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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2021, 05:05:42 PM »
This is going to be SOME Project ! I love the old Honda Police Bikes (The Kwackers too.....as the CHIPS TV show was a regular watch for me back in the day).

I was wondering if you had the rear wheel driven siren as I was going to volunteer to assist.....having successfully emptied numerous barrack rooms in the early hours with my very good impression of a Siren in my TA days.......for which I got a good hiding off the lads......all part of life's rich and merry pageant !

Can't wait to se it progressing....no doubt it will be just as good as all your spectacular rebuilds, but it will probably make a more 'arresting' sight !
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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2021, 05:09:23 PM »
Here goes James ... This was a 'shop soiled' NOS speedo.

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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2021, 06:10:09 PM »
Here goes James ... This was a 'shop soiled' NOS speedo.

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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2021, 06:26:35 PM »
I find the 'lock' mechanism fascinating, despite Andy's doubts re evidence, this was about as hi tech as it got in those days before speed cameras.

Somewhere I have a Smith's Chronometric originally off a Norton Interplod police bike that I rebuilt as a 750S, it has a lead seal and an initialed label, so that if challenged Plod could state in court when, and who by, it was last calibrated.

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I wonder if the speedo evidence was admissible in court?

I had my day in Ruthin Magistrate's Court once, arguing that if the police car chasing me soon caught me up and passed me before the red 'POLICE - STOP' lights came on, it must have been going considerably faster than me, and therefore the reading on his speedo wasn't the speed I was going. I should have paid a solicitor, as it was I represented myself, the copper was 100% flummoxed by my argument (I had brought along a witness, overtaken on his bike by the cop car as it chased me) and had no answer to it. British / Welsh justice being what it is/was then, it made no difference except for making my fine higher. The cop was outside he court sat with his mate in a cop car, laughing as we walked out, no doubt hoping that I would commit a breach of the peace of some kind (I was sorely tempted).
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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2021, 06:55:59 PM »
This reminds me of the day when I was coming home from Chester on my CB750KO and I saw a police bike in front of me so I slowed up and he waved me over so we pulled up to the side of the road.
He wasn't a policeman but a mechanic doing a road test on a bike that he had repaired (Norton) and asked if I would come back to the garage so he could have a look at my bike as they were pretty rare back then.
What followed was a high speed dash to his base in Bromborough with me tagging along behind him at highly illegal speeds, the bike caused quite a stir at the garage with them all complaining about their bikes.

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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2021, 07:32:18 PM »
This reminds me of the day when I was coming home from Chester on my CB750KO and I saw a police bike in front of me so I slowed up and he waved me over so we pulled up to the side of the road.
He wasn't a policeman but a mechanic doing a road test on a bike that he had repaired (Norton) and asked if I would come back to the garage so he could have a look at my bike as they were pretty rare back then.
What followed was a high speed dash to his base in Bromborough with me tagging along behind him at highly illegal speeds, the bike caused quite a stir at the garage with them all complaining about their bikes.

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1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2021, 02:54:43 PM »
Big pile of CB750P parts dropped at the blasters to be blasted and primed, prior to refinishing with 2-pack (2k) semi-gloss white.

Managed to take the NOS rear top box to my local Automotive paint merchant who did a spectrograph colour mate - Fiat Bianco 224 seems to be the closest OEM White - so that’s what I’ll be going with.

Will be a few weeks hiatus over the festive period, so next update will likely be 2/3rd week in January..



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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #22 on: December 18, 2021, 05:31:30 AM »
Fab project - I'm enjoying the updates.

Does anyone else watch the reruns of CHiPs on TV? (Channel 96/ Forces TV on my TV).  There are usually some great shots of classic bikes and cars in the background or as part of the plot.    I was channel flicking last night and it popped up with an advert showing a grey-haired Ponch and a slightly tubbier Jon.... then it told me it was CHiPs 99 and they ride BMW 1100's rather than classi Kawasakis. Nothing is sacred!
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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #23 on: December 18, 2021, 10:43:26 AM »
Big pile of CB750P parts dropped at the blasters to be blasted and primed, prior to refinishing with 2-pack (2k) semi-gloss white.

Managed to take the NOS rear top box to my local Automotive paint merchant who did a spectrograph colour mate - Fiat Bianco 224 seems to be the closest OEM White - so that’s what I’ll be going with.

Will be a few weeks hiatus over the festive period, so next update will likely be 2/3rd week in January..

Knowing the speed you work at James I guess the third week of January is when we shall see the completed bike  :)

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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #24 on: December 18, 2021, 11:01:32 AM »
Fab project - I'm enjoying the updates.

Does anyone else watch the reruns of CHiPs on TV? (Channel 96/ Forces TV on my TV).  There are usually some great shots of classic bikes and cars in the background or as part of the plot.    I was channel flicking last night and it popped up with an advert showing a grey-haired Ponch and a slightly tubbier Jon.... then it told me it was CHiPs 99 and they ride BMW 1100's rather than classi Kawasakis. Nothing is sacred!

CHiPs was essential Saturday evening viewing for me as well Andy (as it was also for Alan by the sound of it :)). I was 17 and riding a CB160 and could only dream of a big Kawasaki and going to California but living at home in a rented house and having no money it was going to stay just a dream. 25 years later I was riding a Harley on the same roads in California and dating a girl from Santa Monica! None of it lasted very long but it was a great adventure at the time.

The two main 'stars' of CHiPs actually didn't get along very well. Erik Estrada wanted to be in the movies. Anyone who followed speedway at the time will be aware that Bruce Penhall won the world title at Wembley in 1980 and won it again in 1981 in Long Beach. He had secured a part in CHiPs sas John's younger brother. The scriptwriters wrote the world final into the story. When he won the title he retired there and then to concentrate on his acting. The riding, chase and crash sequences of CHiPs were all filmed on the Glendale freeway that was under construction at the time.
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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #25 on: December 20, 2021, 02:49:58 PM »
Yep, I was an avid CHiPS watcher too - not that it influenced the accessories I bolted onto my poor old Z750 twin in the mid-late 70s! ;D  Great bike the Z750, and most underrated.  8)

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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #26 on: December 20, 2021, 10:44:01 PM »
My dad is still a CHiPs fan.
The earlier ones were the better it just got progressively dafter.
It's clear to see why people struggled to work with Eric Estrada.

I saw CHiPs 99 the other day with fat Eric made my dad laugh.
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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2022, 10:32:11 AM »
So has been a quiet few weeks drinking / eating too much and waiting for a few things to come together.

Collected the frame and painted cycle parts from my painters yesterday - and they’ve done a lovely job. The colour match is 90% perfect to the NOS rear carrier / top box that was used for the colour match - so I’m pretty happy.

Just waiting for rear hub to be re-lined so I can get the wheels built and start assembly and get the engine in and get her back on her feet..










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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2022, 11:12:26 AM »
Looking spiffing James ... need one of your videos driving it around Brighton when it's finished  ;D
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Re: 1975 CB750 P2 Police Bike
« Reply #29 on: January 18, 2022, 02:28:14 PM »
I'm looking forward to seeing this one finished, as I've only ever seen old photos of the P2.

Interesting that it came from Saudi, I remember seeing a bunch of nearly new white Triumph T160s in Sports Motorcycles. Apparently they had been sold to Saudi Arabia as Police bikes, but being Triumphs had sadly ground to an inevitable halt and had been left wherever they broke down. The prospect of having your hands chopped off for the theft of police property may have helped prevent them from being pilfered at the roadside. Being such a dry climate, they were worth saving, and had been brought back to the UK (I don't know who by) and recommissioned by Triumph.

Maybe yours has also had a long sleep in a hot desert.
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