Deputies Aim To Curb Motorcycle Racing

CITRUS PARK - With school out for the summer, the roar of fast motorcycles is expected across northwest Hillsborough County, and law enforcement is ready.

There isn't a big problem with organized car drag racing.

Rather, northwest Hillsborough County is the spot for motorcycle racing, said sheriff's Cpl. Billy Hughes.

Usually, racing here consists of three or four motorcycles barreling down the road, he said. The fear is that they "override their abilities" and crash, injuring or killing someone, he said.

One favorite racing spot is an area of Race Track and Patterson roads, he said. Another is Hoover Road north of Hillsborough Avenue.

Usually, the racing takes place on Saturday nights, Hughes said.

"We use covert motorcycles as well as covert vehicles so we can get into position to see them gathering and setting up a race," he said.

Racing arrests decline during the school year, he said, but with school out for summer, deputies are gearing up for the local illegal racing season. Most of those charged are younger than 20, he said.

Traffic enforcement units from District 1, which covers Carrollwood and Northdale and Lutz east to Thonotosassa, don't see much racing there and have thrown their forces into stemming street racing in Hughes' district.

Keith Morelli

 

i think thier idiots. theirs no street racing up here its all down on the causeway. i think they've mistaken speeding with racing. fuckin pigs.

 

geez thats gay

 

yeah umm, everyone knows sat night is g spot and CCC all the way.

i guess anyone hauling ass is racing? how about just hauling ass together? i know when i ride its not like we say "ok now where racing" ok, "now where not" lmao... who ever in front sets the pace.

dumb cops...

 

looks like i might not ride when i get home on leave hmm

 

So the moral of the story is, go to District 1 to race.

 

I'm pretty sure that the cops know what's up...It's the media that doesn't know SHIT! The media is always trying to stir up something they don't know about. Yeah, I've been 100 mph+ down patterson but that doesn't mean that I'm racing. I've been 200 mph+ in brooksville but that doesn't mean I'm racing....Shit, I've been 300 mph+ on the Causeway,on one wheel with my eyes closed but I wasn't racing, I was just seeing how fast my "crotch rocket" would go.

 

300 on the causeway, damn!

 

True story right there...
Well most of it

 

no really, he's as much of an idiot as the cops. they don't know the difference between racing and speeding and if you've ever done street racing for real. there's a hell of a big diff.



don't think for a sec that a cop knows bike are not racing when they speed down patterson. you don't pick that job in the first place, if your smart.