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Mate,
if Australia copies the UK your days in the saddle are numbered

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... bikes.html

Shit, that's beyond belief ....... they want their cops wrapped in cotton wool better not happen here!

I agree. They are dangerous things at the best of times. Now we have to ban all armed forces. You can't have people running around with guns and going into battles. That is not safe.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!

there are hardly any bike cops in NSW now anyhows..

Those "seniors" maybe genX who did not watch CHIPS.

CHIPs used to have both of their bikes side by side on a trailer with them on it being towed up and down the California Freeways talking to each other...That Ponch was a loser...

Just this morning going to work there was some kind of accident on the main road I crossed and the traffic was banked up as far as i could see. Who should rip around the corner in emergency response and start splitting traffic to get to the scene - POLICE MAN ON A BIKE!

It just makes sense!

What's next?

"What's your emergency?"
"Someone's shooting at my house and my family is inside"
"Sorry, we cannot attend dangerous scenes because of OH&S policy, please call back if you can once the shooting is over"

just living is a fucking OH&S issue....

no-one ever makes it out of life alive!!!

I loved this comment
"There will be no loss of service to the public. Everything that can be done with a bike can also be done with a car."

Can a car really do everything a bike can, like lane splitting in heavy traffic to get to an accident NO!

Can a car go down narrow alley ways to follow crims NO!

These beaurocrats make decisions without talking to the actual people that do the work.

Just the same as NSW Labor in regards to the new bike lic laws.

"There will be no loss of service to the public. Everything that can be done with a bike can also be done with a car. "

like catch motorcyclists...

To be honest, all the Motorcycle cops in Melbourne only ever seem to pull over bikes.... They pull them over whether they are speeding or not, so lets hope

ijuschill wrote:"There will be no loss of service to the public. Everything that can be done with a bike can also be done with a car."

Can a car really do everything a bike can

Nope, a car can't. They recently tried to scrap ours, until we pointed out that they were going to struggle to do the Tour Down Under in cars. To be honest, I don't think it's too far off.... in the meantime, I'll just make the most of it.

Come to think of it,i am working the UK at the moment and i havent seen any cops on bikes.

I just ran into 8 of them on a training run from the Police Driver Training at Goulburn. 3 FJR's and 5 BMW Boxer twins. They said they are mainly stationed in Clearway areas in the metro area with one motorcycle per large regional centre.