Speeding everywhere.

[JiveBunny]

What is it with the modern motorist.

I find that I am tail gated in every thirty and forty mile an hour limit by cars that roar up from behind at easily fifteen MPH above the stated limit.

I have on two occasions in the last fortnight been overtaken by a tailgater as I have finally decided that no I am not going to do forty in a thirty as it suits you.

The 50/60/70 limits are also flaunted but luckily most of them involve a dual carriageway so the impatient motorist can zip by cranking on an extra twenty MPH and setting off the roadside warning signs to SLOW DOWN as they do so.

It is now at the point that it is a constant habit I'll be tootling along just over thirty and still have someone angrily driving behind as they are in a rush I generally pull over and leave them to their fate if possible.

The thing is, it is a wide range of people not just boy racer chav as you would expect or mr BMW/Merc business man its everyone - the school run mum the nanna coming from the shop the middle aged woman and the builder dad - everyone drives too fast.

[steveh]

just carry on, i dont speed up for them, and plus its a fun game watching them get more and more angry!

Speed up, move over or sit and laugh like i do.
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[Ste]

You're going too slowly, get off the roads.

[Andy_Pagin]

I get a lot of that on my evening commute

so...

I 'trap' a tailgater behind me as I come on to a roundabout with a nice clear straight & no cameras on the other side...

Amble around the roundabout at 20mph & 4,500 revs...

Just as they go to pass me when I come of the roundabout...


PIN IT
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[JiveBunny]

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[salty21]

the only time i do speed limits is when passing some sort of speed camera, i treat them as a very rough guideline and just ride to the conditions, If im working out in the countryside i'll usually go over 100 in more than a few places without even thinking twice about it.

Been riding this way daily for years and never had an accident, speed doesn't kill....bad motorists do.
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[Derivative]

I often wonder why everyone around me seems to be moronic.
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[c-m]

I don't think it's anything to do the modern motorist, more that the speed limits are too slow for modern vehicles, in terms of their performance, and safety. And the limits are getting slower still.
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[bluepixie93]

[Skudd]

As someone who got done for 98.3mph last summer I keep to speed limits a lot more.
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[Sable]

If you got a good mechanic near you, ask them too check your speedo. My 2nd bike over read by 10%+. Not much, but people were far less patient with me doing 27mph instead of 30mph in a 30. I Still get tailgated for doing 30 mind, it is noticeably better though

For those that still tail gate you, theres some some discussion / advice in this thread regarding tailgating : https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=263014&highlight= : If its getting too you, its worth a read.

[Cheeseybeaner]

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[Rogue_Shadow]

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[Moxey]

Usually sit at 35 for most 30's on my commute where the road is almost big enough to land a 747, only tend to stick to 30 or under when I get to uni in a fairly big cramped town where the speed limit is logical really.

Majority of my route is A road luckily so I get to exercise the VFR revs more liberally:D (added joy of finishing uni at 8PM and working night shift when roads are dead)
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[barrkel]

[Derivative]

I've never really been bothered by people that drive slowly to be honest.

Traffic lights, waiting at roundabouts, that sort of stuff generally adds far far more to my journey time than travelling 20-30% slower on one road for a bit until someone turns off or I can overtake.

[moppy]

[Polarbear]

While 30's and 40's are there to be obeyed, the misuse of the 50 limit nowadays is so f*cking frustrating. Try riding around the peaks with their blanket 50 or some of the popular roads round my way where they have randomly chucked in a stretch of 50 'just to slow things down'.

The 'speed kills' campaign has been as successful as the drink driving one to ostracise speeders as worse than a mugger or rapist in the kitten killing stakes.

FFS, the 70 limit has been in force since my mother had her Austin 1100 that was just about capable of hitting those speeds and certainly not capable of braking from them without a couple of Hail Mary's and a large anchor chain.

Speed limits should be raised to sensible levels and the 'Mummy's to lock up speeders for 20 years cause little Jimmy was hit by a car while I wasn't watching him because I was drinking my white lightening instead of being a good parent' groups should be banned.

and breath..................................................
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[s1h]

Some of the 50 mph speed limits that are cropping up in these so called accident black spots are ridiculous.

[yaigi]

It depends on the road as to whether a stick to the speed limit, but doing the speed limit or over it, I have still been tailgated. Especially down my road by knobs in 4x4s....

I have a new tactic in the car for tailgaters; the other week I was driving down an unadopted road which runs alongside a railway, often used by people dumping stuff and basically feels like the back of beyond. People often whizz down there, but it's got some dodgy bends so you need to slow down for them or you'll hit someone head-on. I was taking it about 35mph. Some chavs in a Fiesta got RIGHT up my arse....

So, I waited until there was a point where there was a car parked on the opposite side so they couldn't get past, and much to the horror of my passenger, I stopped, I didn't slam on, but I stopped VERY quickly. I folded my arms and I waited. After what felt like an eternity, and to my surprise, no beeping or hurling abuse, I slowly moved off. They stayed WELL back.

Had they got out of the car I would have just took off. In fact, if anyone does this to me again in the car, that's my new tactic, I'm just waiting til a point they can't get past, and I'm bloody well stopping until a) they get out the car (and I can take off), or b) they get so irate that they have a heart attack.

Won't work so much on the bike though, much more vulnerable
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