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Gixer750
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PostPosted: 13:25 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Will I have been caught speeding by forward facing cameras? Reply with quote
On the bike on a motorway today and got carried away through the average speed camera section and went a bit faster than the 50mph limit - well, quite a bit faster. Thought that the work had finished on the section I was going through and there were no cameras. I was wrong.

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They are all forward facing cameras aint they?
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yuri2085
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PostPosted: 13:40 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Answer to the question in the title. No


Answer to your final question. All the ones I have seen have been forward facing but you could be on a special motorway without forward facing ones.



It doesn't matter if no workers have been there for a month speed enforcement just seems to be a lot of fun!
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PostPosted: 13:50 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
I went through a set for 6 months on my commute, never once got caught by them. I was never silly going through them, but I never once got into trouble going through them.
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badas
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PostPosted: 14:30 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
i got some average speed camera on a dual carrage way i go through every so often, one faces forward on my side of the road but allmost directly opotite on the other side of the road it faces the rear of my bike....

so don't know if the cameras work for both sides of the road or not :S
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binge
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PostPosted: 14:33 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Unless you repeatedly speed on a bike though a single camera. You wont get caught.

I've rear-wheeled it through plenty of cameras at 80mph+ setting them off. Never had a sniff of the police yet.




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tutton
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PostPosted: 14:51 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
There on about average speed ones on motorway ben... Laughing
Depends where you were mate, i think near exeter or plymouth there is a rear facing set.. or i was told so.
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PostPosted: 14:54 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
I know which cameras the OP was referring to.

But on a bike, unless you do it time and time again, through the same camera(s), you wont get caught.

Keep speeding through spec's cameras on the average speed checks, And the fed will eventually look into it, And identify your bike another way.




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DrDonnyBrago
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PostPosted: 15:29 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
binge wrote:
I know which cameras the OP was referring to.

But on a bike, unless you do it time and time again, through the same camera(s), you wont get caught.

Keep speeding through spec's cameras on the average speed checks, And the fed will eventually look into it, And identify your bike another way.




Ben


The SPECS don't actually look at your speed or even your bike though, they just read numberplates then some computers do some maths and figure out how fast you were travelling by how long it took you to travel between 2 or more of the SPECS units. Basically, without a numberplate reading they don't know how fast you are going, or even that you went through them.


In other words, forward facing SPECS units - do what ever the fook you want.

Forward facing "cameras" - do it now and again and not on your daily commute or they will catch up with you the old fashioned way Thumbs Up .


tutton wrote:
There on about average speed ones on motorway ben... Laughing
Depends where you were mate, i think near exeter or plymouth there is a rear facing set.. or i was told so.


I regularly drive between exeter and plymouth mate, they had some roadworks on the A38 a while back and these had a few of the SPECs units turned the other way - at the moment though they are all facing towards oncoming traffic.

I'm not 100% convinced that the ones that were turned around were anything more than a visual deterrent towards motorcyclists though tbh.

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tutton
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
thatd of been the ones i were talking about,
might of been mike that told me even..
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DrDonnyBrago
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
tutton wrote:
thatd of been the ones i were talking about,
might of been mike that told me even..



That would make sense, Mike is my brother Thumbs Up .
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Gixer750
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PostPosted: 15:44 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the comments guys Smile
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yuri2085
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PostPosted: 18:13 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mike as in bacon?
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DrDonnyBrago
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PostPosted: 18:14 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
yuri2085 wrote:
Mike as in bacon?


Yeah Thumbs Up .
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Noxious89123
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PostPosted: 18:36 - 15 May 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
DonnyBrago wrote:
The SPECS don't actually look at your speed or even your bike though, they just read numberplates then some computers do some maths and figure out how fast you were travelling by how long it took you to travel between 2 or more of the SPECS units. Basically, without a numberplate reading they don't know how fast you are going, or even that you went through them.

This is the most relevant tbh. Someone said it before. With regards to any type of camera that relies on reading your number plate (Like SPECS or ANPR) no number plate = no vehicle. It won't even detect you are there.
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