Qite a lot.
Having finally gotten round to mounting the thing on von Klunken, and venturing out for a couple of trial trips on SH16 and SH2
(1). There are a bloody sight more cops out there than I thought.
(2). The thing definately does have the effect of slowing one down. Thing is, the range seems to be at least several kilometres. So it goes off quite often. Every time it does I think "Oh shit, someones got a radar lock on me !" and slam the brakes on down to 95kph. Then I'm too traumatised to risk getting back up to cruising speed for at least 10 kilometres, before which, like as not, there's another of the buggers (they're all Ka signals too so I don't think they are false alarms). Could be a cunning plan for the cops, just plant radar emitters every few kilometres.
(3). Most of the bastidges are CHEATING and using that standby mode thing. Which means the detector ain't so much good for high speeds, cos in effect you are relying on the plod pinging someone else before he pings you (otherwise the first ping you detect is the ping that pings you ). And high speeds implies not much other traffic around to get him to break cover. But, on the other hand, when there's not much other traffic the Mark 1 eyeball is at its most efficient
Even picked up one along the Thames coast , just out of the big 50kph zone, after the Boomerang place , going Thamesward. Wouldn't have thought there would have been much picking for him there, hardly any of the cages manage to get up to 80 let alone break the limit. Must have been a mufti too.
Wonder how long it will be before that stretch is all 50kph zoned, its well along the way already. Pity.
Stopped for a beer and feed at the Royal Oak in Tapu, BTW. Haven't stopped there for a few years, used to be a bit rough but friendly enough. Mistake that was, haven't encountered such rudeness and 'get fucked' attitude since the 1960s. Good old Kiwi hospitality, NOT. Not recommended.
And 'Hi' to the dude on the other white BMW if you happen to be a KBer.
EDIT. Apropos of (3). In onw way is a good thing that the plod are now under instruction to ticket anyone 11kph over.Cos if they only pinged , say, 130+ and if they cruised around in standby mode, only flicking it on when they saw someone going really fast, odds are it'd be us they caught, and there wouldn't be any other "targets" they'd bother with, cos its easy by eye to tell if someone's 30kph over the limit, and most traffic isn't. But 11kph, y'cant tell by eye if someone is going 105 or 115, so they need to ping a lot of possibles, and that alerts those with detectors.
Also makes the pilot fish scheme even more valuable. Before I had to keep close enough to the fish to be able to see him get stopped, but not so close that I got nabbed too. Not easy. Now I can let the fish run a kilometre ahead, and pick up the ping that gets him.
Originally Posted by skidmark
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