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[MrJimi]

Bird, I would like for you to go to your local Harley shop on a Saturday morning and just look around and swap stories and tell us about the great time you had with lots of pictures, we/I would like that and I/we know that you would also
Go for it Bird
Jim

 

[Bird]

Jim, I've intended to do that for a long time, but it seems that Saturdays have been my busiest days this year. The only reason I haven't been helping my son-in-law on that old house remodeling today is because of this lousy head cold. It would have been interesting to see what was around there at the Harley dealer today though, because our temperature has stayed between 40 and 43 all day, with frequent off and on very light rain showers; just enough to keep everything wet and so far a grand total of about .3" in my gauge.

 

[cp1969]

One of my cousins was a cop in Kansas City, MO. He was on motorcycles for a while. I remember him telling a story of being an escort for a Presidential motorcade (had to have been Johnson or Nixon) from the airport to downtown, which is a good 15 miles or so. He said they had to stop traffic, wait for the motorcade to pass, then play leapfrog at 100+ mph to get to the front to do it again. Sounds like fun except is was in the dead of winter. Said he's never been so cold as on that day.

 

[MrJimi]

One of my cousins was a cop in Kansas City, MO. He was on motorcycles for a while. I remember him telling a story of being an escort for a Presidential motorcade (had to have been Johnson or Nixon) from the airport to downtown, which is a good 15 miles or so. He said they had to stop traffic, wait for the motorcade to pass, then play leapfrog at 100+ mph to get to the front to do it again. Sounds like fun except is was in the dead of winter. Said he's never been so cold as on that day.

our Florida cops do the same thing except it's heaps warmer here, the leap frog thing at funerals thing
and Bird, take some very precious time and visit your local Harley shop, and that goes for all the rest of you.. Go for it and enjoy
Just make sure you don't come home and say
Honey, guess what we just bought !
Jim

 

[Bird]

One of my cousins was a cop in Kansas City, MO. He was on motorcycles for a while. I remember him telling a story of being an escort for a Presidential motorcade (had to have been Johnson or Nixon) from the airport to downtown, which is a good 15 miles or so. He said they had to stop traffic, wait for the motorcade to pass, then play leapfrog at 100+ mph to get to the front to do it again. Sounds like fun except is was in the dead of winter. Said he's never been so cold as on that day.

My memory may be a little faulty, but haven't there been two motorcycle officers killed escorting the current President Bush? One in Hawaii, and I forgot where the other one was.

And yes, funeral escorts have the same problems.

In 1972, I was in Milwaukee and visited first the machine shop where Harley was making the parts and then the assembly plant where they were building the bikes. Of course I was traveling by bus in a large group of officers, all of whom were attending the Northwestern University Traffic Institute, and the Milwaukee police had motorcycle escorts for the bus. I was surprised to see they were still using the hand shift motorcycles, and even more surprised to see they had a reverse gear (Dallas changed to the foot shift in 1966 or 67). So I asked the officer about that and he said that was because they used them year round. I said, "So do we, what's that got to do with it?" It seems they put sidecars on in the winter; something we never did in Dallas.