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[matthewt]

You gotta strange way of thinking, Matt.

Everybodies gonna think me and Jimbo are rooting or something :eyepoke:

What you aren't ?? Damm I'd better retract that post I made on the religous thread about you two, maybe you won't burn in hell after all.

I went to a Cisco seminar in Singapore once. Cisco make mainly network gear, hubs, switches and routers. Now we say "router" so that it would rhyme with "outer" but with the yanks it said like "rooter". Heading into the seminar I was asked "are you here for the talk about rooters ??" It made me laugh, sad I know but after 2 years in boring Singapore I was laughing the whole way through the talk.

[vifferman]

You're seriously deranged, Matt. And you used to seem like such a nice boy.
P'raps it was working in too close proximity to me that did it....

[vifferman]

this gets here..... a handheld laser camera with a range of 2kms!

Kewl!

The device, which can be operated just as easily from behind a bush as from the back of a van, can detect a speeding car long before the driver has a chance to spot the police officer wielding it. A high-quality video camera will simultaneously record the licence plate and a picture of the driver so that there can be no argument about who was behind the wheel

Mega!

I want one!

[pete376403]

Small lasers emitting non visible light mounted on the front of the bike. Might be enough to confuse the cop lasers. If the light is non visible they can't bill you for showing red light to the front (in fact they wouldn't even know they were there)

[vifferman]

That's even more kewlerer!
Must get me son to make me one...

[k14]

What you aren't ?? Damm I'd better retract that post I made on the religous thread about you two, maybe you won't burn in hell after all.

I went to a Cisco seminar in Singapore once. Cisco make mainly network gear, hubs, switches and routers. Now we say "router" so that it would rhyme with "outer" but with the yanks it said like "rooter". Heading into the seminar I was asked "are you here for the talk about rooters ??" It made me laugh, sad I know but after 2 years in boring Singapore I was laughing the whole way through the talk.

Yeah, that is a really strange thing I find. Normally the yanks say stuff differently for no reason at all, but saying "rooter" makes sense. When you drive somewhere you take a given route (root) and that is how I have always heard NZers say it. But with a router, we pronounce it differently, it should be called a "rooter" it sounds funny aswell. "I'm having some problems with my rooter, i can't seem to pinhole it properly", lol

[Hooks]

I watched one of guns in action in Paraparaumu about 3 years ago !!...The cop was picking up speeding drivers on the straights from 3 kms away !! I had a go and wasn't hard to use either....just point and shoot ....and keep doing it until you catch a quickie !!.....The best catch of the day was a guy towing trailer at 140kph !!!.........
I would think that they would have trouble getting the info needed for a bike for an infringement notice as they only get the front view ....no plates and it's hard to recognise anyone with a full-face on too !!! So if there's no chaser or a camera pointing the other way then the bikers win !! ....maybe ???

[matthewt]

When you drive somewhere you take a given route (root) and that is how I have always heard NZers say it.

Geez, wish I got a root every time I went for a drive !!

[madandy]

I'm sure the good people at Valentine will upgrade their excellent radar detactors to sort these new lasers out.They too have a range, in a straight line, of 2-3Kms and 500m+ round bends.And yeah, good luck with rear mounted reg. plates

[Lou Girardin]

Like I said in another post, who can hold any sort of optically tracked device steadily on a moving target long enough to get a lock at 3 km's?
Besides, we don't have that many straight, flat roads that long.
Even if they could, there's always laser jammers.
Any old laser won't do, pete376403. It has to be designed for the job.

[brit_vtr]

Like I said in another post, who can hold any sort of optically tracked device steadily on a moving target long enough to get a lock at 3 km's?
Besides, we don't have that many straight, flat roads that long.
Even if they could, there's always laser jammers.
Any old laser won't do, pete376403. It has to be designed for the job.

UK Cops now have an accurate (very) laser good for 1.5 miles , I am told that it is 2 lasers in 1. 1 laser locks the target the does the speed thing.
They have come about from milspec products used for target location.

[RiderInBlack]

Besides, we don't have that many straight, flat roads that long.

Yer, but we have enough to keep the cops happy Try speeding down Ruakaka/Waipu Straights or Ngatea. Matamata is not much better. I just about dose off down those straights trying to keep my speeds legal

[brit_vtr]

Yer, but we have enough to keep the cops happy Try speeding down Ruakaka/Waipu Straights or Ngatea. Matamata is not much better. I just about dose off down those straights trying to keep my speeds legal

Being a "South Islander" by birth I never spent much time up norf, choosing to play on the Arthurs or Lewis passes, and the odd blast darn south..those were the days............

Okay so heres my question then

1. What is the "self" imposed speed limit
2. What is the "legal" speed limit

Guess I am lucky, can always "hop" over to France, Italy or Germany and spend all day at 150 mph !!!

[Lou Girardin]

UK Cops now have an accurate (very) laser good for 1.5 miles , I am told that it is 2 lasers in 1. 1 laser locks the target the does the speed thing.
They have come about from milspec products used for target location.

All laser beams are accurate, but I was refering to operator ability. Have you ever tried holding a 'scope' sight on a moving target at 600 metres? It ain't easy.
Any misalignment or movement of the optical sight of the gun will result in a huge shift at that distance, unless the unit is gyro stabilised and I'd doubt if any Police force wants to pay military prices for their lasers. It'd completely screw up the cost/revenue ratio. At 3 km's you could argue in court that the operator was getting a reading off the car behind or beside you. ( This has happened in the US)

[brit_vtr]

All laser beams are accurate, but I was refering to operator ability. Have you ever tried holding a 'scope' sight on a moving target at 600 metres? It ain't easy.
Any misalignment or movement of the optical sight of the gun will result in a huge shift at that distance, unless the unit is gyro stabilised and I'd doubt if any Police force wants to pay military prices for their lasers. It'd completely screw up the cost/revenue ratio. At 3 km's you could argue in court that the operator was getting a reading off the car behind or beside you. ( This has happened in the US)

I wonder what the calibration requirement is, I beleive that over here the rozzers need to produce a certificate of calibration that is less than 72 hours old.