| Author | Message | ||
     Johnnyjs1 |
Hey all, Just wondering how many of you ride with a radar detector? And if so..which model? Been doing some research and cant find one that is weather/water proof. I know they sell that ugly looking eclosure/box for them, but its $60+ and FUGLY as hell. Also without securing the detector with zipties or velcro, the detector would rattle around in that box like crazy...especially under 2k rpm | ||
| Conchop |
Speed limits in WV and KY are merely recommendations. LOL | ||
| Mikef5000 |
I made a radar detector mount and hardwire, but used it twice and haven't again. It's a Passport Escort. It's not waterproof, so it has to get tucked away when the precip comes. In the end, I don't see the need. They tend to only work half the time anyway. | ||
| Ourdee |
I got pulled over with one on board years ago. It was a ticket for me because it was there. I threw it away and haven't had a ticket since. | ||
| Tootal |
Valentine One makes the best. If you could get it under the fly screen and use the accessory readout velcro'd somewhere where you could see it then if you did get pulled over you could rip it off and put it in your pocket. The readout is pretty small. The only problem is it wouldn't be able to detect anything from the rear in that position. I use to run an old Passport suction cupped to my windshield on my old BMW K100RS. I had it wired under my seat where I could plug in with helmet speakers. This worked great as it had a black out button so no one could see the lights but the beeps were alive and well in your helmet! Saved me many times. Crap, now I have to tell a story: I was heading out from St. Louis to LA. I was on 470 south in Missouri heading to a friend's house in Overland Park, KS. I was running 60 in a 55 when I was coming up quick on a car and had a truck gaining on me in the left lane. I decided to accelerate around the car and jump in front of him so I wouldn't slow the truck driver down. As I pulled into the passing lane I twisted the throttle and the Beemer pulled ten MPH rather quickly and I was in front of the slower car. Just as I was to hit my blinker I was hit with instant on K band. I looked over and saw the officer staring at me but he had to go a quarter mile down the road to a cross over in the fence. He had me at 70 mph. I had such a long trip ahead of me and I didn't want to do it with out my license so I wicked it up to 90 and got hit again! He lit up his lights but had to use the same cross over as the last guy. I wicked it up to 110 and got hit a third time but there was a cross over nearby this time. I could see Kansas so I turned it up some more. Now it had been raining and the only dry spot was about a two foot wide patch in the middle of the lane. I was in this giant sweeper at 135 trying to stay in the dry spot! I raced to the Kansas border without seeing anybody in my rear view. I slowed back to my original 60 and continued my trip. I just didn't think I deserved a ticket for trying to be courteous to a truck driver. (Message edited by tootal on December 06, 2010) | ||
| Panhead_dan |
Good story! Usually, (not always) in a case like this one started out to be, a speeding ticket can be beat if you speed while passing. A safe pass is done reasonably quickly. Yours got a little complicated, however. My point is that if you get hit with speeding while passing, just tell the judge that it was the safest way to execute the necessary pass in your best assessment. | ||
| Ratbuell |
It was a ticket for me because it was there Bingo. Any chance of a warning goes right out the window as soon as the Officer sees a detector. Since I stopped using a detector (over a decade ago), I've gotten some *ridiculous* warnings, where with a detector the "I was doing over 90 for a mile and a half just to catch you" would have probably resulted in a new shiny set of bracelets...instead of "if you send in the white copy I won't be in court that day and the only side of the story the judge will hear is your side". OK. Technically not a "warning" as far as the name on the piece of paper goes...but same result. Brake lights on cars and trucks in front of me tell me just as much as a detector ever did. And perversely, the radar speed signs that Maryland has started using in construction sites tells me that me and my Buells...*usually* get picked up by the radar. In the last 100 feet or so. If at all. | ||
| Hooper |
After a couple of tickets I put a Bell detector on a non-cushioned mount, directly clamped to the handlebar. I don't recall it ever saving me from a ticket - like Ratbuell said, I tend to watch what other cars ahead are reacting to - but I haven't had one since. The detector stopped working after riding on a very cold day (35-40 degrees, not unlike what we're "enjoying" this week). I don't know if it was because of the cold, the damp pre-snow air, the handlebar vibration, or if it was just a P.O.S.. I haven't gotten a new one, though I do think about it. It seems like, in the DC area at least, there is a lot less enforcement of speed around town and on local streets than there used to be. They're usually hiding on the non-commuter sections of highways away from the big city. [knocks on wood]  | ||
| Dennis_c |
twist your right hand counter clock wise as far as it can go and they will never see you go by.  don't forget to do this as you pass the cop | ||
| Glenn |
Hi Panhead, The speeding while safely passing didn't work for me about 3 years ago. I had been following this loaded cement truck for miles down route 1 in Maine. Down the hills he would speed up then crawl up the hills of course. I got my chance to pass with dotted line, nailed it and got in within the passing zone. A state trooper got me on radar at 90 in a 55 coming the other way. I was cruising along after clueless and he almost ran me off the road, pulling me over and he was out of control pissed. Don't know what his problem was other than needing anger management control but I got nailed for a huge fine, lawyers fees to get it reduced to less than 30 over so it wasn't a felony and jacked up insurance, i.e. double the insurance fees for three years. I truly hope that he is put through a similar judgmental decision himself someday and has time to ponder. A real A hole! | ||
| Panhead_dan |
ouch. I have found that with trucks, that is to say people who are professional drivers, that if you make yourself seen behind them and they get the feeling that you want to pass them they will watch the oncoming traffic and give you a safe spot to pass. Usually it will be a spot that you won't have to hit 90. | ||
| Gunut75 |
Tootal gives new meaning to the phrase"pass with intent".  | ||
| Jpl9sx |
I've had several close calls recently. Traps when coming over a hill or around a curve. The only thing that saved me was that the LEO was busy with someone else or in one case maybe they were waiting for someone going faster. I've been riding with a friend with a radar detector and its nice to not be surprised. I've been planning on purchasing one of these so I can easily switch between my car and bike. http://www.escortradar.com/solos3/ | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
That is a pretty expensive radar detector. | ||
| 996dl |
Bel STi Driver, in conjunction with a Radar Screamer audio alert system. Has easily paid for itself many times over. Might as well rob a bank and take a hostage nowadays, than get caught doing the ton... And it still happens occasionally, when passing holiday traffic heading to the Rockies, before dropping back down to 10 kilometers over the posted limit. As long as they're legal to use, I'll have one on my touring bike. I might even get around to installing a mount and Screamer audio kit, on my roadie DR650 as well. Speed limits on the paved backroads I use this beloved dualsport on, are so low it constantly creeps up well above +10 kms over... | ||
| Aesthetics |
v1 ftw rear protection is better on a ram, but much more discreet here. suction cups are mounted with 3m double sided vhb. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_oUGj1GAFg2E/TQP4xJL8svI/AAAAAAAADtI/gaHIBtyEWug/s800/DSC02015.JPG (Message edited by aesthetics on December 11, 2010) |
