Originally Posted by
RidingMatthew
what is the vintage of this photo? what year are those bikes? that is a good looking group of LEO
I should probably start another thread on this; I don't want to intrude upon the original topic.
I would say that's somewhere around 1995 to 1997 based on the personnel in the pic and a couple of the bikes I see. Most of them are Cannondales; I helped with the design/execution of one of the first OEM police bike here in the US, Cannondale.
If you look to the far left you'll see a blue fork, that's a Raliegh Technium MTB. We broke many of those, they usually came unbonded at the down tube and head tube; most of the failures were catastrophic as you couldn't see it was going to fail. After that, we used Specialized (I think Rockhoppers) and looking to the right between legs you'll see a yellow one. At our peak we had 35 including me, this photo was not all of us, the rest were on duty, in court or sleeping because they worked midnights.
Here is an earlier Technium bike, never mind the Reno 911 shorts
