After Primus Pilus's thread on his motorsycles, and since I wanted to do this for a long time now, here is a brief timeline of the playmobil police motorbikes.
In the
1st attachment we see the very first police bike at the left hand side, as we are looking at the picture. This specific bike cames from the
3488 - Traffic Police and was also available in
3155x - Police Truck which was an exclusive set; this bike can also be found in sets
3232 - Police Set and
3401 - Policemen. Now, you'll notice that the bikes on the playmodb/collectobil pictures are blue, whereas in the collector sets, the bikes are green, probably a difference to distinguish the markets in which these sets were available, however, I have never come across such a blue bike. The first bike was also available in
3572 - Polizist/Motorrad where an extra white windshield was placed.
For the middle bike still at the
first attachment, this was the second edition playmobil bike and can be found in sets
3494 - Police Set (one of my personal favourites
) and
3564x - Policeman on Motorcycle (Green).
The third bike is the one I grew up with mostly, produced in 1987/88 and can be found in
3564 - Policeman On Motorcycle (Blue) and
3489 - Police Set. This one was also used between 2001/06 in
3623 - Adventure - Police 2* and has been recently reissued in
5891 - Police Duo Carrying Case.
On to the
second attachment, I believe we have all the variations of the police bike regarding this mold! The green german bike
3983 - Highway Patrol, and its export versions
3986 - Police Motorcycle and
3915 - Police Motorcycle. This bike was also used in
5795 - Police Set with Jail. The black bike that I believe is a US exclusive
3332 - Police Cycle - U.S. and also available in
5013 - Police Station. Last but not leat, the red and blue striped bike from
5917 - Take-Along Police Station.
Finally, in the
third attachment, the latest police bike
4262 - Police Motorbike internat. and the german version
4261 - Motorradpolizist.
