IPMBA Course is a Smoker:  How to Prepare More and Hurt Less

by Richard Hecht Pierce County (WA) Sheriff’s Department I consider myself to be in pretty decent shape. I’m 44, eat decently, run about three days a week, try to lift three days a week, and walk the...

Epic Eric Adventure Mountain Biking Bags

by Tommy Hamelink, PCI #658 Politie Haaglanden, The Netherlands If you go surfing on the internet for “Adventure Mountain Biking Bags,” you will find the name “Epic Eric” all over it. Epic Eric is the brand name...

Toronto International Bicycle Show 2009

by Scott Elliott, PCI #915/EMSCI #198 Niagara Regional Police, Ont., Canada It wasn’t 313,000 square feet and there weren’t 1,000 vendors. I didn’t fly there and stay in a hotel (I drove and paid my own gas...

Noseless Saddles Provide Protection

by Sgt. Joe Andruzzi Chicago (IL) Police Department On duty we wear bicycle helmets to keep our heads safe, bullet-resistant vests to keep our vital organs safe, and triple-retention holsters to keep our weapons safe. Off-duty, many of us work...

Bicycle Patrol Supply Companies

by Ron Burkitt, PCI #488 IPMBA Treasurer Hilliard (OH) Police Department The economy stinks and we are all trying to do the best with what we have, both personally and professionally.  As bike officers we are tasked with keeping our...

Why Bike Training for Police?

Written by Kirby Beck It’s been 21 years since the first mountain bikes hit the streets of Seattle with police officers on board. Since then, police bike officers in the United States and around the world have continued to...

2009 Conference Has Positive Impact

There are many ways in which an IPMBA conference impacts the community in which it is held.  Some of the more obvious ways are economic; hotels, restaurants, bars, souvenir shops and attractions are eager to attract revenue that trickles...

2009 Conference Vendors and Supporters

IPMBA thanks the vendors and other supporters without whom the IPMBA conference would be missing an important component.  Please show your gratitude to these companies for their support of public safety cycling by thinking of them first for your...

2009 IPMBA Conference Instructors and Presenters

Without a cadre of excellent instructors, the IPMBA Conference would not be known as the premier training event for public safety cyclists.  These individuals give generously of their time, knowledge and expertise, both in preparing for and teaching at...

Competition 2009:  Hot Competition at High Altitude

by Bernie Hogancamp, PCI #498 Homewood (IL) Police Department IPMBA Treasurer The high desert mesa altitude (at 5,280 feet, a truly mile-high city) of Albuquerque, NM, seemingly had no impact on the level of competition or the blistering times of the competitors...