Well, these radar detectors do indeed slow one down

[Big Dog]

14 years of biking, 17 years cage driving. All weather and 500,000kms combined.
I have had 3 car tickets all 11km over $60 each.
1 Bike Ticket for 11km over $80.
Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I am just not so obvious in my speeding.
Don't have an answer but at the going rate I am getting taxed at I would need a radar detector to last 20 years to justify purchase.
But then by all accounts I am a bit if a nana.

[ldnz]

I didn't realise there was a commercial radar jammer that actually worked?

[sAsLEX]

I didn't realise there was a commercial radar jammer that actually worked?

They don't for specifically that reason above that one would require a license to transmit in the spectrum at the required power.

Know a radar tech that reckons he made one up, and technically it would be too hard though I don't know how frequency agile the Stalker is.

[slopster]

I did see a commercially made radar jammer on the web somewhere. It was effective but impractical taking up the whole dash of a car and illegal in most places. I think it worked up to about 100m away when the cops radar was powerfull enough to overcome the jammer. It only worked on K band too.

[metric]

interesting thread this... a bit of clarity for me though, the hand held guns, they're laser right? do they have the 'instant on' capability? or are they in cop cars...

[Biff]

There is no way in hell you will be able to talk your way out of a ticket if the cop sees that you have a detector mounted on the bike.

I have.

[scumdog]

interesting thread this... a bit of clarity for me though, the hand held guns, they're laser right? do they have the 'instant on' capability? or are they in cop cars...

Laser has instant on too.

[Ixion]

No detector is going to help against laser. Unless you are VERY lucky and the cop has a very unsteady hand, and misses the vehicle ahead of you and you pick up the by beam. Very unlikely.

But, laser is line of sight. *And* I don't think it can be used from a moving vehicle. So the Mk I Eyeball should be a good defence. If you, as a biker, don't spot something the size of a police car (and they're not allowed to deliberately conceal themselves , though it's amzing what can be interpreted as "unobtrusive") then I fear you will not survive long anyway. And anyway, cops are only going to lie up with a laser when theres a good stream of targets. And in such conditions you should not be fanging it anyway.

The cop I fear is the one in a mufti, mixed in with scattered traffic. Light enough to justify a brisk pace. Heavy enough that one cannot adopt a "any other vehicle in sight and hit the picks" approach.

In those conditions the detector is the best defence. Eyeball is not at it's best, takes too long to evaluate oncoming traffic and the muftis can hide in a bunch of cars behind a slow driver. But in theory they should be sampling the other vehicles ahead of you and you should pick that up.

[Biff]

Instant on widgetry should be made illegal.

Give us half a chance eh?

Snot fair.

[Ixion]

Thatz wot I say, 2. 'tis CHEATING thaz wot it is.

AND, the plod are starting to lurk on double digit state highways, when they know full well that by the rules of the game they are supposed to keep to the single digit ones

Play fair, chaps.

[twister]

Anyone owned a Rocky Mountain 320 RADAR DETECTOR/ LASER SCRAMBLER"? Seem pretty reasonable price <$200, are they suitable for bikes?
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...n-83789774.htm

[scumdog]

Thatz wot I say, 2. 'tis CHEATING thaz wot it is.

AND, the plod are starting to lurk on double digit state highways, when they know full well that by the rules of the game they are supposed to keep to the single digit ones

Play fair, chaps.

Yeah but youz guys have 'tectors AND ya don't go so fast on main roads no more....

[Ixion]

Anyone owned a Rocky Mountain 320 RADAR DETECTOR/ LASER SCRAMBLER"? Seem pretty reasonable price <$200, are they suitable for bikes?
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...n-83789774.htm

General opinion seems to be that performance suffers from not insignificant deficits (or, in simple terms, theyz crap) .

[davereid]

I published a design for a legal radar jammer on here a few months back. I'll look for it later. Just need to borrow a radar unit to tune it...

[Karma]

If you, as a biker, don't spot something the size of a police car (and they're not allowed to deliberately conceal themselves , though it's amzing what can be interpreted as "unobtrusive") then I fear you will not survive long anyway.

They're not supposed to, but since when has that stopped them? Gotta get those quotas.

Worst one that's been seen was along Quay Street in Aucks heading for the CBD. Great long straight line to get a reading, the car was parked around a corner and the copper was hiding behind a tree, no shit!