"...he was very cool and willing to answer lots of questions."
He always seemed to me to be a nice, soft-spoken, very intelligent guy. He made an awful mistake, and he'll pay a huge price for it. The possible (probable?) jail time and civil suits are only part of the price. He'll be in his own personal hell over this for a very long time.
So the big bad biker actually rolls in a major cage most of the time, and has a typical "didn't see that damn little bike thing"...
These guys are all fake. TV created nonsense meets cold, hard reality. OC is next. The original guy in Long Beach seems 1/2 way together.