Our resident local idiot of lore story goes like this (I was there and saw this, btw):
Our group was on their way back from an awesome day of canyon chasing, slabbing up the freeway towards the City Of Salt. We are travelling at a pretty good clip, when this kid comes flying past us at about 85 MPH on a sport bike (Gixxer I think?). We guessed he was still in his late teens.
He has no shirt on, is wearing flip flops, is at least wearing sunglasses for eye protection, and is wearing baggy, shredded jeans with the knees completely torn open.
To make matters worse, you could see the steel belts flashing in the sun on his back tire, and also little bits of tread flapping as the tire was spinning.
While this kid is still zipping along in the fast lane, he notices that there is an LEO in an SUV that is in the far right lane, hits his brakes hard, zips across three lanes to drop behind the LEO, and takes the next exit. The LEO, for his part, did not notice the kid's shenanigans, as far as we could tell.
At this point , one of my fellow riders, with his left hand, points all of his fingers down in a splayed fashion, then proceeds to bob his hand up and down as he expands and contracts his fingers. This has henceforth been known as the official squid hand signal amongst our group.
We were all absolutely positive we'd read some statistic in the paper in the next week about some kid with bald tires and no gear having a bad day... dunno if the kid ever got sense or not!
