Re: Valentine Radar Detector

["Lance LaCerte, Psy.D." <LACPSYD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

There's not much room to 'hide' a Valentine on the ST.  My suggestion would
be to consider using a Velcro (hook and loop) attachment system on the top
of your tank bag (or inside the clear map pouch on top of the tank bag.
Several reasons for this:  in the U.S. we are starting to get more and more
'photo radar' and 'laser'.  The Valentine is set up to detect these sources
but has to have a clear field of view (i.e., if it is hidden behind a part
of the fairing, it is only going to pick up X and K, Ka bands---- although
that may be sufficient for you in Australia?).   I have friend who mounts a
radar detector on top of his tank bag and so its fairly easy for him to hide
it if he is pulled over (i.e., just pulls off really quickly and pops it
into the bag --- which he opens  to get registration, etc., before the
police get to the bike---- he has also told me that he can lay his gloves
over the top of it without drawing too much suspicion).   The one place I
thought about 'hiding' it would be to relocate the horn and suspend the unit
in the same place that the horn resides --- it seems as though this could be
done with a little ingenuity, including going to a plastics shop and having
them make a clear box that could be mounted where the horn was, thereby
protecting the Valentine but not obstructing its forward view---
unfortunately, this would then not allow you to see the indicator arrows and
would not allow the unit to probably detect sources behind it.

Hope all of this made some sense and was of some help.

Lance
- -----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shutes <petersh@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 3:33 PM
Subject: Valentine Radar Detector


>G'day all
>Radar detectors are a BIG NoNo in Australia.But I'm still interested. The
Valentine certainly looks to be the choice model. Can anyone tell me how can
you hide it successfully and not reduce to much performance? How well does
it perform to the rear with a rider in the way? We have a few sneaky
unmarked pursuit cars where I live, even to the point they carry surf boards
on the roof.
>Thanks
>Peter
>Red ST 2000
>
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