1st ticket with with my 06 fjr

[floridafeeger]

For Jeffashe.......

I also bought the Escort Blue Display 8500 X50 on the group buy. I have it mounted on a mount screwed into extra mirror hole on the left handlebar of my 05 FJR. KEITH at Tulsa Truck Center fixed me up with a Autocom Intercom and a MIX-IT2 allowing me to plug in my detector, GPS, cell phone, FRS radio, and mini-disc player. I have custom made Challenger earplugs from the Earplug Company (Bob Weis) www.earplugco.com and the combination is great - I can control the volume of all input devices and I can have my radar detector any volume I want it. The Autocom is top of the line and I am sure the Starcom is equally as effective. An Intercom is a great farkle to invest in as you can do all the above and talk to other bikes when on a group ride.

 

[rogdeb]

just a thought ---- how accurate is the speedo???

At cruising speed (75-80 mph) within 2 mph optimistic. At WFO, 3-4 mph optimistic.

140mph 0n speedo -- 136mph on GPS

My experience anyway

done on a private road in NV

 

[MrVvrroomm]

Pulled over twice in Jan. (Texas is full of cops) 50 in a 25 and 90 in a 75. Maybe I should think about radar detector?

.....or slowing down?

 

[BlueWing]

Man ya got to let those rabbits run out in front!  Slow down in all small towns and you can prevent 99.9 of tickets.  A radar detector may save you a few times if you are out in the open by yourself.  That's when they aree most likely to bust you!  If in doubt wait for the next rabbit and run 1/2 a mile behind him. let the other guy get the ticket!!!!

x1 Absolutely! And if the detector even emits a very small chirp BELIEVE IT and back off. B)

 

[Bugnatr]

My V1 has saved my butt many times untill Thursday when decending down a mountain road rounding the corner the Valentine went went off but he had me. 81 in a 55.

I was polite and BS'ed for a while so he wrote it for 65 in a 55. First ticket in 15 years of riding, still sucks. Radar detectors are great but not perfect, I try not to ride without one. Oh 153ish on speedo is 147 GPS on that same private road in Nv.