Can you beat 30mph.Brilliant.

[postman]

Someone's been reading The Daily Mail.

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[MikeG]

Is it an offence to furiously ride a wanton ?

Probably not, but it is surely an offence to to furiously want a ride-on.

 

[vernon]

Someone's been reading The Daily Mail.

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Pot calling the kettle black?

 

[snorri]

Is it an offence to furiously ride a wanton ?

No, but some might consider the testostrerone emissions in this thread to be offensive.

 

[ColinJ]

Very possibly. It was at Albir Gardens, although I can't remember which year. The other highlight was when I put my name down for a ride on "one of those new Ti frames" which Robert Millar was notionally testing - he handed it to me with a grudging "wasted on you, ye fat git". True, but uncalled for!

Yes, I was there when RM was testing bikes and wheels. He lent me a front wheel when someone pointed out that I had a cut in my tyre and the tube bulging through, about 5 minutes before we set off on a ride.

He was a bit blunt, wasn't he!

Were you in the same group as me when the Scottish submariner had a major bike problem? His gear hanger snapped and the rear mech went into the spokes. We had to help turn the bike into a singlespeed to get him back to the hotel. The jammy so and so was the same size as RM so he got to borrow a different superbike from him each day.

I met the same Scottish rider on a camp about 6 or 7 years later. He was recovering from horrific injuries caused by a coach knocking him off and driving over him on a bend!

 

[summerdays]

The was a slow down sign or 30 mph sign on Cranbrook Road that was easy to trigger (I think you could trigger it about 27 mph), but now they have changed the speed limits it's just far too easy to set off.

 

[Smurfy]

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Same here, I wouldn't pay for it!

Pot calling the kettle black?

LOL. Yes, I confess, I'm as black as pots come with respect to that, but I do read plenty of other news sources too.

 

[Smurfy]

For years I kept trying to break the 30mph speed limit, (downhill I'm afraid), near a local Gatso speed camera, with the aim of waving and smiling for the camera as it went off. It only ever flashed me once, and I was having a bit of a wobble round a pothole at the time. The photo probably looked more like someone cowering on the front row of a roller coaster at Alton Towers. I have since learned that you can't get done for speeding on a bike, but that an offence of "pedalling furiously" still exists. Is this true? Anyone got a laminated copy of a court summons for that on their wall at work?

p.s. No small children or furry animals were hurt in the attempting of this feat, and I have since learned the error of my ways.

Forwards facing speed cameras are no good. How are you gonna moon for the camera on the way past?