Radar detector jams motorcycle

[partsfreak]

How many of the 11 bands did the RF choke eliminate?

[piratenews]

Thanks for sharing your solution and photos!

But I really don't see what you need a detector for on that thing. It doesn't look like anyone is doing over 20 mph hour on that video, so what's the point, unless the speed limit is like 10 mph?

And I don't understand the "Cobras chasing Cobras" thing.

Cobra (radar detector) chasing Cobras (429 c.i. AC Cobra cars).

Any sportbike can run at 160 mph. Even if they don't, police consider a sportbike as probable cause for arrest, especially when riders wear safety gear.

The bogus speed limit on the Dragon is 30 mph, and it's impossible for any vehicle to go that slow. Previous speed limit was 55. TN Supreme Court says that 55 is the only valid speed limit, with a traffic engineering survey, which was never done on the Dragon.
piratenews.org/OakRidge-v-speed-limit-OPN.pdf

Even with that traffic jam, we were speeding between the dozen cops. Some of the tickets on the Dragon are $800 with vehicle impounded. 2 bikers were arrested and taken to jail last Saturday.

One biker was almost tortured to death on the Dragon, by locking him in a patrol car with the heater turned on in 100-degree weather, while wearing fill leathers. He was an old man medical doctor responding to an emergency page for surgery at the local hospital. So what if he was clocked at 172 mph on radar?

Another sportbiker was murdered by police in this same county. No attempt at a traffic stop, he was just rammed by the cop without warning, as punishment for speeding, proven by police videotape. Turned out the dead biker was a cop riding to work, so the crazy killer cop was indicted for murder and the police dept was disbanded. A rigged jury found the cop "not guilty", saying his emergency lights were on when he rammed the biker (no siren), contrary to what the police video showed and eyewitness THP testimony.
geocities.com/american_motorcycle_assn/copmurderscyclecop2001.html
bikernet.com/rights/archive.asp?Article=121902

This county and TN legislature renamed an interstate to honor a convicted hit-and-run killer fo a sportbike tourist (dead rider was a GM engineer).
piratenews.org/koella.html

"I've seen a lot of outrageous things happen in politics since I've been working here, but this tops them all. It's the equivalent of issuing a series of O.J. Simpson autographed steak knives. And no, this isn't a joke. Here's the new rule: Kill a biker, get a highway named after you. As a tourist who has spent a lot of family vacation dollars in Sen. Clabough's district, if those signs go up, you'll never see another penny of mine in Knox or Blount counties."
-Greg Harrison, Vice President of Communications for American Motorcyclist Association, American Motorcyclist magazine, "A Monumental Mistake", June 1999

“Please read the enclosure that presents the facts by someone involved in the investigation of this tragic accident. I grew up knowing Sen. Koella for the last 30 years. The bill has been passed and signed. There is NOTHING you can do to change that, and if you choose not to come to Tennessee, we will be better off without you.”
-Senator Bill Clabough, American Motorcyclist Association, American Motorcyclist magazine, Greg Harrison Column: Contemptible, September 1999

So it's literally open season on sportbikers here. And business is very very good. Here's what our current sheriff says in court:

“I’ll burn your house down, set your dog on fire and there won’t be a member of your family left, do you understand me? I won’t hire it done, I will do it myself! Do you understand me?”
-Deals Gap Blount County sheriff James B. Wrong, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Nuchols v. Berrong, No. 04-5645, July 11, 2005
ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/05a0586n-06.pdf

Over 200,000 bikers have boycott TN because of this crazy sheriff and THP. I wonder why?

[zr1]

I've always wanted to ride the Dragon in Deal's Gap....it's just a...uh...ways to get over there.

I did take the Devil's Highway here in Arizona though (old US666...now US191), it was very nice! Motorcycle Disneyland!

On the radar detectors, the Cobras (sadly all of their models to date) are just dismal in detecting radar. Typically about the 10-15th percentile range. Some of the Whistlers are better, but not by a ton. The exceptions on the Whistler are the Pro 78 and the XTR-690, which are up in the 70-75 percentile range. But for real performance (in approximate ascending order and price), the Bel Vector, Escort 8500 X50, Bel RX-65, GX65, Bel STi, Excort 9500 series, and Valentine 1 are the Big Dawgs.

Feature-wise (not performance-wise), The TPX seems quite motorcycle friendly, I'm just not sure how it performs.

Feature-by-feature, you mentioned a few. Voice alerts to me on a bike are meaningless unless I've set it up to be piped into my earplugs (I like the er6i plugs), then the voice alerts work very well.

Laser alerts...meh...it's nearly a "ticket notifier" as the officer will have your speed clocked by the time the voice finishes saying "laser." But a laser jammer would do the trick, if legal in your state.

VG-2 - worthless in the US, it's not used. However the Spectre is used in places such as Virginia and DC. And the Spectre is verrrrry effective against about all radar detectors. The exception is the Bel STi.

[proudNMAmember]

The 8500 and the X50 both look really cool on a bike.