“Bokuchu” Us vs the Police: 700-Day War

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0b. prologue 28 Feb 2007 06:11 pm

We are the Wind 2

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We pedaled as fast as we could.
We felt that if we did, we could surpass even time itself,
even though we knew that the pedals would eventually rust and stop functioning.

Here is the continuation of “We are the Wind.” The last time I received e-mails at my “company address” since I was in the middle of “Stray Goat”. Erm, the poetic introduction was done so that I might try to get the “Naoki Award,” but I’ll be happy as long as you can see that I can write something proper. Just like always, if you haven’t read the part 1, please read part 1 first. If you think you can skip to this part first, you’ve got to live 10 more years.

So, can a bike be caught with a speed trap? We were currently finding the answer to this historic question, but we first needed to know how fast we could go on bikes. We decided to measure the speed using the scooter of the guy who was caught. We didn’t have time to do that with everyone, so we decided to measure with the guy who was on the track team, that “for sure would be the fastest.” His bike was a supercar “Roadman.” I’m sure Roadman’s maker (Bridgestone) never imagined their product being used in such a ridiculous way.

And so the Roadman’s top speed. It was an incredible 58 km/h (about 35mph). Wow! Actually it probably could have gone faster, but the scooter that we were measuring with was junk and couldn’t go any faster. Either way, we were all pleasantly surprised about this great record.

“We did it! We’re totally over the speed limit!”
“Yeah. We’re illegal for sure!”
“If we do it right, going 30 km/h over isn’t just a dream!”

This conversation itself isn’t normal. I wonder if it’s ever been said before in Japan…

Our “illegality” confirmed, all that was left was to go.

We decided that “impact was important” (is that the point of this?) so we put Roadman-kun first. After him, we decided that we should go two at a time instead of one. This was done to make escape easier, just in case. We were, for good or bad, used to situations like this.

While we were talking, our friend that was waiting in the back signaled that there was a car coming. Ok, start, leadoff guy.

At about the moment we could see the compact car, he was already furiously heading for the radar. He almost looked like a lone hero heading for his cause.

We all went to the road to watch his back and to check the results.

He was fast. Even the car that came behind him couldn’t catch up.

He then crossed right in front of the radar at full speed!

We confirmed that the policeman came out into the road for a moment, but he wasn’t caught.

We did it!

The result of our experiment was “we wouldn’t get caught.”

We waited for him to come back using the back roads. We were concerned about the policeman that rushed out.

Finally the lead guy came back, out of breath.

“How was it?”
Everyone was curious.

“He said something to me, but…”

What?

“But I ignored him.”

Hmm. That didn’t really tell us anything.

We didn’t quite get what we wanted, so we decided to send the second and third guy. Well, we were all planning on going anyways.

So the second and third guy pedaled together at full speed. They’d get caught if they pedal side by side, so they went one in front of another.

We watched from behind anxiously.

Then, the policeman rushed out again. They dodged and got past him.

Finally those two came back out of breath.

“We were told to stop.”

What!?

“But we ignored him.”

What a suspicious turn of affairs. Maybe we will get caught? No, we don’t have speedometers or licenses. Basically we don’t have any basis that they can catch us with.

Our reasoning was simple
“Ok, let’s send the next!”

The fourth and fifth guy had the same results. The difference was with the sixth guy.

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