K-Band signals

[fritter]

I ordered my (stem) stand from motorcycleradar. I got it as part of a package, but their shipping costs are pretty reasonable. You can process the order without entering any card details to find out the shipping costs first anyway.

Only took about a week for it to arrive in NZ, but I had to wait a freakin' MONTH while customs fucked me round adding their costs to it.

I personally don't worry about rear detection. If you get caught by that then you are extremely unlucky

Besides, if he's close enough behind you he can ticket you by using his own speedo. A radar detector won't help with that .

I'm more worried about being snapped by a laser... in which case I might one day buy a laser jammer from http://www.blinder.dk

Guy at work is a beta tester for them. They work 100% from any range apparently.

Just been looking at some vids of guys playin' on the autobahns... *sigh* we need those here...

[Marmoot]

Wkid, where's your stem?

[GPz]

thanks for that info, I have ordered the stand from motorcycleradar.com. Meanwhile i am going to fit the detector in place of the daylight light and see how that goes.

[k14]

Yeah, i have heard mixed reports about those laser jammers.

There is a really low chance of being done by a laser gun anyway, the front of a bike has virtually no flat surfaces to reflect it properly and also if you have your headlight on that causes disturbance to it. Lou might know a bit more, but apparantly bikes are virtually impossible to ping with them.

Anyone know how credible this info is??

[fritter]

Only reports on the jammers I've seen show some do stuff all, the escort ones work 94%, and the blinder ones work 100% from any range....

I've heard that cops target your helmet - this is where having a jammer wouldn't help too much. The jammers work because they are surrounding the target area, in a car that is normally around the grill - the same general area that the jammers are mounted.

Having a curved surface on the bike doesn't make too much difference, because that still means that at some point in the curve, light will be reflected back to the gun.

You'd have to be shaped like a stealth (or maybe that new KTM superbike hehe), with lots of flat surfaces joined at angles (and a bit of luck) to fool a laser.

In saying all that, bikes are apparently harder to target - takes them a few shots to get a fix on you. In any case, I'd rather not find out the hard way.

Would be nice to hear from someone who has sat at the other end of a laser though. Where do they really aim on a bike and how much luck do they actually have? 2nd attempt, 3rd? How many secs between shots?

[Car Dodger]

Originally posted by fritter
Only reports on the jammers I've seen show some do stuff all, the escort ones work 94%, and the blinder ones work 100% from any range....

I've heard that cops target your helmet - this is where having a jammer wouldn't help too much. The jammers work because they are surrounding the target area, in a car that is normally around the grill - the same general area that the jammers are mounted.

Having a curved surface on the bike doesn't make too much difference, because that still means that at some point in the curve, light will be reflected back to the gun.

You'd have to be shaped like a stealth (or maybe that new KTM superbike hehe), with lots of flat surfaces joined at angles (and a bit of luck) to fool a laser.

In saying all that, bikes are apparently harder to target - takes them a few shots to get a fix on you. In any case, I'd rather not find out the hard way.

Would be nice to hear from someone who has sat at the other end of a laser though. Where do they really aim on a bike and how much luck do they actually have? 2nd attempt, 3rd? How many secs between shots?

I've been zapped from the front doing 120k, I figured he was aiming for my helmet or headlight??

[Lou Girardin]

They aim at your headlight, being the biggest reflective area. On cars, they aim for the plate or a headlight. The headlight on high beam has a fair bit of IR radiation which does affect the laser pulse, but I wouldn't rely on it to save your arse. I saw a cop at the Paeroa races checking speeds on the straight, he had real problems trying to hold the beam on the bikes rounding the kink at 220+ km/h. So the moral is, 200km/h plus in the twisties and you're safe.
Lou