In the Wgtn area I've seen red and a dark green L300s for cameras. A favourite haunt of theirs is parked in the shadow of the trees on the SH2 side of the Ngauranga interchange northbound, and a bit further up on the old weigh station toward Horokiwi.
Can't recall the specifics behind pole mounted cameras (someone mentioned it in another thread) but basically they work off detecting metal or weight I think, and a bike doesn't have enough to set them off. So they don't get you full-stop. And I know this has to be true cos I haven't had a ticket speeding past the two I pass every single work day. And at the speeds I sometimes clock up, it ain't cos I'm within the margins!
As for the vans, they operate on radar so yes they pick you up. Front on as pointed out, they take a pretty picture of you and your bike but no front plate... ahh... gotta love bikes. Rear on, different story. Unless the angles have been changed from when they were car mounted, the radar operated on something like 20-something degrees and was a very faint signal, hence the difficulty in picking them up. And radar detectors rely heavily on reflected signals, so if you're on the motorway with a metal median strip you might get a good warning, but in the middle of nowhere with nothing metallic to rebound off, your warning would be low.
Failing that, just take the friggin plate off. Problem solved.
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