Radar detection

[Ruralman]

What sort of radar detection works well on bikes. I have one in my car which helps avoid annoying tickets for just over the limit (as I don't drive excessively fast any more) but if I want something for the bike it will require a whole new set up. I've seen one website that you can get stuff for bikes from the USA which has a remote activated LED light that comes on on your visor - it was $520US I think which probably still works out cheaper than buying the same thing here??
After one recent roadside interview I have got better at keeping within the legal band - but every now and then when the conditions are right and the traffic is light......... It would be nice to reduce the chance of more tickets with something that lets you get down from around 120km in time. What works best??? (apart from always driving at the speed limit - and like how many bikers really have that temperament????)

[Lou Girardin]

There's tonnes of stuff in here, try a search.
It'll keep you busy for a week or three.
Bottomline - cops say they don't work, my wallet and licence say otherwise.

[Blackbird]

Do a search - there are heaps of threads on the subject. I've heard a comment from some users of the HARD visual system that their reaction times are slower than with an audible cue (seems to make sense). I have a tiny speaker in my helmet which is fine apart from occasionally becoming disconnected or breaking a wire when I dismount or forget it. A mate has a screamer mounted on his steering yoke and that's very effective too.

Welcome aboard!

[bobsmith]

if you have a port for earplug on your detector that could work well too...

Since riding a motorcycle is a visually engaging task, I would think something that gives you an audio cue would work better than something like a hard system where it gives you a visual alert.

Just bought a rx55 from trademe so I'll have to try that out.

[madboy]

Bottom line, radar detectors sometimes help out, laser jammers (the good ones that work) sometimes help out, radar jammers are illegal (if you get one, PM me) and bloody good eyes sometimes help out. Failing that, right wrist has always worked for me.

[scumdog]

There's tonnes of stuff in here, try a search.
It'll keep you busy for a week or three.
Bottomline - cops say they don't work, my wallet and licence say otherwise.

And I have issued tickets that say they don't, heh heh heh!

Seriously, you have to have a good product, use it ALL the time and believe it when it goes off.

If you do the above and are alert you should be safe.

A road with relatively light traffic with undulations/bends is probably the one time you're likely to get caught before your detector goes off.

[Ruralman]

Bottom line, radar detectors sometimes help out, laser jammers (the good ones that work) sometimes help out, radar jammers are illegal (if you get one, PM me) and bloody good eyes sometimes help out. Failing that, right wrist has always worked for me.

Is that backing off the right wrist or winding it on?

[scumdog]

Is that backing off the right wrist or winding it on?

Or grip tighter until your knob turns purple???

[Ruralman]

I wonder whether anyones ever come up with a battery operated one that you could strap to your forearm or somewhere so you don't have to wire it into the bike or worry about leaving it on the bike when you get off somewhere?

[madboy]

Is that backing off the right wrist or winding it on?

You haven't been on this site long, have you? Under my username it says 2 for 14. If I've been stopped twice (one a driving complaint and another lanesplitting), any guesses what the 14 may or may not be related to?

I'm not advocating nothin... It's all personal choice. Just like buying a radar detector - it's what works for you and your alone that matters!

[madboy]

Or grip tighter until your knob turns purple???

Hell no, not in cold weather with winter gloves on, I can't even find it!

[Blackbird]

And I have issued tickets that say they don't, heh heh heh!

Seriously, you have to have a good product, use it ALL the time and believe it when it goes off.

If you do the above and are alert you should be safe.

A road with relatively light traffic with undulations/bends is probably the one time you're likely to get caught before your detector goes off.

We shall test your words of wisdom on your patch next March S/D Highly likely to be 4 Blackbirds of the same colour so as a last resort, we will dob each other in with respect to who was the offender. Ahem.... one of them may well be Bykey Cop so that will be interesting

Cheers

Geoff

[Ixion]

Has anyone tried, or seen anything about, using Bluetooth for the audio signal (output the signal to a Bluetooth receiver int he helmet). Audio really needs a helmet speaker, but wired ones are too much of a pain. What do cops use for their comms , I presume they'd have some good technology for their mic and earpiece stuff, hardly make sense for them to have dangle wires connecting them to the bike?

[Ruralman]

Or grip tighter until your knob turns purple???

Hey I was tempted to make a reply like that but I thought there were codes or standards or something????
If I recall a trip from Dn to ChCh about 20+ yrs ago - it was the fastest trip I've ever done. When I followed the 2 bikes I had latched onto into a fuel stop it turned out they were 2 off duty cops (a 380 & 550 Suzuki, both 2 stroke triples)
They reckon they'd get no sympathy if caught then - from what I understand its certainly no different now. Good to see you've got some racing fuel in your viens!!

[scumdog]

We shall test your words of wisdom on your patch next March S/D Highly likely to be 4 Blackbirds of the same colour so as a last resort, we will dob each other in with respect to who was the offender. Ahem.... one of them may well be Bykey Cop so that will be interesting

Cheers

Geoff

Keep in tight formation and you'll be o.k - often it's the poor tail-end charlie about half a km behind playing 'catch-up' that gets it.