DJ140

MY Origin Blue i speed detector, advised of this camera, near York on Saturday.

Origin have sent me the following description of how it works:

"The Hidy hole alert is for a fixed speed trap technically called a DS2
Speedmaster.

You may have seen a police car at the side of the road at this point looking
as though they were taking a nap or having sandwiches. You will also notice
at this point there is a grey post about 1m high, the police are plugged
into this post which is connected to an inductive loop in the road. Whilst
the police are sipping tea they are watching your speed! This is a Hidy Hole".

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Dan

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Sneaky Barstewards, this sort of deviousness takes all the fun out of of baiting the police

PS Still got foreign number plates so don't worry about it

Denzil_Dog

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NotoriousREV

foreign plates, huh?

OK, cheap flat in France £20,000, registering car in France £100, Evading capture by the police, priceless

Unless I get pulled by an actual policeman. Does that even happen anymore? Do we now have a Virtual Police Force?

moresauce

Dan,
Thinking about getting either an Origin blue or the Geodesy speed camera devices? Are you happy with yours does it warn you in time etc etc?

Katana

Perhaps we should sabotage this thing and make it ruin the police car's electronics. I mean, we've got to get our moneys worth right?

RB5-Black

moresauce: The Warning distance can be set from 200m to 2000m
that should be enough no matter what speed you doing.

NotoriousREV

More reason to use my bike more often. Inductive loops used to trigger traffic lights often get confused by bikes (i.e. they don't always spot them).

Andrewza

There's two of these on the A134 between melford and bury st. edmunds (suffolk). One in alpheton and one in the last 30 limit (can't remember the name of the village) just before you reach bury itself. They've been there for years and I've driven the road countless times but never seen any police cars hooked up, guess it gives them an excuse to plaster the entire 16 mile stretch with speed camera signs though.

Little Miss WRX

So this policy to mke speed traps more viible only applies to GATSO's then?

BugEyed

More details on this system (including the optional link to a camera) can be found on the UK Speedtraps site.

Duncan

DJ140

Moresauce,

The Blue i gives plenty of warning, flashing light's, bleeping and a lady telling you what type of camera you are approaching. As you approach the camera the distance counts down, user configurable from 200M to 2000M.

Also provides the speed you are travelling and the direction - Useful in town.

Easy to fit too, mine is on the dash top to the left of the instruments.

Makula has negotiated a good price too.

Dan

Revengeissweet

priceless.

Eagle7

if you register the car in france, does that mean you dont need to pay UK road tax?

AlanS

Does anyone using the A5 have one of these excellent Origin Bluei devices? This weekend I travelled between Shrewsberry and Oswestry on the A5 and back. My Origin picked up "hidey holes". I've been through Specs, Gatso and Truvelo cameras but this was the first time I've seen "hidey hole".

I've read the info on <ahref=http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/speed02.htm>ukspeedtraps.co.uk</a> but I didn't see any marked or unmarked vehicles or strips in the road or posts. Does that mean that they weren't monitoring at that particular time, after all it was a sunday?

dogmaul

Where abouts in york !!!!!

BugEyed

If you didn't see anything, it doesn't mean that it wasn't there. The induction loops are buried in the road, and all you can normally see (unless they have marked them with rumble strips) are three rows of bitumin in the tarmac. The post is normally painted graey, and is only 2' high and 6"x8" so is not paticularly visible. However, unless a vehicle is plugged into it, the chances are that you weren't caught.

Duncan

boomer

Time for a "pair of rear, downward-facing angle-grinders" group buy - and put paid to those wires in the road

mb