B.A. Moto, a Triumph club in Long Beach

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I definitely did mean police vehicles that are meant to enforce traffic laws. I understand that detectives, gang unit, and undercover police officers have unmarked cars. Thank you for helping me clarify!

Want Marquez’s helmet from this race... 10/10 in awesome factor.

I definitely remember this.

It sounds like they’re completely within the law. As with the vehicle featured in this article, I’ve definitely seen a few police vehicles with no top-mounted light bars, and I definitely see them quickly becoming a thing of the past (I think they’re a pretty expensive piece of equipment, and I bet that mounting them…

They do converge quite well in the right conditions, unfortunately...

I don’t know about the second law you stated regarding whether or not they can hide before pulling someone over. There are not many places to do that here in California, but I think that it is probably the same law here, too.

Gonna call it: that’s total bullshit (not you’re statement, but the fact that they do this)

That’s crazy, and completely shows how conflicted those who issue the laws versus those who have to enforce them are.

Haha I know. I was just messing with you. Totally get that last week, it was hard sitting at your desk. All of us who aren’t at COTA hanging out with the greatest wielders of the most insane machines on earth are extremely jealous.

Great question if you’ve seen it. Might want to ask your local police force about it? The law definitely stipulates that it must be marked (either by paint or by police emblems located on doors and trunks) as a police officer of that county. CHP all have Black and Whites.

DAMN.

BUT YOU'RE NOT AT YOUR DESK SEAN. You're currently sitting pretty at COTA having your face melted my MOTOGP Noise.

Same. better safe than sorry and out a minimum $250, amirite?

I didn’t know that story! That’s fantastic haha

I thought that was the case, but couldn’t remember. Thank you, MikeofLA!

For the moment, California’s law stipulates that police vehicles must be clearly marked (meaning, be black and white, or all white with police logos visible). I don’t know how much longer that will last, but that’s how it is at the moment. None of these hidden, unmarked vehicles for normal police.

No not at all, but I do live in Southern California, and work a mon-fri 8-5 job, so a large majority of the commute it spent in the middle of a lane going between cars.

For California riders who can lanesplit, this automatically doesn’t make any sense. It would be going off the entire ride... I honestly do not see this being useful.