will prevail??!

[j2ching]

japanese... nuff said

[quickacc7754]

for some reason i dont think youl outrun these guys simply goin trhougha back ally way

[richmeister1]

Want to try this stuff on my K75s next season.............

[amdddr]

impress. i ride this bike before honda vfr750. it's so heavy but they control the bike like cub some with box equipment. super well riding.

[nikat78]

Hmm, where I can take some lessons?



[UGotKilledByACamper]

Wow...these make american riders look like crap.

[wilddogism]

@UGotKilledByACamper

because U.S. is a society of modern democracy; we show everything to the world, everything good and bad. We show how we crash so that you can learn from our mistakes.

other countries are face-saving; only show the good and hide all the shit.

FYI, if we have someone sponsor us doing stunning, we'll get to this point just fine. Riding skills need practice, practice, and a lot of practice. These dudes dumped a lot of bikes already before they can get to this riding skill.

[LuckRenewal]

@wilddogism

yes, such a modern democracy where it sends a msg to the world such as:

1) if you do stupid shit in america on the road, you'd probably get shot by cops

2) if you do stupid shit in canada anywhere, you'd probably get tazed or shot

[kringle02]

I live in TN and watched CA police do this and there cool as hell

[newcomer9747]

Excellent posture!

[stuntermaniac]

Grat job, search CEMOPOL in Youtube or Facebook

[beatsdddx]

mad skills tossing  that suzuki like none thing

[peekster0]

@beatsdddx Did you just insult Honda by calling that thing a Suzuki? lol

[xXMC023Xx]

@kd84afc

CBT - Compulsory basic training

BASIC - Duh..

[fkerpants]

THAT is how you ride a motorcycle.

[qbert203]

they're practically dragging knees and they're only going like 15 mph!

[RepublicanDumbAss]

These men blow away American motor police. Sorry, but it's true. Too much ego involved on the USA side I think. The donuts don't help either. ;o)

[kevbodian]

That last cop was fast!

[flht1300]

Love it, I think we should adapt some of those courses here in the U.S. of A.... then trade some of our courses for a diverse style of riding..... then give them harleys and see if they can do it on the harleys.... that is good riding tho.

[sgtish]

I would NOT want to try and outrun these guys.

[FrigidWhisper]

@sgtish I was just saying to myself the same thing!!

[PnlBtr]

@sgtish just go in a straight line all they can do is turn lol

[lovekeepsmegoing]

indian cops can do better

[HiddenFromSight]

Honda's. sweet.

[w00tboy]

Holy crap! that is not easy to do! the 3rd guy and the last guy had the best clutch control.

[hdp26]

amazing skills dont need to tell how dificult is to maniubre with a more than a half ton bike at low speeds, GREAT skills for that jap police riders

i bet my coins on that 95% of bikers wouldn't be able to do that

[Sandcat87]

So to recap, the main points to remember if you need to commit a crime in Japan are:

1) Lead the robot police to the Yakuza so they can duke it out while you commit your felony, and

2) If the bike police are after you, drive in a straight line and you'll be fine.

[hoditohod26]

awesome!

[CleverDjembe]

The Japanese invented and mastered drifting and now... this. WOW!

[kd84afc]

CBT is basic compared to this, Even our motorbike test is a low level really compared how this people are throwing the bikes around

[savirjack]

MAD SKILLS

[ririshow]

Wouaaah very impressive riding

[LeftyLucciano]

My CBT was took on the road. I never weaved through cones. Bit of theory n an emergency stop then bam 6 hours on roads.

[LukeSkyscraper]

Here in the UK we have something called "Compulsory Basic Training" (CBT) which is much like this though granted at a much slower speed. It's taught at places similar to those in this video and requires much of the same skills I see here. Basically any new rider has to prove themselves before they are allowed on the road and must carry a CBT pass certificate in addition to their provisional licence.

[gubbedagain]

Don't kid yourself the CBT is nothing like this and is merely designed to allow the instructor to see if the candidate has the most basic of machine control.

[LukeSkyscraper]

It was when I was teaching it 12 years ago. It was a 2 day course - day 1 figure of eights, weaves, stopping in boxes (distance judging), emergency stops, U turns, right and left junction simulations, like I said nowhere near this level -this is a much higher standard, but the basic format is quite similar. Day 2 was on the road putting into action what was learned about control on day 1. I'll admit I've been out of it for a while so it may have changed, which would be a bad thing.

[LukeSkyscraper]

Incidentally I was riding a VFR750FH at the time, the last one before the single sided swingarm version. How I miss that bike (sold it to go back to university)

[gubbedagain]

No offence but the CBT HAS NEVER been anything like this, NEVER, PERIOD FULL STOP NEVER !!!!!!

[LukeSkyscraper]

Right, so in CBT you don't have to do Figure 8 around cones, you don't have to slalom through them (obstacle avoidance), you don't have to do right and left turns, you don't have to do stopping inside a box. You don't have to do pulling away and you don't have to do U turns. Man I've been teaching it all wrong.

I never said it was exactly like this.. I said it was similar. These guys are using the same skills sets that you learn. Just to a much higher standard and at a competition level.

[geoffart]

I dont think you do that stuff in CBT. Do you mean the new bike test?

The actual test has cones you have to ride around, yes: U-turn, emergency stop, swerve at 31mph..etc. Obviously not to these super high standards though.

[Teshuler]

WOW!! Thats some awesome riding. You guys have some serious skills!!

[Arvak777]

wow thats crazy good, wonder why the bikes sound quite, they almost sound like...electric or something

[LukeSkyscraper]

They are VFR750s. V4 engines with gear driven cam shafts which gives the engines that distinctive whine. I miss mine so much. Best bike I ever had. The new VFR800s are not as good.

[FindlaySucks]

Amazing skills. Peace from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

[Vingtoft1011]

Good driving! :D

Peace from Denmark, Scandinavian

[irishyetiboy]

class.......... I think those honda 750?? bikes are VTWINS!!!!!!! they are duevells me thinks

[soundmaster31]

honda vfr 750 (v4)

[KBorham]

Pussies. Watch the US Poilce do this on a V-Twin...

[87sprintqf]

hahah i doubt they could even do a u turn - think of all the scrapping cones and footpegs

[BaLLinMuCH]

this is crazyy

[gatosgsr]

Ευτυχώς που οι δικοί μας δεν είναι σαν αυτούς....την είχαμε βάψει...

[ericssson]

man !! does guys are god

[helmstera]

I had done this type of circuit riding before and it was not easy. The police riders shown in this video used a high powered motorcycle and they did not even knock down any of the pylons. Now that's a superb handling and safety precaution checking.

[Balantarna]

Honda es honda jajajajjaja.... como pilotan la judia VFR750P

[seekerofvision678]

is this because theyre supposed to drive in allys and such in japan?

[stigmundfreud]

no its because on a diet of flied lice they don't have the stamina to hold the bikes up.

Still I bet our lardy arsed trafpol couldn't even manage half this course

[seekerofvision678]

ehm im sorry im not from the uk around here the police drive a tank or apc and stop cars with light automatic cannon or superheavy machinegun

[jamiebridges123]

Better than the Astra Diesls our police get, with foam batton.

[seekerofvision678]

have you seen belarus police they have khalashnikovs and lead grain coated in rubber hose

[silico99]

Skills.