Motorway variable speed limits

[Visitor Q]

Recently the A1M has gone to hell in a handbasket with the tunnel widening joy (yay, SPECS for all the cagers to concentrate 100% on and nothing else), but I've noticed their have been plenty of variable speed limts flung up randomly aswell.

No debris, no fire, no workmen, no lane changes... nada.

I think they probably leave them up for hours after everything is sorted.

However, what I've noticed is, the traffic never changes a jot. I know I've got a healthy contempt for speed restrictions, but the bulk of cagers usually don't. So when entering a '40' I would usually expect to be going a lot faster then the normal peons, but no. Nothing.

So, do you guys adhere to the limit? Drop your speed? (bare in mind 100+ = ban when 70mph limit, so if its 40 then doing 70+ is a ban in theory )

Or carry on regardless at normal speed (85-100ish).
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[yuri2085]

A lot of the variable speed limits are just enforced to assist traffic flow and I am under the impression they work very well. But I would expect to be going a bit faster than then depending on how slow they are.
I often stick to the 50 ones when in the car.

[Mungel]

I live on the business park estate in Hatfield and mostly used the A1M to get to work (from Tescos, southbound)
Since the specs have gone live, I now take the A1001 south and join the A1M at the next junction.
As a rule, I tend to ignore specs cameras, if I am on the bike, in areas that I don't frequent. The fact that I could be caught on the A1M specs up to 10 times a week would get me too paranoid about the possibility of extra effort (physical presence from law enforcement) to catch me and bring about a prosecution (of rather significant magnitude)
Chances are, however, that the specs system is completely automated and bikes are disregarded completely, but as I don't know, it's not worth the gamble IMO.
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[stinkwheel]

Where there is a likleyhood of being caught I've set myself a "speed limit +30" limit and more or less stick to it.

Thing is, they sometimes use those mobile gatsos on the motorway bits where they've taken it down to 50mph for one reason or another. Again, they seem to stay up a fair bit longer than the workmen they are supposed to be protecting.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

I tend to go with the flow hoping that someone else will spot the cameras before I do.

The random variable speed limits are essentially pointless anyway IMO as they are poorly managed.
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