Pictures of different ST police bikes?

Those are nice but not sure about the $$$..seem pricey. Say I was looking at your current avitar observing the "pre" R box bike..then I saw your other avitar....:scared2: Ouch...nasty!
 
Yea thats what happens when older citizens see the lights and hear the siren but think they have enough room to turn left in front of ya....and then realize they don't so the stop in the middle of the roadway...it was a lovely flight thought..movie sucked...lol lol
 
abiter said:
Yea thats what happens when older citizens see the lights and hear the siren but think they have enough room to turn left in front of ya....and then realize they don't so the stop in the middle of the roadway...it was a lovely flight thought..movie sucked...lol lol
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Been on the same flight...same crappy movie too! :crackup
 
Here are some shots my wife took today, during a bicycle race (wielerwedstrijd).

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Police ST with mine parked

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The police of the Hague are one of the few forces in the Netherlands who use ST1300's.

Today they had over 14 ST's running around and one R1200RT. And an unmarked R1200GS, btw
 
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Shadowfax-ST said:
Quite a livery - right up until you see the lazy applications to the rear of the luggage...
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The whole livery is closely defined for all police vehicles. The odd stripes on the rear are part of this. You can see the same markings on this K1200RS:

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Better than nothing, but not on par with the UK rear markings.
 
Just reflecting on that cross stripe pattern.

I recall the research in early WW1 (Wikipedia) that resulted in battleships having the most bizarre liveries of stripes, cuboids, and 'flashes', which were designed to confuse the enemy about their range, direction, and scale. That's similar I expect to the theories of zebra and tiger stripes; zebra confuse vision when in groups and tigers just blend into even quite contrasting backgrounds.

So should a motorcycle employ stripes?

I'm certain they are of sufficient contrast to to be seen by people with colour-perception difficulties (odd though to use orange, which is actually a high risk but much of Europe uses it) but the idea of their camouflaging the bike's range, direction, and scale and therefore, closing speed might be something to ease out of my enquiring mind by reading the research this livery based on?

These are colour-blind simulations from Vischeck. Suddenly things look less 'different'?




That aside, I still like it. It's 'attractive' which is what it's all about at the end of the day, and it looks even smarter when there's a pair of them - but then, I think back to zebra and battleships and start the whole worry process all over again...

...then again, compared to painting a Sherrif's bike dark green this is Starship Enterprise in the timeline of visibility! ( ;) 'Morning Sherrif :eek::)
 
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Re: Anyone have some pictures of different ST-1300 police bikes?

Raven said:
This is my personal favorite. I'm considering doing something similar on black but with white reflective checkered.

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I'm considering "dressing up" my black '06 and I agreed with you that the checkering on those police ST's was about the sharpest design idea I've seen yet. You wrote that you were considering doing something similar to yours. Did you? and if you did, could you post some pics? Thx.
 
Interesting that all the Dutch guys are riding with their system helmets open...... warm perhaps?
 
Shadowfax-ST said:
Just reflecting on that cross stripe pattern.

I recall the research in early WW1 (Wikipedia) that resulted in battleships having the most bizarre liveries of stripes, cuboids, and 'flashes', which were designed to confuse the enemy about their range, direction, and scale. That's similar I expect to the theories of zebra and tiger stripes; zebra confuse vision when in groups and tigers just blend into even quite contrasting backgrounds.

So should a motorcycle employ stripes?

I'm certain they are of sufficient contrast to to be seen by people with colour-perception difficulties (odd though to use orange, which is actually a high risk but much of Europe uses it) but the idea of their camouflaging the bike's range, direction, and scale and therefore, closing speed might be something to ease out of my enquiring mind by reading the research this livery based on?

These are colour-blind simulations from Suddenly things look less 'different'?



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That aside, I still like it. It's 'attractive' which is what it's all about at the end of the day, and it looks even smarter when there's a pair of them - but then, I think back to zebra and battleships and start the whole worry process all over again...

...then again, compared to painting a Sherrif's bike dark green this is Starship Enterprise in the timeline of visibility! ( ;) 'Morning Sherrif :eek::)
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Took me quite some time to respond to this, I apologize for that. However, some time was spent on trying to find research relating to the dutch striping..
Anyway, the current dutch striping was created by a private studio. It was created when the two separate police forces in the Netherlands were restructured into the current police force. This was around 1993. The design studio (studio Dumbar) designed the force logo and also the vehicle striping. According to an interview I found, the striping was formed primarily for providing a corperate image.
here is the studio: http://www.studiodumbar.com/main.php (click: projects>visual identity>dutch police force)
Here is a good example of marked cars:
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and a pair of Honda's
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The orange colour is a traditional police colour in the Netherlands (and the rest of the Benelux as well btw).
Before 1993 the Rijkspolitie (state police) had BMW's with full orange fairings. Extremly bright.

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Interestingly, (and IIRC) the document that describes the current striping for UK motorcycles mentions that conspicuity whas the target, rather than the corperate image.

And yes, the euro approach to police markings is rather different than most US markings :D
 
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