What a tw@.

[sean5302]

Thank you BTTD I agree with your comment.
The reality is that German Law requires the owner to pay any speeding fines, unlike UK law which send a notice of intended prosecution to the registered keeper, who is then obliged to disclose the rider or be subject to a "fail to furnish" prosecution (IN10 and 6 points).

You may see the difficulty. The owner may well not have been the rider or the RK.
Precisely, how would German plod prove who was riding?

The same law applies in France, Belgium, Spain and many other countries. If you return and cctv pings your plate, so what?
You just tell plod to contact the owner (who may or may not be the UK registered keeper). If they get difficult, the word you want is
Blödsinn.

[Easy-X]

"All human life is sacred!"

But no one in power wants to actually admit: 'fraid not, chum, admittedly it's desirable but it's not the be-all and end-all...

60/70mph speed limit? "x" number of people die due to poor judgement but "y" amount of money is saved/made due to increased productivity. It's a simple equation. The ideologues howl that "speed kills" without challenge because "speed is fun, speed makes money" sounds cruel and mercenary. There has to be a balance somewhere or the world grinds to a halt.
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[bhinso]

[sean5302]

You started off so well, but it all went downhill from there.
1. I agree that the rider makes the risk assessment. The only person I need to convince is me. If I'm wrong I suffer the consequences. Nobody is better placed to make my risk assessment at that time than I am.
Not the council, not a politician and not plod.
2."It is illegal to drive having consumed 2 pints".
Completely, unarguably wrong.
The maximum BAC (blood alcohol content) limit in England & Wales is:
35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath; or
80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood or
107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine.

The maximum BAC (blood alcohol content) limit in Scotland is:
22 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath; or
50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood or
67 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine

BAC limits vary across the rest of the world.

3. I have never tried to conflate taking legitimate risk assessment of what I consider is a sensible speed with that of recklessly endangering lives, including my own, by being intoxicated.
Fortunately, I am the one of the two of us who actually does know what the BAC limits are.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[sean5302]

Completely wrong.
You don't know my body mass.
You don't know my metabolic rate.
You don't know where I live.
You don't know whether I've drunk on an empty stomach or along with a massive lunch.

Most people ask questions before making statements.
It stops them looking completely stupid.

[Riejufixing]

[Nobby the Bastard]

These things do have an effect but its marginal at best.

The uk limit is based on 3 units. A unit is the amount your liver can process an hour. Unless your liver is fucked, most people would process it at roughly the same rate.

The amount of food in your stomach doesnt affect the rate you absorb alcohol into the bloodstream or metabolize it using your liver.
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[sean5302]

[Fisty]

What a twat indeed, empty motorway and only doing 150?? Why wasn't he going faster?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Nobby the Bastard]

One wondered what the small intestine does.
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[sean5302]

The UK is composed of England, Scotland, northern Ireland and Wales.
If you ride in Scotland with the English permitted maximum level of alcohol in your system you'll commit an offence. QED there isn't a UK limit.

I told you the suggested alcohol limits for men and women. The latter is lower because their metabolism is different to that of men and their body mass is usually lower. If they drink as much as we do the alcohol concentration in their bloodstream rises higher and faster than ours.

[sean5302]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Actually the 21 and 14 units were selected at random and have no basis in science.

You are trying to continue a fallacy that women are inferior to men.
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[sean5302]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[sean5302]

Food isnt a liquid. Alcohol is. 60 years of science and some quite clever QCs.havent managed to get round the link between consumption and blood alcohol level.[/quote]

Food is carbohydrate, protein, fat, mineral salts, vitamins and water.
Drinking alcohol is normally 95% to 99% water.
The only person who mentioned food was you.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Here's a clue.

Food (nutrients) are absorbed by the upper intestine. The alcohol can be as well. Food held in the stomach because your upper intestine wont be absorbed by your stomach but alcohol will.

The amount you eat has virtually no effect on blood /alcohol level. If it did 60 years of case law would have proved it.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Kentol750]

Surely you only go that far that fast in the UK once going up the other way to check it. Find a nice bit of away that has no bridges and only one exit and then go play.

Knowing that 150+ puts you in prison and ban territory would send me to track!

Arguing about skills and technique is a bit like the wheelie dead boys wizout hats bro!
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[bhinso]

[hellkat]

Did someone mention food?
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