1st ticket with with my 06 fjr

[mindtrip]

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

When using my GPS, the GPS speedo measures (for me) about 5% less than the FJR speedo. At 80 on the FJR, I'm doing around 76 on the GPS. This has been consistent at speeds above 50mph; below 50, I don't really care how close they are.

 

[v65]

I use cruise control to keep the tickets away, instead of a radar detector you might consider the audiovox cc. It has the advantage of not understanding smooth Lots of good info on this sight about installing one.

 

[tripletango]

Out for a nice 300 mile ride today, taken it real easy. Low fuel light flashing-no big deal next town only 30 miles away. Cool started counting miles since empty started flashing, nice feature. Pass late model Yukon and round the bend and BUSTED. Hiway patrol hits lights and turns around to pull me over. I parked the bike and notice the guy in the yukon I just passed stopped to talk with patrol guy. I go into story how I just got the bike last week and riding with my earplugs in I just didn't realize my speed. Hiway patrol laughs and complements me on my story and said he nailed me at 81 in a 55. He also is a rider but says he has to give me a ticket. That was his boss (off duty) in the yukon and guessed I passed him way over 100. I'm screwed! I beg for mercy and he writes the ticket for 70 in 55. Hand over credit card- swipe $165.00. This year is not starting out good. 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? Any one have much experience?

Good one. Perfect timing, overtaking a cop and running right into one. Can't get much better than that for a definite ticket.

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!!!!

 

[SMC]

:blink: Just out of curiosity what would happen if you came upon four eighteen wheeler gravel trucks that where traveling in close proximity to each other (hardly any space to slot your self inbetween each one) on a two lane road doing 60 in a 70 mph zone and by the time you passed the fourth one you are slightly north of 135...how much of an allowance do LEO officers allow for passing slow traffic?

You understand this is purely a theoretical exercise in information gathering?

 

[Bounce]

I have noticed more & more cops in Texas are just using INSTANT-ON which means all a radar detector is going to tell you in remote areas is to pull-over the split-second BEFORE the lights come on.

Unless you learn how to properly use a "rabbit" along with the V1 and other tools in your anti-tax tookbox.

how much of an allowance do LEO officers allow for passing slow traffic?

Technically? None.
Also, add my +1 on the V1.

 

[radman]

Strangely enough, on my Tuesday Patriot Guard blast into Iowa and back home, I went through 3 traps, all well above the limit, and one for sure at 95 in a 70. Not so much as a how do you do, like scoots were off-limits that day. No other way to explain it.

 

[twowheelnut]

Strangely enough, on my Tuesday Patriot Guard blast into Iowa and back home, I went through 3 traps, all well above the limit, and one for sure at 95 in a 70. Not so much as a how do you do, like scoots were off-limits that day. No other way to explain it.

Bags on or off? I know that The Man 'round these parts tends to ignore baggers in favor of the sport bike jockies. I get the eyeball when the bags are on the shelf and don't get a second look when they're on the bike.

[SIZE=8pt]*waiting on witty wise ass remarks to follow*[/SIZE]

 

[Mogambo]

My first speeding ticket was starting out for a trip last May. 70 in a 40. The officer was actually pretty cool about it. He saw how pissed I was (at letting it happen where it did) and said "Look, notbody got hurt here, just go on your trip and when you get back, ask for a hearing and contest it. I'll be there and won't object."

I followed the instructions and the Magistrate lowered it to 5 miles over and no points. The locals don't really give it shit about the points, they just want a little revenue for the township. Of course it didn't hurt that the Magistrate used to be a member of the Pagans in his younger days.

 

[Shane Stump]

I have noticed more & more cops in Texas are just using INSTANT-ON which means all a radar detector is going to tell you in remote areas is to pull-over the split-second BEFORE the lights come on.

Unless you learn how to properly use a "rabbit" along with the V1 and other tools in your anti-tax tookbox.

how much of an allowance do LEO officers allow for passing slow traffic?

Technically? None.
Also, add my +1 on the V1.

Depends where you are in Texas... when riding out to Big Bend, there are a lot of times when you think you are riding by yourself and you're the "rabbit" (hunted)!

Best regards,

Shane

 

[bluejag]

I also early on learned the FJR Smooth=FAST rule Thankfully It was hometown LEO and I work with them.!!

 

[denny]

Now just one minute. I'm not dumb enough to pass a cop. The yukon was his own private vehicle. I had noway of knowing and I really think I would have gotten away with a warning if the hiway patrols boss in the yukon would not have stopped. I can usualy talk myself in and out of anything. I always ride with my bags on and have invested in every kind of saftey equipment available. White Schubert helment, BMW rallye jacket and pants and I don't remember what kind of over priced boots. I'm all about saftey but still have to have a little fun. Now here the best part. I GOT PULLED OVER AGAIN TODAY! I just shit! What now? This little town outside Galena Illinois, speed limit 35mph and I'm really watching it. Just out for couple hundred mile ride, not looking for any trouble. Part time looser rent a cop pulls me over and says do you know your headlights blinking? So I spend the next 15 minutes politely explaining the benifits of a headlight modulator to him. By the time I leave he's chanting I'll have to check the book on this. O.K. you let me know how that comes out.

 

[radman]

Mah bofriend is a occifer of the law, and today he got one ah dem smart alecky furrin motorsickle drivers with a blinky light on the front. Done gonna rot his ass up, he was, but ol' smart alecky, he done pulled the hoodoo on ol' Rick, he did! Dum sumbitch let him go, so he ain't gittin none ah this tonight, no siree. Not mah Princess here neither.

 

[denny]

Your mom's boy friend is a cop?

 

[KSFJR]

I was stopped by a Kansas City, KS cop on a residential street a few months ago on my KLR 650. I was going down a side street well within the speed limit as I saw him sitting there and just before I got to him he jumped out of his car and waved me down. He said "is that a dirt bike" and I told him no it was a dual-sport. He then said "well it has knobby tires" and I told him they were legal. He kept harping on the knobby tires while I looking the bike over. He finally sees the license plate and asks that if he ran the plates would they come back OK. I told him go ahead.

He finally decides that maybe it is legal and let me go.

All of this took about 5 minutes and I felt like telling him to go to a dealership and learn more about bikes if he was going to be stopping them but thought the better of it.

 

[FriscoJim]

Outside of San Antonio years ago I was on my way back into town on a CBR600 - left Fredicksburg and was doing between 100-115 most of the way - nice cruising speed in my younger days - no traffic and wide open roads. Passed a station wagon and about a mile later noticed a car with it's headlights on way back there - definitley a smaller car than the wagon I had passed. Did an over the shoulder and saw flashing lights. Damn! Pulled over and waited for the 5.0 litre Mustang State Trooper to get to me. He got out and asked me if I knew why he pulled me over. I told him I guessed I was going a bit too fast (mind ya I never saw this guy - never had that "Oh shit" moment when you know you're busted). He told me he clocked me going 71 in a 55 zone. At that point I knew he had no idea how fast I was going - couldn't have been doing 71 unless he saw me in 2nd gear about 1/8 of a mile outside Fredericksburg 30 miles ago. I had just blown by the guy and guess I suprised him by pulling over - let me go with a warning,

Hmmmmm - maybe I should reconsider an FJR and keep the Roadie these days?

Nah!

 

[fjrchik]

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? Any one have much experience?

50 in a 25??? WTF r u thinkin? :blink:

that's got to be in a residential neighborhood right? pay your fine and be quiet.

 

[HaulinAshe]

I recently bought an Escort 8500 with blue display. Great detector! Can be reprogrammed later on if needed to allow it to detect new types of radar, just like the Valentine.

Problem for me is that I cannot hear the darn thing, even with the audio signal set to LOUD. I purchased a Screamer with the Escort, but am not sold on how practical it is, so the Screamer is not installed yet. I have a feeling that I will find myself getting annoyed around town with the Screamer turned up, flip the switch down (or worse and turn it off), then forget to turn it back up when I get out on the open road again. Don't think the cop will give me ticket for improper equipment because my radar detector was incorrectly set!

So I am still looking at the HARD heads up remote and other attention getting options. What I really want is something 100% wireless for my helmet that is audio and visual. Maybe something coming out later this month will work.

Sorry for rambling. Just thinking out loud about your question.

 

[Groo]

Jeff,

I was the same way with the Valentine... made a HUGE difference having the audio piped into my earbuds via my Mixit2... now all those early warnings that I may/may not have seen get my attention immediately!

 

[Bike Effects]

I recently bought an Escort 8500 with blue display. Great detector! Can be reprogrammed later on if needed to allow it to detect new types of radar, just like the Valentine.
Problem for me is that I cannot hear the darn thing, even with the audio signal set to LOUD. I purchased a Screamer with the Escort, but am not sold on how practical it is, so the Screamer is not installed yet. I have a feeling that I will find myself getting annoyed around town with the Screamer turned up, flip the switch down (or worse and turn it off), then forget to turn it back up when I get out on the open road again. Don't think the cop will give me ticket for improper equipment because my radar detector was incorrectly set!

So I am still looking at the HARD heads up remote and other attention getting options. What I really want is something 100% wireless for my helmet that is audio and visual. Maybe something coming out later this month will work.

Sorry for rambling. Just thinking out loud about your question.

Two solutions for you , Jeff.

Starcom

H.A.R.D.

Don't forget your forum discount!

 

[odot]

Put your panties back on, fjrchik....just because he was going fast doesn't mean that he was done yet. :lol: