Radar Detectors and Laser Jammer/Reflectors

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I know people with cars who use them and out of curiosity, how would one go about using one on a motorcycle? Rewiring the entire display unit into your helmet and using an LED blinker was my initial idea (I'm horrible with motorcycle maintenance, great with electronics) but anyone got better ideas?

And how exactly do laser reflector/jammers work?

Too bad I can't just make my exhaust constantly explode chaff.
 
Stick to riding at legal speeds. Problem solved.
 
Buy the most expensive one you can find, its the only way your find success...;) Also you should definitely modify your helmet and wrap a bunch of wires near your head and neck and obstruct your vision, these are all excellent choices.

Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to either slow down or pay/fight the ticket, or look far far ahead to see if there are police around.
 
I dont know for sure but I was of the understanding that they can tell if you running a jammer.Not worth the hassle because sooner or later you will be all alone and not in a group making you easy picking and why they were never popular.May save you today but hang you tomorrow
 
Gixxer6 said:
Buy the most expensive one you can find, its the only way your find success...;) Also you should definitely modify your helmet and wrap a bunch of wires near your head and neck and obstruct your vision, these are all excellent choices.

Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to either slow down or pay/fight the ticket, or look far far ahead to see if there are police around.
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To be honest I'm just theorycrafting. Don't even have a bike that's gonna get me into massive **** anyways. I was looking into this last year but didn't bother going too deep into it or starting a discussion.

All I know right now is:

#1. The radar detectors that don't get detected are the STI and Passport?
#2. Laser deflectors, not detectors, are needed to ping off LADARS.
#3. Chaff grenades would work but are highly unusable because you'd have to be exploding one every other second.
#4. Look into stealth plane designs:
a. Change how your fairings are designed.
b. Use a specific type of paint.
c. ??????
 
I used a radar detector back in the day...unless they're better now, the number of false alerts was incredibly annoying. You might as well just drive the limit..
 
wouldn't help against LIDAR, would it? stop trying to be what you believe is a super awesome badass and just do a reasonable speed
 
invictus43 said:
I used a radar detector back in the day...unless they're better now, the number of false alerts was incredibly annoying. You might as well just drive the limit..
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+1. Same. I still have mine kicking around here ..

Apparently the technology has changed to eliminate false alarms.
 
invictus43 said:
I used a radar detector back in the day...unless they're better now, the number of false alerts was incredibly annoying. You might as well just drive the limit..
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Yeah, I know my father used to have one back when I was driving a Corolla (no, I don't know why the hell we needed one in a Corolla now that I think back to it), and it would ping off randomly all the time.

The new ones apparently have a "ignore" button that either recalls the signal, or the location (forgot...but if it's location, that's kinda bad), and ignores it the next time.
 
tricky said:
wouldn't help against LIDAR, would it? stop trying to be what you believe is a super awesome badass and just do a reasonable speed
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Read about the deflectors in a few posts above. Only issue I'm finding w/ them via Google is not being water proof...and I ride in everything (ice, snow, **** storm).
 
油井緋色;1829985 said:
To be honest I'm just theorycrafting. Don't even have a bike that's gonna get me into massive **** anyways. I was looking into this last year but didn't bother going too deep into it or starting a discussion.

All I know right now is:

#1. The radar detectors that don't get detected are the STI and Passport?
#2. Laser deflectors, not detectors, are needed to ping off LADARS.
#3. Chaff grenades would work but are highly unusable because you'd have to be exploding one every other second.
#4. Look into stealth plane designs:
a. Change how your fairings are designed.
b. Use a specific type of paint.
c. ??????
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Are you dense... how did your get a licence?
 
IV. said:
Buy a GSXR1000 and you don't have to worry about radar traps.
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Actually, that's exactly why I'm worried about them lol

The only place you can safely go 200+ is the highway because there are no lights. I know a few people who have been busted on the highway and have said that the dumbest place to speed.

In all honesty, I wouldn't have given a rats *** or looked into this if the ******** 50+ over law wasn't implemented.
 
Newsflash: the cops have radar detector-detectors. And they use them.

There is ONE known radar detector that has sufficient internal shielding so as to not emit its own RF signature (i.e. it's immune to detection by the radar-detector-detector) and that is the Beltronics STI Driver. So this narrows down the choice of detector that you want to use. It's not cheap.

Problem 1: radar doesn't go through metal. Means it has to be mounted up high. In a car, on the dash or sun visor. On a bike ... under the windscreen. The detector and its flashing lights are now highly visible. Not good. Don't need no stinkin' radar detector-detector to see *that* one.

Problem 2: No radar detector will protect you from instant-on radar. The moment it sees the radar, your speed has been measured. Too late. Busted.

Problem 3: Laser is also only detectable at the moment that your speed is being measured. Too late.

Problem 4: None of this stuff helps if there is an airplane above you measuring the time that it takes you to go between markings on the roadway.

There are surface treatments that claim to make surfaces (e.g. your headlight) absorbent to the frequency that laser measurement devices use. It's called "veil", I've never tried it and have no idea of its actual effectiveness. I suspect that at most, it will delay your visibility to the laser unit to buy you a bit of time. I have no idea whether this stuff would reduce the effectiveness of your headlights - I suspect that it would not be good in that regard.

Thus far, I have mostly avoided tickets by using other methods of flying under the radar: Ride at times and places away from likely high enforcement areas. (If you want to go to a place that has high enforcement on weekends, go there during the week.) Keep the speed within some sensible non-attention-getting margin if there is no traffic around, and never be the fastest vehicle in sight if there is traffic around (go with the flow but don't be the fastest). Quiet muffler (non attention getting), visible license plate (nothing to hide ...), all lights and reflectors present and working and no lighting that differs from prescribed colours, etc. And look FAR down the road and be aware of what's around you.
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