{"id":17741,"date":"2022-07-01T07:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2022-07-03T05:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T12:59:57","slug":"back-in-print-and-only-9-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/01\/back-in-print-and-only-9-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in print, and only $9.95!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Complete Book of Military and Police Motorcycles<\/em><\/a> is back in print. I wrote the book over 20 years ago.\u00a0 Then the Internet accelerated and the printed book market tanked.\u00a0 Paladin Press (the publisher) went out of business, and just like that, so did the book.\u00a0 But that was then and this is now, and The Complete Book of Military and Police Motorcycles<\/em><\/a> is back in print and available on Amazon.<\/p>\n

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You might wonder:\u00a0 Where did I get that fantastic cover photo?\u00a0 The photo shows Trooper Ralph Dowgin, a New Jersey State Trooper who went on to command Troop D (the Troop that patrols the New Jersey Turnpike, the most heavily-traveled road in the country).\u00a0\u00a0 I actually met Trooper Dowgin when I was a boy (my Dad knew him).\u00a0\u00a0 The photo came to me from my good buddy Mike B, who retired as the New Brunswick, New Jersey, Chief of Police.\u00a0 Like they say, it\u2019s a small world.<\/p>\n

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The story of police and military motorcycles is an intriguing one, espeically as it applies to the US War Department, Indian, and Harley-Davidson. During World War II, the US government bought motorcycles from both Harley and Indian, but the positions taken by Harley and Indian were worlds apart.\u00a0 The Feds told both manufacturers they had to stop producing for the civilian market and focus exclusively on military motorcycles.\u00a0 Indian did what they were told.\u00a0 Harley told the government that they, not some government bureaucrat, would decide who to sell motorcycles to. Harley called the government’s bluff, and they got it right.\u00a0 The War Department continued to buy Harleys as Harley continued selling to the civilian market, and the results were predictable: When the war ended Harley still had a civilian customer base and Indian did not.\u00a0 Indian struggled for a few years trying to regain market share, but the damage was done and the handwriting was on the wall.\u00a0 Indian went under in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n

If you buy a copy of The Complete Book of Police and Military Motorcycles<\/em><\/a>, understand that it describes the market as it existed when the book was published in 2001.\u00a0 \u00a0Things are a little bit different now.\u00a0 Future plans call for an update to include today’s military and police motorcycles, but that’s far in the future and the book will sell for a bunch more than $9.95.\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll have a Kindle ebook version at some point in the future, too, but it’s not going to be immediate.\u00a0 For now, it’s print only, and it’s only $9.95.\u00a0 Spend the bucks, make a friend for life, and don’t forget:\u00a0 \u00a0Click on those popup ads!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Complete Book of Military and Police Motorcycles is back in print. I wrote the book over 20 years ago.\u00a0 Then the Internet accelerated and the printed book market tanked.\u00a0 Paladin Press (the publisher) went out of business, and just like that, so did the book.\u00a0 But that was then and this is now, and … Continue reading “Back in print, and only $9.95!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[654,235,452,103,140],"tags":[108,104,328,2875,2876,453,2874],"class_list":["post-17741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-amazon","category-harley","category-harley-davidson","category-vintage-motorcycle","tag-harley","tag-harley-davidson","tag-military-motorcycles","tag-new-jersey-state-police","tag-new-jersey-state-trooper","tag-police-motorcycles","tag-ralph-dowgin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MP-Motos-900-72.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}