What bike is this

[pdedse]

Copied from an online article about LAPD patrolling the burn areas in Los Angeles. Can anyone ID the bike?

 

[Gone in 60]

I can easily ID the building. It was the site of our favorite restaurant in the Palisades, Cafe Vida. Just across the street was a market where I grabbed a sandwich on days when I'd play hooky and ride through there on the way to hit the canyon roads in Malibu, or after a hike in Temescal Canyon.

All of the news coverage and YouTube videos have shown some interesting vehicles in use in the area, like police dirt bikes and quads, city services using Electric Silverado trucks. Haven't seen one in use, but our city has taken delivery of some Zero electric motorcycles for patrolling in areas where they want to be particularly stealthy.

 

[pdedse]

I can easily ID the building. It was the site of our favorite restaurant in the Palisades, Cafe Vida. Just across the street was a market where I grabbed a sandwich on days when I'd play hooky and ride through there on the way to hit the canyon roads in Malibu, or after a hike in Temescal Canyon.

All of the news coverage and YouTube videos have shown some interesting vehicles in use in the area, like police dirt bikes and quads, city services using Electric Silverado trucks. Haven't seen one in use, but our city has taken delivery of some Zero electric motorcycles for patrolling in areas where they want to be particularly stealthy.

Wow! That's gotta be a bit sobering to see a place you're so familiar with torched.

 

[Gone in 60]

Sobering indeed. But although these were places I frequented, I certainly didn’t suffer the loss of those who lived and worked here.

 

[pdedse]

Someone on a DR650 forum I think has come up with the bike:

Honda CRF450L

https://powersports.honda.com/motorcycle/dual-sport/crf450rl

The headlight, swingarm and plastics look to be the same.

 

[misterprofessionality]

I'm still floored that the LAPD has dirt bikes with the LAPD livery on it.

 

[pdedse]

I'm still floored that the LAPD has dirt bikes with the LAPD livery on it.

Post earthquake bikes?!?

 

[Gone in 60]

Lots of LAPD jurisdiction is in mountainous or beach areas, no surprise. They also have a lot of 4WD trucks.