Police Commando - any around?

Hobot · May 30, 2011

Any examples of a fully equipped police version Commando known?
Is it illegal or just too repulsive to own such a bad image bike?

swooshdave · May 30, 2011

hobot said:
Any examples of a fully equipped police version Commando known?
Is it illegal or just too repulsive to own such a bad image bike?

I think that's a rotary.

Blue noser · May 30, 2011

Would that be a Wankel rotary engine? It's just fun to say, wankel rotary engine. You work on them using King Dick tools. :lol:

Richard Barks · May 30, 2011

Brings back bad memory's got pulled at a speed over
The limit that nowadays in the uk would be a prison
Sentence , the pig that pulled me over was a nasty
Bastard and I got a £14. 00 fine that I talked the court
Into paying off at £1.00 a week ( is was the 70s ).
I was on a 650 triumph tr6 happy days

79x100 · May 30, 2011

There are a few restored Interplods that appear at shows.

http://policebikes.org.uk/page863.html

Twenty years ago, there were plenty of Commandos in the UK with radio cut-out tanks and big heavy fairings but they've pretty well all been converted back to standard now.

skydt · May 30, 2011

Hobot mate!
I have a 1971 stuffed in the shed somewhere, a trailer queen i'm afraid, I had illusions of grandeur, or just some perverted ideas of pulling over blondes in corvettes, and getting their adresses and phone numbers( well it might have worked but the local insurance and constabulary weren't too keen on all the running gear I have on it, so no licence plated unless I remove all the police looking stuff. I wont do it!!!!). Last photo is of us on our way to the first Lumby rally. Cheers.

Stuart

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Hobot · May 30, 2011

Thank you Stuart for preserving this Gov't enforcement relic against the police powers objections. Never saw so much of their details prior nor such a happy pilot compared to those they paid to be nasty to gleeful riders. That fairing appears on the bikes sent to middle east. An Aussie friend has one with the Isalmic script still on it so calls it his infidel fairing : )

Does yours have flashing blue lights and a loud siren? Hope it stays trailer queen preserved for forever.

skydt · May 30, 2011

hobot said:
Thank you Stuart for preserving this Gov't enforcement relic against the police powers objections. Never saw so much of their details prior nor such a happy pilot compared to those they paid to be nasty to gleeful riders. That fairing appears on the bikes sent to middle east. An Aussie friend has one with the Isalmic script still on it so calls it his infidel fairing : )

Does yours have flashing blue lights and a loud siren? Hope it stays trailer queen preserved for forever.

Hobot.
Yes it has the blue flashing lights and the police stop sign on the back in the alloy box that alternates blue and red,and dual alternating horns Fiamms of course, and it all works, don't know what to do with it except look at it and occasionaly sit on it, I will figure out a way to ride it one of these days. Cheers.

Stuart

jeffdavison · May 30, 2011

The Interpol looks a lot like how I had my 1st Norton set up when I went fron Chicago to San Fransico and back in 1975.
It had a white "Bates" tote box behind a "Tuetonic" (brand) BMW solo seat I bracketed to fit. It had a set of white "Craven" panniers. It had an Interstae tank in black and a white "Vetter" full touring fairing.
I had a CB radio in the fairing and I mouted the antenna on top of the Bates tote box. It really looked like a police bike, tho not intentionally.
Maybe that saved my life as I was coming back to Chicago through Nevada, the local "Hell's Angels" ( about a crew of 20) passed me as I was going through Reno.... they didn't bother with me at all. I was sweating bullets.

JD

Hobot · May 30, 2011

Yes it has the blue flashing lights and the police stop sign on the back in the alloy box that alternates blue and red,and dual alternating horns Fiamms of course, and it all works, don't know what to do with it except look at it and occasionaly sit on it, I will figure out a way to ride it one of these days. Cheers.

Stuart

Oh that feels so good to know. Technically-legally if you was to have a cover for the blue lights when traveling its should be legal as antique fire truck or cop car.
Then you could slowly go through it, but if ya did get it road worthy then some tasteless younin or hot shot old fart would scatter its history. May take another generation till there are only robo cops on patrol before someone would recognized its special roll in keeping Norton alive as long as they were.

Jeff if you want to complete the illusion I saw a UK fella that had big white block letters across his black jacket - POLITE - . He had to remove it eventually but before that the road was all his!

I now know all I want too on variations of the poor ole Commando. Thanx.

Hobot · May 30, 2011

Hey here's one in hot action for our imagination @ 1:30 min mark

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbvqz-nv7Zw[/video]

jeffdavison · May 31, 2011

If anyone is so inclined to buyt the DVD.....

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_ ... motorcycle

another scene from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrhBlvm3Tq4

the last line is hilarious!

JD

Hobot · May 31, 2011

"Funny - Comandos are usually so re-liable"

Great spoofing movie.

Here's the Police rotary covered and un covered

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBEAewUwEo[/video]

Cheesy · May 31, 2011

hobot said:
Any examples of a fully equipped police version Commando known?
Is it illegal or just too repulsive to own such a bad image bike?

If you every get the chance to ride one of these take it, the power delivery is so unremarkable that its remarkable, think almost like an electric motor, just a shame the rest of it is so ugly

Myford · Jun 1, 2011

Here in the UK, one can apply to the licensing authority to get the complete (paper) history of ones vehicle, ie all previous owners. I did this, & low & behold, my 850 2A roadster started live as, yes thats right an Interpol with the West midlands police force, its a funny old world!

Terry

KSUWildcatFan · Jun 1, 2011

LMFAO @ the movie.

That's outstanding. I should get that for dad for his birthday. "Happy birthday, you old fart! Enjoy this terrible movie!"

Hobot · Jun 1, 2011

Ya can youtube the whole movie to see it first. Its my all time favorite cycle, Horror Picture Show, Commando spoof and cliche movie. Takes a few viewings to catch all the hits.
Another more 'realistic' plot is "Stone"

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