Bike plod on an XX

[martin]

Pulled in to South Mimms lorry park on wednesday, and I spyed what looked like a plod training run. But there helmets were definately not the police white ones and the lead bike was a bird. Who was that then??????

Unfortunately I needed the bog other wise I would have investigated more %$fan

 

[Allan]

Pulled in to South Mimms lorry park on wednesday, and I spyed what looked like a plod training run. But there helmets were definately not the police white ones and the lead bike was a bird. Who was that then??????

Unfortunately I needed the bog other wise I would have investigated more %$fan

Here in West Mids we have Birds for plod bikes, but they are only used on the covert section, thus the bikes are left as standard apart from a concealed radio pack.
We tend to use the gun metal grey & silver ones as they blend in and dont give out large signals. We use them for thier speed, comfort, mile munching and tank range.

What more can you say.

Buzz

 

[Cyclops]

Here in West Mids we have Birds for plod bikes, but they are only used on the covert section, thus the bikes are left as standard apart from a concealed radio pack.
We tend to use the gun metal grey & silver ones as they blend in and dont give out large signals. We use them for thier speed, comfort, mile munching and tank range.

What more can you say.

Buzz

Your having a laugh Allen

Most RTB on here cant get 100 miles out of a tank or 1,000 mile out of a rear tyre


In a chase Poor plod would have to pull into the nearest garage and fill up :} :}

 

[THETOMSK]

Every lunch time at work I usually see 3 marked police bikes go past in a group,recently I've seen a silver bird followed by 2 silver VFRs (I think),
i presume its a training course for police riders.
At a local bike night the BIKE SAFE people were there.(they are police riders who do riding courses for the public and general ride safety stuff).They had a silver bird fitted with Blues and Two's and a camera (the top box had a scrren inside for watching the playback).They also had a busa fitted with blues and two's only.
Tomsk

 

[BlackBirdBaz]

We tend to use the gun metal grey & silver ones as they blend in and dont give out large signals. We use them for thier speed, comfort, mile munching and tank range.

What more can you say.

Buzz

Far better than a BUSA then !!

 

[Fat Bert]

ROFLMAO!!!

Your having a laugh Allen

Most RTB on here cant get 100 miles out of a tank or 1,000 mile out of a rear tyre


In a chase Poor plod would have to pull into the nearest garage and fill up :} :}

and what exactly would YOU know about this???

Get on with growing ya beard and trying to pass ya test


:wank: :wank: :wank:

 

[Steamy]

My '99 injection model was first owned by the National Crime Squad and was used as a "stealth" pursuit vehicle. It still has the plugs for the intercoms and wiring for the blues and two's, but I don't think I'll be needing them, funnily enough!

 

[knighty]

Pulled in to South Mimms lorry park on wednesday, and I spyed what looked like a plod training run. But there helmets were definately not the police white ones and the lead bike was a bird. Who was that then??????

Unfortunately I needed the bog other wise I would have investigated more %$fan

Martin,

Having done my job bike course the South Mimms is one of the places we stop at for a rest/donut, or just pass through. I suspect you probably saw an Advanced bike course out and about on a trng run from Hendon. The met uses Birds for this type of trng.

 

[chuffmeister]

Pulled in to South Mimms lorry park on wednesday, and I spyed what looked like a plod training run. But there helmets were definately not the police white ones and the lead bike was a bird. Who was that then??????

Unfortunately I needed the bog other wise I would have investigated more %$fan

There was a black blackbird outside the ace cafe on my last visit, and it was used by a copper on the Police run bikesafe, along with a few semi-marked bmws, could have been this one you saw :dunno:

 

[Cyclops]

and what exactly would YOU know about this???

Get on with growing ya beard and trying to pass ya test


:wank: :wank: :wank:

OK and a :wank: and a :wank: and a ay noni no to you too sir

 

[martin]

The bird aside, they were all on plod bikes with met police high vis vests. Might just be a jolly from hendon :dunno:

 

[Codbasher]

When I did my Bikesafe at The Warren, and also having spoken to a couple of the Kent Police Motorcycle guys, it seems that BIRDS are the fave off duty toy that these guys own.

 

[stormer]

The MET boys use at least one black BB for training.

 

[Rods]

i heard the met use a selection of bikes for training - including birds, fazer 1000s, etc

 

[derek kelly]

The MET boys use at least one black BB for training.

That'll be for the high speed pursuits.

 

[IanR]

Also in use in Durham

http://www.blackbirdspares.co.uk/galleries/worldsbb/016_police_blackbird.html

Pete - Great picture. :bow: