It’s on the way. Gonna learn it here in Florida before the Carlisle romp. Placement, start up, default mode? I have a V1 Gen 1 in the Coronet. This for the HC. Thinking of trying the visor mount. Have the stealth option in the 69.
Valentine 1 Gen 2 owners advice
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Mopar Miki
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Professional speeder here. I do it so well you won't know i was there.
I have been using the V1 since it first came out many years ago. You have the cat's meow in radar detection, nothing else comes close even though some one will try to tell you differently...Nothing else!
As for avoiding safe driving awards the times have changed - there is a lot of lidar use which is a lot harder to detect ahead of time...but the V1 does a great job. Waze is also a necessity if you want to exceed the posted limit by more than 10 mph on the slab. Nothing is fool proof so don't be stupid with the velocity.
Yes i have been stopped with the mighty V1 well actually I pull over and wait...in the more than several encounters...it is always comical. "What's that?" pointing to V1 on the motorcycle windshield. Everytime -
"it's the honesty detector, slow down or pull over". No speeding tickets although sometimes the occcifer has to write something up to take care of their butthurt
I have been using the V1 since it first came out many years ago. You have the cat's meow in radar detection, nothing else comes close even though some one will try to tell you differently...Nothing else!
As for avoiding safe driving awards the times have changed - there is a lot of lidar use which is a lot harder to detect ahead of time...but the V1 does a great job. Waze is also a necessity if you want to exceed the posted limit by more than 10 mph on the slab. Nothing is fool proof so don't be stupid with the velocity.
Yes i have been stopped with the mighty V1 well actually I pull over and wait...in the more than several encounters...it is always comical. "What's that?" pointing to V1 on the motorcycle windshield. Everytime -
"it's the honesty detector, slow down or pull over". No speeding tickets although sometimes the occcifer has to write something up to take care of their butthurt
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I had a G1 when I worked in Orlando and traveled I4 for an extended period twice a day.
Better to have it than not have it but it was already outmoded at that time- 1993!
The worst issue was the X band falsing from supermarket doors.
I wish you could just turn off X band. NO ONE uses that for speed RADAR any more.
It did occasionally false on someone in the next lane with a detector.
At least the directional indication helped identify that.
As always, you're really looking for them clocking someone ahead of you, and the newer Ka band guns are so narrow that you barely get anything if it's not directly at you, and of course, if that happens, it's too late.
Better to have it than not have it but it was already outmoded at that time- 1993!
The worst issue was the X band falsing from supermarket doors.
I wish you could just turn off X band. NO ONE uses that for speed RADAR any more.
It did occasionally false on someone in the next lane with a detector.
At least the directional indication helped identify that.
As always, you're really looking for them clocking someone ahead of you, and the newer Ka band guns are so narrow that you barely get anything if it's not directly at you, and of course, if that happens, it's too late.
Got the V1 Gen2. False threats virtually gone. Love the directional arrows telling you where the bogey is. But, it does not have the red light camera warning that the Passport 9500 has. I call it a wash. If looking for a detector, either will do the job.
It paid itself off today. 2 times over. CHP hiding in his Dodge Charger. 84 WB coming home from Tahoe. Running 75-80 in a 55. Light traffic and safe for conditions . Easy back off and resume after arrows indicated Bogey was behind me. Had a blast. How can you travel without Radar?
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Ah, Ed Radar-Trouble Story time!:
It used to be fun running around VA back in the 80s/90s with a detector (the early, prehistoric V1 of course).
They had an unconstitutional law against them in that state then (still?) and the state police rolled with
detector-detectors (I think they were VG-2 models?), so you had to conceal and evade if you ran a detector.
Penalties were STIFF if caught with one (which included impounding your ride)...
The Valentine boasted of being the most stealthy of the detectors out there then, so the plan was always to keep
it such that you could quickly detach it from power and stuff it somewhere in a hurry if the need arose...
and one such evening commute, it sure did for me.
I gave a few random lane changes just as I saw him pull in off the shoulder, just to see if he was specifically
after me in that sea of fellow offenders - and sure enough, even though others were driving faster than me,
he locked onto my ***-end. By that time, I had managed to yank the detector and stuff it under the bucket
seat in my 5.0, into a conveniently arranged pocket beneath the edge of the carpet under there.
I doubt they'd be able to find it even if they got a search warrant...
So he pulls me over and we chat for a bit, but he isn't letting on as to the reason for the stop.
He's being all clever and I ain't in the mood for it, wanting to just get home and off that damn freeway.
When I finally ask why I got pulled over, eh says "you ARE aware that detectors...blah blah?"
Yep, I am. Signs all over the place about your unconstitutional law, officer...
Finally, he blurts out "I know you have one." No sir, you don't. "Come up to my patrol unit, sir."
Ok...and he has me sit in the front passenger side, where I come face to face with the fabled VG-2 unit.
Yikes...
He sees me looking at it and asks if I know what it is. I play dumb and ask and he goes into all sorts of
proud description of the technical prowess of the thing...
Ok officer, but what has that got to do with me?
"Am I going to have to get a warrant, sir?"
Yep, afraid you are sir...I do not consent.
10 minutes of awkward silence later, he finally escorts me back to my car, still chewing at me about
knowing I had a detector and that he'd be watching for me.
It wasn't terribly much longer after that evening that I'd decided I'd had enough of the 120 miles of commute
on I-95 daily, amongst the crazies shooting at each other, the drug-runners, the psycho truckers....
and of course, the over-zealous state troopers running around damn near autonomously.
Fluck that, let someone else do it, I'm heading south back to a more sane world.
Never looked back, either. Probably saved my life just from the stress relief alone.
Oh, and the VA troopers? Even worse from what I understand - and the fines have gone NUTS up there.
It used to be fun running around VA back in the 80s/90s with a detector (the early, prehistoric V1 of course).
They had an unconstitutional law against them in that state then (still?) and the state police rolled with
detector-detectors (I think they were VG-2 models?), so you had to conceal and evade if you ran a detector.
Penalties were STIFF if caught with one (which included impounding your ride)...
The Valentine boasted of being the most stealthy of the detectors out there then, so the plan was always to keep
it such that you could quickly detach it from power and stuff it somewhere in a hurry if the need arose...
and one such evening commute, it sure did for me.
I gave a few random lane changes just as I saw him pull in off the shoulder, just to see if he was specifically
after me in that sea of fellow offenders - and sure enough, even though others were driving faster than me,
he locked onto my ***-end. By that time, I had managed to yank the detector and stuff it under the bucket
seat in my 5.0, into a conveniently arranged pocket beneath the edge of the carpet under there.
I doubt they'd be able to find it even if they got a search warrant...
So he pulls me over and we chat for a bit, but he isn't letting on as to the reason for the stop.
He's being all clever and I ain't in the mood for it, wanting to just get home and off that damn freeway.
When I finally ask why I got pulled over, eh says "you ARE aware that detectors...blah blah?"
Yep, I am. Signs all over the place about your unconstitutional law, officer...
Finally, he blurts out "I know you have one." No sir, you don't. "Come up to my patrol unit, sir."
Ok...and he has me sit in the front passenger side, where I come face to face with the fabled VG-2 unit.
Yikes...He sees me looking at it and asks if I know what it is. I play dumb and ask and he goes into all sorts of
proud description of the technical prowess of the thing...
Ok officer, but what has that got to do with me?
"Am I going to have to get a warrant, sir?"
Yep, afraid you are sir...I do not consent.
10 minutes of awkward silence later, he finally escorts me back to my car, still chewing at me about
knowing I had a detector and that he'd be watching for me.
It wasn't terribly much longer after that evening that I'd decided I'd had enough of the 120 miles of commute
on I-95 daily, amongst the crazies shooting at each other, the drug-runners, the psycho truckers....
and of course, the over-zealous state troopers running around damn near autonomously.
Fluck that, let someone else do it, I'm heading south back to a more sane world.
Never looked back, either. Probably saved my life just from the stress relief alone.
Oh, and the VA troopers? Even worse from what I understand - and the fines have gone NUTS up there.
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I don't bother with a detector.
Waze.
Make sure someone's always going faster than me. Or at least, make sure I'm not the fastest in the pack.
Stay right as much as possible, only left to pass (or in congested areas to avoid the merge lanes).
Pay attention. Situational awareness.
Haven't had a detector since high school...and one ticket the whole time. And that includes tens of thousands of miles on ridiculously fast sportbikes. As in, break any speed limit in the nation...in second gear.
Waze.
Make sure someone's always going faster than me. Or at least, make sure I'm not the fastest in the pack.
Stay right as much as possible, only left to pass (or in congested areas to avoid the merge lanes).
Pay attention. Situational awareness.
Haven't had a detector since high school...and one ticket the whole time. And that includes tens of thousands of miles on ridiculously fast sportbikes. As in, break any speed limit in the nation...in second gear.
Except for Waze, I do all that. Love when a nut has to do 100 and pass. Insurance. I ALWAYS get right after a pass. There is usually someone faster. Don’t care. Just wanna roll.
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Similar thing here. Since I got out of the rat race in VA in 1995 and moved down here, I've never run a detector.
Things are different here; you know what they're looking for and their ways of enforcement - and to be honest,
they'll give you a dozen or so over the limit without so much as a sideways glance.
Just a different world here - heck, I'm friendly with the county sheriff here and I NEVER knew any LEO up in VA...
I think my age gets me a little slack with the local guys, too - they know me through recognizing Fred or what have
you - and most are friendly and will initiate conversations out of the blue with you in public.
I guess you could say things are more "relaxed" here.
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