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How do people get away with it? Almost constant stream of cars in lane 3 on the M1 northbound this afternoon doing well in excess of a ton. There must be at least some cameras on the gantries, or are they all on false plates?
I can't see anything wrong with speeding, clear lanes and no one else on the road.. whats the problem?
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I've often wondered the same thing? I'd have 12 points in a week if I tried it.
just think of the fuel consumption too!
I do find motorways seem to get less stressful the faster you are going but 100 is a big no-no for me.
Obviously no cameras, or they're set above what people drive at. It's always varied geographicaly (cameras or not). 100mph in the outside lane was normal on the m4 between Reading and Bristol when I was commuting. Weirdly it's always been slower as you go further West.
from the Bradford Times
M1 : Speeding Cameras*
Just to let you know they are switching the speeding cameras on 24/7 today and if you go above 70mph when going down the M1 you will definitely get a speeding ticket, that’s the full stretch of the M1 all day every day and even when the signs of speed limits are not on.
Good luck all!
Cling film innit
That is the best quote yet.
I couldn't agree more 😂
I can’t see anything wrong with speeding, clear lanes and no one else on the road.. whats the problem?
Nor me to be honest, just curious.
70?
Spoilsports.
Cant be bothered to comment
Pfft 100mph, now a 150mph+, that’s something to aim at.
And those signs that say next major town x mins. Now that’s a challenge........
British roads are too crowded to enjoy. Go and hire a decent car and drive around Hungary and Serbia; I've never seen such excellent, new, EU standard motorways, so empty of traffc.
The law says 70 that's what's wrong with it or do we want to live in a society where we can pick and choose which laws we obey based on what suits our own opinions ?
The law says 70 that’s what’s wrong with it or do we want to live in a society where we can pick and choose which laws we obey based on what suits our own opinions ?
Yeah, I'd prefer to live in a society where a bit of common sense applies. Particularly with nonsense like arbitrary speed limits.
Was Lane 3 covered in mud too? Hopefully there were signs.
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A flagrant disregard for speed limits is neither big nor clever!
It is however, really, really good fun! 🙂
Back in the day, as a motorbike courier in the 90’s, if we’d have spent our days dawdling along at 100 we’d probably have been sacked for loitering
Nowadays, post my 6 month ban for speeding, I tend to take it a lot easier on the motorway.
Apart from on the M6 Toll - where, as we all know, the speed limits don’t apply and anything is fair game! 😉
Apart from on the M6 Toll – where, as we all know, the speed limits don’t apply and anything is fair game!
I was talking to someone on Friday who got busted on the M6 toll. Unmarked police Octavia. First one I've heard of though.
Can't see see appeal myself. I once went well over a ton in a fast car on a quiet motorway and pooped my pants. Never again, vans will suffice for me thanks very much.
I usually wave at them from the middle lane whilst chugging along at 68.5 mph ,smugly basking in a low mpg.
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;">I usually wave at them from the middle lane whilst chugging along at 68.5 mph ,smugly basking in a low mpg.</span>
and then catch them up at the next bit of congestion!
Roads are far less policed than they used to be (replaced with Wombles with zero mandate for speeding and vans you can see miles away) and cars get easier and easier to cruise along in 3 figures.
I guess more ‘variable’ speed limits and gantry cameras are the future. It used to be the case they only activated the camera when the limit was reduced below 70, now they’re always on.
Personally I can’t remember the last time I went that fast, I dislike seeing 20mpg more than I like seeing 120mph.
I think 130 was the fastest in a car, misread the check-in time for a flight and couldn’t miss it.
150+ on a bike, wearing a pair of shorts and t-shirt which was ****ing insanely stupid, part of the reason I got rid of it and never replaced it.
At 150mph on a bike you might as well wear a mankini. Anything goes wrong and you are pate.
Once you get above 140 it’s just like people chucking scenery at you anyway. 100 doesn’t actually feel particularly fast. Maybe that’s the upshot of my afore-mentioned speed-related dickheadery.
When young and stupid, i’ve chucked A bike down the road at about 95mph and walked away from it (with severely trashed leathers and helmet)
makes me wince just thinking about it now. The sound of a bike hitting the tarmac at that speed never ever leaves you. I can hear it now. What a nob head I was in my 20’s 😳
Some MotoGP / TT riders have come off at 150 and higher and not gone through leathers, but they probably get better ones than I had, but of course they weren’t on the Heads of the Valley with Armco, on coming traffic and buildings to gracefully slide into.
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</span>Yeah, I’d prefer to live in a society where a bit of common sense applies. Particularly with nonsense like arbitrary speed limits.
If people could be trusted to apply common sense, we wouldn't have to bother with speed limits.
I lived in Germany for 6 years and have always had a need for speed. Just never really had the machinery :-). Was always a bit frustrating doing a ton on the autobahn and getting flashed to get out of the way by a Sprinter. Went back a few years ago in my old Beemer and took it up to 136 before I bottled it. Glad i got it out of my system but jesus things are happening very very quickly at that speed.
Not really into speed any more. I like music and have a stress free drive.
It's one of those ego things to me.
Speed jusy begets speed.
It's nothing to do with common sense. It's about having a consensus.
Hoofing it while on a nice clear, twisty country B Road is still great fun! 😀
Motorway driving at any speed is a pretty joyless experience
I confess, I was a habitual lead foot, and I loved it.
I had zero bad effects, no tickets for years, no accidents.
However over time I have realised what a bell end I was and now I only buy slow cars so much above 80 is a struggle.
In my defense, I always just drove as fast as the car could go. I think they should design cars with speed limiters, I just cannot see the legal justification for having a car which is legal for UK roads that does more than 70.
><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 15.360000610351563px;">Back in the day, as a motorbike courier in the 90’s, if we’d have spent our days dawdling along at 100 we’d probably have been sacked for loitering</span>
Yep, in my motorbike days 120mph was normal motorway cruising speed!
Ya just gotta get there quickly right? I mean, like I'm so much more important than you and I'm a driving ninja and should be on Top Gear.. those tossers on there can't drive.. give me the job, I'll show them.
Whats the point of speed cameras, should be every man for himself.
(note not herself, because we all know Women can't drive riiiight?)
Back to the OP...
How do people get away with it?
You need the right vehicle. There are a handful of vehicles which are approved for 100+mph.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">I lived in Germany for 6 years and have always had a need for speed. Just never really had the machinery :-)</span>
- had to chuckle reading that written by a farmer!
I do find motorways seem to get less stressful the faster you are going
Really? I find I don't. I find the persistent 'must pass the next car' mentality gets weary after a while, and then moves into being stressful / tiresome.
In more recent years, I've found cruise control set at around 70 to be the most relaxing. Fast enough to catch and pass lorries, but not get caught up in the higher speeds stuff. Just let the car ease off the push-along mode into a chilled out speed, and the journey seems to pass just as well.
Whether it should be 70 or not ... if it was set higher, I think you'd still get the dote-ery eijits bumbling along at less than 50 ... making the closing speeds greater, and increasing the risk imho. Its fine enough where it is personally.
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This, and the bloody middle laners
Got all the speed freak out of my system on two wheels when I was younger, once did an indicated 125mph in a car I'd just bought (just to see what it would do) . Nowadays I set off with plenty of time and am happy to sit and chill at 65mph with the armrest down.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">Really? I find I don’t. I find the persistent ‘must pass the next car’ mentality gets weary after a while, and then moves into being stressful / tiresome.</span>
Sitting in the outside lane passing everything, no one coming up behind you so no worries about having to move over and as long as no one is catching you the Police are not chasing you. Good old days that are long gone 🙁
Sitting at 70 amongst the traffic you have to to be checking your mirrors, changing lanes to go round slower cars and middle laners, getting blocked in by some ass hat who then accelerates as you are passing or slows as they are passing you or a truck that decides it wants to be in the middle lane as you are half way past it and someone is along side you in the outside lane...
No matter how good you are at looking ahead and behind and planning manoeuvres there will always be dicks round the next corner. By being the fastest car on the road you get past them quickly and don't have to worry Mr sales rep in his Audi or BMW coming up behind you.
These days I tend to sit at 65-75 playing the lets see what I can get on the MPG computer game as I find it helps pass the time. I preferred my old car that didnt even have a working mileage display and was never fitted with an mpg calculator so I was blissfully unaware of how badly I was driving and trying to get good mpg between fill-ups without seeing your progress was useless. It also helps that these days I have a car with enough power to be able to pull out any time into a gap if needed or if someone takes a disliking to being overtaken and speeds up when you overtake them I can dispense with them pretty easily.
+1 for leaving early, choosing chilled tunes and cruisin' around 65 to max the MPG. Loads less stressful. 🙂
I've never been that fussed with high speed, I prefer good handling and acceleration. This was compounded by doing just under 135MPH (GPS indicated) in my "mildly tuned" Mk1 MR2, the front end went all light/floaty and the scenery was going past VERY quickly!
Before the do-gooders jump on me, I was doing a trackday at Knockhill. Very rarely do more than the speed limit and always drive to the conditions, pretty pot-holed at the moment up here...
"Hoofing it while on a nice clear, twisty country B Road is still great fun! 😀
Motorway driving at any speed is a pretty joyless experience"
Agree... Rather throw the GF's mx5 up a mountain pass or through the lanes at full throttle than caning it at full tilt 180kmh/110mph along the autobahn.
"Can’t see see appeal myself. I once went well over a ton in a fast car on a quiet motorway and pooped my pants. Never again, vans will suffice for me thanks very much."
As above, but habe had 200kmh/125mph (GPS) in my T5 at night on the A9 on the way to Berlin.
" +1 for leaving early, choosing chilled tunes and cruisin’ around 65 to max the MPG. Loads less stressful"
Yup... So by that my GF keeps asking me to put my foot down, or at least used to. Now that I've "lost" my license I sit there in a cold silent sweat as she boots the van along at 150kmh in 5th gear despite the van has six gears!
Track days for the win.
Speeding on public roads is a dick move.
End of thread.
“I was talking to someone on Friday who got busted on the M6 toll. Unmarked police Octavia.”
That shouldn’t be allowed. Why else would anyone pay the toll if not for the multi-lane racetrack beyond the booths?
Fastest I’ve managed was over 200 km/h on the autobahn between Berlin and Dresden. It was quite clear that at that speed (a) I lacked the skill to drive safely, (b) if I had a crash I wouldn’t be walking away, and (c) it still wasn’t fast enough to mix it with the bimmers and mercs anyway. So I slowed back to a more manageable 140 km/h and stopped being able to judge my speed by the fuel gauge needle!
I got to drive a CLK Black around the TT track last year, 140 was enough for me.
But booting it off the M6 toll with an Ariel in the next lane was superb fun
Yeah, I’d prefer to live in a society where a bit of common sense applies. Particularly with nonsense like arbitrary speed limits.
common sense is entirely arbitrary based on the individual perspective.
For example, car sharing is common sense, supercharged V8 is common sense (and fun), mandatory public transport is common sense, and people in a slower car getting out of the way is common sense.
When you get to 120 MPH it starts to feel really fast. Been up to 160 on a bike and 147 in a car, you have got to be switched on as it takes a fair bit to slow down even with big vented discs! You also find some of the smaller turbo engines get a bit wheezy winding the last 10 or 20 on.
Drove a few supercharged cars both small and large displacement. The sumptuous wide power band is a beautiful experience, can see why the yanks love-em, shame they are pretty rare in Britain.
Control at speed is an illusion. It only takes a second for something unexpected to happen and you can suddenly be in a whole world of crap. Though I'm all for variable speed limits on the motorway, and under some conditions increasing the speed limit to 80 or even 90mph, any faster than that then the human being becomes a severe limitation and by a long way the biggest risk. The problem is people think they are better and safer drivers than they are. You are just not as good a driver as you think you are. Just because you've had a flawless driving record for decades doesn't reduce the risk of you having a major stack up the next time you get into the car. There are so many factors outside of your control. It just isn't safe to drive at those speeds on the motorway and if you think it is then the sooner you get collared by a speeding camera or the police and your licence taken off you the better for everyone.
These days i rarely see over 70 in the car. I do see 100 on bikes though.
Back in the day on the A33 near reading, i saw 321kmh on a mates Hayabusa. Back in them days i was racing motorbikes and had a bit of a disregard for the rules.... at 200mph the world really does go by quickly... Especially in jeans and trainers 🙂