Beltronics Vector 955...not exactly *top* of the line, but from what I understand detects just as well as the $500 ones minus a few bells and whistles like GPS and traffic camera alerts. I just wish I'd bought it $500 worth of speeding tickets ago. My tuned Grand Prix GT and I are gonna have some fun this summer.

Never owned a radar detector.

  I travel for a living...30-40,000 miles/year. Hoping I can get "there" faster now.

Quote from: Buck Naked on May 25, 2013, 06:54:29 PM
  I travel for a living...30-40,000 miles/year.

+1 (actually +15,000).

Quote from: kopfjäger on May 25, 2013, 06:43:30 PM
Never owned a radar detector.

+1.

Rather than a radar detector I use a less technical approach to riding.  I ride a lot of the same routes up here in my local hills so the technique is pretty easy.  I simply ride a few of the roads a few times making mental notes of areas that would make for an easy speed trap.  I then slow down near them.

Up here in the foothills it is pretty easy to avoid getting nailed.  Just stay off Highway 49.  One of the motor officers that patrol Icehouse and Salmon falls is a pretty good guy.  Don't ride like an asshat and you likely won't get a ticket.

 This was for my car. With the amount of travelling I do, being able to average 80 and the occasional triple digits in remote areas of the north and southwest (at odd hours and with little to no other traffic) would allow me to be way more productive. Plus I have a fast, supercharged car I rarely get to enjoy to it's full potential

Quote from: Skybarney on May 26, 2013, 10:19:06 AM
Rather than a radar detector I use a less technical approach to riding.  I ride a lot of the same routes up here in my local hills so the technique is pretty easy.  I simply ride a few of the roads a few times making mental notes of areas that would make for an easy speed trap.  I then slow down near them.

Up here in the foothills it is pretty easy to avoid getting nailed.  Just stay off Highway 49.  One of the motor officers that patrol Icehouse and Salmon falls is a pretty good guy.  Don't ride like an asshat and you likely won't get a ticket.

No such thing as a speed trap in California. They are illegal.

Quote from: hbliam on May 26, 2013, 03:11:07 PM
No such thing as a speed trap in California. They are illegal.

Despite that, they do exist. If you ask the officer where they saw you from they will always tell you, along with some story of why they were right there at that moment. I am always polite when getting a ticket(fairly rare these days), but I also always practice the constitutional right of finding out where they saw me from.

Quote from: LowThudd on May 26, 2013, 03:21:30 PM
Despite that, they do exist. If you ask the officer where they saw you from they will always tell you, along with some story of why they were right there at that moment. I am always polite when getting a ticket(fairly rare these days), but I also always practice the constitutional right of finding out where they saw me from.

Look up the deinition of a speed trap in CA. It's not what you think it is. Its not illegal, nor a speed trap for an officer to park somewhere (hidden or not) and run radar or laser. And you have no constitutional right to question the police during a traffic stop. You assert those rights at court.

Quote from: hbliam on May 26, 2013, 05:37:48 PM
Look up the deinition of a speed trap in CA. It's not what you think it is. Its not illegal, nor a speed trap for an officer to park somewhere (hidden or not) and run radar or laser. And you have no constitutional right to question the police during a traffic stop. You assert those rights at court.

...and you wonder why the threads you get involved in get locked?