OT-Loud Harleys in CA. Why don't the cops stop them??

[AllGold]

It's a mystery to me. Police motorcycles are all Harleys... but they all have actual mufflers and are well within code.

[decocritter]

OK - I am sorry for the generalization on boys with Harleys.

About 1 in 10 actually have the Harley because they love the bike.

[mrbigstuff]

[quote RAMd®d]
I believe in Draconian traffic enforcement. Yes, it will increase revenue somewhat. But it will also save lives, reduce injury, and maybe even reduce "road rage" which would reduce the aforementioned.
sadly, I find that I agree with this statement. I'm even in favor of red-light cameras these days, since red lights are apparently "optional" in most peoples' minds. I just this minute witnessed another a**hole speeding down my street - the wrong way. I'm completely sick of it and about to get on the phone to the local PD. I already have a call in to my elected official. If they don't do something about it, I will.

[RAMd®d]

Just another of the ongoing feminist denigrations of men.

True, but there are males who also like to make the same knee-jerk response, citing that as the only possible reason one would buy:

an H-D
a Hummer
any muscle car
any motorcycle
any motor vehicle

That kind of cliché knee-jerk remark/generalization is a good warning sign from the maker, about the maker, though they will never realize it.

[RAMd®d]

Police motorcycles are all Harleys...

Most of them are, but a good number are BMW R1100RT-Ps. Honda is entering the market, and Kawasaki left it not too long ago.

The BMW is a much better motor than any H-D, but it's pricey.

I don't know if Honda has any CA takers yet, but it could be a very good move, too.


OK - I am sorry for the generalization on boys with Harleys.

Fine, but you'll have to endure a spanking as penance.


If they don't do something about it, I will.

mbs, as a fellow bike rider, I hope by that you mean that you'll relentlessly pursue all legal/legislative recourse including perhaps contacting a TV station. Sentences like your last are often taken out of context and used by others to question the relationship we have with our penis, and to write us off as-- wait for it-- nuts.

As as you are one of the more reasonable, responsible posters, I would assume rash, illegal action would not be on your menu of Just Desserts.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote AllGold]It's a mystery to me. Police motorcycles are all Harleys... but they all have actual mufflers and are well within code.
When did that happen?
All BMW/Kawasaki's in California, and CHP does really rigid car/bike tests that the rest of the nation follows.
The Harley's couldn't pass the endurance tests and literally fell apart.
They even tried to legislate the Kawasaki's out by outlawing non-USA built bikes out of the tests that the CHP does before picking a new bike.
That didn't work, Kawasaki was the first foreign vehicle manufacturer(1974) to set up shop in the USA in Lincoln, Nebraska and Maryville, Missouri. Harley lost again.
Mostly BMW's now.

BGnR
Maybe you're channeling the 50's/60's/70's?
I haven't seen a Harley Police bike since the last time I saw a rerun of "Tales of the Highway Patrol".

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[quote AllGold]It's a mystery to me. Police motorcycles are all Harleys... but they all have actual mufflers and are well within code.
Here in Calif. it is mostly quiet BMWs for the law enforcement.

[AllGold]

Okey dokey. They're all Harleys in Michigan. Not that motorcycle cops are a big thing in the winter here.

I haven't been to California for about a decade. I thought they were Harleys too at the time but I could be wrong since I had other things on my mind.

[Pat]

[quote RAMd®d]I don't know if Honda has any CA takers yet, but it could be a very good move, too.
Lake Elsinore approved the purchase of 2 Hondas.

Only Police Harley around here rides in the 4th of July parade alongside the 1950's squad car. Just about everything else is BMW.

[mrbigstuff]

True, that statement came off a bit wild-west-esque. No, I meant that I would pursue the correct means and use the local channels. I am working on the political angle and have been scheming on organizing a citizens group to begin actively promoting (and maybe even enforcing) local speeding laws by group demonstration.

As to riding bikes, I am a newbie with only a few years of riding under my belt. And my comment was directed to the citizenry as a whole, not just the moto-based among us. My rage about the one-way thing stems from recently becoming a home owner and discovering that drivers feel they can do 45mph on my road - and some of them by going the wrong way!