Phoenix police demonstrate mad motorcycle skills

April 16, 2009

After watching this video, we’ll think twice about running from bike-mounted police in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona. At least through a low-speed gymkhana; they totally kick our ass in low-speed control.
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Held to benefit the Special Olympics, the Annual Southwest Police
Motorcycle Training and Competition Event encourages police riders to
hone, then show off advanced motorcycle control. It might be a little
less frightening than the French motorcycle police training, but we’re
just impressed to see bike cops riding this well. Now we just need to
get them wearing full-face helmets and full-body impact and abrasion
protection.

Phoenix Police via MotoFlash

roboftheyukon

Wow…if only someone would provide the bikes so we could all learn to ride like that (and not worry about dropping the bike numerous times while we did)!
- http://www.northwest-motorcycle.com/ Ed Melroy
  
  Training is available through the Northwest Motorcycle School. We provide bikes and 42 hours of police motor officer training.
http://www.piaggiousa.com/ Enthusiast

We hold a police rodeo competition in my city with motors from all over. It’s amazing how skilled these guys and gals are.

The same woman always wins the competition smoking out all the men (she rode a KZ1100)

Oakland also has a very good drill team.
Generic1776

Remind me not to get chased by a motor in a parking lot. :P
http://www.selfedge.com kiya

This is nothing.. Check out what the Japanese cops can do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-pTyQZJng
Brian

Born to be Wild….

REALLY?
v

wow,i am impressed,with a bit of practice i could probably do it on a supermoto but not on that heavy police bike..good work
ps:i didn’t know the guys at HFL can read romanian :d
SpeedFreak

reminds me of motorcycle safety classes I took.
insane skills!
sam

yea i dunno how they do that it looks like he is driving a boat for christs sake!
aoelus

Not to detract from their great control, but riding hours every day will build that kind of skill.
uberbox

Remind me not to get chased by a motor in a parking lot. :P

Generic1776

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Or a cone maze for that matter.
Brian

I’m way more impressed by the Japanese Motorcycle Cops video you can see on YouTube. This video is just basic tight maneuvers. Use a lot of rear brake, feather the clutch and sit on the bike on the opposite side of the turn and you have a good start…

This sort of thing is SUPER easy on a dirt bike. If you don’t mind dropping the Harley a couple of times until you get it this kind of skill can be practiced and learned fairly quickly IMHO. My roommate had one of these Electra Glides and they are super easy to turn around despite their size and weight.