Hey guys,
Sorry it took so long to get back, I've been putting in the hours at work lately.
Those sneaky f'ers are in the large white Ford sedans (I think its the Crown Vic). No top lights and only the light colored CHP stickers on the doors and no stickers on the trunk. Most have blacked out rear windows except where the blue and red lights are recessed behind the glass. You can't see the outline of the lights in the rear window when coming up on them from behind ....until its too late. I didn't see the large whip antennea either. There are only a couple here in Truckee. The rest are black and whites. They act like SWAT. I bet they all have the Alpha radar that can tell your speed while the car is moving. I don't have a detector anyway.
The sky patrol is usually a scam. It is very expensive to patrol by air and not very effective in the hills. Being a pilot, I know where the airports are. I started to notice that each time I am near an airport, the warning signs for air patrol were posted. One thing about this are that police planes can't fly through a traffic pattern following a highway without clearance from ATC. Repeated clearances would be too disruptive to the flow of air traffic. Instead I think the average driver can't tell the difference between a police plane and any other light aircraft. This driver would see the sign and look up. He sould see a random small airplane in the pattern and think it was a cop flying low and following traffic. He would slow down. So for the cost of a sign they can trick most drivers into slowing down. Smart and sneaky. The places where aircraft are actually used are on long, straight and remote highways like I-5 near LA. The ones up north are the airport scam like at Livermore (airport), outside of Tracy (airport) and Patterson (airport again). Urban areas have helicopters.
Pacemaster, how you been? My Busa is 35 pounds lighter so far. That is 445 lbs dry and about 490 wet. 22 lbs was the Akrapovic race exhaust and PAIR removal. Galfer wave rotors up front lost 2.5 more. I moved about a dozen other things not needed to reach 35# off. I plan to fabricate carbon fiber rearsets, a carbon subframe and dash frame this summer. that should be good for another 16 pounds off. And if I can sell some more homes up here I will get Magnesium wheels or maybe carbon wheels. That would be another 10 to 15 lbs. So the beast may get down to 410-415 dry? Then it will be in range of the GSXRs, R1s and others. But a hell of a lot stronger pulling.
Hope to have this all done by Laguna Seca. I'll buy you guys a beer and we can talk bikes.
