Radar guns and tickets, how does it work?

[Cr1MiNaL]

Get a radar detector. A good one. V1 or Bel STI

1. If you get pulled over and they show you a speed you can call their bluff, the V1 never falses. Period.
2. If your pinged you'll know it and can make the call whether to stop or not (mostly not, except if its not much over and its a bike cop, out of courtesy of cause, and he probably will let u off himself).
3. With the V1 you'll be able to take calculated risks and get away with it though. Remember time- place- circumstance is the governing rule here. Be mature with your detector. It does not beat the system, just makes it more acceptable.

I mean seriously 100 for an open road speed limit on a modern jap bike? Get real, thats about when I pick my best wheelies up still about 10.5 on a 17.5k rev counter in first.

[Ixion]

THAT'S where I was doing it wrong - what was I thinking by only checking those who seem to be doing about 120 or so...

Then you are definately not doing it right. You should actually be radar checking *every* vehicle you see, after all any of them could be speeding, and we know that speed kills. And it's not possible for a human to judge the difference between 109 and 11 by eye alone. So, every vehicle, check its speed. OK. Best to check it a few time in fact in case it speeds up.

[FJRider]

Of course they are. When the detector goes off I can check the GPS and I know exactly what speed I was doing when the radar locks on.

But they also show maximum speed attained, your GPS may be used in evidence AGAINST you.... be careful...

[FJRider]

Or have the mate on front leaving his radar on - while second cop uses instant on.

tag team tactics eh... how many of you speed up after seeing a cop... and get pinged by his mate down the road...

[bully]

But they also show maximum speed attained, your GPS may be used in evidence AGAINST you.... be careful...

so do alot of modern bike speedos, aparently cops know it too, i test rode a 675 and they guy pulled that on me, maybe its a bike feature, but my understanding is its bikes that dont show it as a feature too!

[MarkH]

So actually no use at all then??

As a device to allow you to speed with no regard to the law? Not much use at all.

As a device to remind you to check your speed and make sure you are at least within the tolerance of the legal limit - pretty good.

This is why I think it is pointless for the law makers to worry about the idea of banning detectors.

[scumdog]

As a device to allow you to speed with no regard to the law? Not much use at all.

As a device to remind you to check your speed and make sure you are at least within the tolerance of the legal limit - pretty good.

This is why I think it is pointless for the law makers to worry about the idea of banning detectors.

So a little red light on the dash that flashes when you get to 110kph would suffice??

[Cr1MiNaL]

So a little red light on the dash that flashes when you get to 110kph would suffice??

No, but one at 210 would do just fine thanks Scummy. One that says, 210 kmph attained time to think about landing wheelie.

[MarkH]

So a little red light on the dash that flashes when you get to 110kph would suffice??

Not so much in a 50kph area.

[Ixion]

So a little red light on the dash that flashes when you get to 110kph would suffice??

Well, not in my case. You see, I ride slowly. Very very slowly. And I have heard of several cases of elderly gentlemen, like myself, getting tickets for driving too slowly. So, I am nervous that if a cop sees me on my slow (very slow) and stately progress, he will ticket me for going too slow. So, I need a radar detector so I know if there are cops about. If so I (with great tredidation) increase my speed slightly. Not by very much though, because we all know that speed kills.

So a little light that flashes at 110kph would be of no help . Moreover, I do not understand these modern kilometrifcated speed thingies. I know the speed is shown by the number on the round signs. It used to be 60mph, but nowdays they seem to have increased it and a lot of areas appear to be 100mph. So I just keep the speed down to well under what the sign says. I figure if the sign says 100 and my speedo says , say, 80mph, I must be OK.

[scumdog]

Not so much in a 50kph area.

So (reading between the lines) a radar-detector owner automaticly knows whether they are in a 50, 60, 70, 80 or 100kph area? - or going past a school?

Man, are those detectors magic or what??

[Ixion]

Well, hopefully the owner does indeed! But what does that matter. The important point is, that there is a cop somewhere in a 5km radius. danger, danger Will Robinson.

[Dean]

hey ive always wondered and i know this is off topic but howcome riders never get breath tested when i come up to them they just look at me puzzled in what to do and some have said "now hows this gona work" obviously because of the helmet.and lets just say if i had a few to many theyll never know because ive had the mouth air vent thingy closed when saying my full name in the breathilizer thingy

[Max Preload]

hey ive always wondered and i know this is off topic but howcome riders never get breath tested when i come up to them they just look at me puzzled in what to do and some have said "now hows this gona work" obviously because of the helmet.and lets just say if i had a few to many theyll never know because ive had the mouth air vent thingy closed when saying my full name in the breathilizer thingy

They still work fine just inside the helmet - you must be getting real n00b cops if they're getting frazzled at that!

That said, I always seem to get waved through these days anyway - not sure if it has anything to do with the fact I don't put my feet down, thus they figure if my balance is good enough to do that I'm fine, or my advancing age... I suspect the latter...

[Dean]

They still work fine just inside the helmet - you must be getting real n00b cops if they're getting frazzled at that!

That said, I always seem to get waved through these days anyway - not sure if it has anything to do with the fact I don't put my feet down, thus they figure if my balance is good enough to do that I'm fine, or my advancing age... I suspect the latter...

when you said you dont put your feet down by good balance how do you do that theres never really a constant speed (no matter how slow)or flow of cars eventually you have to put your foot down when cars stop right or??