Written by Andrew Jones
What is it about ex-police vehicles" As with our four-wheeled brethren, the thought of nabbing something that used to enforce the law seems to really float our boats. Hell, muscle cars seem to increase in value if you can prove they were used by the boys in blue. But there’s a real perverse pleasure at play when you take an ex-police bike a turn it into a drag racer. And that thrill is turned up to 11 when you add NOS and a supercharger. So we were overjoyed when Dani from Switzerland’s VTR Customs did just that three years ago; then we find out he’s gone and made the thing bigger, better and badder than ever. Here’s his ?Polizia 1.9? BMW R80RT racer.

The first draft of the BMW (aka ?Polizia Uno?) was developed from a cache of police bikes Dani has stashed away for a rainy day. Purchased from the Swiss police force, this particular example is a ?88 model that had about 100,000 kilometres on the clock when acquired. It went on to star in many a European sprint race, with its best result a 3rd placing at Glemseck in 2016. But as the competition upped their game, it came time for this bike to do the same. Or as Dani put it, ?Everyone became more crazy after too much partying and beer; they started to improve their racers to the next level.?
And so did Dani. ?Our key issue after getting the supercharged and NOS’d engine sorted was traction. We were losing meters in every race because this freaking police bike went up...