Speeding through villages/towns

[Slaninar]

Speed limits are for 60 year old ladies. Too low for good drivers/riders. Hate them.

[Andy FZS]

Speed limits are for 60 year old ladies. Too low for good drivers/riders. Hate them.

How do I get my leathers over my plaid skirt and cardigan and can someone suggest how to stop my shopping bag from interfering with my heated grips? Oh yes I ride slow but quick enough for me.

[JoeRock]

30s and 40s I stick to, 50s usually so but occasionally up to about 60. National speed limits and dual carriage ways I ride as fast as I think is prudent really - one of the only reasons I'm thinking not to get another sportsbike as I did used to find myself at well over double the speed limit in some of the nationals around me.

[stupidamerican]

Thanks again for the advice.

In the States, town speed limit is 25mph across the board. We don't have many speed cameras except a few major cities. But.... the cops are crazy (mad) about their damn radar guns. They'll sit behind some hedges with their radar/laser guns and catch you doing 10-15 over the posted speed limit.

I've seen one scamera van since I've been here and plenty of the stationary cameras atop a light pole (weird) but only a few times have I seen cops with radar guns.

Speeding and the whole police element is quite different over here. It seems like there a fewer police officers worrying about catching people speeding. In my home state of Illinois, there is a whole squad of Harley motorcycle cops and their only job is to catch people speeding - nothing else. It's a pretty big money maker back in the States.  :wall

[ChristoT]

Speeding and the whole police element is quite different over here. It seems like there a fewer police officers worrying about catching people speeding. In my home state of Illinois, there is a whole squad of Harley motorcycle cops and their only job is to catch people speeding - nothing else. It's a pretty big money maker back in the States.  :wall

:lurk

This should be fun. Most of us are of the opinion that chasing speeding motorists is all Plod ever does here!

[Slaninar]

[quote author=Slaninar link=topic=10041.msg103983#msg103983 date=1380165094]
Speed limits are for 60 year old ladies. Too low for good drivers/riders. Hate them.

How do I get my leathers over my plaid skirt and cardigan and can someone suggest how to stop my shopping bag from interfering with my heated grips? Oh yes I ride slow but quick enough for me.
[/quote]

No need to get offended, it wasn't meant to be offensive.

Speed limit is set so that 60 year old woman driving a car can react in time. It is not for the average driver, but for the poorest one that passes the test. I consider most speed limits too low. Never had a ticket, or an accident on a motorycle (just on a bicycle   ).

[snapper]

not sure I can believe this thread
if you need to ask how fast you can go then you need to be back at school !
harsh ? yes but if your own common sense does help you then no one will !

[Lawrence]

[quote author=Andy FZS link=topic=10041.msg104004#msg104004 date=1380179682]
[quote author=Slaninar link=topic=10041.msg103983#msg103983 date=1380165094]
Speed limits are for 60 year old ladies. Too low for good drivers/riders. Hate them.

How do I get my leathers over my plaid skirt and cardigan and can someone suggest how to stop my shopping bag from interfering with my heated grips? Oh yes I ride slow but quick enough for me.
[/quote]

No need to get offended, it wasn't meant to be offensive.

Speed limit is set so that 60 year old woman driving a car can react in time. It is not for the average driver, but for the poorest one that passes the test. I consider most speed limits too low. Never had a ticket, or an accident on a motorycle (just on a bicycle   ).
[/quote]I see what you're getting at, but you have to remember that while most people drive like idiots I bet almost all of them would say they're better than average

[sure2ride]

My rule is simple.
20 30 and 40 are gospel.
50 and national are up to you.
BUT
Any time you break it you risk points

Thats plus 1 for me. Except in a 50 I would be pretty close to the limit, but in the National speed limit I ride as fast as I feel like according to the conditions.

[nick crisp]

So it seems you've touched on a sensitive subject here, stupidamerican (I can't keep calling you that!! - gimme something else!), but I'm sure you'd get similar back in the States. Have you met Mr. 40mph yet? 40 in a 30 limit, 40 in a 60 limit, and probably on the motorway too. Plenty of those around. 30 and 40 limits I absolutely agree with. Slower if conditions dictate. Best not to get impatient. We have police radar traps here too, I got caught by one in Essex who was also concealed behind a hedge.
Methods and stringency of enforcement in catching speeders vary between different county/authority areas. In Wiltshire for example, most if not all the scameras have been removed from the main roads (A roads) - the markings are still on the roads, and the warning signs are still up, but no cameras. Other places are drenched in the damn things. Parts of the M25 are now a scamera nightmare, you could lose your license within a couple of miles, and there seems to be little agreement as to how active they actually are (people say some are turned off sometimes - would you trust your license to hearsay?!)
In Wales, it seems to be mostly vans parked by the roadside, just done three days very enjoyable riding there though and didn't see any (hope there's not a nasty letter due soon!), although I got pulled by a copper there a few years ago and done, but he did compliment me on my riding!
As to the money making side of it, that's an argument that has been raging for a good while here too (i.e. just another tax for the motorist!). As per Wiltshire, after the initial camera love-affair, things do seem to be settling down a little, the motorists lobby is a powerful one, a real vote loser if they let things go too far. If Mr. & Mrs " Middle England" keep getting nicked whilst taking little Billy to and from school, popping to the supermarket in the little ol' 4x4 etc, they know they'll probably be out in the next election! (Cynical, me?  :lol ).