Mounting an E-Z Pass for motorcycles. Tips please

[Rags722]

I guess the question I have to ask is this.... is it worth the potential problems mounting the EZ Pass under the fairing could cause?  I look at it like this..... one fine day I go through a toll booth enjoying the heck out of the ride.  For any one of 100 reasons, EZ Pass fails to read my transponder and a cop sitting there pulls me over.  OK, he can't see a transponder on my windshield, so right away he figures he has a toll runner on his hands.  If I sir him to death and explain people keep ripping off transponders so I mounted it in my side bag or tour pack, all I need to do is open either and show him a permanently mounted easy pass.  Ditto to an EZ Pass inside a windshield bag.  However, in the case of a EZ Pass mounted inside a fairing, you are kinda out of luck unless you carry the tools and find a cop willing to sit in the sun while you take your bike apart.  Sure, in any case he can write you a violation just because it's not mounted on the windshield like the instructions say, but even then if he can see a mounted Pass in a tour pack or side bag odds are you will still be riding the bike home.  Catch an A$$hat that just has a stiff one for bikers and that fairing mounted pass could keep you tied up for a while.  Just sayin'   

[Big Cahuna]

I've tried mine in the saddle bags and it didn't read. I even tried it in the pocket of my leather jacket NG. So I went to a auto parts store and bought one of those plastic holders  with three suction cups, and stick it to the inside of the windshield. Works like a charm. I swap it between the bike and the car. Works for me.,,

[Tsani]

Damn Rags, that's a bit much. To be honest, I haven't noticed any LEOS chasing down toll evaders. If they do, just let them give you the ticket. Call EzPass and they will remove it. I have never had a problem other than once at a bridge, sign said all lanes accept EZpass, Tell that to the tool bitch who flipped out and claimed hers didn't and got further upset when I told her to check the damn signs. Your signs, not my fault. Thank you state of PA.

Part of the reading problems could be the way your pass is facing while in the vest pocket. It needs to be oriented as on the windshield altho I have heard otherwise. I don't worry about it beng stolen. Guess I should, but no one has tried yet. Probably just jinxed myself.

[GaryD]

Not sure about other state protocals, but in Illinois all you need is your vehicle registered. You don't even have to have the transponder on your vehicle. A few years ago you did because I got 3 notices that I owed $400 for 3 tolls that my kids went through without paying or having the transponder. I told the I-Pass moron that they were registered so just take the fees off my account, he told me I have to have the transponder with the vehicle.
I believe that's changed now because I drive thru the gates all the time and don't have the transponder with me - they just deduct the fees after reading my plates.

Tsani, right you are and most of the time around here during rush hour it's quicker to drive the non toll roads then on them.

[UltraNutZ]

To be honest, I haven't noticed any LEOS chasing down toll evaders. 

oh they do here!  anything to make a buck in this state.  In addition I would point out that most of the toll roads around here are JUST AS CONGESTED during rush hours as any other free public streets are.

The Hardy Toll way for example here, being 22 miles long.  In 1984, politicians being the honest people they are, promised the voters all kinds of BS that when the $287 million project was paid for, the toll way would become a free public highway.  In 1984 that total was met by paid tolls but guess what?  To this date Houstonians have paid in excess of $850 million and counting because the toll booths are still in place and will be forever.  I guess I would feel differently if everything wasn't so congested everywhere but it is and the toll ways around here aren't saving us an ounce of time but sure are lining someone's pockets fairly well.

To answer the OPS question.  Mine is attached to the inside of my right saddlebag lid using Velcro.  Not once since 05 have I gotten a toll violation so it must work.

[Tsani]

Yeah, I remember it being mad congested back in the Seventies too. Problem is every body works in Houston or DFW!

[Rags722]

I still think when they realize all the crotch rockets with no visible plate learn they can run EZ Pass lanes all day with no way of getting caught, the POPO are going to figure out bagging bikes is an easy way to charge the entire length of the toll-way.  I know in Jersey State Police Troops AB&C are North Central & Southern NJ, there is 1 troop (Troop D)dedicated to the NJTP and the Garden State Parkway.  The AC expressway is covered by troopers assigned to Troop A. The troops AB&C get all their funding through the state General fund, but traffic tickets pay a big part of the NJTP & GSP troop costs.  Lets face facts, when an entire troop covers a limited access highway only, they don't do a lot of the stuff that the other troops do to justify their manpower.  Sure, an occasional drug bust is nice, but if they are not writing tickets, they are not showing any real value.  I'm guessing other states are structured pretty much the same way when it comes to toll roads.  If you can nab a scooter for no EZ PASS, plus evading the toll, plus anything else you can write once you have him pulled over, it makes focusing on EZ Pass violations a profitable day, and about as easy as shooting fish in a barrel if it is indeed a limited access highway.. Given the choice of chasing a fully laden HD or a crotch rocket, unless I liked getting my butt whipped, I'd be all over the H-D's every day.  All that is still a long way around the barn to say if I mount my EZ Pass someplace other than the windshield where it belongs per PA EZ Pass rules, I want it someplace accessible in case I ever need to produce it for a traffic cop.

[Tsani]

On the ACE, I haven't seen them pulling a bike for toll evasion. But they will for speeding. etc. They will also pull groups of squidos over along with "certain" others.