Fast or slow on a long motorway haul?

[smokin joe]

[Old Git Racing]

Motorways are just about getting them out of the way. Usually stick to 75ish, fast enough to not nod off but not too fast to get done with the fixed cams. Got cruise control on mine and apple play so the miles tick down quickly. Try and avoid them when I can.

OGR
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[stinkwheel]

Last long motorway hike I did en route to a spain tour we did Carlisle to Portsmouth. We put all three bikes in the back of a van and parked it up in the nearby airport parking. Think it probably worked out cheaper too by the time you'd paid three lots of fuel and tyre wear.
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[ThunderGuts]

Cheers for the all the replies. I think "go with the flow" is the way to go. Nice idea with the van, but I don't relish the thought of trying to get a 260kg bike into the back by myself! Plus, given it's only me, I don't think the economics would pan out.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

They have video cameras as well and in court that alongside the still and speed snap has you bang to rights.

Every time I've been done by one they've sent me a picture of the back of my bike when I know the speed they recorded was whilst I was approaching.

You could try arguing the case but all they'll have to do is put a TV in the court and show you going past on your distinctive bike with your distinctive clothing and helmet and the distinctive cars around with number plates on each end anx you'd get arseraped for taking the piss.
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[adam277]

I love driving on the M25 a night with the smart motorway cameras.
The flashes go off like xmas lights. Literally like 4-8 every few secs.
Amazes me how many ignore them.

That being said. A lot of the time they drop the motorway speed to say 40mph for no reason and a lot of people just ignore it without getting flashed.

I prefer to play it safe and just drop to whatever speed is on the signs.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I quite like a bit of motorway riding, but then my weekend loop on a sportsbike encompasses all sorts of roads from motorway to single tracks with grass up the middle. On motorways, even long slogs, I prefer to pick off the traffic by being the fastest out there, rather than going with the flow. It’s also more fun, and I think it puts the bike in its happy place. I can think of a corrugated concrete A-road where the R1 in particular rolls smoothly across the surface at speed but jars when slower.

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[adam277]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

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[grr666]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Whenever I've travelled on the bike to Anglesey, I've always plotted a route avoiding the motorway. It didn't take that much longer, and going via Snowden, Llangollen, Llanberis etc is much more fun.

Well, fun if you aren't shitting yourself rocking a dark fly covered visor at night, running on petrol fumes in the valleys, with barely anything open after 7pm, and a mate whose bike decided to chuck a random check engine light.
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[sickpup]

Generally I sit at around 80mph on motorways, fast enough to make progress and slow enough for the Police to ignore me.
If you go much faster you will need to refuel more often and you get tired quicker.

One of the biggest factors in how fast you go at this time of year is what gear you have and the weather.
Decent Gore-Tex and you will always be dry, add a heated jacket and you don't get cold so can maintain a higher average speed. It's no use going fast for an hour and having to spend half an hour to warm up because you have crap gear.

[A100man]

[BRUN]

depending on motorway, you may have no choice in the speed you do, we recently went over to Leeds and pretty much the entire journey there had speed cameras seemingly every mile

it was surprising tbh, their was barely anyone speeding at all and the traffic was all moving very nicely as everyone was doing the same speed, we saw the cameras go off at least 3-4 times so dont ignore them, they are on

some are mounted behind the signs on the gantry so you cant see them until your past, looking in your mirrors, but most were at the side of the road fairly visible, but noticed a few 'hidden' behind signs so be careful