Pretty cool, and quite the departure from the beemers and old style HDs. Oh, to be in Arizona in the winter ;-).
Now, THIS is a Police Motor-sickle....
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Even the BMW GS Adventure has gone to liquid cooling. For both OEMs, it's more to meet more stringent EPA and Euro enviromental standards than anything else. Since Hog's rear cylinder gets no direct wind-blast, that also helps.
Harley wouldn't dare be seen with a shaft-drive, LOL. Belts just won't stand-up to the grit and debris exposure of off-road use....so, chain it is.
DWalt
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I have a very similar photo, a Ben-A on a motorbike, from the same era. Problem is Indo not know exactly where it is.Inwill look.I prefer old school
Some of the pickups are fairly fast nowadays and souped up cars seem to be getting more popular and louder, unfortunately. We did have an event a few years back where the OHP clocked a Mustang on the Kilpatrick Turnpike doing over 205 mph. Turns out it was a 16 year old kid who took his dads 850 hp car without permission and his dad was part of "Street Outlaws" tv show. The kid was quickly found in a parking lot with the engine off and when the cops showed up he tossed the keys out the window. Probably the only smart thing he did that night.
Oh, come on. You're 16, your dad is a racer with an 850hp car, and he's gone a lot at night. You wouldn't?
That's my boy
Our City motor cops had HD went to BMW and now back to HD
Yendor357
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A liquid cooled Harley with a chain drive on Michelin tires with Goodyear on the side.
I like it!
I like it!
Dad started out on an Indian in 1938.......after the war they had some 'three wheelers" for patrolling the business district. Dad was a sergeant and off the bikes by the time I came along.. Didn't have another "three wheeler" until we got a Honda Big Red in 83. 
I rode Harley Road Kings and Electra Glides for my agency for eight years. Traffic was so bad in my county you REALLY took your life in your hands every time you went out. Fortunately we had cars as well so it wasn't full time on the bikes.
LoboGunLeather
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The local Motorola shop would have loaded 200-plus pounds of radio, siren, and lights on that unit before it was ready to be wrestled around on crowded city streets, back in my days. Good crash bars helped in getting your bike back upright after laying it down in traffic (a necessary skill to acquire). The rest of the gravel will eventually work its way out of your hide within a few months, no worries.
Keep the shiny side up!
Tex1001
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We called those sirens "Growlers".
Mounted on the front fork. Kick 'em to turn on.
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