Cops are coming down on any bikes

[Gubb]

Hrm, no I have had a detector in my hilux for about a year.

Why have it if you're perfect? Seems like a waste of money.

[onearmedbandit]

Think of it this way. If you have a radar it shows that you must have an intention to speed, so it is unlikely anyone with a radar in place would get a warning.

Mind you, having a modern sports bike is also a visible admission that you speed so maybe I should keep quiet.

Exactly what I think everytime I'm trundling through town on the way out for a ride, all geared up etc on a visually and audibly loud bike and I roll past a police car. Hardly looks like I'm heading out for a nice steady ride to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the great outdoors. Which of course is what I'm only doing.

[Toaster]

Hrm, no I have had a detector in my hilux for about a year. I don't speed in that because I just can't be bothered. It's just too much like hard work.

I have never had a "warning" from any speeding fine of any type - ever. I don't have reason to believe such a thing exists. I was stuck on the front of a long queue of traffic (including a truck and trailer) at 105k towing a trailer, and the cop just looked at me and wrote the ticket out. I was doing my best to balance not holding things up with being safe about it, but nooooo.

Steve

Yeah but that just relates to you. Not to those that have had different.

[MaxB]

Time from aquisition to lock less than a second. You been taking braking lessons from skiddie?

But the problem with Stalker DSR has always been target identification. If it is just the target and the cop then no worries but on busy north island roads the cops have to guess what they think is the target even with lane i.d., nearest and direction add-ons.

Its time for in-car video with a target sight and speed indication like they have in other countries. Properly calibrated it takes the guesswork out of speed enforcement.

[slofox]

I do have a radar detector. I use it both on the bike and in the cage. It does NOT indicate an intention to speed. Quite the contrary in fact.

In the cage it has resulted in me dropping my average highway speed by some 5km/hr. Works like this.

I leave all bands on. Every time it goes off, regardless of band, I check the speedo. Positive reinforcement is finding I am within 10km/hr (indicated) of the speed limit. Combine that with the usual over-read of the typical speedo (4% in this particular cage), the fastest I travel is about 106km/hr. Usually less than that since I put the detector in.

It took about two weeks of highway trips to get this result. Prior to installing the detector, I would find 115km/hr on the speedo quite regularly - enough to get the dreaded ticket even with some over-read.

So not all use of a detector is designed to facilitate speeding your honour.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work quite like this on the bike...buggrit...

[CookMySock]

I agree with slofox, and I have read similar elsewhere. Overall, RD's actually slow people down.

Cops who take personal umbrage at RD's and then throw the book at drivers are acting out their own incorrect beliefs.

Steve

[scumdog]

A very common (MOST common) line on handing a speeding ticket to somebody who has a radar detector:

ME: "Well that thing certainly didn't do it's job very well, did it, - almost a waste of money don't you reckon?"

THEM: "Ah, I never had it turned on"

(A lot of the time I reckon it's a face-saving line - or do the majority of you RD users REALLY leave them turned off most of the time?)

( "It's my mates and I'm not sure how you work it" is another common one, - possibly stolen and that's why they 'don't know how to work it')

[Taz]

Saying that "because you have a radar detector - you are going to speed" Is like saying that because I have a penis I'm going to rape. Cops just like the power trip IMO. "You've been a naughty boy Mr Anthrax, I didn't get you speeding this time but i'm sure you were!" Yeah well prove it revenue collector. They hate being called that.

[scumdog]

Saying that "because you have a radar detector - you are going to speed" Is like saying that because I have a penis I'm going to rape. Cops just like the power trip IMO. "You've been a naughty boy Mr Anthrax, I didn't get you speeding this time but i'm sure you were!" Yeah well prove it revenue collector. They hate being called that.

I think your site name has got to your brain...I fail to see your logic

And as for "Revenue collector" - call me that and I'd laugh, people hate it when you laugh at their oh so witty and cutting 'smart' comments...even more so when you say "Wow, never heard of that one before", they don't know if you ARE taking the piss out of them or not..

[smoky]

Police don't give warnings based on anything other than if they've filled their quota for the day or not

Radars are not illegal and I doubt they ever will be, it has been shown many times that radar detectors slow people down.
By the time they've braked for the 100th time from the thing going off for oncoming traffic with radar detectors, gas station, automatic opening doors, alarms, tractors, dummy radars, ................ and so on, the driver tends to slow down and just cruise anyway.
It was successfully argued in Australia a couple years back, one thing they found is that it is very rare to find a radar detector being used in cars that are involved in serious accidents.

The cops love them, when they're wanting to eat donuts and listen to talk back radio - they turn on their radar and just sit there watching all the cars with radar detectors slow down ...... again

[Pixie]

Think of it this way. If you have a radar it shows that you must have an intention to speed, so it is unlikely anyone with a radar in place would get a warning.

To my knowledge"intent to speed "is not a offence on the NZ law books

[The Pastor]

A very common (MOST common) line on handing a speeding ticket to somebody who has a radar detector:

ME: "Well that thing certainly didn't do it's job very well, did it, - almost a waste of money don't you reckon?"

THEM: "Ah, I never had it turned on"

(A lot of the time I reckon it's a face-saving line - or do the majority of you RD users REALLY leave them turned off most of the time?)

( "It's my mates and I'm not sure how you work it" is another common one, - possibly stolen and that's why they 'don't know how to work it')

or they were traveliing a little bit faster than you caught them for

[scumdog]

or they were traveliing a little bit faster than you caught them for

Instant on?

Only a little faster...

[scumdog]

To my knowledge"intent to speed "is not a offence on the NZ law books

Hence why noby has ever got a ticket for that....

[Pixie]

Well ,for all you know-i-alls the last time I was stopped by a cop (119 kmh some time after passing a truck on the Waipu straight) the cop asked me about my V1 and gave me a warning about the speed.