radar detector
Tourer
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From: Georgia
I run both LIDAR and RADAR at work
and I can attest to the notion that you are GUARANTEED a ticket if the officer sees a detector or a jammer. I write everyone I pull over if they have one visible. I would buy one just to play with, but I don't want a ticket if I get pulled over ;-)
Ben
Ben
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From: Long Island NY
Hey Ben, I'll be driving through your State tomorrow on my way home, gonna probably stop around Macon for the night. If you see my humping up the road with my 9500ix hanging from the shield of my truck cut me some slack will ya, after all we are brothers, right!
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From: Near Myrtle Beach, SC
Andy,
Isn't it amazing all the lecturing bullshit you get when you ask a simple question? I especially like the guys that think the whole damn country is just like where they live...more bullshit from people that "think" they know.
Now, to answer your simple question. I have used both the Valentine One and the Escort 9500i. Both of these are the top of the line. Either work great for K band radar in the cage or bike and will detect over a mile away (assuming a clear mounting position).
For a bike, Valentine offers a remote head, very small, about $40. You can mount the detector somewhere out of the way as long as it has a frontal view (in the faring is good, the rf penetrates the plastic so no problem) and the remote head is very small but warns you of threats in front or behind you. The Escort can't do this at all.
Absolutely no rural sheriff departments around here run lasers. Some bigger city police departments do. Lasers are pretty much instant and all the detector is going to do is tell you that it has been hit by a laser. But for K band or Ka band, the Escort and Valentine can't be beat. Even if the cop is turning it on and off, you will detect him so far ahead so there will be no surprises. There is a learning curve on how to properly use the detector and to know/understand what it is receiving. Around here and in most of the southeast where I travel, it's 95% or greater in favor of K band radar units. YMMV.
Either the Valentine or the 9500i can be a back and forth unit. Me, I use a dedicated Valentine for the truck and a separate one for the bike with the 9500i in the Yukon.
I bought mine to help me when I go into a trance or stupidly roll into a speed change area and fail to decelerate. It wakes me up if there is a county or state guy in the vicinity with radar working before I can slow down. It's saved my *** more than I can even remember.
Isn't it amazing all the lecturing bullshit you get when you ask a simple question? I especially like the guys that think the whole damn country is just like where they live...more bullshit from people that "think" they know.
Now, to answer your simple question. I have used both the Valentine One and the Escort 9500i. Both of these are the top of the line. Either work great for K band radar in the cage or bike and will detect over a mile away (assuming a clear mounting position).
For a bike, Valentine offers a remote head, very small, about $40. You can mount the detector somewhere out of the way as long as it has a frontal view (in the faring is good, the rf penetrates the plastic so no problem) and the remote head is very small but warns you of threats in front or behind you. The Escort can't do this at all.
Absolutely no rural sheriff departments around here run lasers. Some bigger city police departments do. Lasers are pretty much instant and all the detector is going to do is tell you that it has been hit by a laser. But for K band or Ka band, the Escort and Valentine can't be beat. Even if the cop is turning it on and off, you will detect him so far ahead so there will be no surprises. There is a learning curve on how to properly use the detector and to know/understand what it is receiving. Around here and in most of the southeast where I travel, it's 95% or greater in favor of K band radar units. YMMV.
Either the Valentine or the 9500i can be a back and forth unit. Me, I use a dedicated Valentine for the truck and a separate one for the bike with the 9500i in the Yukon.
I bought mine to help me when I go into a trance or stupidly roll into a speed change area and fail to decelerate. It wakes me up if there is a county or state guy in the vicinity with radar working before I can slow down. It's saved my *** more than I can even remember.
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From: NW Arkansas
Andy,
Isn't it amazing all the lecturing bullshit you get when you ask a simple question? I especially like the guys that think the whole damn country is just like where they live...more bullshit from people that "think" they know.
Now, to answer your simple question. I have used both the Valentine One and the Escort 9500i. Both of these are the top of the line. Either work great for K band radar in the cage or bike and will detect over a mile away (assuming a clear mounting position).
For a bike, Valentine offers a remote head, very small, about $40. You can mount the detector somewhere out of the way as long as it has a frontal view (in the faring is good, the rf penetrates the plastic so no problem) and the remote head is very small but warns you of threats in front or behind you. The Escort can't do this at all.
Absolutely no rural sheriff departments around here run lasers. Some bigger city police departments do. Lasers are pretty much instant and all the detector is going to do is tell you that it has been hit by a laser. But for K band or Ka band, the Escort and Valentine can't be beat. Even if the cop is turning it on and off, you will detect him so far ahead so there will be no surprises. There is a learning curve on how to properly use the detector and to know/understand what it is receiving. Around here and in most of the southeast where I travel, it's 95% or greater in favor of K band radar units. YMMV.
Either the Valentine or the 9500i can be a back and forth unit. Me, I use a dedicated Valentine for the truck and a separate one for the bike with the 9500i in the Yukon.
I bought mine to help me when I go into a trance or stupidly roll into a speed change area and fail to decelerate. It wakes me up if there is a county or state guy in the vicinity with radar working before I can slow down. It's saved my *** more than I can even remember.
Isn't it amazing all the lecturing bullshit you get when you ask a simple question? I especially like the guys that think the whole damn country is just like where they live...more bullshit from people that "think" they know.
Now, to answer your simple question. I have used both the Valentine One and the Escort 9500i. Both of these are the top of the line. Either work great for K band radar in the cage or bike and will detect over a mile away (assuming a clear mounting position).
For a bike, Valentine offers a remote head, very small, about $40. You can mount the detector somewhere out of the way as long as it has a frontal view (in the faring is good, the rf penetrates the plastic so no problem) and the remote head is very small but warns you of threats in front or behind you. The Escort can't do this at all.
Absolutely no rural sheriff departments around here run lasers. Some bigger city police departments do. Lasers are pretty much instant and all the detector is going to do is tell you that it has been hit by a laser. But for K band or Ka band, the Escort and Valentine can't be beat. Even if the cop is turning it on and off, you will detect him so far ahead so there will be no surprises. There is a learning curve on how to properly use the detector and to know/understand what it is receiving. Around here and in most of the southeast where I travel, it's 95% or greater in favor of K band radar units. YMMV.
Either the Valentine or the 9500i can be a back and forth unit. Me, I use a dedicated Valentine for the truck and a separate one for the bike with the 9500i in the Yukon.
I bought mine to help me when I go into a trance or stupidly roll into a speed change area and fail to decelerate. It wakes me up if there is a county or state guy in the vicinity with radar working before I can slow down. It's saved my *** more than I can even remember.
Road Master
Joined: Nov 2009
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From: Outer Banks, NC
You have to understand how they work to be effective. Most don't seem to know. Even so, if the radar is activated on you, no radar detector will save you. And if you don't have a front and rear antenna for your radar detector, you can be lit up and the detector will never make a sound.......
Yes, if I am on a road with no other traffic I only go 7 or 8 over. If you're on a busy but fast highway (say, I-95) you can "hide" among others and move right along. When your RD goes off (safely) slow down so someone else gets the ticket. I said "safely" above because you have to realize others don't have your information and they don't expect you to slow down. But I have had the entertainment of getting an alert, slowing down, seeing someone shoot by me only to get pulled over ahead of me!
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From: NW Arkansas
I agree the RD is only a tool to help you drive "efficiently". If someone buys a high dollar RD and thinks they can go 20 or 30 over, they are going to get a ticket. I bought my first RD (a cheap one) in the 80's. I bought a Valentine 1 when I bought my 99 Monte Carlo new. So I kinda know the "art" of using a RD.
Yes, if I am on a road with no other traffic I only go 7 or 8 over. If you're on a busy but fast highway (say, I-95) you can "hide" among others and move right along. When your RD goes off (safely) slow down so someone else gets the ticket. I said "safely" above because you have to realize others don't have your information and they don't expect you to slow down. But I have had the entertainment of getting an alert, slowing down, seeing someone shoot by me only to get pulled over ahead of me!
Yes, if I am on a road with no other traffic I only go 7 or 8 over. If you're on a busy but fast highway (say, I-95) you can "hide" among others and move right along. When your RD goes off (safely) slow down so someone else gets the ticket. I said "safely" above because you have to realize others don't have your information and they don't expect you to slow down. But I have had the entertainment of getting an alert, slowing down, seeing someone shoot by me only to get pulled over ahead of me!
I did manage to keep from having a conversation with any of my "brothers in blue" until I got back within 20 miles of the house! Pretty good I thought....it is the law (really, I promise ) that every so often you just have to punch it when driving a corvette! (thank goodness I was on my home turf when I got lit up!)
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