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Posted: 23:44 - 18 Apr 2024 Post subject: 100mph Petition. Yay or nay? |
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/651666
Personally I think it's very long overdue. ____________________ Roger wrote: Women don't get damp for clingy puppies. Get some better happy pills, hit the gym & buy a medallion the size of a dinner plate. Job done |
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Posted: 06:29 - 19 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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In an election year. Yeah, great idea. I mean it's never going to happen but certainly not right now. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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Posted: 06:51 - 19 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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Nope, never going to happen as much as i would like it. It's mildly amusing that the speed limits were set when cars like the Anglia were around that struggled to reach 70 anyway
What on earth would they have to bleat about on reality police shows if they couldn't say 'he was doing over 100mph, think of the kittens'.
Other than Germany our national speed limits are pretty much on par with other European countries anyway. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Only a good idea if leaving a decent gap is enforced/becomes the social norm. We may all think we have the reactions of a cobra but the truth is most of us don't. ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting... |
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Posted: 10:21 - 19 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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No going to happen, they have already lowered the speed limt permanatly on a stretch of the M1 past Sheffield/Rovrum to 60mph, sighting "air Quality" as the main reason
Quote: | Part of the M1 near Sheffield, which has a 60mph speed limit in place to improve air quality, has fined over 22,500 people in four years.
These fines, from just a 2.6 mile stretch of smart motorway, would have led to more than £2.25 million for the government if paid in full, data obtained by The Telegraph shows. |
Ahh yes, "air quality", not the £2.25 million generated ____________________ Current Bike: Honda CG125 ES4 // Honda CB600FS Hornet // Triumph Street Triple R |
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Posted: 11:47 - 19 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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Never going to happen, much as the vast majority of us would like it to be.
Although cars have improved hugely since the 70mph speed limit was introduced, the number of cars has increased massively and we literally don't have room for those sort of speeds safely anymore. Perhaps a possible option is to have increased speed limits during quiet hours, rather than just reducing speed limits during busy hours.
As an aside, I've always found the whole distance between cars measurement ridiculous from an official standpoint. It doesn't take into account that if the person in front of you brakes they don't come to an instant stop, so you get more room to effect evasive manoeuvres than they say anyway.
As for Sheffield M1, do not get me started!! What a fucking joke... can't remember the last time I saw it at 60mph anyway with the continuous roadworks slowing it to 50mph. And if it is due to 'air quality' why are they not letting all the electric cars go faster? They're not contributing to poor air quality (and no, I don't have one).
It was great to have the Parkway from Sheffield to the M1 increased to 4 lanes fairly recently, but of course again that's short lived - they've now closed 2 of them off for roadworks and it's all gone back to queuing again.
So to talk of increasing any speed limits, there's just no point until the roads are actually open long enough to be able to use for that. ____________________ Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
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Posted: 19:14 - 19 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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...have any of you signed it though?
Good points made, particularly about EVs.
It's a widely accepted fact that after 8pm everyone ventures upto 100 so I can't see it would be that bigger change.
I am surprised though that the Jeremy Clarkson crowd haven't gone ape ____________________ Roger wrote: Women don't get damp for clingy puppies. Get some better happy pills, hit the gym & buy a medallion the size of a dinner plate. Job done |
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Posted: 08:40 - 20 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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Never gonna happen, and to be honest does it really need to be? Generally I find anything above 80 and my fuel economy just absolutely tanks,so I sit at an indicated 80 knowing Im doing about 75-ish according to GPS speed and in the sweet spot of making progress and not having to fuel up every half hour.
Now what Id really love to see is like some US states where at night they switch off traffic lights or just have a 4 way flashing amber. Theres one total fucker of a roundabout on my way to work that always goes red as I approach it, stays red for about 10 minutes as it cycles through every other entrance which of course no fucker is using because its 4am and what idiot is up on the roads at that time? And of course it has a red light camera too because they know full well people would totally ignore it if they could.
The problem is, the general public are thick as clotted pig shit and need protecting from themselves. Just look at the retards who manage to crash on a straight bit of motorway. There should be a second driving licence for people who aren't complete spastics and are allowed a little more leeway with the rules |
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Posted: 17:39 - 23 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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100 mph, you say? Sure, as Polarbear says, the current speed limit of 80 mph was set back when... but so were the roads in question built.
As for the German model, their TüV (MOT) ensures only the tourists drive poor condition cars there. Let's not forget, that Germans are also rather orderly drivers, so once again, only tourists do stupid things on the Autobahn.
I visited Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg last year. Now, roughly 60% of the time on the Autobahn, going from the very east of Bavaria to the very west of the Baden-Württemberg there was a speed limit of 130 km/h, due to poor road condition, dense traffic and road works of all sorts.
Anyway, it was cool to cruise at 180 km/h when possible, reaching the top speed of 235 km/h. You get comfortable very quickly. That being said, the only time I've realised how fast I was going was the time I had to do emergency braking from said 180 km/h down to about 100 km/h, because of one unorderly tourist driver. So, that's one thing to take into consideration, especially when it's safe to say, as Easy-X mentions, the British MOT, just like the Czech equivalent, is not as strict as the German TüV. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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One way to manage it would be for our motorways to have a scraper system installed.
They have a similar chain driven system in dairy farm sheds to push cow 5hite through a slot/corridor/channel into a slurry removal trough.
That way, any pricks unable to control their vehicle at speed and wipe out, present as little inconvenience to other road users as possible.
That would work for me.
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