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- From: dug@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dug Smith)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:42:19 GMT
- Subject: Re: Police blame BMW
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- References: <1993Jan25.105744.26127@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
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- >The Police forces are now blaming BMW (I can't remember the exact
- >reason) but BMW are defending themselves by repling that the effect
- >is not caused by the bike itself. They claim it is a mixture of
- >poor maintainence of police bikes, bad load spreading, increased wait
- >of police equipment and also rider inexperiance.
-
- The way I heard it a while back, the problem manifests itself after x thousand
- miles, and the police were so sure that it was a part failing, and BMW so sure
- that it wasn't that they got a BMW test rider to ride a police bike on a
- simulated chase supervised by the boys in blue. At the end of the test, the
- BMW guy hadn't fallen off, but the police hadn't videoed the whole run, so they
- asked him to do it again. It appears that the rider wouldn't do it again.
-
- Having seen the local force's bikes, I figure you've got to be pretty dumb to
- suggest maintenance or rider inexperience as the cause of the problems. I
- thought the police had uprated suspendies (well, they do on the ST1100s) and so
- on to cope with the weight (I don't believe that a radio and a few blue lights
- can weigh more than a passenger plus luggage... and we don't see many public
- BMWs falling over around corners). Having said that, public BMWs don't tend to
- be ridden as enthusiastically or for as many miles as the police ones. I hope
- they get this sorted out, I don't think it'd be fair for them all to ride the
- ST1100s... too damned fast. Be nice if they rode Triumphs though.
-