kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
I dunno what's changed but back in the mid-late 90's I had a Whistler (model eludes me now) that'd give me several KMs advance warning of speed cameras and patrol cars on the roads between Ashvegas and Hornby...maybe the Pleece tools have become much less detectable but I have had as much as 2km warning on the Hauraki plains...and admittedly as little as 300m on some rather excellent countoured terrain.
If you're all alone out there, sure you're on your own indeed.
Apart from the terrible "...speeds of more than twice the open-road limit..." an evil I would never indulge in at alljrandom will use his pleece fine distributor detector for its intended purpose and get great value from it.
I'm not anti you coppers but enforcing the speed limits so anally on someroads really does piss people off and if you haven't noticed the general public are growing increasingly unhappy with the perfomance of the entire justice system.
The STi sounds the Bees Knees, but I'm also happy with my Escort 8500. I often get people ask about it (having seen it set up on the Pan Euro), and my standard answers seem to be:
- YES, it works great, but its just one tool of many I use (Hmm, doesn't normally sound that dirty)
- Like burglar alarms - most people buy one AFTER they've been done
- I tone down my speed within 30 km's of a town anyway - in my experience this is a more Cop prevalent zone (closer to the donut shop?)
- There are many well known places its just dumb to speed - eg Karapiro straights, Foxton straights - unless you are well shielded
- While HP can do the "instant on" thing, in my experience most don't - there are plenty of non detector users out there as easy pickings without risking RSI of their pinky
I find it interesting following a HP car, with my detector on - as I'm able to monitor their use of the radar, eg, crawling up the 50km/hr zone hill on the southern exit from Te Kuiti - its a stupid speed zone for such a steep hill straight off the 100 km/hr highway, and a "dead ringer" for easy pickings.
Sure enough, this HP car "pings" a car coming down at maybe 65-70km, - a retirement aged Guy and his wife, prolly never broken a law in his life, and the patrol car pulls a wickedly awkward 3 point turn on the main drag. Dork.
Thats why I use radar detection.
Rant over, time for a lie down![]()
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Originally Posted by skidmark
Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
What, exactly, do you think is going to happen if you talk on a forum about the speeds you ride at?
Your keyboard will combust?
Black helicopters will appear outside your window to take you away?
Nobody cares, bro. It's not as though the cops don't know what goes on. It's not as though anybody with half a tenth of a clue can't look at that GSX-R1000 of yours and realise what it's for.
No point hiding a general truth that everybody was well aware of to start with.
Proper OPSEC around ride organisation to avoid unwanted attention, now, I'm in full support of that, but the whole nudge-nudge wink-wink thing about speed... why bother?
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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