Are cyclists exempt from speed limits?

[ComedyPilot]

OP - What's the hurry....?

 

[byegad]

My recumbent trikes fitted with a Streamer Fairing (Plastic.) will trip the speed sensors you see around schools and just inside the 30mph limit signs in some areas. I suspect you'd need a rear fairing to trip a Gatso, which usually, but not always, reads your speed from behind.

 

[tyred]

I personally demand lower speed limits so us unfit cyclists can break them. A NSL of 12.5mph should do it

 

[green1]

I personally demand lower speed limits so us unfit cyclists can break them. A NSL of 12.5mph should do it

Just find yourself a decent hill and a spare pair of pants for when you hit a pothole at the bottom.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

... you can get points on your licence, and this can be applied even if you don't have one too.

Tosh!


GC

 

[Dan B]

I've tripped a speed camera on my Trice...

while it was in the back of a taxi? ;-)

 

[Pale Rider]

There is a speed warning display in a 30mph limit near me which records my speed each time I pass.

Usually it shows 11mph, but if I'm in a hurry it has been as high as 12mph.

 

[Tim Hall]

My observation is two riders, side by side and roughly a car width apart, is the way to go.

Funnily enough, that's my observation too.

 

[Maz]

How does a cyclist know how fast he's going? :-s

There's a downhill stretch on my way home.​

Tesco home-delivery van stayed close behind me when he could've overtaken. Gave him a thumbs up when we both stopped at the lights and he winds his window down...​

"I couldn't overtake you if I tried" he says "Got a tracker on this van, I can't go over 30...you were doing 30 to 35 miles an hour".​

"Really?" I said "I always wondered how fast I ride. Cheers!"​

 

[subaqua]

Has anyone ever set a gatso off?

yes, and a warning sign

 

[ArDee]

Has anyone ever set a gatso off?

Yes - I was cycling up-hill at the time ;but, I think it must have been broken it was going off for everything that went past.

 

[4F]

yes, and a warning sign

Where do you live the North Pole ? Very light for quarter past 11 at night

 

[subaqua]

Where do you live the North Pole ? Very light for quarter past 11 at night

crap camera that never kept date or time . now resides in a drawer at work for inspecting inside panels

 

[dan_bo]

Tripping a Gatso requires help from other riders, I believe. Rumour has it that a substantial amount of metal is needed to get the sensor angry. Riding four abreast at 40 mph might do it.
Riding alone at 34 mph will not.

Having a large arse helps.

So i've been told.

 

[subaqua]

There is a speed warning display in a 30mph limit near me which records my speed each time I pass.

Usually it shows 11mph, but if I'm in a hurry it has been as high as 12mph.

there were a few opf these on the Olympic park at construction phase . when walking across site in winter after cycling to site entrance I could get it to pick me up and I got a 6mph once !! couldn't sustain that for more than a minute or so but it was good to see the sign pick me up.