Speeding
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From: Alaska
RE: Speeding
If you can't pay the fine then SLOW DOWN !!! 
I normally run 5 over but I have been up to 25 or more over. Just depends on the day and the traffic.
Then there is a small group I frequently join and we have been seen at triple digits at times. In that group you just need to keep your eyes open and be ready to roll off at the first sign so that it appears the "others" were the ones speeding.
I normally run 5 over but I have been up to 25 or more over. Just depends on the day and the traffic.
Then there is a small group I frequently join and we have been seen at triple digits at times. In that group you just need to keep your eyes open and be ready to roll off at the first sign so that it appears the "others" were the ones speeding.
Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: Texas Hill Country
RE: Speeding
Learn to listen to the engine. After a while you can get used to the sound and know your speed. Since I haven't had this bike that long I look at the speedometer regularly. Almost got a ticket a couple months ago. Early Sunday morning run to Parker for breakfast. Just cruisin along listening to the tunes on the CD and this car coming toward me hits the red and blue lights. Yikes, look at the speedo and I,m doing 70 in a 55. Backed it down and he kept going south and I kept going north looking at the speedo at lot more often.
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From: Virginia
RE: Speeding
ORIGINAL: dlowder
I find myself running 15 to 20 over the limit all the time before i know it and know its only a matter of time before i get caught. How do you guys that like to run hard keep from getting multiple speeding tickets. I have seen some radar detecters and something that makes your bike invisable to radar detecters. Are these any good and which ones are better. Or anything that will work. Sometimes i keep a car in front of me just to pace myself because when i'm up front i like to twist the throttle.
I find myself running 15 to 20 over the limit all the time before i know it and know its only a matter of time before i get caught. How do you guys that like to run hard keep from getting multiple speeding tickets. I have seen some radar detecters and something that makes your bike invisable to radar detecters. Are these any good and which ones are better. Or anything that will work. Sometimes i keep a car in front of me just to pace myself because when i'm up front i like to twist the throttle.
Road Master
Joined: Sep 2006
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From: florida
RE: Speeding
I got a ticket in the mail last week, seems I was doing 71 in a 55 in sept. in wash.dc. on the way home from tha airport, it was 2 in the morning and there was not much traffic downtown but I never thought about a camera , It showed my car front and rear and a close up of my lic plate, there was an address on there I logged onto ad there I was driving like an dope, then I had to listen to my wife yet sheeeeeeeesh
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RE: Speeding
ORIGINAL: JeffreyLebowski
I got a $240 speeding ticket in Nebraska. That'll make you watch your speed.
I got a $240 speeding ticket in Nebraska. That'll make you watch your speed.
damm.....how fast were u going? One of my "ahem" FELLOW LEOs wrote me up last March. Cost me $120.00 for 15 over.
And yes, I am still hoping he passes thru MY town one day
Banned
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From: Los Angeles, CA
RE: Speeding
I don't have a problem on the city streets and such, but when I hit the freeway I notice that everyone is going about 80. I jsut hate "clogging up traffic" but I really jsut try to stay about 5 above the speed limit if possible. When there is traffic, you can only go about 10 mph anyway...
but I really jsut try to stay about 5 above the speed limit if possible. When there is traffic, you can only go about 10 mph anyway...
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From: Montana & Arkansas
RE: Speeding
If you are within reason (not long ago there was no highway limit here) and you fit the profile that Hogaholic says... then you get slack
Guess which bikes get slapped?
Guess which bikes get slapped?
ORIGINAL: Hogaholic
Around here, they usually let you off with a warning... if your on a Harley, and not 19 years old....
Around here, they usually let you off with a warning... if your on a Harley, and not 19 years old....
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Tourer
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Huntington Beach, CA
RE: Speeding
Always better to be going at least at the speed of surrounding traffic. Particularly on a bike. Better still to be slightly faster than surrounding traffic, as then you are being proactive and making the first move as opposed to being passive and waiting to react. I have heard that around SoCal, "speeding at the same rate as surrounding traffic is an acceptable defense for a ticket". Either way, I know I don't want folks blowing past me when I'm on the bike. Took it easy while I was breaking it in and boy was I nervous with all the cages passing me.
ORIGINAL: anubisss
I don't have a problem on the city streets and such, but when I hit the freeway I notice that everyone is going about 80. I jsut hate "clogging up traffic" but I really jsut try to stay about 5 above the speed limit if possible. When there is traffic, you can only go about 10 mph anyway...
I don't have a problem on the city streets and such, but when I hit the freeway I notice that everyone is going about 80. I jsut hate "clogging up traffic"
but I really jsut try to stay about 5 above the speed limit if possible. When there is traffic, you can only go about 10 mph anyway...
RE: Speeding
I generally run slightly above the surrounding traffic-even a LEO suggested that. Just keep it within reason. Now, if you are running one of the Houston highways, that could be anything up to 90....That traffic MOVES! Lookout though, certain areas will get you ticketed. [sm=bustedsign.gif]