Originally Posted by
shard
Anyone here know if Police bikes are high performance versions of regular bikes just like Police cars are high performance versions of regular cars?
The whole "cop car package" thing is mostly a myth. Most police packages in cars are just heavy duty suspension and maybe auxiliary cooling (because police cars typically idle for 16-20 hours a day). Very rarely are they actually faster than civilian-available options on the same platform.
Police bikes are similar in that their focus is on weight carrying capacity and reliability, not outright speed or efficiency; Bike cops just need to be able to out-sprint people on foot, they're not really expected to run down seasoned road cyclists on time trial bikes.