Radar Detectors and Laser Jammer/Reflectors

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Theoretically you could just hide one somewhere on the bike and run external LED lines up to the cluster somewhere.
Whether or not you'd get caught with it up here is another matter. I thought about doing a similar setup with one of my cars years ago and having it run to a dummy LED in the gauge cluster, but never bothered doing it.

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I dunno how well the deflectors work to solve issues 2, and 3.

As for issue 4, I wonder...if you're at night and you're in a completely matteblack bike and you kill all the lights on your bike. Would you disappear? <_______< Of course then there is the possibility of you crashing into some moose or something.
 
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Xtina said:
Just out run the cops before they pull you over.
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I don't know how serious people are about this.

The main reason why I would ever consider any of this **** is, once again, the 50 over law. I used to go 160 from here to Western Ontario on a weekly basis. Cars in the fast lane would actually be nice enough to move out of the way for me. This was at like 5-6 in the morning. Now, if I do that, I'm classified as a "racer" and take a cop's baton up my *** then pay 1000+. I'm honestly surprised the law ever passed, maybe people weren't loud enough or just stupid?

Back on topic: I'd rather pay $2000 for equipment and work done so I can stop speeding when I get a warning than have to out run a cop every time. Though I admit, it does sound kinda fun...perhaps I'm just young but I'm not completely oblivious to the fact that:

A. No track experience (cannot corner for my life properly at 60km/h or higher).
B. May kill myself and many others in the process.

B is what worries, not me dying, but being the reason why somebody else is crying and hating motorcycles because I impaled their vehicle at 300km/h trying to outrun a cop.
 
油井緋色;1829992 said:
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)
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i think i just peed a little from laughing lol... hahahah hahahahaha
 
油井緋色;1830021 said:
I don't know how serious people are about this.

The main reason why I would ever consider any of this **** is, once again, the 50 over law. I used to go 160 from here to Western Ontario on a weekly basis.
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On the roads for which that sort of speed is theoretically quasi-"safe" (a speed that would be "safe" on the German autobahn), Ontario has the markings on the road for the airplane to use. No radar or laser detector will do the slightest bit of good for that situation. Therefore ... not worth using this approach.

油井緋色;1830021 said:
...perhaps I'm just young but I'm not completely oblivious to the fact that:

A. No track experience (cannot corner for my life properly at 60km/h or higher).
B. May kill myself and many others in the process.

B is what worries, not me dying, but being the reason why somebody else is crying and hating motorcycles because I impaled their vehicle at 300km/h trying to outrun a cop.
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Suggestion: Get the track experience. Take a course and do a couple of track days.

You may find that it changes your street riding by making you lose interest in doing high speeds on the street ... and it will fix your self-admitted lack of cornering ...
 
油井緋色;1830021 said:
I don't know how serious people are about this.
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Mostly they're not..they're like the "I'd have kicked that guy's ***" crowd..
 
As others have said, speeding in certain places and not in others is the best strategy. So not on 401, Gardiner, DVP, or any major routes. Plus it's more fun to go fast on back roads.
 
Brian P said:
On the roads for which that sort of speed is theoretically quasi-"safe" (a speed that would be "safe" on the German autobahn), Ontario has the markings on the road for the airplane to use. No radar or laser detector will do the slightest bit of good for that situation. Therefore ... not worth using this approach.

Suggestion: Get the track experience. Take a course and do a couple of track days.

You may find that it changes your street riding by making you lose interest in doing high speeds on the street ... and it will fix your self-admitted lack of cornering ...
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and how many planes is it the OPP have...? 1...that they rent out when they can afford it
Other than that good advice.
 
LoneRonin said:
and how many planes is it the OPP have...? 1...that they rent out when they can afford it
Other than that good advice.
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Unless you're good at spotting aircraft, it's hard to say if you're being watched even if they have one plane. From what I gather, the technology behind military UAVs is slowly becoming available to civilians. Once the current FAA and Transport Canada rules change, you can safely bet on police "patrol" drones covering major highways. Seattle is already running a pilot, err...pilot-less program at the moment (among others).

I barely noticed a low flying UAV around the TD Centre on the Friday before the G20 summit in Toronto. It was a flat, medium grey and totally silent (from the ground anyway). It looked like a Predator drone, which have been patrolling the US border for some time now.
 
Flywheel said:
Unless you're good at spotting aircraft, it's hard to say if you're being watched even if they have one plane. From what I gather, the technology behind military UAVs is slowly becoming available to civilians. Once the current FAA and Transport Canada rules change, you can safely bet on police "patrol" drones covering major highways. Seattle is already running a pilot, err...pilot-less program at the moment (among others).

I barely noticed a low flying UAV around the TD Centre on the Friday before the G20 summit in Toronto. It was a flat, medium grey and totally silent (from the ground anyway). It looked like a Predator drone, which have been patrolling the US border for some time now.
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Probably a Heron. It's like a welfare Pred.

30 000 UAV's are going into service in the US by 2015. I worked with a civilian tech in Afghanistan who said they were basically dedicating the next ten years to developing/building LEO UAVs.
 
Brian P said:
Suggestion: Get the track experience. Take a course and do a couple of track days.

You may find that it changes your street riding by making you lose interest in doing high speeds on the street ... and it will fix your self-admitted lack of cornering ...
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Beat me to it. You cant have any real fun on the street without being at risk of losing your license, so why bother? You're simply not allowed to speed in this province, and we pay an exorbitant number of police officers to sit around and make sure that you dont.

Now i just relax (like you're supposed to?), 10 over in the city 19 on the highway and i have no issues. Always get a good giggle or at least a worth while head shake over people in a huge rush to go sit at the next red light. It's transportation, treat it as such.
 
FYI, I have had a detector shout LASER!!!! at me down most of the 511 and finally spotted a helicopter off in the distance. That's disconcerting.
 
Brian P said:
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.
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I believe the STi Driver has been discontinued; in its place is the STi Magnum (and Brian P is spot on, these things ain't cheap i.e. starting at $529CDN).
 
I suppose you have to put that away every time you park.... **** it.
 
油井緋色;1829965 said:
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.
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Google "tpx radar detector v2.0"
 
油井緋色;1830021 said:
Back on topic: I'd rather pay $2000 for equipment and work done so I can stop speeding when I get a warning than have to out run a cop every time. Though I admit, it does sound kinda fun...perhaps I'm just young but I'm not completely oblivious to the fact that:

A. No track experience (cannot corner for my life properly at 60km/h or higher).
B. May kill myself and many others in the process.

B is what worries, not me dying, but being the reason why somebody else is crying and hating motorcycles because I impaled their vehicle at 300km/h trying to outrun a cop.
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A) Learn how to RIDE your bike before you go off trying to be better than you think you are.
 
Flywheel said:
Unless you're good at spotting aircraft, it's hard to say if you're being watched even if they have one plane. From what I gather, the technology behind military UAVs is slowly becoming available to civilians. Once the current FAA and Transport Canada rules change, you can safely bet on police "patrol" drones covering major highways. Seattle is already running a pilot, err...pilot-less program at the moment (among others).

I barely noticed a low flying UAV around the TD Centre on the Friday before the G20 summit in Toronto. It was a flat, medium grey and totally silent (from the ground anyway). It looked like a Predator drone, which have been patrolling the US border for some time now.
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Reminds me of this... http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/file.php?2,file=15383,filename=apache.jpg
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