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Title: Fast is more fun - Radar Detector
Post by: Zimmerman on November 11, 2012, 11:59:33 AM

Sometimes I drive my scoot a 'little fast.'

I'll see a cop and wonder why I wasn't stopped. If I was in my car they would have stopped me for sure.

Is it that, they see it's a scooter and just think of it as a slower vehicle? . . . Or is it just harder to measure the speed of a scooter?

Anyway a radar detector is actually made for bikes n' scoots.
I don't think I need one but it's interesting to read about.

http://www.adaptivtechnologies.com/gear/tpx-radar-detector (http://www.adaptivtechnologies.com/gear/tpx-radar-detector)
Title: Re: Fast is more fun - Radar Detector
Post by: Zimmerman on November 11, 2012, 12:01:00 PM

Has anyone gotten a speeding ticket on a scooter ?

I imagine it's happened to someone somewhere.

KZ
Title: Re: Fast is more fun - Radar Detector
Post by: MotoRandy123 on November 11, 2012, 12:15:25 PM
  I had a BMW F650GS before the scoot and when I went by those
fixed speed reading signs I noticed it read low until I was about
10 feet from it. I'd be doing 40 and it would read 30 until I was on
 top of it so maybe bikes and scoots get a freebee on this one?

   I always wondered, your speedometer reads wrong by 10% usually
but when you get a ticket it's for the same or more than the speedo reads.
Why?

  I believe the police allow bikes and scooters to go faster than the other
vehicles, for one it's safer as you can stay out of their way.
Title: Re: Fast is more fun - Radar Detector
Post by: axy on November 11, 2012, 02:13:45 PM
Has anyone gotten a speeding ticket on a scooter ?

I imagine it's happened to someone somewhere.

KZ

Probably to millions of people all over the world.

I have a laser jammer in my car.  ;D I was set back for 600 US$ but that's the price of a single speeding ticket, so I guess it pays off.

Radar detector would be useless because radars (X/K/Ka band) have not been in use here in (a) decade(s).
In countries with old stationary radars they would be very beneficial. I used them for years, even sold them...