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It's the 'appropriate' part that's the issue.One man's appropriate is another man's far too fast.
Exactly
I vote we tattoo people's individual maximum rated speed on their forehead, so that there's no question what the maximum speed is they are each allowed to do when it comes to prosecution...
This is of course after they've been through a very arduous driver training and assessment course to see how safe they each are at certain speeds and certain conditions...
😉
It would also solve the problem of what Elaine Anne should get tattooed on her body!
IGMC
Your wife may just have to take it on the nose and get a job closer to home.
If my gf got caught speeding 4 times I'd be raging at how ignorant she has been!
i taped something off the radio once and kept it. I'm pretty sure thats illegal...
I once reached 110mph coming back from brighton at 3 in the morning - lock me up...
This is of course after they've been through a very arduous driver training and assessment course to see how safe they each are at certain speeds and certain conditions...
Yes - and re-assessed every 10 minutes for when they get bored or tired.
uplink - Member
I've managed way over 130 in a 30 limit on many occasions - didn't do me any harm
uplink - Member
I've managed way over 130 in a 30 limit on many occasions - didn't do me any harm
Yeah of course you did 😉
Ranks alongside internet hardmen stories for boasts 😆
One man's appropriate is another man's far too fast.
The trouble in some cases is that everybody but the person who set the speed limit's appropriate is the person who set the speed limit's too fast.
Yeah of course you did
Hora, would you like a wager on it?
The real nutters were coming past me like I was going backwards
Isle of Man?
Just for the record I drive for business and have had a clean licence for about 10 years now.
Yes
& Ireland
I want to dry hump your leg
Forget it Hora I'm an old man now 🙂
the 82 Manx GP was the last road race I took part in
get legal advice.....
afaik if you go to court to fight it and get found guilty the punishment will be harsher than pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances..
but get legal advice
and a sat nav with up to date traffic camera alarms....
I've been reading this thread hearing the comedy voices from Monty Python's Holy Grail, where they discuss the sparrow and velocity......
Uplink, if you were doing 130+ on the Portstewart road out of Coleraine, you need a new sat nav! The NW200 course follows the B185 (the "back road" down into University Corner, up to the magic roundabout before heading back towards Portrush via Mathers Cross and Magheraboy.
Thought they'd ruined it this year with the chicane at Mathers, but fewer riders dying and another good overtaking opportunity can only be a good thing!
Unless you are going waaaay back, when they had to re route it away from the prom in portstewart as people kept ending up in the harbour...!
Yes -I did mean down to Uni corner couldn't quite visualise it from the map on Multimap - it was nearly 30 years ago mind
I did 4 NW200s from 78 to 82 [missed 80 through injury]
in those day mind there were no chicanes heading back up to Portrush & the speeds on that bit were astronomical
Is your wife a footballer, rock-god, celebrity nobody, royalty or able to afford that really expensive lawyer that the previous use to get off from their driving bans.
If not, she's stuffed.
It's STW though, she can come on here for good advice on a commuter bike.
aye when the lads were doing 200+ into metropole, down a bumpy public road, over manholes and the like, it was some sight to see! The slipstreaming down into uni corner is still incredible to watch!
I've not been over since I rode there but keep promising to take my lad over for a holiday - maybe next year
I'm hoping to go over next year. Leave the car on this side and go as a footpassenger/camp.
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Uplink
NW200?
This is the funniest post ever...
Mboy - you're a legend! Nice one geeza!
The trouble in some cases is that everybody but the person who set the speed limit's appropriate is the person who set the speed limit's too fast
Tough.
Speed limits have been coming down all over the place for years. I am guessing this is because people can't judge for themselves. The village I used to go to school in used to be NSL - through a tight chicane over the crest of a hill, past a housing estate (with plenty of kids) and school, so loads of kids around. People used to go through it at 60mph - including me aged 18. Now it's a 30mph.
glasgowdan - are you still selling eggs?
Speed limits have been coming down all over the place for years.
Yes, in some cases for good reason, in a lot of cases not for good reason. The trouble with inappropriate speed limits is that they discredit the whole speed limit system, resulting in people speeding where the limit is important, like in towns. I'm certainly not advocating speeding in (appropriate) 30 limits, but I can think of some which aren't at all necessary - people get used to this sort of crying wolf and then go on to speed through 30 limits through a tight chicane over the crest of a hill, past a housing estate (with plenty of kids) and school, where they really shouldn't be. It doesn't really help if the person setting the limit is no better at judging than the idiot drivers who need their hand holding.
BTW the point a lot of people seem to be missing about the OP is that she's going to court anyway with 9 points already on her licence - you don't get the option to take the fixed penalty in that case.
The other point everyone seems to be missing is that this was generated by a conversation where someone said there was a time limit - I wasn't sure so posted up even though my wife was ready to take the points.
Since posting this my wife has had it confirmed that it was issued correctly so this is purely academic now.
She has also had her disciplinary and she isn't losing her job but you could say you lot have "had your blood"
I'm not bothered by any of your negative comments but, knowing what we have been through as a family and how damn hard my wife is trying to beat her way out of financial and personal depression after the events of the 2010, I am surprised that so many of you are quick to jump to conclusions and want to hang her for her crimes. But this is STW so actually I'm not that surprised - but I bet if it was you in these shoes then I am certain you would be doing the same as her and be going to court to face the music and standing proud.