Send to a friendAC June 29th, 2007 3:25 PM Link
The officers could have bought a medium-displacement cruiser (Suzuki or Honda) with comparable acceleration, less weight, and better handling for under $10,000.
Fat Boys + Skinny Roads = Unwelcome Harleys In The Dominican
Written By: Chris Paukert
Police officials in the Dominican Republic are under fire for their expensive Fat Boys. How’s that? Authorities purchased 52 Harley-Davidson motorcycles, only to have them be too unwieldy to patrol the country’s narrow barrio streets.
In the words of Dominican Today, “The authorities ‘sweated the fever’ of the Harley-Davidson motorcycles, after they failed their assigned mission and turned out to be fiasco for barrio patrols.” Right on.
The pricy motorcycles ($17,000 each) have turned out to not only be ill-suited for their work—where they’ve since been replaced by traditional dirt bikes—they’ve become a lightning rod of sorts for critics panning government spending.
The controversial Harleys have since been reassigned to highway patrol duty.
+ Dominican Today: Harley-Davidson, too big for tiny Dominican Republic
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4 Comments
Don June 29th, 2007 11:02 PM Link
Well, there’s only thing to do: send those Harleys over here where we can buy them at steeply discounted prices.
Russ Bellinis July 3rd, 2007 11:46 AM Link
Did it not occur to anybody to try out one first before committing to buy 52?
john July 9th, 2007 12:11 PM Link
they are where they should be now, on the highway. who the hell gets the largest, least fuel efficient bikes out there for darting in and out of alleyways and euro-sized city streets?
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