S-M-P-O? Honda CBX650 Ex-Police bike?

[BMWGSER]

Most likely a ex Auckland City traffic bike they kept all there's while the MOT bikes where purchased back buy Blue Wing Honda , for alleged handling problems with the aftermarket bolt on windscreen. I think some of the MOT bikes were exported to the Islands and the rest were cut up for parts and scrap. They then got Xj750 Yamahas and then BMW R80 TIC bikes. The Yamahas might have been before the CBX 650s . Old age catching up ,All I no is none of them could catch Me.
The S part of the switch block was Siren but I think the Flashing lights came on first and there was pointer stop as well . All useless info . These where before Rusticats time He started on R80s.

[unstuck]

Damn those 80's traffic cop boots were cool, comfortable too. Good for kicking street kids.

[Oakie]

Owning such a bike, your lifestyle now has to change accordingly:
At breakfast time, kick the dog, pull wings of a butterfly, and steal a childs lollipop.
At lunchtime, eat all and any food that is free, or sounds like doughnut.
At dinnertime, kick the dog, kick the wife, and crap on the neighbours lawn.

Congrats, you are now a qualified 1980's traffic policeman.
Now go out an write your quota.

You forgot "Go and grow a slug moustache".

[Paul in NZ]

Like busses - you don't see one for ages and then along comes two...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...-853710320.htm

[unstuck]

Like busses - you don't see one for ages and then along comes two...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/moto...-853710320.htm

Damn, that brings back a whole lot of happy memories.

[minotee]

Wow that's a cool looking bike, bit more expensive than my one was. Good to see how rare they are

[jasonu]

Most likely a ex Auckland City traffic bike they kept all there's while the MOT bikes where purchased back buy Blue Wing Honda , for alleged handling problems with the aftermarket bolt on windscreen.

I remember that. One of the coppers on a CBX650 with the handle bar mounted screen apparently experienced a tank slapper at speed on the motorway, got chucked off and slid down the road on his face (no full face helmets for them in those days). IIRC shortly after that incident they ditched those bikes and allowed modular (ie pop up) full face helmets.

[Old Steve]

What I find great about riding an ex-Police bike (a Honda ST1100PY) is the slight reduction in risk.

When you see a car coming down a side road ahead of you, you can almost go, "Not yet, not yet, about ... NOW!" And the nose of the car will dip as the driver sees a bike on the main road and thinks, "S**T, that's a cop bike!"

There's one mechanic at one of the bike shops in town who says every time he sees me kicking tires on the forecourt or looking at bling in the showroom, "Damn you, every time I see you out riding I think you're a cop and slow down".

I'll take that couple of microseconds, or the fact that other motorists actually see a motorbike, every time. When riding my bike 400 km home after buying her, I had a cop in a marked car coming the other way wave to me, I think it was a "Hey, an ex-police bike" and not a "Slow down or we'll turn around and chase you" sort of wave.

[yevjenko]

Hey,
I just bought (2 months ago) a 1984 Honda cbx650 with what looks like stock dials on the right handlebar. I have showed a number of people including a Honda dealership and noone seems to know what it does.
I have attached a few photos of the thing in question as well as the picture of my bike.

I wondered about that when i saw it in the car park the other week

[minotee]

I wondered about that when i saw it in the car park the other week

ohh yeah??

[yevjenko]

ohh yeah??

unless there's a couple of these around... you at Avalon?

[FROSTY:Me]

The CBX650 was never used by the MOT which back then were totally separate from the Police. Individual councils had their own road patrol units. They were purchased by local councils as patrol bikes.
As a patrol bike they were bloody horrible. Riding one they felt like they had a hinge in the middle
. There was too much weight/bulk aft of the rear axle and those big flat cop fairings just never worked and caused "high speed" wobbles at sub 110km/h speeds. . You didn't dare turn them off with the cop stuff turned on because the battery would go flat. The ONLY advantage they had over the Yamaha XJ750 was that the shortassed Nazi that was well known in Auckland was able to get his feet down.
That switchblock was to control the various police functions.-siren,speedo lock and lights. have a look at old CB750 patrol bikes and from memory the switch is straight off one of them,
Its interesting.--Yamaha had exactly the same issues with the original XJ750 patrol bikes. They tested for weeks down at pukie. The solution was retrofitting the fairing from the XJ900 and moving the panniers slightly.
For high speed bikes or "pursuit bikes" they fitted Koni rear shocks upgraded the front and switched to a gear bag and smaller panniers.

[minotee]

unless there's a couple of these around... you at Avalon?

yeah sure do work there

[yevjenko]

yeah sure do work there

i thought so - mine's the tuono parked next to yours right now

[rastuscat]

Couldn't possibly comment, but I will.

When I joined we had already gone to the RTs. The guys I worked with recalled the CBX as the meanest wheelie machine on record. Some thing to do with the weight all being aft of normal.

Just sayIn. Can't confirm myself. The present troll bikes would need a helicopter to lift the front wheel. Though I'm sure a few you tube vids will now prove me wrong.