Optimistic sellers

[Crasherfromwayback]

it would be almost tempting to wear this hi viz vest because LOLZ

Fuckwits that wear those need bumming with a butternut squash.

[jellywrestler]

It's just a CBX650E in police spec so nothing really special apart from being a fairly reliable jack of all trades bike. The $8k start price means the reserve is somewhere north of $8.5k

actually they are as rare as fuck, as they were condemed by the police for ill handling and speed wobbles once they were loaded up and literally taken off the road and sold off, brought the price off normal CBX650's down to about $2k at the time as they were tarred with the same brush.
as always oddities often become more valuable.
on top of this hayden is a mate of mine and specialises in cop bikes and has an amazing attention to detail as to what is what on them, they're not my cup of tea but great to see someone preserving them

[AllanB]

Fuckwits that wear those need bumming with a butternut squash.

I had to Google to get some perspective on your distaste of the vest. I'm a visual person and I now have a understanding of your position. Safe to say I won't be seen wearing one .....

[babysteps]

I had to Google to get some perspective on your distaste of the vest. I'm a visual person and I now have a understanding of your position. Safe to say I won't be seen wearing one .....

Dont be shy honey, you've taken bigger at singles night at the gay bar :-P

[T.W.R]

actually they are as rare as fuck, as they were condemed by the police for ill handling and speed wobbles once they were loaded up and literally taken off the road and sold off, brought the price off normal CBX650's down to about $2k at the time as they were tarred with the same brush.
as always oddities often become more valuable.
on top of this hayden is a mate of mine and specialises in cop bikes and has an amazing attention to detail as to what is what on them, they're not my cup of tea but great to see someone preserving them

The majority of the CBXs in that body style came into the country in the grey import boom but as police spec they were Asian market so yeah not so common here but in japan etc there's a few
Who's Hayden? thats a fella Paisley from Lagmhor just out of Tinwald

[jellywrestler]

The majority of the CBXs in that body style came into the country in the grey import boom but as police spec they were Asian market so yeah not so common here but in japan etc there's a few
Who's Hayden? thats a fella Paisley from Lagmhor just out of Tinwald

hayden lives in ashvegas, the cbx's were the new thing with their fancy hydraulic valves etc, but the wobbly police bikes saw them plummet to leper status quickly

[HenryDorsetCase]

Fuckwits that wear those need bumming with a butternut squash.

dont knock it till you've tried it! the flared base means it doesnt go all the way in....

[HenryDorsetCase]

actually they are as rare as fuck, as they were condemed by the police for ill handling and speed wobbles once they were loaded up and literally taken off the road and sold off, brought the price off normal CBX650's down to about $2k at the time as they were tarred with the same brush.

Wasn't there another cop bike that had the same issue - perhaps earlier? The story we heard was that Lester Pester (which I believe was his actual name) who was the local cop had been a bike cop somewhere and he had given chase to someone, and his bike developed a death wobble which chucked him up the road. the offender (likely doing 82-85kph at the time) absconded.

Lester became the head of the Christchurch City Council parking enforcement division later.... early 90's I guess.

[GrayWolf]

I had to Google to get some perspective on your distaste of the vest. I'm a visual person and I now have a understanding of your position. Safe to say I won't be seen wearing one .....

Just to clarify, are you talking of not wearing the vest, or, not wearing the butternut pumpkin?

[Mreza]

Fuckwits that wear those need bumming with a butternut squash.

Rare but maybe to much for this one

[T.W.R]

hayden lives in ashvegas

I know the one you're talking about, he sells a few bikes regularly on TM, GKP is a different trader

Wasn't there another cop bike that had the same issue - perhaps earlier?

During the 60s the Triumph Saints weren't popular due to being completely unreliable. The ChCh MOT's favourite vehicle of choice at the same time was a Mini Cooper They even used to have unofficial carpark races in it at the old Manchester St parking building

[pritch]

It seems just slightly odd that some bikes we deride, mostly rightly I believe, have a significant number of people watchlisting them. Currently 30 odd hopefuls have that cop bike watchlisted.

[F5 Dave]

A market of retired Mr Plod wanting to relive a misspent past?

[jasonu]

https://bend.craigslist.org/mcy/d/19...357057538.html

I wouldn't give 1000 cents for this one.

[HenryDorsetCase]

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...1452993958.htm

really?

do they have, like, collector value or something?