[Paull]

160 mph - only falling from a large cliff!!! Complete pieces of rubbish these things are!!!

I like the deal - $1 each, 'bout all they're worth too.

A few years ago the WA coppers thought they were on a good deal whereby the Hardly Ridable companies' agent in Perth said "We'll sell you these pieces of crap for you to use as Polcie bikes AND, at the end of the agreed period (I think it was 2 years), we will by these same pieces of crap back from the WA Police for the same price!!! How good is that?????

Obviously the bean counters where over the moon, the none too bright and in-experienced patrol officers thought "this is good". Sadly, and as expected the WA wallopers ended up going back to the Jap bikes within the two year period as the 'image machines' simply couldn't handle being ridden. That is, the design intent of the Hardly Ridables is for low esteem people to park them on the side walk, not in designated motor cycle parking bays of course, Harley's are special you know!! and not be ridden every day. With this extended use, read more than 2 hours per month, they kept breaking down, Surprise Surprise you all say - how could that happen??

Well, two things happened, the wallopers got taken for a ride, metaphorically of course, as the maintenance cost was obscene but more importantly, the WA Police were simply un-able to keep up expected patrol hours with the non-ridable pieces of rubbish. Ergo, introduce the truly wonderful Japanese bikes (designed to be ridden, all day, every day and serviced as per maintenance schedule of course!) whilst the two wheeled snot boxes sat in the workshop awaiting handover back to the agent. Classic stuff!!

A quick joke that you have probably all heard before - Why couldn't the Japanese successfully imitate the Hardly Ridables???

Answer - they couldn't get their bikes to leak oil, shudder and vibrate, breakdown and cost well in excess of purchase price for maintenance cost.

Apologies - Rant off now.