Some love trackdays. I've always enjoyed cone drills and low speed training more. :dunno
wow, big career adventure, Dave
I enjoyed a day with the ACSO trainers with my son a year back
https://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=539731&highlight=happy+birthday
which is barely the tip of the iceberg compared to the full on pro training, I am sure
they are a great bunch of guys there at ACSO
Congrats man!!!!! I love being a motor and I love my BMW so much more then the Harleys I started on. Matt, Steve and the guys at ACSO put on an excellent motor officer class and i went back last year for motor instructor which was even more fun. Be safe and have fun. Hopefully will see ya at a competition next year if things get back to normal.
Congrats on making the grade and getting a motor assignment, bojange. Thank you for your service! Be safe out there and God be with you.
Congratulations on the new moto gig! Super envious of the new ride! I keep telling my agency that if they would just authorize lights and sirens on my bike instead of duty car, I could respond a lot quicker! Lol
I don't mean to sound too much like a fanboy, but the Harleys never made sense to me as police bikes
I’ve always assumed that the use of Harleys is dictated by government agency “buy American” policies. Same reason all cruisers are American.
I've got the BARF slow race trophy hanging on my wall...that was a good time :teeth
I’ve always assumed that the use of Harleys is dictated by government agency “buy American” policies. Same reason all cruisers are American.
I've heard rumored MANY TIMES that Harley-Davidson is leasing the Electra-Glide PD models to the CHP for $1 a year and are including all maintenance. While I can't substantiate the claim, I can easily see why they'd do it. Free advertising with the largest police motorcycle fleet in the country.
I doubt that is true. Although I do think they include all maintenance in their leases. But if that were true, I doubt CHP would be transitioning to BMWs, which they are currently in the process of doing.
It's no surprise that they would. I'm 100% fine with HD's being used in a city enforcement role. But for highway use, they literally make zero sense. The speed wobble issue was never truly resolved by Harley no matter what they threw at the problem and the CHP knew it. When I worked in the city, we used to routinely visit with the CHP motors there as their office was just around the corner. The officers hated the Harley and didn't want to give up their RT-Ps that they had at that time. In fact, one of the officers told us he was resigning his motor officer position to go back to a patrol vehicle as he absolutely did not feel safe on the HD whatsoever and refused to ride one altogether.
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
Geez, that's scary.
I'm glad we went with BMW for city use. After training on both, BMW is better in maneuverability, whipping U turns and such.
Departments have been using Kawasaki KZ1000s since the 70s.