TICKETS

[driftingswiftly]

I love my 12R, but I get so many tickets on it. Two nights ago I got pulled over again and realized I need some kind of radar jamming equipment or cop detectors. Anyone have these or have suggestions about them?

 

[dave_xb12r]

Ride slower maybe? I ride like a crazy man, but never have been pulled over. You need to know when to have fun and when to play it cool. Pay attention to where they like to sit, and go slow by there. A good radar detector is good too. I have an amazing radar detector, the beltronics RX65. It's worth every penny.

 

[bitter rod]

Cop detectors....ha! How bout you just take your medicine? Like to speed??? Just pay the fine!

 

[Stevenc150]

A couple threads on the subject: Radar Detectors - 1 and Radar Detectors - 2

 

[steve may]

Take it to the track.

 

[CircleWhellie]

Take it to the track.

just take your medicine

play it cool

You guys are vaginas! Hes sporting a 12R, why would you suggest calming down? You might as well tell him to do a trike conversion. Ride on dude, have fun. I'm glad you aren't wasting your pride and money by using your Buell as a scooter.

 

[driftingswiftly]

Haha, thanks guys. I'll keep that advice in mind. I kinda agree with CircleWhellie though (not the genitals part), I got this bike to have fun on it. Stevenc150, thanks for the links, they are pretty informative.

 

[dave_xb12r]

You guys are vaginas! Hes sporting a 12R, why would you suggest calming down? You might as well tell him to do a trike conversion. Ride on dude, have fun. I'm glad you aren't wasting your pride and money by using your Buell as a scooter.

Um.... most of us are on 12R's or 12S's so around here, that's nothing special. Obviously if someone is getting too many tickets, something isn't going right. No one is saying you can't have fun on your bike, but knowing when you CAN have fun is the name of the game. Remember, plus points for evading successfully(We've all done it right? I hope Bitter Rod doesn't read this ) and minus points for tickets.

 

[FIDOSOL]

drifting you should have realized that you need better situational awareness. As mentioned above, pay attention to where they like to sit, cops are creatures of habit because they have found the spots that let them give you a ticket. Pay attention to these and you'll know where you can have fun, and where you can't. I'm not going to badmouth your riding style, I've got the XB9SX and I ride the same way, balls to the wall. I have no tickets on my bike, I've learned to pay attention.

 

[dave_xb12r]

Here you go

Buell Trike on CL

 

[driftingswiftly]

I'm not and idiot. I also don't ride the same areas all the time. I do a lot of long distance riding, and mostly between 1-5 am. I have never gottin a ticket during the day. No one doing 120 down an unlit road isn't paying attention.

 

[driftingswiftly]

Haha, I appreciate the suggestion dave_xb12r! I'll think about it.

 

[bitter rod]

FIDOSOL is pretty correct. We are creatures of habit. But we are also pretty good at trickery. I must say, I have never had a bike take off on me. Only stopped a few though. Last guy I stopped was on a wrecked up Honda...when I told him I had a XB12R he started talking shit. "Buell? Jap bikers hate ya, and Harley bikers hate ya. Who do you ride with on the road?" Then I reminded him of the list of tickets I could write...he was a Buell fan before I left.[cool]

 

[CircleWhellie]

bitter rod, you are the worst kinda of pig there is. you are the guy that thinks he is funny, and uses his "authority" to threaten people into submission. its cops like you that give law a bad name.

 

[bitter rod]

You got me there...jealous?

 

[kajer]

I wish it was a buell owner bike cop that wrote me my bogus ticket. I turned away from a DUI checkpoint because I didn't want to wait in a huge line w/ my air-cooled bike, especially when I could be riding, not idling. and this BMW bike cop gives me a ticket for unsafe lane change and failure to signal. He was right, because I saw the line of cars, the checkpoint ahead of the line, and I turned away asap.

Chances are, if he was a fellow buell owner, I might have gotten a warning. [mad]

 

[maybebuell]

bet you circlejerk has a fast buell

 

[Tork]

Drifting- If you're prone to tickets, go ahead and buy yourself a radar detector and use it, but you have to realize that it won't protect you from the LEOs that use laser or use "instant-on" radar. If you get targeted with those, you're more likely to get popped since the warning time is minimal or non-existent.

 

[dave_xb12r]

Drifting- If you're prone to tickets, go ahead and buy yourself a radar detector and use it, but you have to realize that it won't protect you from the LEOs that use laser or use "instant-on" radar. If you get targeted with those, you're more likely to get popped since the warning time is minimal or non-existent.

In most states, laser jammers are legal. That is just another reason for paying attention. I know where they do and don't use laser in my area. And just FYI, Lasers DO NOT work in fog or rain. Not like you should be speeding on a bike in fog or rain anyways, but it's good to know.

 

[FIDOSOL]

bitter rod, you are the worst kinda of pig there is. you are the guy that thinks he is funny, and uses his "authority" to threaten people into submission. its cops like you that give law a bad name.

I been reading through your posts circlejerk, and you need to find a more original method of working off your frustration you've built up from all the other kids not wanting to play with you. If you have to be a freak then go torch a kitten. Now if you want to talk Buell, then clean up your act and talk Buell. I don't even think you are old enough to ride really, otherwise you would've given bitter rod props for sticking it to a jap rider. He did the same thing most of us would have done, assessed the situation, noted that it needed to be rectified, and then "fixed" the problem. Besides, I'd love to stick it to the jap bikers/harley bikers that are hatin' on my buell just because it's prettier than what they're riding.