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Has Anyone Ever Gotten a Speeding Ticket on an R1200R?
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ka5ysy
2011 R1200RT
The R1200R reads quite easily on radar and laser lidar. The headlamps make excellent reflectors of both. Be careful out there ... 
Some departments have a "no pursuit" policy for motorcycles, and unless you are really cooking at hi-mach numbers and acting stupid, most all officers I know will leave you alone.
Some departments have a "no pursuit" policy for motorcycles, and unless you are really cooking at hi-mach numbers and acting stupid, most all officers I know will leave you alone.
Wow - must be nice. Not out here.
SteveAikens
Proud Veteran
Hot stuff - better known of as Oldwhatshername certainly did on the R in this link.
http://www.nmpcs.com/r11r/compare.jpg
She was hauling ass on NM 522 - downhill into Questa, NM - to get to the BMW RA RALLY in Red River, NM in 2002. She was only something like 40 or so over....
So to answer your question - yes, and yes, police radar can snag you in a heartbeat if they want you - and you're over.
http://www.nmpcs.com/r11r/compare.jpg
She was hauling ass on NM 522 - downhill into Questa, NM - to get to the BMW RA RALLY in Red River, NM in 2002. She was only something like 40 or so over....
So to answer your question - yes, and yes, police radar can snag you in a heartbeat if they want you - and you're over.
beemermark
Beemermark
The nice policeman laughed when I asked if he was really sure it was me in the all the traffic. He said the laser was pointed on my face shield so he was very sure.
"You can't outrun a Motorola."
Was he trying to damage your eyes!
cehlbeck
New member
Radar, by the nature of band is at its narrowest when it leaves the antenna and then widens the further it gets away. It is not "target specific" and depends on the unit and the skill or training of the operator. Hence the training involved. Laser on the other hand IS target specific and the target IS selected by the operator. And yes, I've been told that headlights on any vehicle make excellent laser targets.
fastdogs2
New member
Ticket on a R1200R
Don't believe the myth that a motorcycle cannot be detected by radar.
R1200R's can be detected by radar, as mine was two years ago in Wythe County, VA on Interstate 77. The LEO was in a perfect spot (around a curve, at the bottom of a hill) and I had no opportunity to reduce speed to avoid detection.
Since then, I have obeyed all speed limits to avoid a recurrence of any tickets.
Bill
Don't believe the myth that a motorcycle cannot be detected by radar.
R1200R's can be detected by radar, as mine was two years ago in Wythe County, VA on Interstate 77. The LEO was in a perfect spot (around a curve, at the bottom of a hill) and I had no opportunity to reduce speed to avoid detection.
Since then, I have obeyed all speed limits to avoid a recurrence of any tickets.
Bill
cehlbeck
New member
And that's all it is a myth. It's how we used to check the "calibrated" police speedometers on our motors after all. Not only that, we had an old Decatur Electronics unit that you could hear the Doppler of a jogger's legs or even the "flap" of a flag in the wind.
Tonyfr
Are we there yet?
That is a myth. We used to do it all the time in Los Angeles. You just have to be out of sight before the helicopter shows up.
tinytrains
Still plays with trains.
No doubt you can get at ticket on a roadster. But it has a psychological advantage of not looking like sport-bike or a bad-boy Harley. So unless you get radar zapped, the cops probably won't give you a second look.
phoenixrdr
Member
North Bound on I-55
Well i've read the post and the Illinois State Police can detect 86 in a 65 zone north of Litchfield, Il on interstate 55 on an 2011 RT, when asked if i had anything to say, the officer just laughed when i told him well when you ride like that all the time sooner or later your bound to get caught. He just smiled and said well be careful, I thanked him and we went on our merry way..
Well i've read the post and the Illinois State Police can detect 86 in a 65 zone north of Litchfield, Il on interstate 55 on an 2011 RT, when asked if i had anything to say, the officer just laughed when i told him well when you ride like that all the time sooner or later your bound to get caught. He just smiled and said well be careful, I thanked him and we went on our merry way..
Patch
New member
Um... yes it can detect a roadster.
I tried to discuss the importance of calibrating my speedo with a friendly New York State Trooper's radar trap in the interest of furthering said knowledge base ... he agreed that my speedo was off and his ticket was dead-on. YMMV
Great line...
Helen avoids stops on her Roadsters by hanging back...and letting me be the rabbit. We made the west coast run this summer with 7K and 0 stops...all good.
And when she has been stopped, it was to "interview" the blonde on the Beemer...no tickets!
except for that time she came back to make fun of me getting a ticket ( my first EVER on a bike)...the young officer said "ma'am ,please wait...you were going 5 over him"
