Reply to: Stupid people and SPECs

[expat]

is there a motorail to Scotland?

No. It didn't survive the privatisation. The reduced number of sleeper trains meant each was longer and could no longer take the car-carriers too.

[NickFitz]

I ignore the speed limits. As long as you enter and leave on different lanes the cameras do not work. Not many people appear to know that.

They do now...

I wouldn't bother, mal - Cyberman knows much more from listening to some bloke in a garden centre than we mere mortals could ever possibly grasp by knowing the facts:

At least one person doesn't appear to know that it isn't true any more

SPECs received Home Office Type Approval for cars changing lanes in 2007.

Also, as that article points out, it was never the case that the cameras "didn't work" if you changed lanes; merely that, until the relevant tests were passed, they could not be used for enforcement purposes in that case.

You obviously believe all of the propaganda.

[malvolio]

I ignore the speed limits. As long as you enter and leave on different lanes the cameras do not work. Not many people appear to know that.

They do now...

[Moscow Mule]

is there a motorail to Scotland?

[Sockpuppet]

I live near (and use) some wonderful biking roads. Local plod is intent on slowing everybody down, dangerous or not. Plod is pretty much hated here. They have shown utter contempt for bikers even when the community shopped one of its own who had deliberately run down a plod.

Seems the Scottish coppers are different! I tanked it past a couple well over the limit in Scotland. Most of them in laybys just waived

Unoffically I reckon they know how much money tourists bring into Scotland and a lot of that is from bikers esp. to the more far flung places your overseas tourists don't venture.

[Money Money Money]

Try the M6 toll road. It's only 4 quid and there's nobody on it

£4.50!

[Mustang]

you can go 100mph for half then stop for a bit then go again.

OK - that covers the maths bit, but what about the reality? You still average 50!! How about just doing an average of 50mph and not bother with all this stop/start???!!! Is it just a matter of principle?!

[Mustang]

business suited guy goes over to young guy and grabs the iPod and chucks it out of the window

Arrogant buffoon!!

I would have thrown his newspaper out and demanded he at least pay for the iPod. Called the guard and sued!! lol

[The Lone Gunman]

I don't worry about SPECS but I don't take the pish either. I'll ride to the conditions of the road. If there are no road works guys around I'll continue at 10-15mph over the limit. If there are guys in the road works a little slower.



SPECS don't keep the photos - just the number plates. I suspect they keep the ones where cars are over the limits but not ones of vehicles who's plates they can't read.



He was a twonk. I'm all up for 'making progress' but pulling a wheelie at 82mph through a 30mph camera is just asking for it.

I went up to Scotland recently and while in the Highlands I averaged 80-90 for most of the time. When there were other roads users and towns I slowed to the limits. When there was no-one else I had a little fun.

Its all give and take. Most coppers couldn't care less that a biker is over the limit as long as they don't take the piss and no-one else is in danger.

I agree with you on the SPECS thing, bikes are invisible as the system cant give a reading so doesnt record at all.

Dont go thinking that plod will let you go as long as you are not endangering anyone else.

I live near (and use) some wonderful biking roads. Local plod is intent on slowing everybody down, dangerous or not. Plod is pretty much hated here. They have shown utter contempt for bikers even when the community shopped one of its own who had deliberately run down a plod.

[Sockpuppet]

Indeed - in one set of roadworks I was (unsurprisingly) passed by a bloke on a motorbike. I think he was showing remarkable restraint considering he wasn't going that much faster. Of course, there's no way he could have got past Cyberspeedytory

I don't worry about SPECS but I don't take the pish either. I'll ride to the conditions of the road. If there are no road works guys around I'll continue at 10-15mph over the limit. If there are guys in the road works a little slower.

I've always figured that if you keep appearing in Plod's photos but can't be identified, they will get irritated and eventually plant somebody out there to catch you when you pass. Then throw book.

SPECS don't keep the photos - just the number plates. I suspect they keep the ones where cars are over the limits but not ones of vehicles who's plates they can't read.

There was a guy done on a motorbike I read recently. The police went to extraordinary lengths to ID him. Cant remember the details.

Dont wear a distinctive lid.
Dont wear distinctive leathers.
Dont ride a distinctive bike.
Dont do it regularly on local roads.

He was a twonk. I'm all up for 'making progress' but pulling a wheelie at 82mph through a 30mph camera is just asking for it.

I went up to Scotland recently and while in the Highlands I averaged 80-90 for most of the time. When there were other roads users and towns I slowed to the limits. When there was no-one else I had a little fun.

Its all give and take. Most coppers couldn't care less that a biker is over the limit as long as they don't take the piss and no-one else is in danger.

[Moscow Mule]

Found a bit about it.

http://www.visordown.com/motorcyclen...kit/5636.html#

The 6 months guy had his kid on the back with no gloves etc. My mistake...

[The Lone Gunman]

I remember this too. Didn't he get 6 months?

Found a bit about it.

http://www.visordown.com/motorcyclen...kit/5636.html#

[Moscow Mule]

There was a guy done on a motorbike I read recently. The police went to extraordinary lengths to ID him. Cant remember the details.

Dont wear a distinctive lid.
Dont wear distinctive leathers.
Dont ride a distinctive bike.
Dont do it regularly on local roads.

I remember this too. Didn't he get 6 months?

[The Lone Gunman]

Who cares about specs?

My motorbike has no front number plate

There was a guy done on a motorbike I read recently. The police went to extraordinary lengths to ID him. Cant remember the details.

Dont wear a distinctive lid.
Dont wear distinctive leathers.
Dont ride a distinctive bike.
Dont do it regularly on local roads.

[expat]

Who cares about specs?

My motorbike has no front number plate

I've always figured that if you keep appearing in Plod's photos but can't be identified, they will get irritated and eventually plant somebody out there to catch you when you pass. Then throw book.