spotting mufti coppa's

[betti]

uik bike cops usin gsxr's and fireblades now, eek!

[Coyote]

uik bike cops usin gsxr's and fireblades now, eek!

See, that just looks bloody awesome

[scumdog]

Ive tried my darnest since I got pulled by a mufti cop to try and identify them. Post your best cop spotting techniques for the benifit of our loverly KB community.

For me looking in the mirror works best

[Pancakes]

Yeah, wide steel rims, cellphone antenna (stick-on glass kind with curly middle), LPG sticker, not a lease car (no Schofields badge), on sunny days a reflection of the flouro jacket on the seat, no kids in the car, two mid 20 to 30 year olds with coppa-spec mo-goatee's.

[Pancakes]

Now SD's gonna trick some car out and get us all! Damn!

I forgot, nothing on the back dash but 3 hella led's (usually).

[scumdog]

Yeah, wide steel rims, cellphone antenna (stick-on glass kind with curly middle), LPG sticker, not a lease car (no Schofields badge), on sunny days a reflection of the flouro jacket on the seat, no kids in the car, two mid 20 to 30 year olds with coppa-spec mo-goatee's.

Kinda makes a radar-detector redundant eh??

And when it has mags, no LPG sticker and one guy (not wearing his flouro jacket) and semi-opague screening over the back-tray mounted lights etc does this technique still work??

[onearmedbandit]

Exactly, spotting them from a distance, and being 100% sure is fucking hard these days.

[number33]

There's only 3 choices.

1. Treat ALL modern cars as slimy cops and dont exceed 100 when in visual range.

2. Treat ALL modern cars as slimy cops, but take the risk that they aren't.

3. (choice 3 is stressful, takes guts, and can't be 'half pie') - run a false plate and always do a runner if a cop flags ya - no hesitation. (be sure to have a 220kph capable machine)

[Zapf]

I used to think that before I passed one that was towing a TRAILER of HAY...

EDIT: so GASL can't spell....

but they can't exceed 80km/h when towing right?

[myvice]

I wonder if all cop cars have the sat-nav transponder thingy?
How hard would it be to pick up the same info as it wafts through the eather?
Would it be difficult to put a radar, as in ship/aircraft type, screen on your bike so you get a 1k warning?
Is anyone out their going to build one?
Can I have one to please?
If people are spending $1000 on detectors that only work with radar (too late if you get hit with a laser) How much will they pay for one of these?
Can my one be free as I thought of the idea?
Oh go on....
Please?
What about cost price?
Pretty please?

[scumdog]

There's only 3 choices.

1. Treat ALL modern cars as slimy cops and dont exceed 100 when in visual range.

2. Treat ALL modern cars as slimy cops, but take the risk that they aren't.

3. (choice 3 is stressful, takes guts, and can't be 'half pie') - run a false plate and always do a runner if a cop flags ya - no hesitation. (be sure to have a 220kph capable machine)

(1). Hmm, you would never speed in this case.

(2). It would end up costing you a lot of time and dollars.

(3). EVENTUALLY things would go horribly pear-shaped, still, from your hospital bed/grave you would have the satisfaction of knowing you had saved many dollars with this technique!!

EDIT: Almost forgot, you would need an 'invisible-stealth' anti-helicopter mode as well for option(3).

[onearmedbandit]

EDIT: Almost forgot, you would need an 'invisible-stealth' anti-helicopter mode as well for option(3).

Yup, got me one of those off ebay.

[ZorsT]

but they can't exceed 80km/h when towing right?

yeah, but i'm not allowed to exceed 70km/h with my L status

[madboy]

3. (choice 3 is stressful, takes guts, and can't be 'half pie') - run a false plate and always do a runner if a cop flags ya - no hesitation. (be sure to have a 220kph capable machine)

Works better with no plate and a 260k machine.

But even then it's as much good luck as good management. It's pissing down with rain, roadworks approaching, you're tired and your missus is on the back... all of a sudden a fine doesn't sound so bad. Even I'd stop then.

In my hypothetical "greatest hits album", top speed was never the issue, it was lack of deceleration and proximity to side roads.

[WINJA]

THERES A BLUE MAZDA 6 DOING THE WAIKATO AT THE MOMENT AND HE CATCHES PEOPLE EVERY MORNING , FUNNY ENOUGH WHEN I WAS REPORTING IN AT THE COP SHOP THE OTHER DAY THERE WAS A POSTER OF A MAZDA 6 WITH THE CAPTION "THIS IS NOT AN UNMARKED CAR BUT ANYTHING ELSE MAYBE"