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From: rls@ihu1g.UUCP (r.l. schieve)
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Subject: Re: Tollway speed record (actually about radar)
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 09:18:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 09:18:31 1985
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> --
> > Okay, so now everyone gets to tell about his fastest ticket...
> > 
> > And then there was the time I did 95 in my driveway ...
> > 
> > Doug (you make em I break em) Schwartz
> 
> And there was the time I was fighting a 30 mph headwind on my
> Honda 200 on the way up to Madison Wis from Chicago, and the
> cop (in Wis.) pulls me over for--get this--doing 71!  I'd been
> watching the speedo very carefully, as the bike had only a
> few hundred miles on it and I didn't want to push it to a
> premature death, and my true speed was about 52.  I was getting
> passed right and left by everything else on the road.  The cop
> must have been behind in his quota of out-of-staters for the
> day, because I sure surprised him with my Wis. license (the
> bike had Ill. plates).  Unable to shake me down on the highway,
> his next words were "Just sit tight--I'm only going to give
> you a warning."
> 
> But my question is about radar.  The cop had it, and had used it
> on me (he claimed I slowed right down as he pulled out and followed
> me).  Does it not work accurately on bikes?  Anyone else out there
> been pulled over for doing impossible velocities?
> -- 
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The only speeding ticket that I have ever taken to court and won
involved presenting articles that discussed the relative radar
ranges of different vehicles.  I claimed that the Vega I was driving
was less likely to be detected than the large truck behind me, there-
fore the speed recorded was the speed of the truck.

Sounds to me like any car has a greater range than a small bike.

				Rick Schieve