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- From: jsm@rosencrantz.osf.org (John S. Morris)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Police blame BMW
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.205845.7534@osf.org>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:58:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.105744.26127@galadriel.bt.co.uk> <49140051@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
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- In article <49140051@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dug@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dug Smith) writes:
- >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
-
- I thought motor police didn't give chase? I had a friend on the local police
- who rode a Kawasaki and he claimed that mc chases just didn't make sense for
- dozens of reasons. I've also chatted with police on K bikes (only white
- K Beemers I've seen) in Belgium who said similar things.
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