$500 each. Lemme explain.
1999, I’m riding my 1998 bandit 1200 for the 2nd time in the mountains of North Georgia, NC and TN with Monster Claude and Daytona Don. After 2 or 3 days of enjoying the phenomenal roads we finally get to the “tail of the dragon”. It’s so technical and tight that you can mostly do 25 in the corners and up to 40 in the ‘straight’ sections. We got popped for drag racing. We were going in a single line between 25 and 40.
Once we got back home to Florida, we read the TN drag racing statute that basically stated that everyone is drag racing all the time. It can be interpreted 20 different ways so you are basically fooked.
We sent checks for $500 each to the prosecutor and they supposedly threw the tix away and kept our driving records clean.