Motor Officer Assignment

bojangle

FN # 40
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So I was selected for a motor officer assignment. I went through pre training and just recently completed and passed an 80 Hour Basic Motor Officer Course. It was a demanding course that not everyone passes. It was also the most enjoyable class I've ever attended. My slow speed skills have improved tremendously in a relatively short period of time.

My hands are tired and a bit sore. Nothing like full days of cone patterns to wipe yourself out. Anyways, I'm excited to start this new adventure of working on a motor!!!

My assigned motorcycle is the brand new 2020 BMW R 1250 RT-P pictured below. It only has equipment installed from the factory and still needs to get equipment and decals installed so it's traffic enforcement ready.


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tgrrdr

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Congratulations and nice looking bike! Are the auxiliary lights red?
 

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budman

General Menace
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Sweet.... looking bike. :thumbup

Let me know when I should come down so you can chase me. :p

Enjoy the new assignment. :ride
 

kelsodeez

2wheels good 4wheels bad
Congrats man! Living the dream. Fill your ticket book and be home in time for dinner.
 

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
Congratulations and nice looking bike! Are the auxiliary lights red?

Pretty much the works. Those police lights are built in from the BMW factory. They have a solid red light, blue light, flashing red and blue. They also have alley lights on the sides.

Congrats! Such a nice ride too!

I love it! So glad we went with those over Harleys. I had to train initially on a Harley Road King, and pass the assessment tests after the first week on a Road King. As a non-cruiser bike rider, I had to acclimate to the ergonomics of them, which to me was less comfortable than a sport/touring style bike. Then had to transition those skills over to the BMW. But now that I'm up to speed on the BMW, I like it so much better.
 

danate

#hot4beks
Pretty much the works. Those police lights are built in from the BMW factory. They have a solid red light, blue light, flashing red and blue. They also have alley lights on the sides.



I love it! So glad we went with those over Harleys. I had to train initially on a Harley Road King, and pass the assessment tests after the first week on a Road King. As a non-cruiser bike rider, I had to acclimate to the ergonomics of them, which to me was less comfortable than a sport/touring style bike. Then had to transition those skills over to the BMW. But now that I'm up to speed on the BMW, I like it so much better.

I don't mean to sound too much like a fanboy, but the Harleys never made sense to me as police bikes, other than that they don't have to far to tip over and they're easier to pick back up. Even when I did the civilian motor course in Alameda on their KZ1000s, getting back on my R1200RT seemed to much quicker and easier to run the same drills with.

Not to be too crude, but when CHP went back to BMWs and I told my friend (also a LEO) about it, he jokingly said to me "Crap! Now they can finally catch up to us."

Awesome, Dave! Now aspire to be as good as Quinn Redeker from my hometown's PD.

I had the joy of attending two of the CMSP development workshops with Quinn Redeker. That man is a beast and I was dead after about 10 minutes of his drills. He set up a course for us and ran it to see if anyone could come close to his time....that was a no.
 

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
I don't mean to sound too much like a fanboy, but the Harleys never made sense to me as police bikes, other than that they don't have to far to tip over and they're easier to pick back up. Even when I did the civilian motor course in Alameda on their KZ1000s, getting back on my R1200RT seemed to much quicker and easier to run the same drills with.

Not to be too crude, but when CHP went back to BMWs and I told my friend (also a LEO) about it, he jokingly said to me "Crap! Now they can finally catch up to us."



I had the joy of attending two of the CMSP development workshops with Quinn Redeker. That man is a beast and I was dead after about 10 minutes of his drills. He set up a course for us and ran it to see if anyone could come close to his time....that was a no.

Well, I went to the training and am going to be starting in the motor assignment with another new motor officer from my agency. He was a Harley fanboy and was pushing the department to purchase Harleys. After training with both Harleys and BMW, I think he's now a convert. :laughing

I will say, it was nice to train on a Harley trainer bike that I didn't have to worry about dropping. I didn't want to drop the brand new BMW a bunch before I knew what I was doing. Though I did drop it a number of times while I was getting used to transitioning the skills and techniques over to a different type of bike. The learning curve was much quicker from one bike to the next as compared to learning this stuff for the first time.

I also went to the Alameda County Training Center for the Motor Course. Did some pre-training there as well, so I was out there for three weeks straight. My hands are still recovering.
 

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
After we passed the assessment tests on our department bikes, we went out on some formation road rides. On one of the rides we did up hill and down hill, left and right U turns on this road. Something I would have never attempted, or been successful with, prior to the training. It's certainly wide enough, but pretty damn steep!

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Kornholio

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The Alameda County course was probably one of the best training events I've been a part of in terms of motorcycling. Kicked my ass, too.
 

bojangle

FN # 40
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Congrats on the new assignment, dude. No more chasing the radio!

Just for you, we're getting rifle mounts attached to the bikes. And our training also included some range time, which involved riding up in gravel, shooting from the bike, and then dismounting and shooting some more. This was done head on and from the left and right sides. That portion was pretty damn fun! :mm4l:ride:troy
 

NorCalBusa

Member #294
Awesome, Dave! Now aspire to be as good as Quinn Redeker from my hometown's PD.

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For that particular feat- he had to shut off the ABS, story goes he pulled the fuse. Quinn made Sgt and has been off motors for some time. Interesting guy and for sure raised the motor bar across the US. Guys who thought they were good got a rude awakening, but embraced the new challenge.
 

bojangle

FN # 40
Staff member
The Kawi. I wasn't stupid enough to use my RT. :laughing

Yeah, I saw all the old Kawis there. Even helped transport a couple from point A to point B. The instructors said it was an extra $50 to use them. Seems like a no brainer, especially if the personal bike doesn't have crash bars.

Apparently, they have a beginner and an intermediate level of civilian training courses.
 
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