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Motorcycle radar detector

Uniden, Escort or Valentime
However, since most jurisdictions use Lidar, it's usefulness is limited. Lidar does not emit a detectable signal before it bounces off your vehicle. So you're toast.

If you're like me, you will have an uncanny ability to slow down, just before you are observed traveling over the limit. I am not 100% sure how or why I have this peculiar ability, and it does not give me immunity to red light cameras, or double yellow passing violations.
 
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Thanks! Made the mistake of forgetting where I was. No cops on the back roads. I got on Hwy 50 - sheriff deputies and CHP were out.
 
Do track days with a police officer and he said “don’t go over 100”.
 
I used to use an Escort 8500. I made a mount for it and used heavy duty Velcro to hold it on the mount. I also attached a Screamer to the under side of the mount so I could hear it.

I turned off X band detection since it’s not used by law enforcement. I didn’t want a bunch of false alarms from automatic door openers.

Lidar is a problem and I would sometimes get false alarms from flashing emergency lights on police cars, fire trucks, etc.

A detector is helpful but it won’t help all the time.
 
moto-rama said:
Uniden, Escort or Valentime
However, since most jurisdictions use Lidar, it's usefulness is limited. Lidar does not emit a detectable signal before it bounces off your vehicle. So you're toast.
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I have been running a Valentine 1 Gen 2 for the last three years. I have about a 70 to 1 ratio of non-lidar to lidar hits. Been directly tagged three times with Lidar in known locations where I slow down anyway vs the hundreds of times the V1G1 has informed me of police presence before I am in their range, whether they are looking for speeders or not.

The challenges include:
1. How do you mount it?
2. How do you protect it from water?
3. How do you protect it from too much heat?
4. How do you get alerted while focusing on the road with ear plugs in?
5. How do you filter out all the mobile false signals from the new car's safety suites and self adjusting cruise control.
6. How do you keep it from screwing up the gps signal reception on your BMW Nav 5 GPS? (This was my biggest challenge).

4 and 5 are resolved by using the V1G2 with one of the many radar apps. I currently use Companion which provides additional filtering, spoken alerts, location filtering and will soon have carplay integration. I can listen to it with my Cardo.

The need for this is largely driven by where you ride and how fast you ride. I spend most of my miles on multi-day trips across the westen states on backroads. I find being made aware of police presence before I can see them helpful in keeping me focused on riding and avoiding awards.

I find that rdforums.org and vortex radar to be great sources of information.

Flip
 
For hearing the detector, a Screamer works very well. Even with ear plugs.

For water, I used a bag like cover I found at the grocery store in the section with the baggies. It had elastic around the opening. Sort of like a shower cap.
 
ST Guy said:
For hearing the detector, a Screamer works very well. Even with ear plugs.

For water, I used a bag like cover I found at the grocery store in the section with the baggies. It had elastic around the opening. Sort of like a shower cap.
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Unfortunately the Radar Screamers are no longer available.
 
Yea, i was looking for them so I could post a link. No go.

You can still get bright LED’s that will get your attention fast.
 
I have an Adaptive Technologies radar detector with an LED display mounted to the top of my instrument panel. It gets your attention. I've ridden with Flip quite a few times and his V1 Gen 2 doesn't give false alerts like mine. The Adaptive is useless on congested freeways like I5 because a lot of trucks now us adaptive cruise control in the KA band. My Adaptive is a 1st gen base model though. The benefits of the Adaptive is that they are waterproof, have large buttons and designed for motorcycles so the mounting and wiring is easy.
I have received many, many hits from LEO radar that were early enough for me throttle down well before they were in sight.
I've received a total of 2 LIDAR alerts in the 10 years I've had the detector. One got me a reward and the other was about 20 miles east of Tonapah. There was nothing out there and I could see for miles in either direction. My guess is that I was laser designated by a bored military pilot or an arty spotter or something like that.
 
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