I just speed past them like I do with real cops. :cool:

Some old guy trying to make his retirement savings last longer by working part time escorting funerals makes you drive near the speed limit for a few minutes. That BASTAGE!!! ;)

I can appreciate it might be a funeral bike. On the other hand, I'm not really cool with funeral bikes imitating police bikes. I do know a lot of guys buy ex-CHP bikes and cars without escorting funeral processions. It's the wannabes that bug me.

Retired motor cop? Trying to stay young? Still hates the way people drive?

A friend's (now ex) husband used to drive a Chevy Caprice. He stuck a few fake antennae on it and got a big kick out of how people got out of his way on the freeway. Same bozo wore his dad's expensive hand me down suits and a fake Rolex.

In Australia the cops (mostly) ride BMW RT1150s. One old guy bought an ex-cop bike, and even went as far as putting "Polite" on it in the police font.
His argument was safety. Everyone saw him, no-one hassled him.
The time I got deliberately run off the road by some kids 'having fun', I thought maybe he was onto something.

I bought a new 1987 Mustang 5.0 LX hatch at the time when the CHP was using Mustangs. Mine was blue but people still moved aside on the freeway when I came up behind them. Traded it for a new black '90 LX 5.0 and the same thing would happen. I enjoyed people observing the "Slower Traffic Keep Right" law as I came up behind them. (Not aggressively. Just a gradual overtake was all it took.)

This is one of those posts that really made me chuckle......the original poster seems to not be able to recognize the front of a police motorcycle and gets mad because of it? There are a bunch of things that make a CHP bike different than the one in his pictures, from the front just as things that make a "stealth" CHP car different from a normal car. In that case mainly it is the rifle/shotgun barrels that stick up above the top of the dash and those are visible even at night with a car's head lights shining through from behind. I always look at the helmet first with that blue band around it and radio bits, the night stick on the right side and those big black cases on the back which can easily be seem from the front.

careful with what you may perceive as LAPD cops being on studio work. they still can/will write tickets.
OF course the fakeys are something else ;-)

The fake cop thing is lame but I'm sort of in the market for a late model BMW 1200RT and it won't bother me if people mistake it for a cop bike for a second as I'm coming between lanes behind them and give me room, (which they should be doing for any bike).

I would not buy an ex-cop bike, though, no matter how cheap or well maintained.

I can certainly distinguish an actual CHP bike from a retired one, but not until it's relatively close. I doubt you could tell the difference in one 1/2 mile behind you in your mirror, either. This rider had a helmet that emulated a CHP helmet as well, being a skull cap with the dark band under the white top. There was even an emblem of some type in the same place as a CHP helmet, as well as a tight-fitting leather jacket. So chuckle away. The point of my thread was there is an odd type out there that likes to pose as a cop.

There are those who dress like cops to add some protection from being run over by arseholes who drive by braille.
Its a force field of sorts that might help.
I wish the blind drivers would not pretend they know how to see .
They dress like they know how........to see.......LOL
But the statistics show that the car driver will say about the M/C it just ran over " I did not see it" !

Like shopping for your next wife in a whorehouse......