Police bikes - You and the cops - shots

[jdgretz]

Douglas, AZ


IMG_0650.jpg by jdgretz, on Flickr

The officer took the photo for me.

On my home from Louisiana, and yes, that's Mike's bike from this thread. The whole RR is here, but I'll be doing one on this site as well.

jdg

[Blue Icebreaker]

The Police Academy here in Croatia organised Safe Driving school - a two day free course! In the end we went with motorised cops through the city up to the main square, to raise awareness of motorcycles in traffic! Now how cool is that?

[Tall Man]

Originally Posted by Speedo66

I'd say the police patch was mounted too low to be regulation. Might be five-oh, but have my doubts that jacket is official uniform.

Agreed. The very presence of the FYYFF patch and its placement above the LE patch, coupled with the rider being unshaven and overweight, would really make me doubt his bona fides as an LEO. Any attempted contact would likely result in me deciding to opt out.

[hankgs]

What a great idea! The motorcops here in California like to keep their "elite" status-lol

[Fullcyc]

Little town of Brooklyn, IN...
They were very friendly when I ask if I could take a few pics...

[Exevious]

[Infidel]

Originally Posted by marcoma

Empty road, a mile wide in the middle of nowhere. He comes around the corner and lights up. I slow down to 60 mph speed limit. He turns around and eventually pulls me over 2 miles later. No problem - I'll show him lots of respect and humility and given that we're in the middle of nowhere, he'll slap our wrists and let us go. He came storming up to me and my mate accusing us of 102 mph and my mate gets up in his grill......

First 2 rules of a police interaction: 1 (and most important) Be polite, 2 (and best observed) STFU!!!.

[Infidel]

Originally Posted by blu65ss

Drain Oregon, trooper wrote 4 of us for 80 in a 55 but estimated our speed to be more like 130. Thank god we were slowing down, I hit the rev limiter a half a dozen times on my '99 Busa in 5th gear, 185 indicated.

I had a Black '11 'busa I used to get pulled over CONSTANTLY!! No tickets- just warnings at 120+ speeds. I have a clearance for my job and I was afraid that if I got busted for a ludicrous speed charge- I'd loose the security clearance (like a friend of mine did). So I traded it in on a Polaris RZR4. But it wasn't 6 months later and I was itchin' for the 'busa- so I bought an '11 in white. Funny- my driving habits haven't changed... I just don't seem to have police altercations on the white one.

BUT- if you're a 'busa pilot, you may want to look at: http://www.pashnit.com/product/adaptiv_radar.html

Has paid for itself like 10x over!

- kev

[Lovin' it Strom]

Originally Posted by Exevious

Sorry for the hijack...anyone know where I can find a low profile top box like that?

[Speedo66]

Probably some SeaHorse model like that. http://www.carrycasesplus.com/seahor...FcSa7QodJHvqmA

[Infidel]

Originally Posted by Lovin' it Strom

Sorry for the hijack...anyone know where I can find a low profile top box like that?

Did you check The Internet?
(couldn't resists...)

[sandgroper]

Originally Posted by Infidel

First 2 rules of a police interaction: 1 (and most important) Be polite, 2 (and best observed) STFU!!!.

this comes under rule 1, Never ever say they are over weight.

[Capz]

[Pongo]

Our city just replaced their bikes with Victory's
My GSA in the back ground, there was no officer there to pose with it for me. But out bike cops are great guys and I hope they got the bikes they wanted.

[Lovin' it Strom]

Originally Posted by Pongo

Our city just replaced their bikes with Victory's
My GSA in the back ground, there was no officer there to pose with it for me. But out bike cops are great guys and I hope they got the bikes they wanted.

Do they have big shoulder pads and tight spandex uniforms too?