Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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Hang on, people don't mean what they write for comic effect... surely not. What's the world coming to?
How many of you stick to the speed limit while driving??
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Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
The one and only time I got speeding tickets [yes 2, in 1995... the shame] was when I got a more powerful engined VW Passat Estate ... [wild I know, but bear with]. I had test driven the sales demonstrator manager's TDI 140bhp car from a garage I'd never been to before, and within 2 miles out and then back, on a dual carriageway with pedestrian barriers preventing access, had passed 2 speed cameras driving at 47 and 48 in a 40mph limit. He'd arrived back late from a liquid lunch and I'd had to get to a meeting after the test drive so was pretty fed up. I had to request the photos from Northumbria Police as I wasn't sure whether the car had been clocked arriving or leaving the garage [ie the sales manager rushing back or me -unfamiliar with the car- driving off. Either way they got me... what I hadn't appreciated was 2 speeding fines increases your insurance by a minimum 33%.... or more.
Lesson learnt... now got a 1.6 Bluemotion Passat Estate, 105bhp... yes you read that correctly. [I'll be the one behind you on your bike, coughing up the hills.]
Lesson learnt... now got a 1.6 Bluemotion Passat Estate, 105bhp... yes you read that correctly. [I'll be the one behind you on your bike, coughing up the hills.]
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
I've only had it 2 weeks... 44.9 average so far, but that includes sitting in a 40 minute queue of shuffling traffic. best one journey average was to Durham and back, 56.5.... hoping for the quoted 67+ on a run down to collect Miss A_T from Sheffield in June.
How sad am I?
How sad am I?
I hate driving,but when i am i usually have my girls in with me.A school run or a Hospital dental visit.So no speeding.And i will not be pushed up the rear end to go faster.Overtake if you need to.Only once have i bollocked someone while on the school run.Undertook me then cut back in.Prat.
defy-one
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User9609 - apology accepted and thank you for clearing up the misunderstanding . Paul - I'm a safe driver and have a clean licence. I stick to 30/40/50/60 speed limits but on a "deserted" motorway I do 80-85mph. I have children and older parents, so can you all quit thinking I tear around like a 17 year old hooligan.
Maybe I shouldn't have said "giving it beans" on a cycling forum????
Everyone happy now !
Maybe I shouldn't have said "giving it beans" on a cycling forum????
Everyone happy now !
3 Hail Mary's and an Our Father.
BADGER.BRAD
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- Shropshire
I stick to the speed limits as one my lively hood depends on my license and two I've seen that many speed related crashes on my travels around Britain that I steer clear of speeding.
I must admit when ridding my motorbike that sticking to 30 mph limits puts me in more danger than just going with the flow as car types seem to think they'll get there quicker by driving on my back mudguard or do they think they can intimidate me into going faster ? I wish I had a rear facing rocket launcher !
I must admit when ridding my motorbike that sticking to 30 mph limits puts me in more danger than just going with the flow as car types seem to think they'll get there quicker by driving on my back mudguard or do they think they can intimidate me into going faster ? I wish I had a rear facing rocket launcher !
HLaB
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When I was younger I used to travel at just below 110% in the UK and I was never caught and when I first moved to Ireland there was no penalty points and the Gardai seldom followed up a fine to a foreign reg, so I was a bit less cautious 
The daft thing that every time I was stupidly doing 90mph, I was overtaken 
Now I'm older and have a better understanding of the implications of speed, I never exceed the speed limit driving.
The daft thing that every time I was stupidly doing 90mph, I was overtaken Now I'm older and have a better understanding of the implications of speed, I never exceed the speed limit driving.
mickle
innit
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subaqua
What’s the point
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- Leytonstone
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
I try to adhere to limits, it saves me from having to undertake a lot of overtaking manoeuvres.
And to answer Mr. Paul's comments about deserted motorways...
Clearly, they are never truly deserted - but at 3 am you can generally go along at a bit of a lick and you do not have to pull in and out constantly, and you very rarely come up behind someone who is going slower than you - i.e. the outside lane is pretty much clear...
No one is saying it's totally safe to do this, but it's safer than those people who try to do it when the traffic is heavy/normal
Clearly, they are never truly deserted - but at 3 am you can generally go along at a bit of a lick and you do not have to pull in and out constantly, and you very rarely come up behind someone who is going slower than you - i.e. the outside lane is pretty much clear...
No one is saying it's totally safe to do this, but it's safer than those people who try to do it when the traffic is heavy/normal
And whilst one must respect those who do a steady 65 on the motorway - can you all please drive on the left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sitting in the middle land 'because the inside lane is for trucks and I'm in a car' is just bad driving.
It doesn't matter if you're within the limits, regardless of this you have to return to the inside lane unless overtaking.
On the M1 (for example) this can be quite hard because of the number of trucks, but on roads like the M40 it's unforgivable...
Sitting in the middle land 'because the inside lane is for trucks and I'm in a car' is just bad driving.
It doesn't matter if you're within the limits, regardless of this you have to return to the inside lane unless overtaking.
On the M1 (for example) this can be quite hard because of the number of trucks, but on roads like the M40 it's unforgivable...
mickle
innit
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I drive no faster than the speed limit (as indicated on my speedometer, which gives me a comfortable margin of error of up to 10% as far as I can work-out) on all roads other than motorways. And, as a fan of the 20's Plenty campaign, in town I regularly drive at 20mph in areas where, or at times when 30 seems excessive such as when there are lots of peds/ kids/ cyclists around. Speeding is so endemic around these ends that even when driving at the speed limit I often find myself leading a precession as one car after another catches me up.
On motorways it's a different matter. I - along with almost everyone else on the road - regularly drive in excess of the speed limit. So shoot me.
I've never had a speeding ticket, my license remains unblemished.
On motorways it's a different matter. I - along with almost everyone else on the road - regularly drive in excess of the speed limit. So shoot me.
I've never had a speeding ticket, my license remains unblemished.
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