Radar Detectors
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Radar Detectors
Been trying to solve this puzzle and find a radar detector for my bike.
I wish this thing was battery operated. As much as I hate putting things on my handle bars, I WOULD mount my iPhone on the bars to run this thing and could easily find a way to mount the receiver on the front of the bike.
http://cobrairadar.com/
Anyone have an GREAT and CLEAN radar detector ideas? I am not all that interested in having a cord run from my cigarette lighter to anything either, but VERY few choices as far as battery operated radar detectors go.
I wish this thing was battery operated. As much as I hate putting things on my handle bars, I WOULD mount my iPhone on the bars to run this thing and could easily find a way to mount the receiver on the front of the bike.
http://cobrairadar.com/
Anyone have an GREAT and CLEAN radar detector ideas? I am not all that interested in having a cord run from my cigarette lighter to anything either, but VERY few choices as far as battery operated radar detectors go.
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Us in law enforcement call those "ticket detectors" they are good enough to warn you when you are about to get ticketed. Radar detectors are pretty worthless these days with a properly used instant on Radar. Most agencies don't even use RADAR anymore it's been replaced by LASER. I wouldn't waste my time or money on a detector.
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Us in law enforcement call those "ticket detectors" they are good enough to warn you when you are about to get ticketed. Radar detectors are pretty worthless these days with a properly used instant on Radar. Most agencies don't even use RADAR anymore it's been replaced by LASER. I wouldn't waste my time or money on a detector.
I recently got popped for failure to signal a lane change AND speeding in a construction zone. The problem is I was NOT speeding and I didn't change lanes!! Talk about some BS.
I was respectful and did not argue with the officer even though I KNEW he was wrong, and he still lit me up. Unbelievable and quite costly.
Coffers are at all time lows, and I guess one way to fill them back up is to stick someone in a spot where they can write $20k - $25k in tickets during a shift. They must have bought a couple of new cruisers they needed to pay for.
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Crooked cops? Really? I am shocked. Well we in the Power Line areas keep lists of names of bad cops. When storms come and knock their power out, you know we rush right over there.
Radar is still used alot around here, so I believe and have been saved by my Escort quite often.
Radar is still used alot around here, so I believe and have been saved by my Escort quite often.
Radar is still widely used for speed detection but laser units are preferred. As stated above, if you're fortunate enough to have a vehicle speed checked ahead of you, a detector can alert/warn you of a radar sourse ahead. If you're the main (first) target, forget it. The radar operator literally has your speed before your detector alerts you. Laser? The beam of laser is 3' at a distance of 1000' and basically infinitely thin. The only way a laser detector alerts is with direct laser beam contact with the detector and those odds are about nil. A 3rd tool used by many highway patrols is a VASCAR speed computer. Measured zones (S=D/T), out of visible sight and no electronic signals. The good old fashioned CB radio is a great tool for protection but you have to listen to all the BS chatter going on ....
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Crooked cops? Really? I am shocked. Well we in the Power Line areas keep lists of names of bad cops. When storms come and knock their power out, you know we rush right over there.
Radar is still used alot around here, so I believe and have been saved by my Escort quite often.
Radar is still used alot around here, so I believe and have been saved by my Escort quite often.
That guy COULD have given me EITHER a speeding ticket OR a failure to signal ticket (in either case he would have been wrong) but instead he just loaded me up.
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Good to know.
I recently got popped for failure to signal a lane change AND speeding in a construction zone. The problem is I was NOT speeding and I didn't change lanes!! Talk about some BS.
I was respectful and did not argue with the officer even though I KNEW he was wrong, and he still lit me up. Unbelievable and quite costly.
Coffers are at all time lows, and I guess one way to fill them back up is to stick someone in a spot where they can write $20k - $25k in tickets during a shift. They must have bought a couple of new cruisers they needed to pay for.
I recently got popped for failure to signal a lane change AND speeding in a construction zone. The problem is I was NOT speeding and I didn't change lanes!! Talk about some BS.
I was respectful and did not argue with the officer even though I KNEW he was wrong, and he still lit me up. Unbelievable and quite costly.
Coffers are at all time lows, and I guess one way to fill them back up is to stick someone in a spot where they can write $20k - $25k in tickets during a shift. They must have bought a couple of new cruisers they needed to pay for.
Several years ago a a cop pulled me over for speeding. I pointed to the radar detector and told him I picked him up a couple miles before he had any chance of picking me up. I checked my speed and set my cruise control and kept checking it the whole time. There is no way I was speeding. He said it must have been the other car. There were several of us on the road and the radar must not be very accurate at pin pointing the target, but the cop new it was either me or the other car so the cop sped off to catch the other guy, I caught up to him a few miles down the road and he had the other guy pulled over. The radar detector helped prove I was not speeding and saved me from getting a ticket by mistake. If something like that happens only one time, then the money was well spent.
Added: By the was Costco has battery operated radar detectors for about $90.
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At the CES show here in 'Vegas I was introduced to the BLINDER laser jammer. This is currently the worlds most advanced laser jamming technology. No more speeding tickets, guaranteed! and they are so confident in their product they will pay your speeding ticket.
Apparently, the laser-jammer confuses the laser gun by establishing a series of infrared pulses in front of your vehicle that disrupts the return of the laser pulses to the laser gun. The return pulse, if any, is scrambled and the speed cannot be calculated.
Think Star Trek cloaking technology here that basically makes you invisible.
Yes, they have hidden motorcycle applications, and yes, they are fricking expensive!
Www.blinderxtreme.com
Apparently, the laser-jammer confuses the laser gun by establishing a series of infrared pulses in front of your vehicle that disrupts the return of the laser pulses to the laser gun. The return pulse, if any, is scrambled and the speed cannot be calculated.
Think Star Trek cloaking technology here that basically makes you invisible.
Yes, they have hidden motorcycle applications, and yes, they are fricking expensive!
Www.blinderxtreme.com
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At the CES show here in 'Vegas I was introduced to the BLINDER laser jammer. This is currently the worlds most advanced laser jamming technology. No more speeding tickets, guaranteed! and they are so confident in their product they will pay your speeding ticket.
Apparently, the laser-jammer confuses the laser gun by establishing a series of infrared pulses in front of your vehicle that disrupts the return of the laser pulses to the laser gun. The return pulse, if any, is scrambled and the speed cannot be calculated.
Think Star Trek cloaking technology here that basically makes you invisible.
Yes, they have hidden motorcycle applications, and yes, they are fricking expensive!
Www.blinderxtreme.com
Apparently, the laser-jammer confuses the laser gun by establishing a series of infrared pulses in front of your vehicle that disrupts the return of the laser pulses to the laser gun. The return pulse, if any, is scrambled and the speed cannot be calculated.
Think Star Trek cloaking technology here that basically makes you invisible.
Yes, they have hidden motorcycle applications, and yes, they are fricking expensive!
Www.blinderxtreme.com
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Most jammers are illegal in US states, at least in Michigan for sure. Furthermore your on a Harley, how fast are you really going to go ha. As long as you aren't riding like an idiot nobody bothers you, around here at least. I guess I just don't see the point in trying to pick up and or jam radar, it's one more thing to keep your eyes off the road.
As far as my Harley, I currently don't have one of these units and don't really have the need as 99.999% of the time my cruise control is set for 5 over the limit which hasn't gotten me a speeding ticket in 25 years.
Just passing along info to a guy who asked a question