ChCh trialling police bikes currently.

[**R1**]

Yeah but I bet R1Aaron would have done a runner AND got away with it

mayb..........how do you guys get trained to ride bikes?? if car driving is anything to go by, i would say not well

[**R1**]

You're still sacked by the way.

still sulking...

[Monsterbishi]

Know the piece of road, in my little 323 it gets high on the shocks if going over there with speed.

Going onto it, If you get as far right in the right lane as possible, it gets you through the bump quite smoothly, coming off the carriageway, either the leftlane, or the left of the right lane is ok too :-)

(I'm go along there every morning at 5:30am, and home at 6:10pm)

[カワサキキド]

Thanks for the warning, I filter up and down Bealy everyday, I'll have to try and keep my speed down.

[moko]

then again its only a BMW.......whats he going to do bore me in2 giving up??

If your Bike cops are trained as well as ours then dont get too cocky.They have to do at least 2 years in a traffic car before being accepted and their training is the best.Likewise the BMW 1150,it might not look like a racer or appeal to WSB wannabes but whatever you`re on one of those things with a police-trained rider on board will need an exceptional rider to lose on anything but an open,straight road.If you`ve never ridden a BM with the telelever/parathingy suspension then do yourself a favour and borrow one for a day.Takes a while to get used to if you`re used to a multi but you`ll be impressed,even the trailie versions handle like they`re on rails.Only bike cop I saw in N.Z.was in Auckland and he had a Honda ST1100,here seems to be a split between Honda and BMW and plenty of hot-shots discover that boring they may be but the guy on it has proved quicker than their sportsbike.

[**R1**]

If your Bike cops are trained as well as ours then dont get too cocky.They have to do at least 2 years in a traffic car before being accepted and their training is the best.Likewise the BMW 1150,it might not look like a racer or appeal to WSB wannabes but whatever you`re on one of those things with a police-trained rider on board will need an exceptional rider to lose on anything but an open,straight road.If you`ve never ridden a BM with the telelever/parathingy suspension then do yourself a favour and borrow one for a day.Takes a while to get used to if you`re used to a multi but you`ll be impressed,even the trailie versions handle like they`re on rails.Only bike cop I saw in N.Z.was in Auckland and he had a Honda ST1100,here seems to be a split between Honda and BMW and plenty of hot-shots discover that boring they may be but the guy on it has proved quicker than their sportsbike.

i dont doubt that they are good riders, its just guys that can ride ok with bikes like gsxr1000's, blades, etc aint that hard to loose, so i just cant see a BMW being any harder to get away from.....but im probly wrong, i think you can hire them here...i may just hire one for the day and see what its capable of... cheers

[Lou Girardin]

You could ask the 3 sports bike riders that tried to lose an ex-bike cop I know on his own '70 R100 Beemer.
They didn't. He took two of them on the outside in bends.
He also left 5 guys (and me) on litre bikes through the Whangamoas while two - up on his '82 CB900.
Experience counts.

[Oscar]

I know a guy who got booked for doing a "kick turn" in the main street of Hamilton. A kick turn is an trials thing, a almost stationary wheelie where you pivot the bike on the back wheel to make a quick turn. Anyways, our boy writes a letter to the Beak, pointing out he is an ex-NZ Enduro Champ, blah, blah, perfectly safe, skilled rider etc...and got off.

[**R1**]

You could ask the 3 sports bike riders that tried to lose an ex-bike cop I know on his own '70 R100 Beemer.
They didn't. He took two of them on the outside in bends.
He also left 5 guys (and me) on litre bikes through the Whangamoas while two - up on his '82 CB900.
Experience counts.

That story (to me) duznt make him sound like a good rider....he sounds fkn dangerous....looseing thou's 2 up on and old heap, duznt sound like the sort of stuff ex coppers should be doing.....

[Biff]

If your Bike cops are trained as well as ours then dont get too cocky.

Moko - didn't you post some comments on here a while back in relation to an article in the UK’s Ride mag (?), comparing cop cars & bikes to road bikes and such like?

Basically the article investigated whether a road rider stood much of a chance of getting away from the cops on a clear road (the cops obviously wouldn’t take the kind of risks as some people do when doing a runner on their bike). I also read that article. It was a clear victory to the Brit cops, their machines, particularly the bike cops, and their very high standard of training.

The bottom line was that the cop on his Honda Pan European (ST1100 or 1300 in NZ?) or BMW kicked the arse out of the sport bikes and their riders on a closed circuit. Even when the bikey cop rode his own CBR600 he kicked the arse out of a Gixxer 1000 I think around the same track.

It's not the size of the weapon it's how you handle it Ms Biff. Now stop complaining would ya.

[Lou Girardin]

That story (to me) duznt make him sound like a good rider....he sounds fkn dangerous....looseing thou's 2 up on and old heap, duznt sound like the sort of stuff ex coppers should be doing.....

Might sound it, but wasn't. He was telling me about a chase with an R1 in Blenheim, wasn't you was it?

[bugjuice]

if they did arrest you, they'd normally cuff you, but since you've only got one arm, what do they do then...??

slight (none offensive) pt, but curious none the least..

[jrandom]

if they did arrest you, they'd normally cuff you, but since you've only got one arm, what do they do then...??

Cuff his wrist to his heel?

Put him in a straitjacket?

Shoot him a couple times in the head, just to be safe?

[vifferman]

if they did arrest you, they'd normally cuff you, but since you've only got one arm, what do they do then...??

slight (none offensive) pt, but curious none the least..

Mr OAB actually has two (2) arms, but the left one is paralysed, due to nerve damage.

[**R1**]

Might sound it, but wasn't. He was telling me about a chase with an R1 in Blenheim, wasn't you was it?

Na havnt been up that way since xmas, and if someone was chacing me i didnt know about it,.........now that i think about it i flew past 2 guys comming back from picton at the end of xmas break...one of them was on a BMW, it was pissing dwn with rain so couldnt push to hard but i was still way quicker. the guy on the beemer was faster than i thought tho.