controversal but true, got overtaken by one today in a 30mph limit doing 40+ ....now it wouldn't usually bother me as i'm no angel but this guy had L plates on his bike! 
70mph limit to be scrapped
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controversal but true, got overtaken by one today in a 30mph limit doing 40+ ....now it wouldn't usually bother me as i'm no angel but this guy had L plates on his bike! 
L plates are only for show Matt. Btw, i edited the thread title for you
Tony, I do believe we stuck to our speed limits all the way to and all the back from Supercar Sunday didn't we??
but this guy had L plates on his bike!
Probably a 16/17 year old that thinks none of the rules apply to them. The amount round here that ride like total t**ts is a joke, how some of them haven't crashed or injured themselves is beyond me.
We have loads of 20mph zones throughout Exeter and outlying areas, the problem is you get idiots, like the one I got stuck behind yesterday, who came out of the 20mph zone into a 30mph zone...what speed did he do?..errr...25mph which he kept up and we went into a 40mph & 50mph area. I along with a queue of traffic behind me were getting very annoyed, especially when there was too much traffic coming from the other direction to overtake safely. So mile upon mile we crawled, those behind doing less than 20mph due to this idiot in front. Now where are the traffic cops to pull people who do this??
Si, maybe you can answer this question: Do they get 3 points and a £60 fine for holding up the traffic and basically causing an obstruction?? or do they just getting a telling off??
In reference to the original message about 80mph on a motorway, I say bring it on, but I think the same as JJ, in that the law will rigorously enforce the limit within the confines of 80 + 10% +2.
Si, maybe you can answer this question: Do they get 3 points and a £60 fine for holding up the traffic and basically causing an obstruction?? or do they just getting a telling off??
In reference to the original message about 80mph on a motorway, I say bring it on, but I think the same as JJ, in that the law will rigorously enforce the limit within the confines of 80 + 10% +2.
We have loads of 20mph zones throughout Exeter and outlying areas, the problem is you get idiots, like the one I got stuck behind yesterday, who came out of the 20mph zone into a 30mph zone...what speed did he do?..errr...25mph which he kept up and we went into a 40mph & 50mph area. I along with a queue of traffic behind me were getting very annoyed, especially when there was too much traffic coming from the other direction to overtake safely. So mile upon mile we crawled, those behind doing less than 20mph due to this idiot in front. Now where are the traffic cops to pull people who do this??
Si, maybe you can answer this question: Do they get 3 points and a £60 fine for holding up the traffic and basically causing an obstruction?? or do they just getting a telling off??
In reference to the original message about 80mph on a motorway, I say bring it on, but I think the same as JJ, in that the law will rigorously enforce the limit within the confines of 80 + 10% +2.
I've noticed this sort of "SLOW" behaviour a lot since i recalibrated my speedo, maybe it's the same with you Tim. Bear in mind that speedos are preset at production to "over read" so they all think they are doing ie: 25mph because thats what the speedo reads, but they are infact going slower
My speedo is now bang on and so are most, if not all who have had their elglow dials fitted by me. This also explains the reason i get some funny glances in these "average 50mph" zones while i am overtaking everybody who is doing between 45mph and 48mph 
We have loads of 20mph zones throughout Exeter and outlying areas, the problem is you get idiots, like the one I got stuck behind yesterday, who came out of the 20mph zone into a 30mph zone...what speed did he do?..errr...25mph which he kept up and we went into a 40mph & 50mph area. I along with a queue of traffic behind me were getting very annoyed, especially when there was too much traffic coming from the other direction to overtake safely. So mile upon mile we crawled, those behind doing less than 20mph due to this idiot in front. Now where are the traffic cops to pull people who do this??
Si, maybe you can answer this question: Do they get 3 points and a £60 fine for holding up the traffic and basically causing an obstruction?? or do they just getting a telling off??
In reference to the original message about 80mph on a motorway, I say bring it on, but I think the same as JJ, in that the law will rigorously enforce the limit within the confines of 80 + 10% +2.
Down to interpretation mate. You have a duty to keep up with the flow of traffic and not to hold traffic up. There is no official minimum which makes any kind of enforcement difficult.
Comes down to due care and attention really....in my book anyway
Well anyone that goes slow enough on a motorway to make a truck overtake them should be banned with no option of a retest EVER!.
I like your style Jas
I try to keep the speed down when in a residential area due to people driving/walking with blinkers on so to speak and not being aware of what is going on around them, last thing I want to do is have to clean their blood / paint off my car, it just wouldn't do. Any other road....well within the limits of the conditions (weather, road conditions, cameras etc.) anything goes
I try to keep the speed down when in a residential area due to people driving/walking with blinkers on so to speak and not being aware of what is going on around them, last thing I want to do is have to clean their blood / paint off my car, it just wouldn't do. Any other road....well within the limits of the conditions (weather, road conditions, cameras etc.) anything goes
Thanks for that, so I was right in the fact that because there is no lower limit, these people can get away with causing a tail back just because they feel like it and the law are powerless to do anything about it, other than speaking to the driver concerned. Can you still give them 3 points and a £60 fine for lack of "due care and attention" in such cases??
no....its a court summons.
Stereotypically, its old duffers that are guilty of this, and they won't listen to advice.
We have the right to inform the DVLA of our concerns over the manner of their driving, or indeed suggest to the people concerned, perhaps they should had their licences in.
I have known people being run for due care and attention for such things as this, but it is rare
Stereotypically, its old duffers that are guilty of this, and they won't listen to advice.
We have the right to inform the DVLA of our concerns over the manner of their driving, or indeed suggest to the people concerned, perhaps they should had their licences in.
I have known people being run for due care and attention for such things as this, but it is rare
Ok, thanks for that. The idiot I was behind yesterday had about 15 cars queuing behind him, I caught a lucky break and managed to get passed him, but I was the only one, the rest had to sit behind him. I was quite surprised as I thought it was some old duffer...but turned out to be a bloke in his 30's or there abouts!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15176330
That just goes to show they need us to use more fuel.
Al out of curiosity did you fit the elglow dials in my cougar?
That just goes to show they need us to use more fuel.
Al out of curiosity did you fit the elglow dials in my cougar?
lmaoThe treasury will breathe a sigh of relief when all these ST220 conversions are finished!
If they ever get finished
Probably! I have fitted most of them from both GB's. Who was the previous owner of your cat?
No Tim, that's Gav's car (ie V6 NOS as was, soon to be re-Christened "No Limits ST220"). It was Cougar asking the question about dials.