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We MOrons love gymkhana videos. Heck, we even love gymkhana from the saddle ( here and here), but we have to bow down to the riders in this video. Not only are they throwing down some impressive gymkhana skills, but also doing it in the rain! So, to you, anonymous Japanese motorcycle police riders, we salute you!

Riding a motorcycle at its limits requires multiple inputs being made smoothly and simultaneously, and this expertise is on wonderous display in the video below. It shows police officer Quinn Redeker, Jr. ripping up a parking-lot course that was part of a motorcycle skills competition among police motor cops.

Like police chases? Of course you do. That’s why you should watch this chase between the ROCAM (the São Paulo police) and this exuberant scooter rider who thought he had the skills to evade the police.

France’s National Police Motorcycle Training Center (CNFM-PN) displays incredible synchronized riding skill in this choreographed routine. The performance features 32 officers in a complex dance on their BMW R1200RT and R1150RT police bikes.

A firestorm erupted last March when a video surfaced that showed a Texas police officer pepper spraying a group of motorcyclists riding past his patrol car. Motorcyclists who watched the video (now with more than three million views) were angered at the apparent assault on riders. The cop, William Figueroa, claimed he needed to spray the riders because they wouldn’t vacate the lane next to his patrol car that was pulled over at the side of the road.

As motorcyclists, we’re all too familiar with car drivers merging into our lanes, seemingly blind to the fact we’re occupying the lane they are trying to merge into. But what’s proper etiquette when a two-lane road turns into one? Which order should vehicles in a double-file line let each other into a single-file line? Whatever your answer, it’s probably not what this woman was thinking as she comes from behind this motorcyclist and co-occupies the lane he’s in. He then gets upset, honks the horn a few times, gives the driver a quick lesson in merging, calls her a choice expletive then rides on.

When it comes to the motorcycle chase scene of an Action/Adventure film through the metropolitan center of some foreign country the close calls and near misses are what makes the scene so breathtaking. Reality, however, exposes that bad guys don’t possess the same motorcycle skillset as they do in the movies. Go figure. Some helmet cam footage from São Paulo’s R.O.C.A.M. division provides some real-world footage of motorcycle chase scenes.

You’d be forgiven if you thought this week’s clip was from a video game. But no, this footage is, in fact, from a real chase scene with a South African police in pursuit of a fleeing car. The chase begins at about the 1:50 mark when the motorcycle-riding officer spots the suspects in a red BMW 5-series. The officer then flips on his siren and guns the throttle on his BMW F800. It doesn’t take long before he gets close – and then draws his gun, firing several shots at the car!

This week’s video is not for those with melissophobia, the fear of bees. Posted on Facebook by the Washington County Sheriffs Office in Oregon, the video shows a police motorcycle swarmed with bees.

Shoppers were surprised by a police chase through a Walmart in Surrey, Canada.  Police were tracking a motorcyclist that was reportedly riding erratically. The suspect led the pursuit into a mall, descending an escalator and out a door, narrowly missing innocent bystanders.

To mark Easter, this edition of the Weekend Awesome presents the time the California Highway Patrol pulled over the Easter Bunny after he was spotted riding a Ural.