I heard on the radio today that the City of Arlington, a rather large suburb of Dallas (pop. 350,000+), will be purchasing new motorbikes for the police department. They currently run BMWs and Kawasakis. Now they will have, as the press report stated, new all American-made H-D Electraglides! Supposedly for consistency of equipment within the department. Whatever that means.
Not meant to be a H-D bashing thread at all, but, what are they thinking? Replace their current rides with these primitive bikes? H-D must offer some incredible incentives or something. Or someone making decisions with the City is a dumb@ss. Harleys are great for fun, if one is your thing, but not for professional use in the 21st Century.
I can't imagine officers asking for these over Beemers, but who knows?!
Seems odd to me. I could see departments upgrading to BMWs, Kawas, or Hondas,
from Harleys, but not the other way around.