Robocop1051 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Posted September 6, 2012 Well it looks like Eric Estrada will be the last famous Motor Cop on a Kawasaki.... Read about the CHP and the Kawasaki Concourse 14P HERETom, you have anything to say about THIS. I think there were some shenanigans in southern AZ :P Their highway patrol seems to like their motors just fine. <dontknow> Luckily my new bike (which drops off the truck tomorrow afternoon :drool: ) is a Honda ST1300. <thumbsup>
mrraley Posted September 6, 2012 Report Posted September 6, 2012 Need to get some of these... Victory Police Motorcycles
Robocop1051 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Report Posted September 6, 2012 Harley's and Victory's were taken off the table right off the bat. Too expensive to work on, and too often. Our last 2006 103" RoadKing was a rattling nightmare.The BMW's were immediately taken out of consideration as well. The weak clutches, soft brake pads and $125 per hour labor, were putting the dept in the poor house. Brakes cost about $600 and the clutch was pushing $2k. A "simple" oil change was near $250!Kawi's and Honda's were the last options available to us. We debated long and hard. In the long run, after much input from other dept's we settled on the Honda. It was a tough decision. The nail in the coffin was the absolute lack of maintenance needed for the Honda's. The maintenance that was performed had extremely low labor and parts fees.
mrraley Posted September 6, 2012 Report Posted September 6, 2012 That's ashame... I've had my Victory since 2008 and had no problems with it, with the exception of keeping tires on it. <laughs>
MikedaddyH Posted September 6, 2012 Report Posted September 6, 2012 How about the Kawasaki ZX-10R. Dont think too many can get away from one .
unforgiven Posted September 6, 2012 Report Posted September 6, 2012 The bike really doen't matter IMO you can't outrun motorola. :o
98Z5V Posted September 7, 2012 Report Posted September 7, 2012 Holy poop, there's so much to say about this... I can't find the words right now...I will be back here. I will comment.I will say this about the Polaris Victory motorcycles - those guys can build ATVs, and sleds. They need to work on big v-twins - they don't know what they're doing. Example - plastic lower oil valves in the forks. If you blow a fork seal, and collapse the legs, you crush the plastic oil valve. The only way to get one is to get a whole inner fork stanchion. Over $450... for a plastic valve. If it wasn't plastic in the first place, it wouldn't be a problem, and if they had a separate part number for that thing, it would be different, but they didn't think to offer that as a separate part, or make it out of metal. I have tons of examples like that, too... Long term maintenance is one expensive bitch on those... <dontknow>
edgecrusher Posted September 7, 2012 Report Posted September 7, 2012 you can take the yamaha out of that picture and replace it with the liter bike king, s1000rr. period.
edgecrusher Posted September 7, 2012 Report Posted September 7, 2012 that's way too shiny! has it been ridden this year?
shepp Posted September 7, 2012 Report Posted September 7, 2012 The bike really doen't matter IMO you can't outrun motorola. :oyea you can, its the getto birds that always get you. i once heard a story of a guy who shook one by going by a busy airport, idk who true it was but a story.
unforgiven Posted September 7, 2012 Report Posted September 7, 2012 Hey brother Drew what no apehangers? <lmao>
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