What started as a routine traffic stop in Oak View last week turned into a high-speed, high-risk game of cat and mouse – on electric motorcycles.
Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies spotted two young men riding unregistered Sur-Ron-style e-motorcycles on the afternoon of July 24 in the 11400 block of North Ventura Avenue. When they tried to pull the riders over, they didn’t just take off – they turned it into a spectacle.
Instead of cooperating, the two riders reportedly taunted deputies with obscene gestures, circled back to bait the patrol car and even filmed themselves during the chase – all while weaving through traffic, popping wheelies and flying down pedestrian paths at speeds that police say exceeded 50 mph…