Remembering the CBX, Police Indians, and More!

“I kept the GS1000 and put 130,000 miles on it over the next 20 years.”

By Motorcycle Classics readers
Updated on August 5, 2023
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by Robert Betsko

Police Indians

Several weeks ago I was admiring a neighbor’s Indian motorcycle. I told him my father rode an Indian motorcycle in the 1930s and 1940s when he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Patrol, which became the Pennsylvania State Police.

My neighbor recently gave me a copy of your July/August 2022 magazine, and on Page 31 you write that Pennsylvania purchased 450 Indian Scouts for various duties. I thought your readers may be interested in the enclosed photo taken at the Pennsylvania State Police Academy in Hershey, Pennsylvania. I cannot date the picture, but it is when they were still Pennsylvania Highway Patrol. My father, Cpl. Thomas Betsko is in the forefront, second from the left.

I believe one of the motorcycles is on display in the museum at the academy in Hershey.

Robert Betsko/Sun Lakes, Arizona


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