Welcome to Four.Movie! 🎬
Don't miss a single moment of this captivating short drama. We bring you the best billionaire romance, intense revenge stories, and high-quality web series tailored for you.
🔔 Make sure to FOLLOW our channel so you never miss an update!
Disclaimer: All content is properly licensed and distributed.
#full #shortdrama #fullepisode #fullmovie #engsub #reelshort #dramabox #shortmax #goodshort #moboreel #kalostv #topshort
Don't miss a single moment of this captivating short drama. We bring you the best billionaire romance, intense revenge stories, and high-quality web series tailored for you.
🔔 Make sure to FOLLOW our channel so you never miss an update!
Disclaimer: All content is properly licensed and distributed.
#full #shortdrama #fullepisode #fullmovie #engsub #reelshort #dramabox #shortmax #goodshort #moboreel #kalostv #topshort
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:02Motor cops ride these big bikes that look like two-wheeled SUVs. They throw them around through
00:07tight corners, carving up cones and waves both riders can't even fathom. Full lock left, full
00:13lock right, dragging hard parts without ever dabbing a foot. It looks like a circus trick,
00:18but look a little closer and you'll realize that these cops are executing fundamental motorcycle
00:23techniques with perfection. Counter sit, counter steer, counter weight. These are skills that once
00:29perfected will make you a safer, more confident rider. The catch? Mastering them isn't easy.
00:35Most officers train for 200 hours before they're even admitted to motor school. So the question is,
00:41if you take an average rider like me and put them through that same training but at a compressed
00:46rate of just two days, how hard can it be to ride like a cop? Let's go to school and
00:50find out.
00:57Turns out this school operates out of a parking lot in Huntington Beach. Laid out across an Amazon
01:02parking lot is a full cone course built and used by the Huntington Beach Police Department. This is
01:08where motor officers come to train and sharpen their own slow speed riding skills. And the cool
01:12part is it's also open to the public for anyone looking to practice and improve their own riding.
01:17My teacher for the next two days is Bill Turner, a retired motor officer with more than two decades
01:22of experience riding for the Redondo Beach Police Department. Bill spent nearly 33 years with the
01:27RBPD after starting as a police cadet back in 1990, with 22 of those years spent in the traffic division
01:33as a motor officer. He's also a certified motorcycle instructor and was part of the overall winning team
01:39of the 2021 Southern California Police Motor Skills Competition. Basically, Bill knows his way around
01:45a cone course. And now he's got the difficult task of trying to teach me how to ride like a
01:49motor cop
01:50in just two days. I rode in here on Honda's standard NT1100 DCT but this training called for the real
01:57police spec version. This is the 2026 Honda NT1100 police. It starts its life as a standard NT1100 but
02:05gets converted with all the equipment needed for law enforcement duty. Unlike the DCT model I rode in on,
02:11this one uses a full manual transmission along with police lighting, crash bars, slimmer side cases,
02:17radio equipment, and even a rifle rack. And if you're wondering where you can buy one, you can't.
02:23These are special ordered bikes built specifically for law enforcement departments which means my first
02:28objective today is pretty simple. Try not to drop it. All right Bill, I see a lot of cones, a
02:34lot of patterns,
02:35a little bit nervous. What's the first step to getting me proficient as a motor officer?
02:41It's all fundamentals. Okay. We're going to start at the the basic fundamentals and progress from there
02:46to where we can get you through the advanced cone patterns hopefully by the end of the day today.
02:53Okay. We'll start literally at the the very basics. We'll probably start just practicing turns and the
02:58fundamentals of turning. Okay. And then we'll take that and just make it smaller. Okay. We'll move to
03:05probably a box. We'll make that box smaller once we can do turns and figure eights within that box.
03:10And then we will get to some of the more advanced patterns. The cones are going to be very deceiving
03:16for you. Yeah. It'll make the pattern look small even though physically it'll be the same size as the
03:22turns you just made. Okay. Without the cones around you. Number one rule, motorcycles are fun.
03:29Yeah. So you got to have fun. Okay. Don't get frustrated. Don't forget that. Look at it as
03:33I'm just progressively getting better. Okay. And then truly the number one rule uh is head and eyes.
03:39Motorcycle will go wherever your head and eyes go. Okay. If you feel like you are not going to make
03:45it
03:45through a pattern uh head and eyes power to the rear wheel. Okay. And it's better to drive out of
03:51a
03:51pattern tend to fall down. Okay. Because if you fall down you're getting hurt you don't get to go
03:56through the pattern again. Yeah. Okay. Gotta learn to walk before you can run so. Absolutely. Knowing we
04:03were starting with the basics made this whole thing feel a lot less intimidating. At this point I was
04:08mostly curious to see how badly I was going to struggle. The first drill was a simple figure eight
04:12around two cones. The idea was to start wide and easy and tighten things up as I got more comfortable
04:17with
04:17the bike and started to figure out the technique. All right Evan uh we're going to do basic figure
04:22eights just around the cones. Start as wide as you have to and then we will just bring it in
04:28and make
04:28it smaller and smaller. Again basic fundamentals. Head and eyes. Motorcycle is going to go where the head
04:33and eyes go. Uh once the bike starts to lean a little bit more keep your body upright. Okay. Uh
04:40with the
04:41the road surface counterbalance on the bike. Everything should be uh clutch and throttle to
04:48for the power. Especially as small and as close as the cones are together. So let's just start with
04:55the the absolute basics. Uh circles are figure eights around the cone and I'll coach you through of if you
05:02need any uh advice as you're going. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'll jump into it. It's got to start somewhere.
05:08I'm nervous.
05:18Oh yeah. Head and eyes. Eyes need to be up. I'm not committing enough huh. Eyes need to be way
05:24up.
05:25You should be looking at me all the way up here. Oh that high okay. Yep.
05:31Oh my this is really challenging. Head and eyes all the way up. You can see the cones in your
05:37peripheral vision. Okay. So keep your head and eyes up. The moment you look down on the ground
05:42you'll go down. Yeah. The right heart. I'm bad at right handers. As I circled the figure eight more
05:48and more I began to loosen up and feel more relaxed. There you go. Way to get your head and
05:53eye. Nope.
05:54Gotta keep them around. Yeah. By keeping my eyes up to locate the cone markers felt unnatural. Cocking my head
06:00around to the extreme felt exaggerated at first. There you go. Much better. But once I began to find a
06:06flow it felt natural to turn my head and eyes locate the cone dip the bike and commit to applying
06:11throttle before chopping the gas and applying the brakes. Looking through the turn is key to success.
06:16The head and eyes go first and the bike and body will follow. Now I'm starting to find a flow.
06:21The reason it's important to learn these motor officer techniques is because the training isn't
06:26just about dodging cones in a parking lot. It's about mastering the motorcycle in the most challenging
06:30conditions controlling your riding destiny in the face of any challenge you might face on the road
06:36as an officer. Shifts can be 12 hours a day and most of that time is spent in the saddle.
06:41Motor officers can easily cover 30,000 miles a year on the job with the bike burning three to four
06:46sets
06:46of tires getting five to six oil changes and two sets of front brake pads and three sets at the
06:52rear.
06:52Burning 750 to 1,000 gallons of fuel comes with the territory. This isn't just a fun cruise on your
06:58motorcycle. The job description is riding towards danger all day every day. A lot of cops will tell
07:04you this is the coolest job in the department but also one of the most challenging which is why the
07:08training is so intense. And right when I thought I'm starting to get the hang of this Bill tightened
07:13up the cone pattern increasing the difficulty and my first major mistake happened. There you go.
07:21Officer down. I stepped on the rear brake. Yeah just a little uh need a little more power. Okay.
07:33First of all out of the way yeah wow it is it's like what do you think went wrong uh
07:40eyes looking
07:41where I was I was the eyes and the power I think the power yeah yeah you had your head
07:46and eyes coming
07:47around but unfortunately your power dipped down so much and I was kind of looking the other direction
07:51so I couldn't see if it was clutch or throttle it sounded like throttle just because I kind of had
07:56my back before I turned um yeah it's that power that's syncing up because there's like the commitment
08:02of I'm looking where I want to go but then I'm hesitating to and then you feel the bike dip
08:07that's
08:08when we should be applying a power okay we have to have power otherwise there's no momentum right yeah
08:12mm-hmm yeah okay well you got the first one out of the way yeah okay yeah let's jump back
08:18into it
08:18I think I and I stepped on the rear brake I think I'm gonna be a little more cautious again
08:23if uh if
08:24you have to we should be hitting that rear brake kind of trail brake into it then let it off
08:29and then
08:29power going around your head and eyes at first you were kind of looking down a little bit then you
08:35brought them up your head is coming around good let's keep it coming around but keep your eyes up
08:42yeah and I don't know if you got scared because I moved the cone in no I think I mean
08:46I don't think
08:46so I think I just I was just getting sloppier and sloppier so fundamentals we want to do the same
08:53thing every time okay after tipping the bike over I started paying a lot more attention to the techniques
08:58Bill was talking about keeping my head up looking where I wanted to go staying smooth on the controls
09:03and carrying enough throttle to keep the bike stable at slow speeds the more I focused on the
09:08fundamentals the more the drill started to make sense instead of fighting the bike through the
09:12turns I started to trust what Bill was telling me and let the motorcycle work underneath me the tighter
09:18cone spacing still made the figure eight more challenging but after a few more attempts I finally
09:23started finding a rhythm and running the drill cleanly at that point I was feeling a lot more confident
09:28and ready to move on to the next drill all right it's time to make it harder okay the next
09:36drill was
09:36built on the same idea as the first one except now I was working inside a tight four cone box
09:41and just
09:42like before once I started getting comfortable Bill would make the pattern smaller and even more
09:46challenging again we're working on fundamentals that's the most important part of this this drill
09:53fundamentals to get us to the next step where we can advance to a smaller cone pattern anywhere
09:58within just stay within the square and either a circle or figure eight up to you okay yeah I actually
10:05I'll start with circles so I can just get the idea of how just how much I can keep the
10:11lean going
10:12absolutely it feels like I at one point I felt like I was I would have the bars turned so
10:18much I got on
10:19the power and it felt almost like I'm just experimenting like there's things that I well
10:24that's why we're starting small yeah is because you want to actually feel the bars lock you do okay
10:29because when we get to the advanced stuff all your turns are going to be locked to lock yeah wow
10:34otherwise you won't make it through you're going to have to lock the bike out and hit the steering
10:38stop uh otherwise it will be so small you won't make it all right so get used to that feeling
10:44get it
10:44used to okay all right let's do more of that feeling
10:47i feel like a dog chasing his tail
10:56oh man i'm getting dizzy do a larger circle within like uh circles are fine but let's do a larger
11:04circle
11:04within the box okay and again circles or figure eights but let's do a larger circle rather than just
11:11one small okay the tightness of the four cone box created less room for error as we started advancing
11:17from one drill to the other the technicalities started compounding requiring more attention focus
11:22and precision head and eyes up head and eyes up i'm yeah look where you want to go
11:34i'm worse at the right turns all right we'll do a figure eight now we want to use as much
11:40of the
11:41real estate within the cone pattern as possible okay and the reason is because when we get to the
11:46advanced tighter turns we have to use all the real estate so if we're now making a figure eight we
11:54want
11:54to come and make the figure eight out here to set us up correctly to make figure eight on the
12:01other
12:02end because if you short yourself and you're turning here when we get to a tighter more advanced pattern
12:09you will not have enough room on the other side i see so while we're just practicing fundamentals and
12:14turns we're also practicing kind of spacing spacing and using all the real estate within this box
12:21because when we move to the smaller one we have to use all the real estate yeah okay once i
12:27understood
12:27what bill was talking about i started focusing on using all the available space inside the cone pattern
12:32every time i rush to turn or cut in early i leave myself no room for the next one and
12:37that became a
12:38much bigger problem once the cone pattern started getting tighter and more technical slowly i was
12:43starting to get more comfortable keeping my eyes up and linking turns together and once i understood how
12:48use the available space inside the box the entire drill started flowing a lot more naturally very
12:54good very good
13:04oh i'm pumped up the next drill was called the offset 90s and unlike earlier exercises this was an actual
13:13section from the full cone course the goal was to ride through the gates make tight u-turns then
13:18immediately line yourself up for the next section without running wide or clipping any cones these
13:23gates are wider than the uh figure eights and circles that we fundamentally started with it's the same
13:30principles uh you're gonna go through the first gate make that left turn set yourself up by coming out a
13:37little bit wide for the second gate and it's going to be basically a tear drop that is why we
13:42started
13:42with circles and figure eights everything we're doing here if you can do the figure eights you can make
13:47any turn through any of these patterns head and eyes clutch throttle okay push with your feet to make
13:52your turns okay and keep your you keep your body centered to counterbalance the the bike leaning okay
14:00all right i think you're gonna do great there we go give yourself plenty of room there you go
14:15head and eyes up look at your next cones
14:20control your speed with a clutch and throttle and just like that with bill's advice and affirmations
14:26i jumped into my first attempt at the offset 90s but couldn't manage passing through the
14:31first gate without knocking down a cone maybe bill spoke too quickly okay how did that feel it felt good
14:38i think yeah i mean i could tell i was still making some mistakes and like just you just need
14:44to run
14:45through it a couple of times to get it down again head and eyes keep them where they are if
14:49you need to
14:50make that speed adjustment in the middle it looked like you were kind of gaining speed um make that
14:56speed adjustment in between your turns if you have to okay again we can just apply a little rear brake
15:02kind of trail brake into the corner but we want to be off so that we can get the motorcycle
15:06down and
15:07that rear brakes not working against us while we're doing it and you can adjust with minimal
15:11movements with the clutch and throttle in between each gate okay this is good like you could you just
15:17you can feel when you do it right and when you make a mistake it's like it's so noticeable and
15:21then just
15:22make that small adjustment for the next gate okay you did great though you did better than most people
15:28i've trained on their first day but you have obviously a ton of motorcycle experience most
15:32people i've trained don't have that yeah yeah i got a little head start a little head start yeah
15:36okay here we go head and eyes
15:40trying to spot the next gate before completing the current gate was an exercise and peripheral vision
15:44as with most of the drills i started stiff tight and not confident but with practice and repetition
15:50i continued to improve and build confidence adjust your speed and on my second attempt i made the
15:57same mistake like driving a long truck or pulling a trailer i needed to be much more aware of the
16:02track
16:02my rear tire was following when it comes to the offset 90s swing wide truck driver style that one didn't
16:09feel as smooth yeah you were kind of rpms were up speed was kind of wonky yeah i was thinking
16:15a lot about
16:16that rear brake just need to uh just smooth it out and honestly it'll smooth out once you do it
16:21a
16:21couple of times crack once you do it one or you know one or ten more times honestly it'll smooth
16:26itself out completely uh still cut cut that one short same thing just when you make your left turn
16:31come out a little bit wider just and then teardrop around okay you're doing good though not feeling
16:38smooth on the controls my inputs were too abrupt sacrificing balance and rhythm let's try that again
16:46trying to follow the path of a teardrop would ensure proper spacing and positioning easier said than
16:52done i started to find a flow and gain confidence in the offset 90s but i was flirting with a
16:59close
17:00line inside the cones i'm going to learn to ride like a cop i'm going to have to master spacing
17:05in each
17:05pattern the offset 90s ended up taking a lot more attempts than i expected at first i kept knocking
17:13down cones at the gates turning in too tight and struggling to stay smooth through transitions
17:18every run exposed something different too much rear brake inconsistent throttle control not using enough
17:24space or just not committing enough with my vision and body position and just to make things worse
17:30cones weren't the only things tipping over whoa
17:36timber slowly though things started cleaning up the cone stopped falling over and i was mostly just tapping
17:42them instead the bike started flowing more naturally through the pattern and by my ninth attempt
17:46i was finally able to put a clean run together without any mistakes
17:52head and eyes coming around there you go just think smooth
18:14wheelbase
18:15once i completed the course cleanly bill had me start running it in both directions and by that point i
18:20was
18:20finally starting to feel comfortable enough on the bike to stop thinking about every individual input and
18:26just ride the pattern naturally. It also meant I was ready to move on to the next
18:30challenge. We're gonna make a motor cop out of him no problem. The next drill was
18:35called the intersection and by this point the patterns were starting to feel
18:39a lot less like individual exercises and a lot more like an actual flow course.
18:44Full u-turn, quick transition into a tight right-hand turn then immediately
18:48back into another u-turn on the opposite side. Fundamentally what do you need to
18:53do? Look at where I want to go, head it up, eyes up.
18:56Heading eyes up. What other adjustments are we making on the bike? A little less
19:01rear brake, counter sit, push the bike underneath. Counter balance the bike. So we're
19:06using our legs to hold the motorcycle. We want to be gripping here, holding the
19:11motorcycle and we're pushing down with our feet on the pegs to move that but
19:15we're keeping our body upright with the ground. And your adjustments, you can come
19:21in and trail brake just a little bit before your u-turn. Okay. And then let
19:25off and then power through. Last exercise we dabbed the rear brake a
19:30little bit too much. You're just a little heavy on it, a little less on that rear
19:34brake and that I think is gonna cause the RPMs to come down because you won't be
19:38trying to fight yourself and overcompensate. The bike we want it to be
19:42just pulling itself. Okay. All right. Okay. Start with just going down, making a U-turn,
19:49coming back, making a U-turn. And then when you're comfortable with that, you can
19:53even switch directions, start to make a figure eight. Okay. As soon as you get
19:56comfortable, switch directions and go the other way. As soon as we've got that down,
20:00we'll move on to actually making it into a cross. Okay. So where we're switching from
20:05that U-turn to now a quick right turn into a U-turn to a quick right turn. Yeah, that
20:10looks tough. Okay.
20:11Okay. Okay. It's not tough for you. No. Head and eyes. Head and eyes. Fundamentals. Okay.
20:20Just like the earlier drills, it took me a few attempts to loosen up, get comfortable,
20:24and start instinctively applying the fundamentals we have been working on all day.
20:36We want to use up all this space even though it's easy to turn. Okay. We want to use
20:40up all the space. Okay. The tight transitions required me throwing the bike from one side of
20:45the tire to the other before slipping the clutch and feeding the throttle. Out of all the drills before,
20:50this one was the most technical, requiring me to lean and counterweight the bike before slipping the
20:55clutch and applying power. As a rider with motocross experience, this sensation felt similar to dipping
21:01a bike into a rut and squirting out on the gas. Go all the way, all the way to the
21:06very end. And the
21:07only reason I'm saying go all the way to the very end is because shortly we're going to end up
21:13making
21:13that right U-turn and then a quick left turn. Okay. So we don't want to be getting used to
21:19being here.
21:20So we're not going to make that turn. Yeah. Okay.
21:25Come out here, because now you're going to have time to make an adjustment
21:30to set up for this turn. Got you. Because things will happen quickly when you go from a right turn
21:35to a U-turn,
21:35right turn, or a left turn to a U-turn. So even though it's very easy for you to make
21:40the turn here,
21:42just practice making it as far out as you can. Hit those edges. Hit the edges. Absolutely. Okay.
21:48The intersection drill had a rhythm to it. A quick transition from left to right,
21:53then immediately setting yourself up for the next turn. And with Bill constantly reminding me of the
21:57fundamentals, keeping my head and eyes up, using all the space, and staying smooth on the controls,
22:03things started clicking pretty quickly. Head and eyes coming around. That sounds fantastic.
22:08You're right at that point where the bike's pulling. So you're right at that friction zone.
22:13Just like a rider hitting their marks on a racetrack, I was beginning to understand where
22:17the bike needed to be positioned before the next turn. And with every lap, consistency started to
22:22build confidence. The more I rode it, the lighter the bike started to feel, and the more I trusted those
22:27quick transitions from one side to the other. Hey, very good. Very good.
22:33The final drill of the day was a full course figure eight. On paper, it looked similar to the
22:37first drill we started with, but the added cones and tighter spacing made it feel a whole lot more
22:42intimidating. Instead of focusing on just two cones and open space, now I had to stay smooth and
22:47consistent while working in a much tighter and more confined pattern.
22:51This is no smaller than all of the turns we've been making. There's just cones all the way around
22:59the edge, so visually it looks more deceiving. This is where what really comes into play,
23:06other than we've been talking about all the fundamentals of riding, this one really is use
23:13all of your real estate. But we want to be along the edge of this pattern. And again, we want
23:18to set
23:19ourselves up for the next turn. So any speed adjustment can easily be made in between these
23:25two turns. Okay. It's a smooth transition. We adjust whatever speed we need, but we can't short ourselves.
23:31If we try to turn here, we are not going to make it out that exit. Yep.
23:37Use up all the real estate. You've heard that term several times today,
23:40use up all your real estate. You have plenty of room. Why not use it? Make it easy on yourself
23:46and come outside and go as far as you can. Okay. Around here. Okay. Same size as everything else
23:53we've been doing. It just visually looks different because of the number of cones. Yeah. And then you
23:58can either stay in and keep doing figure eights to practice or technically this is the exit out of it.
24:04Okay. Stay wide.
24:10The full course figure eight drill forced me to use up all of the available space in the pattern
24:15in order to complete this section. This required all the fundamentals and techniques of the previous
24:21drill, but now demanded full lock steering. Throwing the bike from one side of the lock to the other
24:26was the skill I feared the most. Right? We're pushing with our feet. That one I struggled with.
24:31Head and eyes come around. If your head and eyes don't come around, it's much harder. That's why
24:36fundamentally we always start with the basics. Head and eyes. Here, your head and eyes have to come
24:42around. Okay. And then again, more legs and feet. Yeah, I felt stiff. We should be pushing. Yeah,
24:47you look like you were sitting a little more upright and just turning versus trying to push down on the
24:51bike.
24:51Yeah. But once you do it once or twice, you get the feel. Okay.
25:03Yeah. Much better. Your head came around.
25:07You should be looking all the way over there. Okay.
25:17Okay. Hey, that was great. You made a micro adjustment with your speed over here. Okay.
25:23Much smoother. Just like all the drills before, I started off timid and rigid. Hesitation led to
25:30mistakes which robbed the rhythm I'd built from the previous drills. But with practice came improvement.
25:38Oh, nope. You still got it. You have plenty of room.
25:51You made a small adjustment coming with your clutch over here to adjust your speed and
25:56hesitated through one of your turns. Yeah. We're a little more upright,
25:59but then you made that adjustment and dipped the bike. Yeah. Yeah. The right hander,
26:03because I struggled more with the right where I was. Yeah. Push with your feet. Get the bike down. Yeah.
26:26Oh, I'm hesitating. I have that. That hesitation came back.
26:30Tried to stay committed to the head to keep it up. But again, we're just counterbalancing the bike.
26:36That's all we're doing. Counterbalancing the motorcycle. Okay.
26:41Little less rear brake. Just barely feather it.
26:45Your turns are good. Like you're lock to lock and you're lean.
26:48Lock to lock and lean is good. A little less. Just a little less. Not much.
26:54After a handful of mistakes and a lot of hesitation, things finally started to click.
26:58The biggest breakthrough came once I backed off the rear brake and started trusting the
27:02bike through the turns. Yeah. Head and eyes around. That looks great.
27:07I can tell you're getting comfortable because you're accelerating in between each figure eight.
27:11Oh, yeah. Like right now you're accelerating. Yeah.
27:15I'm just way less on the rear brake. That was really hurting me. Fighting the rear brake so much.
27:23With my head and eyes up, smoother throttle control, and less input fighting the bike,
27:28the entire figure eight started flowing a lot more naturally. By the end of the day,
27:31I was riding the pattern cleaner, smoother, and with a lot more confidence than when we first started.
27:36Which was good because day two was all about putting these drills together on the full course.
27:43It's day two here at the training facility, and yesterday started off rough. I struggled a lot
27:48in the beginning. I dropped the bike a few times, but by the end of the day, I started to
27:52get a handle
27:53on these skills and drills. My confidence was up, so for today, we're going to do a lead follow with
27:58Bill. He's going to take me through the entire course, see how everything connects, and then we're
28:03going to do a head-to-head time trial against Bill to see how my time stacks up against his.
28:07Before we jumped into the full course, Bill walked me through the entire layout to show me how all
28:12the cone patterns connected together. And once he started to explain where the bike needed to be
28:16positioned for each section, the whole thing started looking a lot less random and a lot more
28:21calculated. Every turn was really just setting up for the next one. But before trying to piece the
28:26entire course together, I figured it was probably a good idea to warm back up and revisit some of the
28:31drills from the day before. Reciting to myself all the techniques I learned the day before as I
28:42practiced the five fundamental drills, I tried to get loose and find a rhythm. The next challenge
28:48would be my biggest yet. All right, I warmed up, did a couple more drills. What's next? We're going to
28:55do
28:55a follow leader through the speed course. This is going to put together every individual cone pattern
29:02that you've successfully completed. We're not going to rush through it at any type of high speed. This is
29:08going to be just to get the pattern of the course itself and linking all the different cone patterns
29:15together. Eventually, once we've done that a couple of times, we'll work a little more speed into it.
29:23Okay. All right, you just need to follow me, sir. Okay, let's do it. Gavin, you ready? Yep, ready.
29:30Bill took off quicker than I expected. I thought he said we were starting off slow. I can't imagine what
29:35fast looks like to him. Trying to catch up, I cut the first corner short and nearly tipped over,
29:40not off to a great start. I needed to stay relaxed, breathe, and study Bill's lines. It was all about
29:46spacing and positioning. Maximize every possible inch. If not, you are bound to fail. The cone course
29:52is more mentally strenuous than physically.
30:19Standing on the sideline, the course looked like complete chaos. With cones everywhere,
30:24trying to figure out the layout and remember where to go,
30:26felt impossible. But once I was on course, everything started to click.
30:37Just like any race track, it's a series of obstacles to navigate and naturally,
30:42some will do it faster than others. My goal today is to complete the course without knocking over a
30:47cone and avoid another fall.
31:02All right. Good job. Yeah, I knocked some cones over. Even I got one. I put my foot down a
31:08couple
31:08times too. But yeah, wow. Yeah, I saw a little bit of a struggle in the far one before we
31:15started.
31:15Yeah, yeah, that's right. You probably cut your turn too short because it looked like you were on
31:22the far end of the turn. Yeah. So right after the fire hose, start that left turn before that right
31:27turn. Yeah, I think I started it all wrong from the beginning and then it caught up to me. Okay.
31:32I cut it early, early, early and then it was just, yeah. I was just watching the tail. I caught
31:37the tail
31:37end of it and I'm like, oh, he's really far. Yeah, yeah. Coming into it, I was like, I'm not
31:41making this.
31:42Yeah. I could tell. And it's probably a little different following me, like having someone
31:46directly in front of you. Yeah. Because that's the first time that we've had you directly in front
31:51of, or directly behind me. Yeah. And yeah, I struggled with the slalom right here. I missed
31:57half of them. I hit one. The slow cone weave is difficult. Yeah. Believe it or not, it's very
32:01difficult. Upright, slow, and lock to lock. Yeah. We're not leaning the bike and counterbalancing at all.
32:08Ball, upright, lock to lock. Okay. Yeah. But you did great. Appreciate it. Yeah. You did great.
32:13That was fun. I liked that. We ended up running the full course a few more times and after each
32:17attempt, Bill would stop and break down what I was doing right and where I was still struggling.
32:21By the third lead follow run, Bill had me right in front so he could watch how I approached each
32:26section of the course on my own. And while I was definitely still making mistakes here and there,
32:31the entire layout was finally starting to connect together in my head instead of feeling like a bunch of
32:36separate cone patterns, which meant there was only one thing left to do. Put down a timed run and see
32:41how I stacked up against Bill. Bill was up first and watching him ride the full course really put
32:47into perspective how much scale this actually takes.
32:57Everything looks smooth, controlled, and effortless. He wasn't just riding through the patterns. He was
33:02linking every section together with speed and precision in a way that made the entire course flow.
33:15The craziest part was how calm it looked from the outside because from the seat of the bike,
33:19I knew just how much focus and control it actually took to ride the course cleanly.
33:31Bill was just a little bit more. Watching Bill ride the course you could tell he wasn't just reacting to
33:34the cone patterns anymore. He knew exactly where the bike needed to be before he even got there.
33:56When Bill crossed the line, his time was 2 minutes and 30 seconds and according to him, it wasn't even
34:01one of his smoother attempts. Which honestly made me even more nervous about my own run. At this point,
34:06if I could somehow get into the 2 minute range, I'd be pretty stoked.
34:11All right, here we go. You know what to do. You learn the drills. Put it together.
34:19But smooth is fast. Focus on hitting your marks. That's all you can do. Hit your marks. The speed will
34:25come.
34:27Don't worry about Bill's time. Worry about your technique, your skills. Okay, smooth is fast.
34:34Finish first. Finish first. First you gotta finish. Attempting to get a fast start, I bring the revs up
34:41and drop the clutch. Coming into the first turn, I get hard on the brakes without triggering the ABS.
34:47The first obstacle is the intersection. A pattern that helped me find my flow earlier in the day.
35:08Next is a section of hairpin corners that are essentially a string of teardrop turns. This pattern requires eyes up
35:14and commitment.
35:15Next is a section of hairpin corners that are essentially a string of teardrop turns. This pattern requires eyes up
35:15and commitment.
35:24This is the section I've been worried about most. I'm focused on using every bit of available space
35:29and not cutting the turns short. There's not much room for air here, but I make it through clean.
35:39Being mindful not to clip a saddlebag in the next set of turns, I exit cleanly onto the straightaway
35:44and grab second gear. A quick downshift and hard application to the brakes, I whip the bike around
35:49and get back on the gas. A quick dip and dive through the chicane and I'm free without any issues.
36:05For a moment I blink on where the course goes next and start heading left, but catch myself just in
36:09time to turn right toward the full course figure eight.
36:34Entering the offset nineties, I remind myself not to get greedy on corner entry and clip the inside cone.
36:40Feathering the rear brakes, slipping the clutch and keeping the RPM steady, I haven't made a big mistake. Yet.
36:57Rounding the final corner, I head toward the finish, but between the checkers and me is the slow cone weave.
37:03Wanting to rush to the finish line, I remain calm. Surely I haven't worked this hard to throw it all
37:08the way on the final straight.
37:09Staying slow and steady, I clear the final cone and goose it to the finish.
37:19I think I hit a cone, huh? No? Okay. That was fun. My arms are all punked up, dude. I
37:26don't know if I could do another lap.
37:27What was the time? 233. And he might have rubbed the cone, but didn't knock any over. I had a
37:32penalty of 230.
37:34But 233. Yeah, it's 233.79. We'll make a motor cop out of him.
37:40Yeah. We just got to get him a haircut and a mustache. Yeah, yeah. Because the buzzer.
37:45That was an excellent run. It looked great. Yeah, it really did. That's fun. Yeah. It's so much fun.
37:51Like, this is a blast. Technique-wise, you look solid. Okay, yeah. It's really, really good.
37:57You've earned the Honda Motor Officer Challenge coin. Oh, look at that.
38:03Take this out. Here. Or you might not be able to. Okay. Look at it. I got my USA one.
38:10Team America. Honda Motor Union. Let's go.
38:15So, how hard is it to ride like a motor cop? Honestly, harder than it looks. A lot harder.
38:21I came into this thinking it was all about learning how to weave through cones and throw a big motorcycle
38:25around at slow speeds. But after two days out here, I realized it has a lot less to do with
38:30cones and a
38:31lot more to do with fundamentals. Look where you want to go, trusting the bikes, staying smooth on
38:36the controls, and being consistent every single time. And sure, getting within a few seconds of Bill's
38:41time felt pretty good. But that was really never the point. The point wasn't beating an experienced
38:46motor officer. It was learning something new and becoming a better rider than I was two days ago.
38:51We spent a lot of time as riders chasing horsepower, faster lap times, and the next upgrade for our bikes.
38:57But sometimes the biggest improvement you can make isn't the motorcycle underneath you,
39:01it's the rider sitting on top of it.
Comments