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[canarlee]

fark me, this thread is old!


BUT, "in car" and "hand held" speed detectors are useless on bikes!


to register a speed of a moving vehicle correctly they need one square foot of FLAT bodywork to be able to "lock on" to your vehicle.

where on a bike is there one square foot of flat bodywork?


i will try and find a link that proves this. i have seen it before, just need to remember where lol

[marty]

bollox. sure trucks and hummers are easier to pick up than bikes. rx7's take a bit of time. gixxers and other sprot bikes are pretty slippery, but IMEX a large speed difference between the patrol car and the target is the biggest factor. as for your comment about 'in car' and 'hand held' being useless on bikes, what the fuck is all the whingeing on here about getting pinged at !%& km/h about then? have you ever actually been in a patrol car and seen how these things work? reading about it on the internet is (shock horror) not like the real thing you know!

one of the biggest reflector of radar is a rotating surface (that's why stealth bombers have hidden engines) what is the first thing that a police radar sees?

i think you need to read up on some radar theory. maybe even go for a ride with an HP cop. i could arrange if you have the balls.

[Scouse]

where on a bike is there one square foot of flat bodywork?

How about yer inline four engine

[Dave-]

hell no your just as likley to get caught on a bike i've got a dector on my bike and you soon learn that the police are getting smart!! they don't leave there radars on any more they just wait till they see some one speeding then flick it on. you were just lucky!! but there is a new product out you can paint on you headligts and forks, those are ment to be the parts that give you up. havent tried it yet but might look into it some more. oh and you have to reapply it every 6 months

lol

aahahahahahaha

this is almost as good as the time some joker tried telling me if you put bed springs over your car radiator you couldnt be pinged...

no, you'd have to paint the bike with special paint that only the american military has access to, you'd also have to alter the body and form platforms which deflect the radio waves, and to top off all your work, you're still very detectable, your signature is just smaller (which doesnt mean harder to track)

[Disco Dan]

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode18

[jrandom]

maybe even go for a ride with an HP cop. i could arrange if you have the balls.

Fookin neow!

What's a guy gotta do to bribe you into arranging that, dude? I'd be dead keen.

[Chocky]

Permanent cams are all done with sensors in the road I'm not sure if it's weight or magnetic but I have never set one off but then I will never trust one NOT to go off if its pointing at my rear. mobile cams are radar and detectors go off for miles around them so im thinking thay aer on all the time. Oh BTW rain fucks up radar so if you get pulled and it pissing down tell them you dont think he/she could hav got an accurate reading in the rain, as long as you wernt thrashing it they usualy drop it. I have got off 2 mobile tickets this way but you have to get the photo and it must clearly show that it is raining

[marty]

you are talking about 2 completely different things here.

fixed camera sites are run off ground looping, so it doesn't matter if it's raining.

yes there are some issues with obtaining a ground speed in heavy rain, but operator experience and quality of equipment can minimise those issues (patrolling slower is the first thing to do). there are no photos associated with a patrol car ticket, so how can obtaining a photo and if it's raining in the photo make any difference?

[marty]

Fookin neow!

What's a guy gotta do to bribe you into arranging that, dude? I'd be dead keen.

it would have to be in the waikato - south cambridge.

[Grantasaurus]

There's a radar jammer you can get from the states, called an AN/ALQ99, that would work a treat at beating police radar. It can detect and jam all incoming doppler radars, and police comms etc.
Somebody's bound to be importing them and selling them on Trademe... they shouldn't be too expensive to obtain.

[marty]

actually, to operate a radar jammer purchased off tardme you will need a radio licence.

[Grantasaurus]

actually, to operate a radar jammer purchased off tardme you will need a radio licence.

You'd need a lot more than a radio licence to operate one of these..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ALQ-99

I was just being a dickhead

[Frenchy]

The only foolproof method so far known to western science is to coat the frontal areas of your bike - including your jacket and helmet - in vaseline.
Vaseline has been proven to absorb the radio waves rather than reflect them.
It makes perfect sense if you think about it and it's also way cheaper than a detector or jammer.
If you try it and it doesn't work then you must have missed something like your gloves or rally badges.

Now that would be a hell of a sight to see the cop would prob let you off on the account you might a few lose screws for trying it

[Teava]

ok so this want help you get of a mobile ticket but should help you
out at night on stationary cameras http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epdVKvU2NN8

[duckonin]

life goes by fast enough now without "speeding" on through it..kick back and enjoy the miles without the threat of a ticket, if you carn't do that then hook onto a prat who loves to race any bike these are great value, way cheaper than a detector and they get the ticket...