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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Florida Highway Patrol trooper sees him from an overpass and gives chase. Once the rider glimpses the trooper, he maxes out at a stupefying 186 m.p.h., before exiting I-95, taking a spill and getting caught. "Do you need fire-rescue before you go to jail?" Trooper Y. Segui asks him. "No, no I'm fine," the rider says. (See pictures of the world's most expensive motorcycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Fast Motorcyclists Are a Growing Menace | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...highway patrol suggests - by an apparent competition among riders to post the wildest speed and stunt videos on YouTube. And if it involves successfully eluding the police, all the better. "The more cops that are on you, the better rider you have to be to get away," Segui says. "If you get caught, you're not a great rider." In the case of the arrest that Segui made, even getting thrown in jail didn't seem to matter to the 19-year-old rider, who did not have a driver's license, let alone a motorcycle license. "He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Fast Motorcyclists Are a Growing Menace | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...peril, law-enforcement officials say. Drivers can change lanes having no idea that a racing bike is about to appear - and tragedy can easily strike. At first, the buzzing of an approaching high-speed motorcycle sounds like a gnat near your ear, then it suddenly becomes loud and threatening. Segui remembers a woman who heard that noise and jerked her steering wheel in the opposite direction, jumping a curb and crashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Fast Motorcyclists Are a Growing Menace | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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