radar detector

Believe me, coming from the guy who is in your rear view mirror when you're cussing yourself for being pulled over... I don't care what I stop you for, if you have a radar detector, you are getting a ticket. This tells me you have no regard for traffic laws.

Radar detectors are not that useful. Any radar made in the last 10 years is "instant on". All Laser radars are instant on, and can pinpoint a car at 1000 yards. I use standard doppler radar. I can unlock my radar, lock in your speed, and shut it off again faster than your detector can determine if it was a false signal. It takes about 1/3 of a second. Multiple targets increase that time.

I ride an 06 VFR. Do I speed? Sure, in rural areas where the only thing I'm going to hurt is myself. When I'm on the highway or in town I obey the speed limit. In fact this applies to driving a cage too. Everyone is worried about getting tickets, but it's an amazing thing. Follow the traffic laws, and you don't get tickets. I haven’t even been pulled over in 15 years. I learned this after getting a boat load of tickets and getting suspended by points. Every day I see bad drivers, and all too often the injury and deaths that result from them.

So my advice is easy, don't speed and drive safe. Go ahead and flame away, you can't hurt my feel bads.

 

This is by no means a flame.
What you say does not mirror my experience with Radar Detectors, especially the Escort 8500 that has pop sensitivity. I drive and ride alot. Probably 7,000 miles on the bike and 15-20 k in my car. In the last 9 years of fairly consistantly speeding I never got a ticket and always been alerted to the fine policemen in the area. Never been surprised. I'm no speed demon. I'll drive the legal limits in town and such there is no use speeding to the grocery store down the street. But on a trip over 20 mi. I'll definately be over the speed limit if traffic allows out of town. Highways and interstates are always 80 to 95 mph if the trip is more than 75 miles or so. Again, if traffic allows.
I love that Escort 8500 it is worth it's weight in gold. Actually I think that's what you pay for it.

 

There is a flaw in the logic. It may be true that you can "instant-on" and nail a single driver. Alone. On an empty highway. But every time you do that in traffic, you give all the other drivers in range signal to detect you by.

 

I hava had radar detectors for probably 25 years now. In my vehicles, and on my CBR-1000. Haven't put it on my VFR yet, but I will. I've used the Passport with great success. Not 100% safe, but definitely worth it's weight in gold. Saved me from countless tickets on 2 and 4 wheels. Never had any problems with officers seeing it, you just have to pick a good location to mount it. On my CBR it was mounted to the windscreen, tucked way in. It doesn't have to be mounted perfectly horizontal- microwaves bounce(off everything). Just be extra careful when flying solo on the road.

 

I'm running a Whistler Crusiader, on my bike. The antenna tucks up under the nose, and I have the control sunken into the left side fairing, and it came with a LED remote for my helmet. Happy so far.
Valentine One for the car. The Valentine is exceptional, but not water proof.
Mac

 

I did mine the hard way by installing the detector under the front fairing and run wiring up to the dash for the LED ind lights, controls on the windshield post and little speaker near steering post. Of course can't hear it at cruise and can't stare at the lights all the time so now I'm trying to figure out some sort of helmet alarm. I tried running speaker sound from detector into my helmet speakers, but it affects the quality of the Sat radio output. I hate to run a seperate wire to the helmet but that may be the only option. A 5 or 6 conductor coiled wire may be the trick using a CB radio connector and a separate speaker in the helmet. Its only for fun anyway, to risky to speed around. See my pics. CaptG