10-05-17, 11:17 AM
The beauty of France (or otherwise :pokefun ) was the on the spot fines. If you kept it sensible in the towns and villages and didn't go too stupid on the open road then you were unlikely to get done. Yes the Gendarmes would hide behind trees and use other tools like pinging you as you drove towards them on the open road from an unmarked car and then pull you over using other Gendarmes in the next village but that was a chance you took.
Then came the speed cameras. These have not been in France for as long as they have been here and it used to be a bit of a game to see how many you could set off in a single journey knowing you wouldn't get followed up. In the last couple of years, for me at least, I have been keeping it down with regard to speeds over there as I now have a house there that I would like to visit but I would still set the odd camera off at as little as 3mph over the limit. In the last year the cameras have either been switched off or they have been modified to not flash (even at night) when doing the same 2-3mph over the limit past them.
Speed camera detectors were made illegal a few years ago and even having one in your car (doesn't even need to be turned and could just be in a bag in the boot) can get you a huge fine. SatNav all got updated to remove camera warnings but too for this reason. What they do not instead is tell you for about 1/2 a mile either side of a camera is that you are in a "danger zone" meaning TomTom et all get away with it and you still know there is probably a camera up there.
Then came the speed cameras. These have not been in France for as long as they have been here and it used to be a bit of a game to see how many you could set off in a single journey knowing you wouldn't get followed up. In the last couple of years, for me at least, I have been keeping it down with regard to speeds over there as I now have a house there that I would like to visit but I would still set the odd camera off at as little as 3mph over the limit. In the last year the cameras have either been switched off or they have been modified to not flash (even at night) when doing the same 2-3mph over the limit past them.
Speed camera detectors were made illegal a few years ago and even having one in your car (doesn't even need to be turned and could just be in a bag in the boot) can get you a huge fine. SatNav all got updated to remove camera warnings but too for this reason. What they do not instead is tell you for about 1/2 a mile either side of a camera is that you are in a "danger zone" meaning TomTom et all get away with it and you still know there is probably a camera up there.
Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again