Gears & Gadgets: The Most Annoying Sound, Part 1:  Disc Brakes

by David Cohen, Maryland National Capital Park Police Reserve Unit You know the sound as soon as you hear it:  the sound of the brake rotor on your bike hitting the pads.   With each revolution of the...

Millville police electrify their bicycles

By Scott Calzolaio, Milford Daily News, May 27, 2019  The new electric wheel, Chief Ronald Landry said, will not only help police get to a potential call faster, but also helps ensure that officers aren’t out of...

Oklahoma Law Enforcement Officers Unity Bicycle Tour 2019

By David Dickinson Moore (OK) Police Department On May 10th, twenty-seven officers from twelve different Oklahoma law enforcement agencies took part in the 5th Annual Oklahoma Law Enforcement Officers Unity Bicycle Tour Ride. Officers rode 12.5 miles in forty-degree weather, against...

How Cycling Saved My Life

by Ed Bartelme, PCI #584-B Washington University in Saint Louis (MO) Police Department I want to share with you a story of how cycling likely saved my life.  Just prior to the start of the 2018 IPMBA Conference, I was...

100,000 Miles or Bust!

by Officer Tom Shuler, Badge #525 Boise (ID) Police Department I am one of the lucky ones.  I have been a police officer for 23 years.  The last nineteen of those have been on our department’s year-round bike...

One-by-One: Not Just a Hipster Drivetrain

by Austen Schlecht Castle Rock (CO) Police Department Law enforcement officers around the country are familiar with Community-Oriented Policing (C.O.P.) and the various models associated with it (SARA, CPTED, etc.); but as bicycle officers, we have other ways...

Haix Black Eagle Athletic 2.0 T Low

by Tyler Hofacker, PCI #1700-B Dayton (OH) Police Department When I pulled the shoes out of the box I could feel a weight difference compared to the shoe that I had been wearing for work.  This was not a...

GeoOrbital Electric Wheel

by Lieutenant Robert Palermo Mashpee (MA) Police Department The Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, located on Cape Cod, is a seacoast community heavily impacted by summer tourism. The Mashpee Police Department was one of the agencies selected by GeoOrbital to participate...

Support the Mission

by Michael A. Wear, PCI #516T-B/EMSCI #059T-B Metropolitan (DC) Police Department IPMBA Education Director What is IPMBA to you and your agency: an answer to your training needs, a tool, a guide, a resource or a means to reduce...

Bicycle Response Team Uniforms:  To Viz or Not to Viz?

by Jason Bain, PCI #1046-B/EMSCI #278-B Saint Paul (MN) Police Department IPMBA Membership Coordinator I have been around bikes since about 2002 and have been teaching the Police Cyclist Course since 2007.  I have been involved with Bicycle Response Teams ...