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MCTID:
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 !

AshimotoK0:
Here goes James ... This was a 'shop soiled' NOS speedo.

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JamesH:

--- Quote from: AshimotoK0 on December 10, 2021, 05:09:23 PM ---Here goes James ... This was a 'shop soiled' NOS speedo.

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Awesome info - thanks Ash..

MrDavo:
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.


--- Quote ---I wonder if the speedo evidence was admissible in court?
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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).

Spitfire:
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.

Cheers

Dennis

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