Sorry this is so loooonnnnggggg......
For those of you who don't know Fast Pass is a RFID module about the size of a pack of cigarettes. You put on you windshield and you don't have to stop to pay tolls on the turnpike. They also only charge you about 66% when you use it.
Anyway on my way to a charity ride Sun morning. Enter the turnpike, guess what? The system won't recognize I'm there on my bike. (You drive over a sensor that then tells the system to read your Fast Pass.) I tried to use the Fast Pass about 10 times on the bike, it has worked properly exactly once. (Works every time in my car.) I have to blow my horn to get an attendant to manually scan it. OK, fine...
Get off turnpike at next exit (about 8 miles). Guess what? It won't read again. Honk my horn, attendant comes over, takes my fast pass to read it. several minutes go by. I kill the bike and shrug to the truck stuck behind me. Another attendant goes into the shack. Finally the guy comes out and says "Your Fast Pass is broke". I told him it just worked 5 minutes ago. He says doesn't matter it's broke now, he tried to read it 6 times. He then tells me I will have to pay $9.50 since "you don't have a ticket." I don't think so I said the Fast Pass worked when I got on the turnpike. He said Doesn't matter, it's $9.50. I told him I would not pay. He threatened to call the cops. I told him to go ahead and call the cops and he better call his supervisor too, because if the cops arrested me I was going to sue and that would be his Azz. This made him think for a minute so he told me to pull around the back. (where the workers park) I did this and walked back to the front. Where I found they couldn't get the system to read the truck's Fast Pass! I yelled, Gonna charge him $9.50? My goodness, what a dirty look I got. Anyway they had me go thru a different lane which still did not recognize my bike, but did except reading my Fast Pass manually.
Thank you, I feel much better now that I have let it out. Gonna call the turnpike now....

 

Here in Florida a Judge threw out about 100 case of SUNPASS violations citing that most of the people cited had a SUNPASS and it was system error. Judge told them not to come back to court until they could prove they got the system fixed. I've never had a problem with the SUNPASS reading the module carrying it in my pocket or in the bag on the front of my fork.

 

I was thinking of mounting it on the inside of the front fairing, but I'm worried if I ever have a problem it will be difficult to prove I have one. (though your license plate is also supposedly in the system too.)

Has anyone mounted one behind the fairing?

 

In MN our MNPASS lanes are free to motorcycles!

 

In Illinois, we have what they call IPASS. I have one in the car. Went to the IPASS website and registered all the bikes on the same account. I do not even have to carry the IPASS unit with me on the bike. I just go through the IPASS lane. They photo the plate and charge my IPASS account as though I did have the unit on the bike. Great system here (and when I am on the ULTRA, the camera cannot get a good view of the plate because it is tucked under the tourpack, so all tolls are free.)

 

Same in NY

 

I read on the IPass site that too many of these photos will result in a violation and suspend your account. Be careful.

 

In Japan it's ETC - Electronic Toll Collection. 100% of expressways here are toll roads, so they're pretty much a necessity, if you ever travel more than 30 miles from home, although they do have lanes for manual collection. Having an ETC system is so much faster and more convenient, though. I have never had any trouble with mine and I have never seen anybody else have trouble with theirs, come to think of it.

 

We have the Pike Pass here. One thing I haven't figured out is that when I first put the pass in a shirt pocket while riding it never read it. Since then I've put it in a fork bag and no problems.

 

What crap having to pay in the first place, don't you folks pay taxes down there.